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    Bridge covers and pick up covers

    in Bass Guitars

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    Not wishing to sound like a plum but, well, what are these covers for, what was the original purpose?

    ...do they do anything for the tone, playablity....or are they more a bling item......and don't those pick up covers get in the way when playing?

    this sort of thing..be aware these are puka Korean made bridge covers, not Chinese tat.... :)

    [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BASS-GUITAR-BRIDGE-COVER-FOR-FENDER-JAZZ-BASS%2f-GOLD_W0QQitemZ390143418289QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=&rvr_id=&cguid=71f951501270a0aad2b10a11fede96b6"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BASS-GUITAR-BRIDGE-C...2b10a11fede96b6[/url]

    Could this be saved?

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted · Edited by iconic

    she seems a little challanged....

    [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Bass_W0QQitemZ110512789524QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item19bb135814"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Bass_W0Q...=item19bb135814[/url]

    Do professional bassists still play at home for fun

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by iconic

    My brother is an award winning chef...go to his house for dinner you get egg and chips if ya lucky...very nice ones though!

    I sell cars for a living....my Corvette Stingray has had a set of badges sitting in the passenger footwell for well, must be 6 months and haven't been fitted yet...

    My painter has BMW with a ding in the rear 1/4 for must be 3 months...

    My mechanic has a 4x4 Truck with 2nd gear syncro' out of it for must be 3 years...

    My friend who manages the best loans and fianance for car's is always skint...

    ....do bass players who earn their living from bass playing, still mess about at home?


    I'm hoping bass breaks the norm...

    Ashley Ingram bass Imagination

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by iconic

    Ahh, Imagination some puka tunes, what a great 1st album, but I never seem to see the bassist, Ashley Ingram, play anything but a fretless...although it always seem to sound very synthbass?

    Possibly one those guys who is a real talented guy blighted by Lyrca Campness...seems to play a lot of instruments..I can't play one!

    ID the bass

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by iconic

    great fun to play....and the kids will know it too :) but what is the bass....looks like a 70's Fender head & pickguard with a sort of sexy ARIA SB-1000 dual striped body

    Yamaha passive 414 v 614 active

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='CraigPlaysBass' post='786149' date='Mar 25 2010, 06:30 PM']Yeah the pickups on the bb414 are so powerful :rolleyes: it's a great bass.

    I was planning on buying a new one, another yamaha but one of the rbx series just as a backup but, with the quality of the bb414, I think I might just upgrade it's hardware and leave it at that. Badass 2 methinks :lol:[/quote]


    I can recommend the RBX-374 4 string active...cheap but certainly not nasty....great ergo's and usual yammy build, very hot dual humbuckers and with flatties onboard what a wonderful tone...I miss mine already :)

    Yamaha passive 414 v 614 active

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    Well, not one to hang around, the 614 is going to a new home already and I bought a new Orange 414 an hour ago....can't believe the difference in volume from these passive pups they are sooooo hot.....now I have to wind the volume down from playing the VMJ!

    ....my 414 has a warmer sound and far easier to control tone wise than the 416 but same wonderful playing ergo's....I'm sorted for life now :)

    ohh, the metallic orange is achingly beautiful too :wub:

    there is an 414 X model out now...has a pickguard and only in white from what I have heard, didn't know about the 424?

    Yamaha passive 414 v 614 active

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    I simply love the way my BB614 active plays, super thin neck, super low action and just so nice to play but...it's simply too quiet unless I have the EQ's wound up....new battery, pups at correct height....I wondering now If I should have gone for the 414 passive afterall? It's almost as if the EQ's act as independant volume control?

    If I go from Squier VMJ to the BB the volume difference is amazing....yes, one is going thru the active channel and the other thru the passive channel on my Hartke but the active RBX-374 never had this issue?

    Anyone else come across this?

    I'm assuming everything else is the same on the 414 bar the electronics.....neck and action etc?

    ...maybe I'm just had enough of active controls, my VMJ is so simple to tweak...?

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