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[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1330628243' post='1560754'] Is there any point asking for a BassChat discount?? [/quote] If you don't ask you don't get I have a hankering for a barefaced cab too as my first gig with my BC2x12 and my ABM 500 in a standing room only bar on Sunday wasn't exactly a resounding success. I lost the battle with a very loud drummer and guitarist.

I found the 62 and the Geddy very different basses. What are your thoughts.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1330384522' post='1556757'] That's me ... if it 'sits well' in the mix then it has it's own sonic space and will be well heard amongst the other instrumenst and will not overpower or be overpowered by the other instruments, and that is to say it will 'cut through'. [/quote] +1

The bassist in The New Mastersounds has a great Precision sound. He's also a damn good player.........as I'm sure you'll agree. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACTDquZ7PD4&feature=relmfu"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACTDquZ7PD4&feature=relmfu[/url]

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1330286415' post='1555284'] Report back on how it goes ! [/quote] Nice sound but my Jazz has a pre amp which was putting the needle into the red when things got louder. Maybe I need to use the EQ on the amp instead of the pre amp on my bass. I had the gain and the master up full to get the required output in a bar bursting at the seams with Frenchies up for the rugby. I could add another cab but I like the idea of travelling light. I'm pretty sure the 2x12 is capable of handling more volume just need to figure out how to do it without overdriving the pre amp on the ABM. Anyway the sound was much better than my old TC Electronic head through the same cab so I'm sure I made the right decision.

Well I'll be playing through my new ABM for the first time tonight through my TC electronic BC2x12 cab . Hopefully I'll be as chuffed after the gig as you were.

Buy a new one and give it a good kicking!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1330164274' post='1553504'] Your guys need a bit of education about layering sound. They can't just turn up and play what to them is a great sound and be oblivious to what space everyone else needs...plus there are two of them...!! [/quote] They're guitarists it's in their nature.

I bought a 10 year old, made in Indonesia, standard Squier, 3rd or 4th hand for £95 ($150). It played and sounded great. The neck was slightly out of alignment with the bridge but nothing too bad. The newer ones such as the VM or classic vibe are even better. I hate to say it but at the time I had a Geddy Lee Jazz and a 62 reissue both made in Japan. Guess which one I preferred playing? My nephew has started playing bass so I gave it away to him. I'm seriously thinking of buying another standard Squier Jazz (if anybody has one going cheap - black or sunburst please).

You just can't go wrong with a Japanese Jazz. You've got a Geddy Lee so you know that already. At one time I had a Geddy and 62 reissue and it was interesting to compare them side by side. They're both great but very different.

Very Jamerson from 'What's going on'. Which is the highest praise you can give any bass player in my opinion. If he was playing live then he deserves a round of applause because he was flawless and had great feel.

I had a similar problem when I installed a John east J-retro in my Jazz. What I've now done is screened all the cavities with 3 layers of screening paint and made sure that the copper earthing strip (it's an old MIJ 62 reissue type Jazz) from bridge to pickup plate is connected to the earthing circuit securely. The popping sound has almost gone - it only happens now if I touch the bridge pickup with my finger. There's plenty of info about screening and earthing basses on this forum if you use the search facility at the top right of this page (which is what I did).

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1329777990' post='1547357'] Really?! How odd... [/quote] The amp sounded as if you'd removed the sliders on a graphic equaliser at the punchy end of the spectrum. There was low bass and mid and a decent high end but however much I twiddled and widdled the knobs I couldn't find the specific low mid frequencies I was looking for. I thought it might have been the speakers but they now sound great with my ABM 500 so they weren't the problem.

My TC Classic 450 was plenty loud enough going through my BC212 - I never had it much above halfway on the master. I just really didn't get on with the sound of it. It just didn't have any low mid 'grunt' if you know what I mean.

I have a 1994 Jap Silver Squier Jazz. The pickups and the fit and finish were fantastic the only thing that I didn't like was the neck which was too chunky to be a real Jazz neck. I've replaced the neck with a 60s classic Jazz neck and it sounds fantastic and plays so well that I sold my other two Jazzes (a Geddy Lee and a CIJ 62 reissue) because they couldn't compete. All that's left of this Squier is the neck. Nobody knows where the rest of it came from?

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1329767928' post='1547078'] went to see walter trout band fairly recently - was good but the support was better ... Oli Brown [media]http://youtu.be/WJnM3haC-qo[/media] [/quote] This is excellent. I was ready to dismiss Oli Brown because he's ............err............about twelve! But this is great and with some really nice interesting walking bass parts in the middle bit.

Looks like your paying for a neck. The rest is just a, more or less, standard Geddy Lee.

This is a good question. I tend to go to music shops when I know the place won't be crowded with the usual teenage shredders which means it's often empty and you can tend to feel a bit self conscious. I'm lucky in that I play a lot of blues so tend to just do some walking bass lines and switch off my brain in order to allow me to listen to the sound of the bass. Last time I was trying basses I played the sailors hornpipe (which I often play as a warm up) it gave the guys in the shop a bit of a laugh if nothing else.

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1329678628' post='1545806'] Well it appears the weight thing has been the deciding factor for me - and I don't mean how heavy it isn't! After much consideration, I decided the MiBass is going back and I will continue with the ABM (and also a Terror Bass I've recently acquired). There's just something very special about the ABM that I can't let it go - it has weight on both counts, one positive and one negative, which must cancel each other out lol. Cheers Geoff [/quote] Interesting...... I just couldn't get on with the TC Electronic head I had because, although it was light as a feather, it didn't have that 'weight' you're talking about. It's difficult to put my finger on the quality you describe but I felt it was if a whole band of low mid frequencies was missing on the TC. However I twiddled with it the amp just couldn't produce the sound that I wanted. Now I've bought an ABM it has the 'authority' that the TC lacked (I think the technical term is 'bollocks'). Maybe this lack of 'authority' is a feature of digital amps? Or maybe it's a figment of my imagination? I was hoping the MiBass would be different.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1329677968' post='1545789'] Aha! Somebody noticed that line. At this point I'm kinda wondering if the whole thing's a giant wind-up. [/quote] I also noticed the keyword [b]'geek' [/b].

I did the same a few years ago. Lot's of fun and easy peasy to learn as well. You can't beat a good bit of Rock 'N' Roll.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1329673217' post='1545660'] Edit: I notice you have included the word 'aspergers' (referring, I assume, to medical condition that falls within the Autism spectrum) in your keywords list. Care to enlighten us? [/quote] In my opinion a large proportion of the people who post on basschat regularly have a smidgeon of bass guitar related aspergers in their psychological makeup. That probably includes me too. I think the neck and pickups contribute most to the sound of a bass - I've learned this from experience, having swopped a lot of necks and pickups in my time. And of course there's the famous video of the guy on talkbass who swopped the body of his alder Jazz Bass with a plank he found in his shed, then recorded a demo with the original bass and one with the body replaced with the plank. Could anybody tell the difference? I'm not telling! Go find the video on Talkbass for yourself.

Hmmmmm.......all that's Japanese is the neck it seems. And those holes in the back of the body aren't horizontal. Looks like somebody went nuts with a black & Decker. That may be part of the reason why it's going for £10.50.