LukeFRC

ken this thread is two years old?

Just sold Chris my old copy of Bass Culture, expect him to be hunting for the following soon: 60's fenders Alembic warwick buzzards and a few more 60's fenders great guy

I'm sure his mummy still loves him though

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1339104527' post='1683901'] I forced myself to watch 1:32 of it - imagine if you'd been in the audience and paid to be subjected to this... [/quote] oh it got worse [quote name='skej21' timestamp='1339142173' post='1684161'] Typical case of 'run before you can walk' musicality... Singer trying to be fancy without having the technique to back it up (therefore fails with her timing and intonation) and same can be said of most of the players. Bassist has obviously only just (half) learnt a single basic slap technique and has tried to implement it in a song that doesn't need it, to the detriment of the ensemble, the original groove, his own timing and any form of taste. I bet he also calls himself a 'semi-professional' or 'professional' musician because he gets paid. Muppet. [/quote] thing is I think if we saw videos of a fair few of us lot they would be similarly bad. I'm basing that on the amount of bad slap I see generally. the "what's going on" was even worse.... but it looks like an expensive bass and the tone is the kinda tone that would get people raving about soloed on here or talk bass... just in the band it fails.

the drummer I play with has practiced lots to have a more advanced technique.

[quote name='lobematt' timestamp='1339071935' post='1683204'] Well I still have questions about it so even with everyone's googling it's just as well I'm posting here. If you don't wanna reply to any questions you deem to be dumb then nobodies forcing you! [b]Anyway. I want the switch to be bypassed really. Is there a way that I can wire it to just have the bass set to passive, the blend still be a blend and both pickups on?[/b] [/quote] the switch pulled out makes it passive. If you pull it out you have a passive bass. it would be fairly easy to bypass this... but why? why not just leave it as is and play with the knob pulled out, it does everything you've said you want to to do- but without faffing about with changing anything.

[quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1339039179' post='1682771'] Fair play but even the (Warwick) Rock Basses are fetching a few grand now, although their quality has improved a thousand times since as far as I can recall, it's just hard to own one of these basses now. Just saddens me that what I *could* afford now for a Warwick, the prices have moved on and even finding a decent enough secondhand Im still looking to spend a fair bit or they're a bit tatty. I just wanna Warwick [/quote] you'll be able to get decent secondhand for reasonable price, not as low as a year or so ago but still pretty good. What model you after?

how long is a piece of string?

it's a short scale bass guitar made in japan.

delano hybrid system???

[quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1338948475' post='1681608'] My sentiments exactly BSB [/quote] i had a look at an inflation calculator thing.... back in early 90's they cost about £1500 or so right? in todays money thats about £3000 - so not far off todays prices. Why I can pick up a secondhand 1990 streamer stage one in a nice hiscox case for £400 is a mystery i don't complain about!

Bartolini list a thunderbird shaped pup on their website

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1338914618' post='1681017'] Why do none of the Fenders I try sound like this?? Lovely and warm.. In active mode it's not too far off the tone of my Overwater..Hmmm, it may be coming out of it's case.. [/quote] you know I have wondered why you've been trying to move that one on. hard to replace.

Dan! Nice project you have there. I've had a lot of basses and set up even more for my friends- and without doubt the epi thunderbird had by far the worst hard wear- but I thought it was just me. The bridge esp was terrible. anyway not much help for you!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1338638604' post='1677470'] yep... which is why you wont find many old old ones.. They do like to distress them, so who would know anyway.. As for collectivity... I don't think so. They aren't sought after enough at this time and aren't stand-out either. Fender basses were the only ones that lasted 25 years in a playable condition when they started to be sought after..nowadays, there is too much competition... As with Warwicks..my feeling is that earlier models are considered more desirable, but not really desirable. [/quote] feel free to sell me your 80s warwicks at the price undesirable basses make!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1338634004' post='1677386'] AFAIK MusicMan are pretty much unique in the mass-produced bass market in having pre-amps that are designed specifically for the instruments that they go in. Everything else appears to use generic circuits that may or may not suit the basic raw sound of the bass. [/quote] a good point and often forgotten. I used to have a active wooden status bass- wonderful bass but sounded so so warm that I bought a p bass for more punchyness- but I imagine the warmth in the tone was built in to balance the sound of their graphute based basses. Warwick also has eq points, esp on the 2 band that i think would have be developed as part of the design process for their sound. I stuck a glockenklang 2 band in my streamer for a while, a respected bit of kit and it did what it was designed to do really well-being sounded crap in my streamer!

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1338592249' post='1677115'] Ooh, true analogue 'bucket bridge' then. Nice. [/quote] I have no idea what that means. but thanks!

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1338583456' post='1676933'] Well I've been playing just on 40 yrs, and haven't owned a passive bass since about 1979 - I have dabbled with vintage Fenders occassionally. I have a number of basses and my 2 band Stingray regularly gets gigged on full bass boost and almost full treble boost - it's the sound I want to hear for the type of music I'm playing. Played in a fairly laid back way with an amp set almost flat, it sounds excellent IMO - very warm and fat. If I attacked the bass a la Flea it would probably be too much. As you reduce the EQ on the 2 band Ray, the mids boost - another type of sound is available doing that - I liken it to the bass sound on the Shine album by Average White Band. Apart from my 2 band Ray, I tend to start with basses at centre detent and then adjust 'by ear', dependent on room, genre, number of pick ups in use, coil tap selection etc etc. Some need a bit of mid boost to overcome too scooped of a natural instrument sound. I would be more worried about using an 18 volt pre amp with the bass boosted fully eg a Warwick - my Bongo would send people running to the toilet..........(cue for the bathroom equipment jokers....) having had their bowels vibrated - the bass boost is seriously that strong - I would probably lose speakers on a regular basis as well. I've played loads of passive basses but just don't like them as much - all of the guys I liked in the 70s, and who recorded using Jazzes and Precisions (eg Nate Watts on Stevie Wonder's album Songs in the Key of Life) - played them through studio preamps (Alembic in his case) so they're really not passive bass sounds at all..............and to the guy who said you get the same sound by turning your volume up with the bass EQ set on centre detent, as by fully boosting everything, well you're wrong because on many basses the individual EQ settings of treble and bass (and mid if available) interract - yes it is correct that once you get there there's nowhere further to go, but so what...........and this is only in terms of boost anyway - you can always reduce though - and the idea of cuttting EQ can also produce some great tones. Having got used to active basses over so many years, I find the idea and reality of a passive bass of the F variety rather limiting - great for a couple of specific tasks but not terribly flexible.................which is of course the reason why so many of the quality bassists of the 70s such as Jack Cassidy experimented and switched to active basses - or pumped up their 'passive' basses in the studio (Jaco's recorded bass sound is another example). My favourite bassists of all time are Bernard Edwards and Pino..........who used Musicmans (I know Pino has gone over to P basses but his tone is fantastic, much of which comes from his extraordinary skill - I believe the live sound with JMT is as much TI flats and Ampeg as it is P bass also!). The fact I can get myself to sound a bit like these guys is part down to the instrument - and yes I've tried to play We Are Family on a P bass - it just don't get close - but a 2 band Ray with flats, and EQ on full boost plus a lot of years practicing, you can. [/quote] is a "studio sound" really relevant at all? Ultimately it's a coil of wire with a magnet and at some point it goes through something that boosts that circuit. The main difference between an active and passive bass is that happen on the bass and before the cable with an active system. There is a difference but I that's it, just a difference and not one better than the other

I guess the real question is, why didn't you stick it on the sale forum on basschat?

It's cash on collection. so unless the courier comes with the cash.... otherwise arrange your own courier, quote for packaging and then quote for your time for wrapping and waiting for the courier.

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1338570488' post='1676647'] So is it actually, er, you know, like, for sale? [/quote] it will be soon. the point of this thread was first, asking if it was something people would buy, and secondly asking folk for advice on price