LukeFRC

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1339872210' post='1695796'] A bit flat is how I would describe it too, right now. Maybe it *is* flat sounding. I plugged in my Squier VM Jazz and it was much more alive... but then the strings are much more alive too. I'm not a big fan of bound fingerboards, but this one feels ok. No sharp edges here. It seems like a lot of bass for the cash, even if it ends up needing a new pickup or two, especially since I already have a good MM type in my parts drawer. [/quote] Yeah, I don't know how I felt about it, it was very underwealming the one I played. Just a bit colourless, not got the energy and spring a good jazz bass has. The price you got it for though it's worth experimenting with esp if you already have the pup.

ahhh, glad someone on here got it. I played the 5 string they had in scayles a while back when I was jazz bass shopping- the way I was looking at it was this was the almost top of the line made by the same folk that make lakland skyline- at not so much money. The whole humbucker/single coil thing intreaged me too. The one I played was ok. I came away thinking that with a bit of a set up, the neck edges rolled a bit it would play better. I also was trying it through one of those Fender TV amps, which have a certain amount of colour to them.... and it still sounded flat. I thought of getting it and sticking new pups and pre in it... but in the end never got one. The one you picked up was tempting me for a bit mind!

suscribed. the only 5 strings I've played have had crappy B strings, interested in this

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1339833039' post='1694991'] Link? [/quote] Edinburgh.gumtree.com type cort bass in the search box...

like it says, cort gb74 on the ed gumtree at £150- which is a reasonable amount of bass for the money

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1339770211' post='1694083'] I am determined when my hands a better to finish the one I started made from two bed headboards and a thin strip of mahogany and an MDF guitar. I did see somewhere the other day a thread where a couple of guys are building guitars Dano style with a Ply frame and MDF . But why would someone build something like that for commercial gain? As soon as someone seen it it would get bashed on the internet and they would lose custom. Instant marketing fail. [/quote] I wanted years back to make a ply body guitar like that (MDF would be too heavy I think) and got a fair number of people on here advising me not too.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1339766759' post='1694010'] Oh here! I do know something after all... 18 pages over 18 months & still no one has given a definite answer that the majority agree on! & if tonewood is important, what about full carbon bass? Does it sound the same as a bass made out of used firewood? [/quote] If I were a bass builder I would market the used firewood as "Roasted Ash" and charge extra for it

the 'standard' bass Eq point on a lot of the standard bass on board preamps is around 40Hz. Glockenklang 30Hz and 100Hz on a Warwick.

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1339764126' post='1693938'] I find it quite telling that there have been a large number of up and coming luthiers concentrating on creating instruments out of low grade plywood and then installing very high quality electrics. Oh........ [/quote] do danelectro's lipstick pickups qualify as high quality?

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1339757987' post='1693785'] Oak instruments have been made in the past. They didn't catch on. Fodera use ash in their necks now, as well as their bodies and I believe MTD do as well. Wood grain and structure may or may not have an influence but I suggest it's moot unless someone can tie those differences into what is heard/felt. As I said earlier, its possible for two pieces of wood from different species to have similar characteristics. [/quote] one of the links someone posted earlier in the article were about different woods used in acoustic instruments and their relative merits (and lot of them were how they could be worked or not as opposed to purely what they did to tone) but a lot of the more interesting woods were concluded with "you could make a great instrument- but folk won't buy this wood"

[quote name='Doctor J' timestamp='1339746849' post='1693541'] I've come to accept that I'm a bass nerd. I get great enjoyment out of the little differences, out of the different design philosophies, the differing concepts behind the different basses I have. I love them all, just in different ways because they're all different interpretations of the instrument I have a passion for. I don't see the point or nobility in rationalising having just one. I am comfortable having more than one bass. It's great, to be honest. I spent many years with just one bass, which I still have and that's great too. Tell me this, is your life going to be any worse off for having the JV as well as a kick ass Streamer? Hell no. Do you think the day might come where the raw power of the JV will excite you just as much as the finesse of the Streamer is exciting you now? So why think about moving it on? Some days only the JV will do, some days you'll just need the Streamer. Smile at how great your life is and learn to live with the burden. [/quote] don't worry, I'm not going to go down to one bass. Just remarking on the oddness of missing the wick meant I was considering it, which is an odd place to be. Two is a good number for me, I tried 3 a few times but quickly go down to 2 again. It gets silly after a while as to 'really' be worth trying a new 3rd bass I would have to potentially 'beat' one of the ones I currently have. I've passed on some bargins cos I know that they wouldn't compare. Anyway. maybe this is a silly thread, I just found that not being able to play a bass for a long time had an interesting effect to how I think of them.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1339756882' post='1693765'] Its actually resonance that does dead spots, the structure is resonant at that frequency and takes the energy from the string. Its like that thing when people say somehting is 'more resonant' when they mean 'less resonant'. [/quote] i think you're saying the same thing i was trying too. apparently the first helicopters kept flying into things, they found that certain resonances of the copter (given by the spinning of the rotas) were the same as the resonant frequencies of the human eyeball....

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1339756219' post='1693749'] That's the same thing, just approached from the other direction surely? The stiffness in the structure is critical for the tuning of the string, if the wood vibrated substantially at low frequency you'd have too much interaction and pitch would wobble all over the place depending on how hard you held the neck! It would sound all weird and intermodulation-distortiony [/quote] apart from the weirdness I always thought thats what dead spots were? the resonant pitch of the wood and the string leading to cancellation or something