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[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1342940230' post='1742873'] Where you going through the PA as well? [/quote] There was PA support but because of a seriously loud guitarist through an Vox AC 30 onstage, and the fact I wanted to see what the compact could do, I turned the amp up to not far off it's maximum. It was a excellent sound onstage and I was told by fellow bassist it was great in the crowd too.

My band played an outdoor gig today, to about 1,000 people in the centre of Edinburgh. I was using my MiBass 500 micro amp and my newly aquired Barefaced Compact. What a sound! I had the MiBass near it's limit but it was loud, clear, punchy, defined and deep though the Compact. No distortion and no farting from the speaker. It's a great combination and I thoroughly recommend them both. And I can get the amp in my gig bag and can carry the cab with one hand (when the drummer picked the compact up he said to me 'Sorry to tell you Gareth but they've forgotton to put the speaker in your cab'). Fantastic!

Yes see me tomorrow saturday at the Jazz and blues fest mardi gras. I'll be playing with the Dana Dixon Band from 1 til 4pm. It's free and it's out in the open air (bit risky for Edinburgh). We're more Blues than Jazz.

Welcome to Basschat and Edinburgh. Get yourself down to The Jazz Bar on Chambers St where you'll find a lot of like minded bass players. I recommend any band with Aki Remally playing in it (he plays bass and guitar as well) as he's the funkiest of the funkiest.

Yeah looks like a bitsa bass with a stripped and revarnished body and with a Fender decal stuck on the headstock. It may be a good sounding and playing bass but it isn't a Fender. Honest enough to admit it in the questions and answers section.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1342539208' post='1736811'] it doesn't need to have. There are two japanese '62ri models- one with spiral bridge, US pickups and alder body and one with jap pickups and basswood body. Depending on the age it may or mayn't have the spiral bridge. Tuners on both will be jap (metric) sizes needing a smaller hole in the wood than a american (imperial measurement) size one. [/quote] My 62 reissue had the spiral saddles and the larger size vintage tuners with the normal 18mm peg size with a strap button on the back of the headstock. It also had the copper earthing strip going from the bridge to the copper pickup plates (which is the way they used to earth jazzes back in 62). If it doesn't have the large vintage tuners and the spiral saddles it's not a 62 reissue (lots of other Japanese Jazzes still have the copper earthing strip). But it doesn't really matter because this supposedly MIJ Jazz is going for Squier money which makes it awfully suspicious. I'm sure I saw this the other day on ebay and it was going for about £400/£500. Possibly somebody has just lifted the photos off ebay and tried to lure an innocent punter to their doom...........we'll see.

Hmmmmmm......when somethings to good to be true etc. I'm sure I've seen that picture somewhere before? Ebay possibly? Proceed with caution.

Groovy! Two handed tapping in BB King's band would be instant grounds for dismissal.

Bad day for Motown. Such a nice guy too. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiSDZVmnRNU&feature=player_embedded#!"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiSDZVmnRNU&feature=player_embedded#![/url]

It's not a Highway 1 and I doubt it's even a fender. This is a Highway 1 [url="http://www.infographic.com/fender/pdimages/HW1PrecisionHBR_md.jpg"]http://www.infographic.com/fender/pdimages/HW1PrecisionHBR_md.jpg[/url] The fact that the bass doesn't even belong to the seller hasn't put people off has it? Sitting at 17 bids now.

I picked my DiMarzio 123 pickups because I heard them on a friends 77 Jazz. They gave it a really nice deep woody traditional sound. You never know what new pickups will sound like until you hear them for yourself. The 64s do get a good write up on basschat though and Wizard will swop them for another type or rewind them to your preference if you don't like them. Fender and seymour duncan won't.

I just lean it on the drummer and tell him not to move.....or else.

It's amazing what changing the height of the pickup can do for your sound. Recently I raised the height of my pickups on my Jazz and they really came to life. Experiment with heights until you find the sweet spot between the sound you want and the balance between the bridge and neck pickup. You can also make the pickups higher or lower on one side to balance the volume of your individual strings which should cure your boomy E string. Some pickups have springs for each screw to make vertical adjustments easier and some just have foam under the pickup for the same reason.

[quote name='aldude' timestamp='1342082015' post='1729085'] Thanks!! I mostly use an active preamp to boost the mids so the dusty end stuff cuts through better when I want it to. Would the J-retro cover me for that? Also, what is the output level? I have an active Ibanez with a level that is about the same as a passive bass and I think that's great. Does the J-retro have a trim pot or something like that? [/quote] Yes it has a trim pot where you can alter the output up or down.

Ed Friedland likes phil jones with DB - DB bit at the end of both vids [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5iqx79jUE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5iqx79jUE[/url] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfzl242K3kI&feature=related[/media]

Like everyone says send it back or give them a call and tell them about your concerns. I bought a Fender TV15 from GAK which looked as if it was B or demo stock (they didn't state it was on the website). I didn't mind because I got it at a great price. But if I had paid full price I would have been mightily pissed off.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1342004346' post='1727739'] Chaps, a brief follow up to my previous adventures in having f***ed hands - but is there a secret to any pain relief? Bloody hell, considering they feel numb they don't half ache! [/quote] Futher to my previous post here's more info on the C-Trac [url="http://www.carpal-tunnel.net/node/76"]http://www.carpal-tunnel.net/node/76[/url] It's also a very good forum for people who have symptoms like yours and where you can get advice from medical experts.

If it wasn't for basschat and the information I found out about carpal tunnel from bassplayers who suffer from it, I wouldn't have gone to my GP as soon as I did to get treatment (the sooner the better to avoid permanent nerve damage). Amusingly, the impression I got from both my GP and the surgeon I was referred to was, because of basschat (and other online forums), I knew more about the symptoms and treatment available for carpal tunnel than either of them. My GP of course is not a specialist and the surgeon I was referred to is a specialist in surgery not neurology. I am now to be referred to a neurologist who will assess the damage to the nerves in my wrists and advise me further whether surgery or other forms of treatment would be best for me. Getting advice from medical experts is all well and good but It's taken 9 months to get this far (which is not very far). If it wasn't for basschat I would probably be sitting around still wondering why my hands had gone all numb.