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The Perfect Bass Of 2015


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Judging from what I've seen here on Basschat, this would be the bastard lovechild of a Maruszczyk and a Limelight, retro-fitted with an ACG preamp.

This year, Jazz basses are apparently much cooler than Precisions, but 4-string basses are clearly still on top.

Not too sure about the colour ... diseased trees remain strangely popular. At least that spares us the annual debate as to whether a pickguard should be none-more-black or tort.

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Funny you should say that ...
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"Judging from what I've seen here on Basschat, this would be the bastard lovechild of a Maruszczyk and a Limelight, retro-fitted with an ACG preamp."

If a was a 'normal' standard-scale player, I'd agree but being of the 'shorty' persuasion for me the perfect bass of 2015 is the Fender Rascal I got in July (pictured below with its room-mates).

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Hopefully, my perfect bass of 2016 will be the SWB-1 I've got on order from Scott Whitley!!

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[quote name='Schnozzalee' timestamp='1450869350' post='2936533']
I miss my Sue Ryder P :(
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How about a Paul Ryder instead?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1964-FENDER-JAZZ-BASS-KILLER-SOUNDING-EX-HAPPY-MONDAYS-PAUL-RYDER-/321954470283?hash=item4af5fb598b:g:KGcAAOSwI-BWMcTq

Oh damn! It's a Jazz ...

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Speaking of G&L, my revelation of the year was dropping an MFD into a Squier Matt Freeman, a sort of poor man's L1000. It easily holds it's own against my other (much more expensive) basses
[URL=http://s1090.photobucket.com/user/iankay/media/Stuff/IMG_2891.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i370/iankay/Stuff/IMG_2891.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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[quote name='ikay' timestamp='1450891899' post='2936804']
Speaking of G&L, my revelation of the year was dropping an MFD into a Squier Matt Freeman, a sort of poor man's L1000. It easily holds it's own against my other (much more expensive) basses
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Very nice. I see the little switch, is it serial/parallel or did you install more of the L1K wiring options?

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[quote name='ikay' timestamp='1450891899' post='2936804']
Speaking of G&L, my revelation of the year was dropping an MFD into a Squier Matt Freeman, a sort of poor man's L1000. It easily holds it's own against my other (much more expensive) basses
[URL=http://s1090.photobucket.com/user/iankay/media/Stuff/IMG_2891.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i370/iankay/Stuff/IMG_2891.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
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Ooooh, I like muchly :)

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[quote name='Doctor J' timestamp='1450905156' post='2936968']
...is it serial/parallel or did you install more of the L1K wiring options?
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Series, parallel and split coil with standard tone pot. I may add full L1K wiring at some point but very happy with it as it is.

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