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I have both. Z7 is a MM style bass, it sounds clearer (more treb) and not as tight as Stingray, and the MM pickup couldn't be moded to parallel/single/serial mode due to its small wiring space. Sadowsky MJ5 sounds more like a Lakland bass but with 34" scale. You could make it sound like a real jazz bass or JM bass, but you need know how to make those pickups volume balanced by adjusting the pickup height, If not you may not get that Jazzy tone.

DJ Bebop said:

That was one of Jess’s Powerflex amplifiers with a motorized lift platform. He created that after he left Ampeg and started his own company, Oliver Sound Company.

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Ha... I remember borrowing an Oliver from a music store while between bass amps for a big gig and was surprised when the amp head rose out of the cabnet with a push of a button. Everyone was amazed.. I kept raising and lowering it... didnt take much to pacify me back then.

Awesome, thanks, Andy!

Last time i did it, I used this tool from my kids' pencil cases:

The needle end, of course. Gently, and stop in the right moment.
(I agree that cooling the sofa seems a good idea. I'd put the ice into a bag though.)

Using any chemical cleaner will likely show that the cleaned area is now shining with beauty, rendering the rest of the already nicely aged sofa really dirty. Then, you will have to clean the whole sofa. How do I know it so well, do you ask? ;-)

Just bought a 5er J Bass from Zeline . Delano pickups and preamp . Hipshot tuners and fretboard leds . Well happy . So much so that I’ve orders a Fretless off him .

About twenty-two years ago, a bandleader needed a drummer in a hurry. I recommended a guy I'd worked with before. Total pro. Or at least he had been.

Day of the gig, he rolls in, sets up, everything looks normal. Somewhere between soundcheck and downbeat, though, he took a little field trip.

We kick off the first tune, and something feels... off. Looser than I remembered. Then he misses a downbeat coming out of a fill. Couple songs later, another fill that sounded like it'd wandered in from a different song. Then another bad re-entry. The clams started breeding.

First break, he looked even worse.

Thing was, I'd watched him all break. He wasn't at the bar. Just disappeared into the bathroom for a while.

Oh.

Then it hit me.

Glassy eyes. Thousand-yard stare. Wobbly on his feet. Slow to react. That permanent little grin that says, "It's all good, man," when it absolutely isn't.

Turns out he'd been clean when I'd known him before. This time, heroin had come back like it'd spent ten years planning the reunion.

Second set was held together with wishful thinking. Missed cues. Long, unexplained holes in the groove. By the third set, he stopped playing twice in the middle of songs. Once to answer a call from his dealer. The other because he honestly couldn't figure out where he was.

Not metaphorically.

Physically.

Meanwhile I'm dying inside, because I'm the guy who vouched for him.

End of the night, he's tearing down with three cymbals stacked in his arms. One slips out and crashes onto the stage.

He just stands there.

Blank stare.

Another one slips.

Blank stare again.

Then the last cymbal - and by now your whole job is to just hang on to the one you've got left - slides out, rolls across the floor, and comes to rest a few feet short of my amp.

He looks at me and says, "Uh... I... I dropped my cymbals."

I said, "Don't even f***ing talk to me. Get help, man."

Been using a HPF a lot recently as I’ve got an Anagram now. I just got a new 5 string bass after months of 4 string only, and it’s crazy how much better and clearer the B string sounds with a HPF set at 40Hz. It makes the whole string tighter.

based on the other post, i believe you have replaced the pups again.

g-dude said:

Unfortunately that simply isn’t an option. There’s physically not enough space.

Most of the non-bass guitar parts are actually tuba parts, so regardless I would be playing the wrong instrument on those.

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I do it. (and play tuba). If it's a volunteer band, no pay...tell them to kick rocks, you're playing what you want. As long as it's completely not off the wall. IE: Slapping and Popping during a Gustav Holst piece.

robert_stuart said:

The only Sire basses I’ve seen close up were at Guitar Center. And they all had issues - like maybe scratchy pots or a bad setup. I didn’t look much further.

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I took a gamble on my Sire P5 fretless earlier this year. I had never played a P5 before and I had never seen one at GC. But for $350, I thought that it was worth ordering. Turns out...

Warpeg said:

One of my favorite looks is the late-1970's to early-1980's Jazz Basses with white strat knobs and white pickup covers.

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Agreed , I’ve one from 1982 and love the clean contemporary look .

KevInDaBassment said:

I mean...unless it was free, there's plenty of better options out there. Sheesh, you'd be hard pressed to find a combo that wouldn't do what you need.

I'm not a huge fan of their tonal character, but you can find used Fender Rumble 100 combos all day long and they'll run circles (only need a 12" speaker to do so). Weigh very little to boot, so if the Fender tone stack is your jam, I'd do that instead. There's countless options though, like Ashdown, GK, Markbass, Ampeg, and the list goes on. For what you'd spend on that cab, you'll get far better results all around.

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I have used Rumble Bass amp (200 watt I think} small club owner rented the 150 before and it was not enough. That rumble really impressed me but I don't like buying stuff that can't be repaired. Fender does not sell the drivers the rumbles come with. I asked them how do they do warranty. They said if it is in the 2 year warranty they just exchange the rig. Beyond that you are out of luck.

Do you ever just kinda go through your watched threads page and find an old gem? Because I just did!

GregT said:

A much nicer guitar in person. It needs some setting up so it plays super easy, which is something I enjoy doing. I'm not a collector, so I'll probably switch out the pickups with one of the Fender Pure Vintage '51, '52, or '64 sets. I intend to play it and I think people will enjoy seeing it. Both of my Schecter Banshee basses have Pure Vintage '63 pickups and sound absolutely amazing with TI Flats and TI Rounds. One of my Ultra Luxe Strats has the Pure Vintage '57 pickups. I'm a Fender guy. I'd have a shortscale Fender Precision if only they made one, but the Banshees are top notch basses, so I'm set for now. They marketed the Pac Man Tele to Millennials but it was Boomers like myself who had Pac Man on their Atari 2600. I'm really happy I went ahead and ordered it. If not for this thread, I might not have ever even know about it.

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I think it looks better in your home made pictures than in Fender's studio ones.
Glad you're liking it so far, make sure you play the thing!

J Wilson said:

In order to maintain that perfect ratio of an equal number of submerging the boat and coming back to the surface, a submarine cannot weigh more than it displaces.

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While living in Jacksonville, between Mayport and NAS Jacksonville and the then-open NAS Cecil Field, there were lots of active duty Navy about. We started playing a lot of the on-base clubs and of all things, we had a following of some SEALs that were stationed there for a while. I once repeated the remark about 'jumping out of a perfectly good airplane', and one of them got a little hot under the collar. I'll beat the (&($($E%$R# @@!! out of the next guy I hear say that. That's nothing ! Try swimming out of a perfectly good submarine, you locked up in a torpedo tube with an E1 squid with his hand on the button !!!'

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Sure it can, that's how it submerges. The trick is dumping the excess weight so it is buoyant again.

borgward said:

Is the Eminence driver that comes in that cab made in China or USA? Is it possible to get replacement Eminence OEM driver (exact Match) if the OEM one goes south?

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It's made by Eminence China. Fender service centers should be able to order the correct replacement part.

SlowpokeJoe said:

Follow up to this for anyone still following. I returned the BTB and the chance to play around with and EHB Ibanez at the store (Whichever model is the metallic blue one with the Fishmans), very comfortable bass! I might need to go find one...

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Nice! Thanks for the follow up!

Can't help with the Warwick, but you will find the Cirrus is much nicer than you might expect.
If you find it's just not for you, you can expect to easily get your money out of it.

I-Am-The-Slime said:

I know this may be moot and this point, but.... for future reference.... Ted rocks and this just has lots of additional luthiery/repair bonus material, including a Grabber!

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BTW, note the stickers on the Grabber...

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The technique he uses to mark the fret lines on the white binding of the fretless P-bass seems to be the best way of doing it. Scrimshaw. Much better than taking a micro saw to the binding.

tmarvin816 said:

I currently have a spector ns pulse II 5 string bass with the emg dc40 pickups. I am contemplating swapping out the preamp for a darkglass tone capsule, as I'm not a big fan of the spector tone pump that comes in it, but don't want to drill out extra holes for the preamp pots. The current configuration is only 4 knobs: volume/pickup blend/bass/treble.
In order to avoid drilling an extra hole for another knob I was considering removing the pickup blend and adding in a concentric knob for the volume so that each pickup has its own volume control instead of the blend, and this would eliminate the need to drill another hole.

I'm pretty new to the modification world so I want to make sure that I am getting the right concentric pot. From what I understand I need a 500k pot for these pickups, but will any 500k/500k concentric pot work or is there something specific I need to look out for?

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500k is it

WOW! A grand purchase!!!

DaveParker39 said:

Does the string spacing feel any better for you with the traditional Spector/P-Bass 1.64" nut width rather than the 1.5" Jazz nut width on the Wimbish?

The Ian Hill, for example. (Which he uses Bb Eb Ab Db live)

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Both my previous Spectors were the wider 1.64" nut. Loved the sound, but couldn't get around the string spacing at both ends of the neck.

To be honest, I'd be fine with the 1.64" nut if the bridge spacing were tighter--that's how my Gibson is: 1 & 5/6" (or so) at the nut, but 17.5mm at the bridge.

Playing with fingers I can almost put up with the 19mm spacing... but I'm doing a lot of faster picking in this current project and 19mm makes the string crossings a royal pain.

I have history with XL Nickels and Pro Steels. Used both extensively when I first started playing. Bright and punchy from my experience. A touch of mid scoop perhaps but not extensive. I have recently strung a Precision with XL Nickels and it pairs very well.

I think this is a really good album. I've kept this album in rotation since it's release