Duffy
July 16th, 2010, 01:39 AM
Man, I just noticed, we don't get much action here on the bass section of the forum. Very few posts made. I'm surprised by this because a lot of guys have been getting new basses like Marnold, etc.
Anyway I lucked out on a 250 dollar used mint '02 Fender MIM P bass. It is black with a maple fretboard and I had a new aged white pearl pickguard installed with a new set of 45 - 105 round wound strings. I had the neck adjusted for lower action and the frets polished up to a nice untarnished look.
The bass was hardly played. No wear on the pickguard and no scratches on the entire guitar and you know how scratches show up on gloss black. This thing polished up beautifully. I was worried about getting scratches from polishing it. It came out real nice and the tone is very good.
I have played it only thru my Marshall MB30 great practice bass amp, straight in and with a multipedal. I have gone back to the straight in sound since this Marshall amp has a lot of tone shaping and a great sound. The pots are not noisy and they work very well, doing what they should very well.
This bass is very fun to play and has the sound and feel of a great instrument. I will be selling my Squier P bass and maybe my Peavey P J bass. I will hold on to my Squier affinity J bass with Fender noisless J bass pups for the immediate future.
A lot of my older guitars that I am replacing with upgraded ones were abused by my son and his friends when I lived in my marital house after my separation. They would go in and just grab whatever they wanted to play when I wasn't home with no regard to being careful and not damaging them. Needless to say, a lot of them got scratched up and chipped, dented, etc., during this period. I'm more than glad to have moved on and now live in a secure environment with my fiance.
During that same period, you may recall, a nephew of mine, 43, I had taken in when no one else in the family would. He was in a jam. Well, he wound up ripping me off for my Gibson SG faded and a fat strat Hwy One Fender along with my Behringer GM110 amp, a pro chain saw, and a lot of other expensive things including my entire music video DVD collection, leaving only the empty cases. The day of the guitar theft I threw him out, not without the necessity of involving public service agency and the police.
Lately he called me wanting to confess and make retribution. I didn't return his phone call and told my son to tell him that if he wants to confess he should just call the state police.
Can you imagine enjoying playing a guitar someone bought you to replace one that they stole from you previously? This just doesen't have any vibes attached to it.
I am way more at peace now, as some of you may have deduced over the months, and have started out anew. I still keep in touch with my son but distance myself from his friends and old band that I helped out so much only to be burned.
It is strange how life takes us places and puts us thru experiences. Some of these experiences we could have gotten ourselves out of sooner if we would have had the initiative; but we often want to hold on to the past and things that have long been gone, refusing to face the facts, and maybe being played with along the way. I know some of you guys know what I'm talking about. There are a lot of experiences among us.
Anyway the new Fender bass is beautiful and sounds great. I might put a set of relatively light guage flat wounds on it to further develop that mellow tone type sound so pleasant to the ear from a bass. For now I'm sticking with the new round wounds and will enjoy the flats on my J bass.
Some cool pictures to follow soon.
Anyway I lucked out on a 250 dollar used mint '02 Fender MIM P bass. It is black with a maple fretboard and I had a new aged white pearl pickguard installed with a new set of 45 - 105 round wound strings. I had the neck adjusted for lower action and the frets polished up to a nice untarnished look.
The bass was hardly played. No wear on the pickguard and no scratches on the entire guitar and you know how scratches show up on gloss black. This thing polished up beautifully. I was worried about getting scratches from polishing it. It came out real nice and the tone is very good.
I have played it only thru my Marshall MB30 great practice bass amp, straight in and with a multipedal. I have gone back to the straight in sound since this Marshall amp has a lot of tone shaping and a great sound. The pots are not noisy and they work very well, doing what they should very well.
This bass is very fun to play and has the sound and feel of a great instrument. I will be selling my Squier P bass and maybe my Peavey P J bass. I will hold on to my Squier affinity J bass with Fender noisless J bass pups for the immediate future.
A lot of my older guitars that I am replacing with upgraded ones were abused by my son and his friends when I lived in my marital house after my separation. They would go in and just grab whatever they wanted to play when I wasn't home with no regard to being careful and not damaging them. Needless to say, a lot of them got scratched up and chipped, dented, etc., during this period. I'm more than glad to have moved on and now live in a secure environment with my fiance.
During that same period, you may recall, a nephew of mine, 43, I had taken in when no one else in the family would. He was in a jam. Well, he wound up ripping me off for my Gibson SG faded and a fat strat Hwy One Fender along with my Behringer GM110 amp, a pro chain saw, and a lot of other expensive things including my entire music video DVD collection, leaving only the empty cases. The day of the guitar theft I threw him out, not without the necessity of involving public service agency and the police.
Lately he called me wanting to confess and make retribution. I didn't return his phone call and told my son to tell him that if he wants to confess he should just call the state police.
Can you imagine enjoying playing a guitar someone bought you to replace one that they stole from you previously? This just doesen't have any vibes attached to it.
I am way more at peace now, as some of you may have deduced over the months, and have started out anew. I still keep in touch with my son but distance myself from his friends and old band that I helped out so much only to be burned.
It is strange how life takes us places and puts us thru experiences. Some of these experiences we could have gotten ourselves out of sooner if we would have had the initiative; but we often want to hold on to the past and things that have long been gone, refusing to face the facts, and maybe being played with along the way. I know some of you guys know what I'm talking about. There are a lot of experiences among us.
Anyway the new Fender bass is beautiful and sounds great. I might put a set of relatively light guage flat wounds on it to further develop that mellow tone type sound so pleasant to the ear from a bass. For now I'm sticking with the new round wounds and will enjoy the flats on my J bass.
Some cool pictures to follow soon.