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  1. LawrenceH
    Here're some photos. I've tried to make the dings obvious - colour-wise it's difficult to photograph, it varies a lot in pictures depending on the lighting. I've done it without strings so you can see things clearly - there is a string indentation on the fret board quite high up but what look like horrendous fretboard scratches in one pic are just bits of fluff from that dreadful carpet! [attachment=52140:DSCF1029.jpg] [attachment=52142:DSCF1034.jpg] [attachment=52144:DSCF1035.jpg] [attachment=52146:DSCF1036.jpg] [attachment=52147:DSCF1037.jpg] [attachment=52148:DSCF1038.jpg] [attachment=52149:DSCF1039.jpg] [attachment=52150:DSCF1041.jpg] [attachment=52151:DSCF1042.jpg]
  2. LawrenceH
    2004-ish? Serial C04031857 This one's rather 'road worn' from being used at a jam night as the house bass, the finish isn't as tough as polyurethane! Hence I've set what I think is a very fair price. But it plays very very well, everyone who used it at the jam would comment on how nice and easy it felt. The neck is the real feature of these basses, 5-piece bubinga/wenge with a nice dark rosewood fretboard. It's gorgeous, fast and is as straight as the proverbial arrow, and rock solid stable - I've never needed to adjust the truss rod ever, and had the action set stupid-low. The body is 2-piece mahogany (not 3-piece like some of the newer basses seem to be) and seems to be a warmer, lighter (better, I reckon!) colour than usual. Bartolini Mk1 pickups and pre, though not really being into active EQ I ran it passive using Nordstrand Big Singles (also available, please see my other FS thread), which sounded amazing. Regardless of what pickups are on this bass I think the best way of describing the tone is 'thick', and it sustains well, I think it's down to the wood and construction method of the neck. The bass is fitted with dunlop straplocks which have never let me down, I'll include these in the sale since the horn one has been recessed into the body. I'm happy to post this at buyer's expense or you can pick it up from Edinburgh. I'm sad to shift this but have gone a bit mad on ebay in my quest for the 'perfect' jazz and need to get some of the money back/make some space before my wife gets back from a trip abroad and finds out what I've done Photos to follow asap, I'll try and highlight the various dings.
  3. LawrenceH
    [quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='865920' date='Jun 13 2010, 01:36 PM']The CVJ is a 60's Jazz clone, so the rear pickup is closer to the mid pickup. The necks are glossed & the bridge is a high mass affair (a blockier version of the new Fender bridge.) They're also made in a new Chinese factory where the quality control seems to be second to none, whereas the VMJ's are made in the Korean Cort factory. All in all they're really nice & at that price, if you want to put in some really serious pickups, it's one of those basses that's definitely worth it. These are going to be a future classic.[/quote] How many different pickup positions are there then? I thought the VMJ was 'standard' rather than 70s, is 60s different again?! The VMJ I tried was heavy, and not amazingly well finished, but the acoustic tone was incredibly 'warm'. A lot of people seem to rate those Duncan Designed pickups , but to me they lacked bandwidth and sounded a bit cheap. If you could find one that was well finished and had as nice a sound as the one I tried, then with new pickups you'd be on to a real winner IMO. I do prefer the white/pearloid blocks & binding on a maple board though.
  4. LawrenceH
    [quote name='umph' post='865507' date='Jun 12 2010, 08:35 PM']will these fit in your standard jazz?[/quote] No, their soapbar shape is much wider. Here's the blurb from the Nordstrand website, including dimensions: big singles single coil 4/5/6 string bass pickups These pickups are all about huge, full, loud, aggressive single coil tone. They use the same magnet layout as the Fat Stack, and the resultantly big coil is about as much single coil pickup that can be packaged in a soap-bar cover. This is the ultimate pickup for the Jazz Bass®-on-steroids tone purist! These pickups will fit as replacements for Bartolini™ P2 (5 string) and BC (4 string) pickups. Dimensions are 4.25" by 1.25" and 3.95" by 1.25" respectively. Standard spacing is 19mm ctc at the bridge.
  5. LawrenceH
    BUMP for added pics, I really need to shift some stuff now having gone a little bit mad with the credit card!
  6. LawrenceH
    [quote name='TheRev' post='865041' date='Jun 12 2010, 11:36 AM']Looks like a late 90s SB301 or 401 The black plastic nut suggests a 301 or 401 - if the bass is active it's a 401. The SGC logo on the pickups was on the top edge in the original models but was moved to the bottom edge in the late 90s, just before the model range was overhauled. Dave[/quote] The SGC range is very confusing. I thought a lot of the entry-level active basses (that looked like this) were 310s, and passives 301s?
  7. LawrenceH
    The tecamp head is not removable unless you modified the top plate and did a bit of rewiring. Far from impossible but not entirely trivial either. It's perfectly possible to get adequately bassy 10"s, but you sacrifice volume - hence 8x10"s have 8 of them! But enough is as good as a feast. Both tecamp combos are so light that it's the size of the 10" one that's more significant as an advantage over the 12, rather than the weight. Both are great. The 12" unit sounds better in the mid-range, I think because the crossover/mid unit matches the 12" driver better than the 10". That mid unit means the clarity is excellent
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    [quote name='Herbsley' post='861518' date='Jun 8 2010, 09:27 PM']Cheers Lawrence. Yeah I was really quite impressed with the SR500 for the price. If you consider getting shot in the next few weeks mebbe PM me first? H.[/quote] Will do - mine isn't exactly pristine though! That thin varnished finish wears very easily, and I used to help run a local jazz-funk jam night - do people wear diamond belts these days or something?! Still plays brilliantly though, so let me know if you're interested in one that's been 'road worn'! The good thing about mine is that it's a two piece body rather than the three-piece that seems more common on these now. Looking at pictures mine seems to be lighter and more 'woody' in colour too. Ibanez seem to have made minor variations on this bass over the years, I notice the pickup position shifting slightly between models although it doesn't seem to have much impact on tone (spacing between pups looks the same regardless).
  9. LawrenceH
    Bought the qtron pedal mentioned above - was with me very rapidly after payment, well packaged too. Top stuff, cheers! Lawrence
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    I can't help with the wood choice as such I'm afraid, but I have the SR500 and it is a lovely feeling neck and amazingly stable - can leave it for weeks without it drifting tuning. The overall tone of the bass is very punchy, but it doesn't have much barking upper-mids (which is why I'm thinking of getting rid of it, as I've decided I prefer the jazz tone). The bass has served me really well though.
  11. LawrenceH
    [quote name='ray_6ao7' post='860747' date='Jun 8 2010, 10:02 AM']bump. anybody interested?[/quote] Will somebody please buy this so it stops tempting me?! With those upgraded speakers it's probably the best 8x10" available in the entire world and much better than with the original drivers, but there is no way I can justify it! (Didn't stop me enquiring but my rational side won out I'm afraid, sorry dude)
  12. LawrenceH
    [quote name='tino' post='859375' date='Jun 6 2010, 09:56 PM']I think most of the Fenders traypse over to Germany where they are stripped of the useful organs,,rebuilt and offered on E Bay???[/quote] Yeah, bloody annoying isn't it?!
  13. LawrenceH
    The couple of times I've tried out cabs with Hartke 10" speakers they sounded almost exactly the same no matter what I did at the bass, and no matter what bass was playing through them - I thought they coloured the tone more than any other speaker I've tried. it was a very aggressive, punchy sound, but not very musical to my ears. And yes, deep bass-shy though there was lots of low-mid power.
  14. LawrenceH
    PM'ed regarding the bigger qtron
  15. LawrenceH
    [quote name='Pete Academy' post='840572' date='May 18 2010, 10:02 AM']Listen and play along to this track for a good while: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDRs0Iiv6Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDRs0Iiv6Y[/url] It's a perfect example of playing behind the beat. Quite tricky.[/quote] I didn't know that tune, but to me that bassline is just killer - great example! Whereas I've always felt a bit ambivalent about the Meters stuff though they do groove uniquely...covering Cissy Strut should be banned since no-one EVER nails the feel. Alex the drummer who plays live with Dizzee Rascal is just great at controlling the nuances of timing around a beat. He's fun to play with because his timing makes you feel like you're a better player!
  16. LawrenceH
    Those Behringer compressors are pretty good actually, certainly better than a lot of people judging on name rather than sound give them credit for.* I'd hesitate to upgrade from them unless you went for something significantly more costly (like the focusrite), or something less transparent (they're not transparent by studio standards but are compared to bass pedals!). The optical compression on the Aphex Exciter units, for example, is a very 'warm' sounding compression that really bigs up the bass end, very different to a studio rack compressor. *The caveat is I haven't heard the more recent Behringer models, only the ones from the early 2000s. But they were very usable.
  17. LawrenceH
    Any sound clips of this bass (with the wizards as current)?
  18. LawrenceH
    what is the acoustic tone like on these?
  19. LawrenceH
    Maple all the way! Looks awesome with that colour scheme. Plus, although it's obviously the least important consideration, it sounds better.
  20. LawrenceH
    [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='855020' date='Jun 2 2010, 04:06 PM']Wow can't wait. I was hoping for a "piano-like" sound at first but I've now heard you only get that if your bass is made in a shed by a geezer with long hair and a dirty sweatshirt.[/quote] No you get that with LEDs. Funny all these bassists who lust after the sound of the piano...after all playing one note at a time is pretty easy to learn on a keyboard
  21. LawrenceH
    [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='854376' date='Jun 2 2010, 12:52 AM']I reckon if the species of facing wood on a bass supposedly changes the sound, or a maple fretboard sounds different to a rosewood fretboard, then block inlays definitely make a difference and I'm doing it for the tone. [/quote] This is actually true. The high resonant frequency of the stiff pearloid brings out high harmonic overtones more clearly. But binding helps to transmit more of the neck resonance at the headstock down to the heel and into the body of guitar, giving a richer mid-range with more 'growl' and 'grind' - you wouldn't want to miss out on that! And that's the real reason why a blocked and bound neck is so damn funky
  22. LawrenceH
    That does sound interesting...do you have an option to effectively take the pre-amp out of the equation and see how the power amp sounds completely 'neutral' - it'd be good to know the difference between that and the stock voicing which to my ears doesn't sound flat at all.
  23. LawrenceH
    I don't think the jag neck is bound
  24. LawrenceH
    [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='853155' date='Jun 1 2010, 12:15 AM']Cheers, hadn't seen those. Shame about the circuitry I was thinking passive, but I might see if I can find one and see how they sound, you never know. Bit pricey though at £1200+, for a Fender...[/quote] The US 75RI is also available with a rosewood fretboard, though they don't seem to be so common and of course are also pricey. There are older versions of the 75RI that sometimes pop up secondhand, last one I saw went for £800 on ebay and that was black with rosewood. There's also the old FMT or QMT deluxes which are great. There's one here but it's overpriced IMO: [url="http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_guitars_detail.asp?stock=px-NE15RS37"]http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_guitars...ock=px-NE15RS37[/url] B&B rosewood looks the absolute nuts!
  25. LawrenceH
    I had a perfect ten thrown in with a secondhand bass once...thought it was dreadful. And I actually like the sound of the relatively cheap Ashdown Electric Blue, which is a bit dirty but conveys tone well enough. The perfect 10 was boomy, indistinct and slow no matter what settings I had on the bass. I'mn sure the Yamaha BB414 would be a great choice to start with - or the RBX370, a seriously versatile and convincing-sounding cheap bass
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