sorry boys, i sold out...

[barkatozz]

Fender doesn't warranty their input jacks either if you keep stepping on your cable.

 

[shaver]

i find a huge difference in the P bass and the jazz... the biggest would be the neck profile, seccond the tone variations are much more with the jazz because of the extra volume, and the body shape is different.

 

[Morrow]

Fenders made A, B &C necks.If you like the thinner neck of a Jazz you would like the A neck.I prefer B necks. In a gigging situation I can't say that there is a heck of a lot of difference in sound between the two.To me they have a Fender sound....but I'm the kind of guy who tries to make his Jazz sound like a Pbass.I was talking to a blues bass player last weekend who plays a Stingray.He said that feels like the closest thing to his 65 Pbass that has been made.Leo was pretty subtle about his changes sometimes.

 

[xshawnxearthx]

Fender doesn't warranty their input jacks either if you keep stepping on your cable.

yeah, but those jacks i can find anywhere.

EB folks probably hope you weren't kidding.

tk

oHH u R sO fUnNy!

 

[Victobass]

I usually take my SR5 and my MIA P Bass to gigs and play both during the night. The SR5 gets most of the playing time, but the P Bass is perfect for certain songs.
I have made the mistake of going for the B string that wasn't there!

 

[jongitarz]

If/When you have a customer service issue with your new bass, let us know how it goes ok?

Thanks,
Jon

 

[tkarter]

Xshawn dude that wasn't directed at you. It is simply saying Fender discussions belong in the Fender forum. Not that I don't appreciate your decision to go back to a P bass at all. I wish you all the happy playing in the world dude. I just hang out here to discuss the EB bass I love so much. So if I offended you I am sorry on that accord. I still think most of this post should have occured in Fenderforums.com


tk

 

[xshawnxearthx]

thank you jon, and yes, i will. hopefully the quality of customer service with eb, i hope its the same with fender.


p.s. fender forums blow.

 

[xshawnxearthx]

ps jon.


my decision to go with fender had nothing to do with eb customer service. infact, that was one of the cons to buying the fender, was that i would be missing out on all the good cs. i do cs. i know how hard it is at times to make people happy.

between being on tour and needing an input jack, one of your guys(i think dan) had a store in cali, hook me up by taking the input jack out of an existing one, and putting it in mine.


then when i couldnt find a tuning peg, they helped me.

then with all my pre amp issues, they were very supportive in showing me where to go to get it, and how to set it up and so forth and so on.

all the way down to hooking me u with a free nut and a free input jack. honestly, besides the company i work for i must say, you guys have the best cs around.


my decision to go fender, was solely based on sound. the stingray hasan amazing tone, dont get me wrong, but for what i was looking for, it was in the p the whole time.


hopefully, my new fender will make some eb fan happy when i sell my stingray(if i do)


so yeah, tell dan and aziah that shawn from NJ said thanks for everything.(im sure if you look in the system, you will see everyting they helped me with).

 

[Bassplyr]

End of thread. Now on to important EB/MM issues.

 

[xshawnxearthx]

End of thread. Now on to important EB/MM issues.

the thread probably would have ended without this.

 

[cgworkman]

Far be it from me to raise this thread from the dead, but....

A little "brand crosstalk" won't kill anyone. Fender will come up from time to time as will every other brand. That's normal. There are only a few people on this forum that own 100% EBMM basses (Providing you own more than one bass). What we don't want is another Nick/Nick2 situation. Which I don't feel has happened in this thread.

As long as we keep it positive, a little "discussion" never killed anyone!

 

[xshawnxearthx]

Far be it from me to raise this thread from the dead, but....

A little "brand crosstalk" won't kill anyone. Fender will come up from time to time as will every other brand. That's normal. There are only a few people on this forum that own 100% EBMM basses (Providing you own more than one bass). What we don't want is another Nick/Nick2 situation. Which I don't feel has happened in this thread.

As long as we keep it positive, a little "discussion" never killed anyone!

never be a nick, i buy allmy equipment, or pay it off via credit.


as for eb, i still love the basses and the company, i will never knock them, it just wasnt my taste. i played it for 4 years, i didnt just plug it in and say blah.

my ray was my main gigging/recording bass forthe whole time i owned it. only time i ever picked up something else in my collection was because that one was getting fixed.

but yeah, i still love ebmm<3

 

[LarryNJ]

Had a Sterling. absolutely perfect bass. has superpowers----want another (plus a Bongo 4 HS)----

I have a '69 P-Bass that I restored to perfection-Greatest neck Leo ever made,
tons of mojo-
It can never get the modern tones and compression of MM's, but it has a thick chunky passive tone that you can only get from a 30+ year old piece of wood
(lucky me--)

You can NEVER have enough bass guitars-----

 

[xshawnxearthx]

all im going to say is. last night, i played them both at rehearsal.


we played our set twice(like we always do).

the first set i played with the p-bass, and the second i played the stingray.

id say, three songs into the second set, my band started bitching because the low end was gone.

 

[gareth]

I just sinned as well, for the last 8 months every time I go into the local GC there has been this black MIA Jazz bass that sounds and plays absolutley amazingly. Its in the standard "GC Display Model" shape, which means missing knobs, scratches in the finish, etc but its the best playing and sounding Fender I've ran across; it was the only contender against my SR4 when I was in the market for a new main bass. I rounded up all my old and retired gear and dropped an old combo amp off as a down payment to put the bass on layaway. I'm pumped to finally be able to have both of the basses that I spent many a night trying to decide which to choose from the other, but theres no way my SR4 will get retired from it.

 

[xshawnxearthx]

I just sinned as well, for the last 8 months every time I go into the local GC there has been this black MIA Jazz bass that sounds and plays absolutley amazingly. Its in the standard "GC Display Model" shape, which means missing knobs, scratches in the finish, etc but its the best playing and sounding Fender I've ran across; it was the only contender against my SR4 when I was in the market for a new main bass. I rounded up all my old and retired gear and dropped an old combo amp off as a down payment to put the bass on layaway. I'm pumped to finally be able to have both of the basses that I spent many a night trying to decide which to choose from the other, but theres no way my SR4 will get retired from it.

mine was a wall model, but it was a"i just put it on the wal" model. it has some pick surface marks, that i buffed out.


but hey, i found out, fender makes a finish restoration kit that gc sells. i think im going to pick one up.

 

[cgworkman]

all im going to say is. last night, i played them both at rehearsal.


we played our set twice(like we always do).

the first set i played with the p-bass, and the second i played the stingray.

id say, three songs into the second set, my band started bitching because the low end was gone.

Now that's interesting...

I have a $1600 MIA Fender Dlx Jazz that doesn't have the bottom that my SR5 does.

 

[tkarter]

I had a MIM P with a SD quarter pounder in it and Badass II bridge and it didn't even come close to what the Ray 5 does for putting bottom end to the band.

tk