gjones

Simple.......replace them with the pickups in your MIM.

[quote name='captain black' timestamp='1339001352' post='1682266'] Think thas a bit cynical though. No one deserves to get conned. Speaking as one who bought a spector euro 5 for a little over 200 quid last year, there are still bargains to be had out there. You just have to tread carefully. [/quote] Conmen appeal to the greed in us all. I have a friend who was recently conned out of £20,000. He went into a deal with a property developer where he was guaranteed a return of 25% within 18 months. When he told me about it I told him that it sounded like the person he was loaning the money to was obviously desperate and he was unlikely to see his money ever again. Guess what? The woman (who never had any intention of paying the money back) declared herself bankrupt and he will get nothing back. He was lured by the promise of easy money and got burnt and I find it very difficult to have sympathy for him as he was both greedy and stupid (and he would be the first to admit it). Edit : of course sometimes the 'conned' party hasn't been greedy or stupid and has just been swindled by a criminal slimeball. In which case they don't deserve the grief they suffer. There are predatory lowlifes out there who see gumtree and ebay as just another opportunity to steal peoples money and their victims are in no way to blame for being preyed upon.

The first rule of being a conman is to offer something that is too good to be true. Greed and stupidity are the qualities that a conman appeals to in a mark. If something seems too good to be true it probably is. So always proceed with caution. If you think you'll get a £600 bass for £140 you deserve to be conned.

I have a J-retro fitted and bought it so that I could fine tune my sound when I was out front while the band were playing rather than have to go back and forth to my amp. The mid sweep function - where you can pick the mid frequencies you want to boost is very useful. It's nice to have but I don't feel it's indispensable. Strangely enough I've been favoring my passive Jazz more recently because I prefer it's old school sound. Watch this space I may have one for sale soon.

It's strange but the guys/girls I know who make a living from playing music don't collect basses or guitars because they see them as tools not objects of desire to lust after. Also because the income of your average musician is a bit unreliable they just don't have the cash to buy an instrument they don't strictly need. In my experience the ones who have loads of instruments are usually bedroom bassist/guitarists (I know one guy who at last count had 17 guitars sitting on stands in his house but is not in a band and frankly I've never seen him play one outside his living room). Nothing wrong with that if you have the cash. After all Eric Clapton had accumulated over 100 guitars at one point before selling most off at auction. At one point I had 8 basses, 3 guitars, 4 amps, 4 cabs and was running out of room to store them all. I'll be culling the herd over the next couple of months so look out for some bargains.

[quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1338855492' post='1680209'] Reverse tuners? [/quote] Yup nice big vintage ones.

At one time I had 7 basses and I had to play them in rotation. My secret favorite was the Indonesian Jazz Squier I picked up for £95. I've sold most of them off now and intend to end up with just my Frakenfender Jazz (made up of cannibalised bits of other Jazzes).

Good recording very echo and the bunnymen (ish). By the way that's how they recorded vocals in the 80s Grtz (not that I was even born back then.......cough, cough).

Hows about this? Promethean head (not mine might I add) [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/177938-promethean-500w-bass-head/page__p__1677822__hl__promethean__fromsearch__1#entry1677822"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/177938-promethean-500w-bass-head/page__p__1677822__hl__promethean__fromsearch__1#entry1677822[/url]

Well I played the first loud gig, in a rocky 3 piece band, last night with the MiBass. It was going through my 8 ohm Ashdown Neo 15" and it certainly did the job. At the start of the gig the master volume was at approx 3/4 and by the end it was maxed (my ears were ringing on the way home) but it didn't let me down. I don't think I have to worry about the sound level of this little amp and with two cabs and a 4ohm load I feel it could easily deal with the loudest of drummers. Although I didn't carry out a direct comparison I feel the volume and tone I got out of it was comparable to my ABM.

[quote name='simon1964' timestamp='1338808134' post='1679430'] That's a full fat proper Stingray, not a Sub. Good price too! [/quote] No it's not it's an 'enterprise router'.

[quote name='munkonthehill' timestamp='1309293779' post='1285760'] So it arrived today folks. Got it out the box,,,,,,cleared the backroom a bit so I could setup the rig and a bass,,,,,,,,,,,got everything sorted and kicked into a wee couple of runs and riffs. Oh it was nice. I then went to play along with a few tracks we have been covering..........HOWEVER..............My phone goes and its my pal who has broken down and needs some assistance Unbelievable..............So down goes the bass,,,off goes the amp and I pop in the car to help my friend. Finished there and went to my folks for dinner with my family. All the while my lovely rig is sitting unplayed. I am now home and its too late to play as my wee lad is in bed Roll on tomorrow. [/quote] Thats the biggest Rickenbacker I've ever seen! Is that an Orange 4x10?

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1338671469' post='1677973'] Not nice. Bloody awesome! This I love. Are my eyes deceived or is this a rather red rosewood fretboard? Could you tell me what this pg was called? [/quote] The neck is Mexican from a classic 60s Jazz Bass model and the scratchplate is this one from a company in the Netherlands. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jazz-bass-std-pickguard-3ply-brown-tortoise-fits-fender-/110633297858?_trksid=p3911.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D2%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8873332539090093424#ht_3369wt_769"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jazz-bass-std-pickguard-3ply-brown-tortoise-fits-fender-/110633297858?_trksid=p3911.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D2%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8873332539090093424#ht_3369wt_769[/url]

AMEN BROTHER! The way he played was almost an improvised stream of consciousness. I doubt he played the same thing twice. I love those little chromatic runs he does. Anybody else playing the bass lines he plays would be accused of being too busy but when he plays them they sound JUST right.

I remember seeing these in music shops way back as a spotty teen and I thought they looked revolting then. It's obviously one of those marmite moments.