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My Fender jag, came straight from the shop in it's box, not even checked or looked at since it left the factory way back in japan.

Surprisingly it was set up perfect, intonation, action were spot on, just had to raise the bridge pup and lower the neck pup. It even came with a card with the persons name who checked the electronics and set it up, wrote in pen.

To me anyway that's a great personal touch to the intrument.

2.5k a lot of that would be man hours, another chunk would be parts/exotic wood. I'd still expect it to be the knees of the bee.

Update price drop and edit trades.

[quote name='basslondon' post='891504' date='Jul 10 2010, 06:46 PM']MMM like the fender jag if you were interested in a trade...[/quote]

Grr now you are tempting me, but I love it too much.
I do get paid this Friday so I could buy it then, I just would get killed my girlfriend so I want to try and get the epi moved first.

If I still have the Epi by Friday I'll definatly buy it still.

Holding out for pictures.

Thanks for the offer but I'd only take a TB if it was in the non standard sunburst. Also trying to hold out for a sale to raise funds and make space for a EBMM SUB bass.

Thanks for the offer but I'd only take a TB if it was in the non standard sunburst. Also trying to hold out for a sale to raise funds and make space for a EBMM SUB bass.

Some hit me up prefer cash, trades are there as I can use them.

OMG, just trying to sell my epiphone EB-1 so I'll have the funds, and the space, for this.

Epiphone EB-1 in great condition. Finish is superb, except the missing scratch plate.

Sound wise it's thumpy, and a bit muddy but eq in less bass and it sounds abit clearer. Its not great top end and it's not "amazing" but it's cheap and cheerful and is a great for dum dum dum parts, would make an interesting mod build aswell.

I originally wanted to add a bridge PU and use dual dark stars, upgrade the bridge and tuners, then upgrade electronics. However gas has struck me and I'm circuming.

I part exchanged this with Munkofthehill, and since it's been setup by me, although those epiphone 3 point bridges arnt great, the intonation is sound just the string hieghts may want a fiddle. Munk will give testament to my setups.

Price wise, a firm £160 collected, from my lair in Nottingham, or £170 posted.

Tradesies, sansamp PARa driver.


Thanks for looking and please someone hook me up. [attachment=54944:IMG_0916.jpg]
Pictures are here [url="http://img638.yfrog.com/g/img0916o.jpg/"]ALBUM[/url]

Deal completed with out any issues, top bloke to trade with.

Great guy, not so great gift wrapping

What a great answer.

[quote name='chriswilliams666' post='876206' date='Jun 24 2010, 10:30 AM']Its quite possible the Tone Pot is a TBX pot which adds bass and treble simoultaneously. Should be able to work this out by it having a centre detent point where it clicks as you turn.

Good luck with the sale, these are amazing basses. I would of had it if it had frets![/quote]

If it's of the same "special" gene as mine it would have that TBX, put just to correct you so others arnt mid lead, as it's passive it only cuts treble and bass frequencies. As in Treble Bass X(cut) although the annoyance in my opinion is that it only cuts one or the other. And as it's usually a 500k it has a lot of treble anyway.

[quote name='tom1946' post='881109' date='Jun 29 2010, 04:30 PM']Erm it says Stockport which is near Manchester.[/quote]
My bad.
Alright well I'm just seeing about another deal first, if that goes south I'll hit you up.

Hi, where are you based?

[quote name='Von Death' post='879317' date='Jun 27 2010, 10:37 PM']Will ask my wife to do some photo's tomorrow![/quote]

I like a good woman as much as the next man, but I like a good bass better.

Overall, I think it's pretty hard to get a transparent signal through anything 'solid state'. With some settings, both my custom jazz, fender jag and Epi EB-1 all sound roughly similar with very little to distinguish between them.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='878615' date='Jun 27 2010, 08:38 AM']I picked up a Para Driver after fighting with the SansAmp's mid suck for a year or so. Even with the mid control on the Para Driver I still couldn't get any decent mids out of it. There's still an inherent scoop that you have to put back in - and it didn't do it very naturally, IMO. I ended up with an EBS MBII which sounded much more natural.

I can see why the Para Driver will appeal to some, though.[/quote]

Haha, I just searched the EBS and the first result was your review.

The more I use it the more I notice that mid scoop, but I'm quite generous with the mid, to add some back and bring back the warmth.

I suppose the mid scoop is good for those who are using the drive a lot.

Even more tinkering was had

I can now achieve a cleaner sound through the OTB. I set the gain on the the amp enough to buzz slighty and punch, then used the box's output pad.

Got miles more clean head room now

What cabinet are you using?

Pictures?

[quote name='evilLordJuju' post='878079' date='Jun 26 2010, 12:24 PM']I'm interested in this.

How about a Gibson-made [url="http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/KalamazooKBbass.php"]kalamazoo KB bass[/url] like this? Made in Kalamazoo circa 1967

or maybe an Epiphone Thunderbird pro?
Fender bassman 100 head (early 70s)?[/quote]

If I'd been offered the bassman I would bit your arm off.

I will say though that the epiphone TB is a nice jag/jazz alternative. The humbuckers do give a full sound, and it slaps quite well. But like with most of the cheap epiphones it could use a better bridge and a pickup and electronic upgrade.

+1 on my setup.

What made me choose the paradriver over the bass driver was the mid controls.

The way the mid works on the bass driver isn't for me.

I finally got chance to use it with my rig with some real volume, I love all the bass sample settings, the active simulator is wierd.
Again to get the OD I liked, I started with the SVT sample setting, backed off the treble, upped the bass and lowered the mid frequency to get a warmer sound, then set gain to jaw shaking.

Have a gig coming up this Sunday so I will see what the sound guy has to say, and how it works with my OTB in a live situation.

I would have probably benifited from the proggramable version that way I could have had a clean channel and a dirt channel.

I realise there is a few threads about these, but I wanted to share my experience.

I just took delivery of mine today but as the missus' was round so I have to pretend like I'm not a bass geek.

I got chance to play with it just now though my orange ad140, it's my only form of low level practice, also it can do clean as a wistle. It also meant I could compare the tone I wanted (the OD of my orange with my bass) with the tone I could get from the little black box.

I used the standard SVT bass setting, lowered the mid shift to give it some warmth and backed off the treble, uped the bass and boom, I practically nailed the orange's overdrive tone. If I could blind test myself I'm sure I wouldn't be able to hear the difference, and I know my oranges tone like the back of my hand.

I must say I didn't have a great deal of faith in this pedal/di. However the proof will be in the pudding when I get to let rip with my bass rig. I hope it delivers on what I'm looking for. Tube grit, not farty mud.

White, or White pearloid.

Looks like I should try the road worn?

Things like super jazzes don't really interest me, I just want a great sounding passive jazz. Maybe it's me being a snob but the sadowskys and laklands don't seem to tickle me very much as a fender does.

Also the money I would eventually end up with I could get a used ric. Although I'll be faced with the dilema of it fitting in with my band, a jazz seems perfect I know a ric would be different, but better? And like look demon in blue or black.

I'm also wondering on how much of an investment bass this purchase would be.