Telebass

Sense of deja vu...

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Howdy! No Overwaters, but do use a Markbass combo - ace!

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[quote name='OldGit' post='461338' date='Apr 13 2009, 05:16 PM']I agree to a certain extent but if you have 2k to spend on a P bass then you should be able to get one that helps you as much as possible. Why fight the bass if you don't have to?[/quote] Oh, certainly true. I agree that it can help, some. [quote name='EBS_freak' post='461424' date='Apr 13 2009, 07:22 PM']So you can get that one wrong too and left with an instrument you can't shift? I would say you need to know 100% what you want from a custom maker before you should go knocking on their doors![/quote] Agreed, with OG, that's a bit negative. For all my comments, you have to keep looking! Another point is that the more you spend, diminishing returns applies. A really nice Mexican Precision will take a lot of beating, at ANY price. A poor one is just that, poor. £2000 of P is not £1600 better than that MIM, and never will be.

My gear is good middling quality, well up to the job. So it's a bit better than me...

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6L6, KT66, KT77, KT88, EL34 are physically interchangeable (standard octal base), but depends very much on the amp design as to whether you can actually do it. The 6L6 and KT66/77/88 are beam-power tetrodes. The EL34 is a pentode. The KT designation means 'kinkless tetrode', and the 6L6 is a tetrode with a kink! My view on valve amps for bass? A waste of back muscles. I'd happily have an old silverface Bassman head and 2x15, but only for home use. Even that little amp head weighs around the same as my entire Markbass combo plus cab. No tone difference is worth that sort of physical hassle, IMHO, natch!

My 51 doesn't hum at all. Ever. It's completely stock, except for an Electrosocket jack. However, as it has the full complement of covers, there is a bit of shielding...

I think, and have for a while now, that it's mainly how you play, not what you play. My personal opinion? You probably passed over 15 perfectly good Precisions in search of something that doesn't, and probably cannot exist. It's in your fingers, mate. If it's not, you're going to be looking a long, long time. Better to be playing your basses than 'tone-hounding'.

Usually, the impedance is lower, eg Mexican P is around 6k ohms, USA around 10.

56, slowly falling to bits, but I reckon I don't really look it.

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Doesn't sound to me like the heads at all - they're not about to all fail simultaneously. That would be on a par with a moderate lottery win! Something, possibly something important woodwise, may be giving way. Check structure carefully! Sounds like it might get pricey...Or might be the strings themselves?

The other thing that can make the strings sound so different is actually the strings themselves. Worth a shot if you're near to changing them anyway.