After getting my new jazz bass I have been dying to get some good recordings done with it, but due to lack of equipment I have had nothing to use until tonight when I remembered I actually had a £200 mixer sat away gathering dust.

It took me a while to get my head around it and had to mither a friend of mine for some advice (check out his band The Portlands), but I am pretty happy with the quality that some of the recordings were coming out.

Click the play button on the small media player below to check out a sample of a recording I did. There has been no editing on the recording other than lowering the master track’s volume, a pretty impressive sound for just a raw recording in my opinion; let me know what you think though.

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Woop, finally got my hands on a 75 jazz bass

This bass is absolutely awesome, managed to pick it up for £170 and it sounds brilliant; this is proof that Squier are fully capable of creating a bass equally as good as Fender. The Duncans on this bass sound amazing compared to the pickups on my other jazz bass (from a Fender American jazz).

In addition to how awesome it sounds, it looks brilliant! As far as I am concerned there is no better looking bass than the 75 jazz, I’ve opted to not have any pick guards though as I always feel a bit restricted when they are on (never been keen on them).

I’ve posted a little demonstration video on YouTube, but it really does not do the bass any justice, I recorded it with just my camera as I currently have no recording equipment so the sound has come out very low and a bit distorted at places, but believe me this bass is worth every penny!