I don't know what to say - a REAL Bass man with the guts to review his kit online....  see below:

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From Scott Copeland

My current bass of choice is the Fender Jazz Bass Standard which I modified by adding a Leo
Quan Badass 2 bass bridge. Other than that it is as bought.

The bass is finished in midnight wine with a white pick guard, I bought it on e-bay for £280 brand new with a gig bag.

My previous first choice bass was a more expensive Ibanez sound gear 5 string that I bought 8 years ago for £600. The Ibanez lends itself to hard rock and metal excellently but I always wanted to try a Jazz Bass.

As soon as I tried it out I was impressed by the woody, punchy tone and the comfortable neck.
It is now my number one bass (well, since I changed the dodgy bridge anyway).

I am now saving my money for the Marcus Miller signature Jazz Bass that I recently saw in my local music shop and fell in love with.

Just a note on the bridge: they cost around £65 and usually have to be ordered from Allparts, and you have to file the grooves in the saddles yourself. It's worth the effort though and I would recommend it be fitted to any Fender bass that doesn't already have one.

I also play a Washburn 2002 RB as a backup live. It has a totally different sound with an active soapbar pickup and all maple body and neck. This bass would suit a guitarist wanting an inexpensive, good sounding bass, as it has a thinner faster neck than the Fender and 24 frets. Considering the price of this bass (around £300), you get great hardware, a Wilkinson bridge, grover tuners, bartolini designed pickup, active mid-cut circuit and the buzz feiten tuning sytem.

All in all though, the more piano like woody tone of the fender wins me over every time.

I play my basses through an Ashdown ABM Evo II. This amp is fitted with two ten inch ‘blue’ drivers and a horn and pumps out 575watts of great tone. It has the ashdown ‘sub-harmonizer’ fitted that provides a tone an octave below the played note and is great for replicating the thickened stereo sound of Entwistle and the like.

There is also a mosfet section on the amp that can be switched in and out and add’s a great snappy drive to the tone dependant on how much you dial in.

Here's a couple of pics, but the quality is poor - Scott will probably update sometime....

Here's Scotts Bass

and a pic of his bridge setup.

Thanks Scott for your input - believe it or not it's taken FOUR years to get any bass player input on this site.....

Scott can be contacted at: scott.copeland@btopenworld.com