Ramirez

Quick and dirty sound clip: [url]https://soundcloud.com/melynwy/bass-demo[/url] Apologies for the sloppy playing. Still getting to grips with roundwounds!

It's awesome. Absolutely fantastic. I'm even liking the stock rounds (having played the same set of flats for 3 years!) The Zoom B3 that arrived this morning seems to be the best use of £150 ever as well. Stock (sorry about the large photos!): New scratchplate:

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1358460257' post='1939805'] Expensive... But cheaper than the competition. [/quote] You think so? I think it's ridicilously cheap for what it is! I'd love one.

Couldn't agree more - about reviews and shop assistants. Last time I asked to try a bass in a shop, the guy spent a good 2 or 3 mintues slapping the thing with his back turned to me. By all means plug it in, sound a note to check everything's working, but then hand it me. I could have walkes out and he wouldn't have noticed. I'd never expect a sports shop assistant showing me how far he can drop kick a rugby ball I'm thinking of buying, so the need by music shop assistants to show off really annoys me. I don't care what they do outside of work - at the time that I'm contact with them they're sales assistants, not rock stars. And most review videos I see online are bloody useless. Though I do like that Ed Friedland chap's reviews.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1359975410' post='1962619'] No, but they had purple ones! [/quote] Hmmm. Do Orange do purple amps then? If not, I'm sure they will once they see this.

Cool. Did they have orange ones?!

In 6 months I've completely changed my bass rig. Got the Orange Terror Bass and SP212 back then, and now a new Fender P on the way, as well as this new Zoom. Will post thoughts when it gets here. Exciting times.

Ordered!!

Will be ordered tomorrow hopefully, alongsied a set of LaBella 760M - the 'Jamerson' super heavy gauge set - I'm I justified in my confidence that they will be fine seeing as the bass has one of those graphite truss rods? I'm no good at tweaking truss rods.

[quote name='cocco' timestamp='1359278061' post='1952285'] Gotta be gold. Have you though about an off white though? Like the parchment colour or the Greeny one? [/quote] I think the stock one is parchment. I'm starting to like the black now though...

I switch between a Jazz and an EB0 without trouble (though not often - I mainly play the J)

I haven't tried one, I just like the look! I think the nut width is the same as an US Standard, but shallower front to back. I hope it's not too J like as that's the main reason I want a P - I much prefer the necks, even on the cheapest copies. I see some Ps have a 1.75" nut - is this standard these days, or just on a few reissues (I know I tried the Mex 50s P which had a 1.75 nut and it felt huge - I liked it, but if the slightly smaller nuts are the standard on most P style ones then I'd be happy with that too)

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1358980312' post='1948194'] The heads must be a different thing to the combo then. [/quote] I think the combos are the OTB500 and an SP212 cab in the same box, nothing else. I had the combo for a while, but it was faulty (speaker was buzzing slightly at all volumes - they did mention there was a problem with the entire combo line and thought of withdrawing them, but that hasn't seem to have happened) so Orange replaced it with the separate head and cab instead - I didn't notice any difference. I really like mine - it breaks up quite early, but I play very lightly and don't have a problem with clean headroom. Keeping the gain low (at around 9 o clock), I find there is plenty of volume left on tap. Most of the time I go through the PA as well, but there hasn't been a problem in quite loud pub gigs with only a vocal PA either, with plenty of volume left. Aled

Right, had a bit of a crude geek around on Paint! I think that the gold works best. Though I'm still tempted by the red (despite the fact that it's gone royally wrong in my pic!)

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1359221571' post='1951856'] Think gold would make it look a lot more vintagey. [/quote] Yes, I think so too. Trouble is those plates are quite expensive things to just try out! Could be amazing... One of my favourite looks for a P is natural ash/maple board and black guard, and I'm thinking the same could work on this combo. On the other hand I can't get the red out of my mind either. Maybe I should concentrate on getting the damn thing first!

[url]http://www.rowlandsmusic.com/store/Bass-Guitars/Fender/American-Special/Fender-FSR-American-Special-Precision-Bass-Maple-Neck-Hand-Stained-Honey-Burst-Bass-Guitar/prod_1637.html[/url] Isn't it lovely? It's just the standard American Special in a limited edition finish. Would need pickup and bridge covers of course, and I'm undecided between black/anodised gold/red scratchplate or keep the white. Whaddyathink? Could possibly be mine. We'll see. Aled

Yipee! It sounds quite ace. Very old school with the Jazz. There is, however, a slight buzzing while playing - it's the speaker, not the amp itself - it disappears if I touch the speaker whilst ringing a note. I've never bought a brand new amp before, so could it be that it just needs breaking in? Or just tightening of screws or what have you. I'd rather not have to send it back as it seems like a very small problem.