LukeFRC

[quote name='BoomBass' post='804260' date='Apr 12 2010, 10:04 PM']So, do you think that the Fender posistion (let's not get into whether it's 60's or 70's) sounds best to our ears today, because

A: Fender was darn lucky and just hit the best possible position at first attempt (and more or less by coincidence)

B: Fender did in fact research massively in order to find the perfect position

C: we have been listening to the sound of that position forever, and therefore, this sound is what we feel is 'right' - or even 'perfect'?[/quote]


B.
It would be relativly easy to make a rig up where you could slide the pups back and forth untill it sounds best. your ears would be able to make it out. a bit like tuning a radio.

Even if he didn't do this, and i think he would have done, i'm sure you could work out where the best positions might be mathematically. I don't think it would just have been 'luck'. a strat has one of the pups angled, similarly this wouldn't have been found by luck.

option C doesn't work because it ignores the scientific side of it, that certain positions will sound better.

[quote name='discreet' post='804539' date='Apr 13 2010, 08:07 AM']Yes, Jaco loved his Bravewood! [/quote]

That les paul/eb-3 type thingy looks nice. if any of you see any nice shortscale japcrap flag it up! A friends after a shortscale bass and I dont use ebay so this page is as good as it gets!

make an audio probe and follow the sound through. I recomend some kinda cheap amp to do this too as there will be a lot of popping.

Now i stress i dont know what i'm actually looking at but looking at the schematic i would guess you are getting the signal through R12.

I would then test each bit of the circuit, i.e. pin 12 of IC1, then pin 1 of the threshold pot and go through the whole thing methodically. I personally would also bypass the mods you've stuck on like the switch between G and H just to rule that out.

I had a tonepad board for the chorus and there was a wee break that it took me ages to find.

[quote name='JackLondon' post='801161' date='Apr 9 2010, 07:24 PM']Right I had enough if this bugger. Anyone can fix it for me? Willing to pay![/quote]


breath in, breath out.... and chill. I took a month of my flipping chorus!
Make an audioprobe so you can follow the signal round the board. Get out the schematic, work out (more or less) what each bit is doing. and then try find where the problem is. I ended up taking mine out the boxes so i could test on both sides.

You'll get htere in the end!

the biggest problem I would have with it would be the straplocks! But you knew that when you bought it, and the colour/finish too.

All boils down to that truss rod. If it works I say keep it. Warwick frets seem to be lower and a bit flat in my experience. I personally cant see that hurts your playing to much if you can set it up. The brass nut prob needs replaced with a new JAN (€23.70) And I think that with the LEDs it will work out okay.

then that switch isnt original either!

if it is a 2002 one the nut's not original.


also my 1991 streamer has similarly shaped frets. I am not sure my old one's frets were different.Maybe my frets are worn too, Maybe they are made more that shape? Ask warwickhunt or someone.

actually thats a totally different bass isnt it!

Interestingly If you look at his other videos he describes it as a USA std Jazz, and a heavy one....

I have wanted one of these for ages! I wouldn't even mind it has one more string than I'm used too... but im saving uo for a masters next year and am more likely to be selling off my basses than buying more
so have a bump

yeah i've got a pretty heavy dutybridge that would fit a fender. I have a aria similar to the one we're talking about (i think, mine has been defretted and modded) and the bridge is crazyily good. I'm not even sure why, you would have to fill the rout surely?


hehehe don't worry bassassin if too many guitars is much of a problem just tell me your address and leave the front door open... yes the man you drove past pushing a wheelbarrow of japanese basses through holyrood park was me!



BTW i think the SB special 2 is the same model as my fretless. Just mine's got different pups, had the frets taken out and logo taken off headstock and is sunburst. Nice to know!

[quote name='Bassassin' post='791427' date='Mar 31 2010, 01:54 AM']It's a temptation I'm trying hard to resist, so far successfully. If it'd had its frets I'd have been all over it like a rash, but right now the last thing I need is another project.

J.[/quote]

pointy pointy! how many things do you have on the go? do you just rent a warehouse full of japanese guitars?!
If i wasn't saving to go to uni i may be tempted...

It depends what people are expecting.
A blues style guitarist, and singer with funk laden bass player and a drummer who's into metal.... sit in a room long enough bouncing ideas off each other and who knows waht amazing stuff you could come up with? Why does anything have to stay in a particular style? It's all modulations of sound at the end of the day, as long as everybody uses the same pitch for middle C everything will be fine.

A lot of musicians could do with getting over themselves and opening their ears a bit. I don't think there' a genre of music invented i couldn't find something interesting in it and learn from.

pointyness

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what is it with them stupid plastic knobs. The bongo has them too i think? I tried out a bongo and would never have bought it just because of the wee annoying plastic knobs

okay, so you make guitars and basses, you play around and end up copying a well known manucaturers model, fair game how many jazz clones are there. All fine... but then going to the effort to copy the dolphin fingerboard inlays???? Why? its daft

[quote name='Bassassin' post='788577' date='Mar 28 2010, 03:41 PM']You haven't played a good Japanese copy.

J.[/quote]

aye cos you've got them all!

[quote name='JackLondon' post='785357' date='Mar 24 2010, 11:55 PM']Yeah I've been inhaling too much lead It's a great little effect, so simple with just 2 pots, I love simple stuff that sounds great and I can't stop playing through it [/quote]

the thing gets me is what's the stock one like with just a wee switch?

well done! you made less of a pigs ear to it than I did to mine! I read your first 'its not working post' and thought the wee trim pot cant be working... but you worked that out!

Try a few warwicks before making a judgement on them, for instance I doubt my old Streamer stage one is that much like a new streamer $$, they will be different. That said if I had to have just one bass I doubt it would be my Warwick. Dunno why, just sometimes, like at the practice I was at tonight I want that P bass tone and the way the notes sound.
I should try a stingray somepoint too.
What didn't the sandberg basic do?

By my reckoning this is the nicest most interesting bass at the best price on basschat. Have a bump. Unfortunately I have a only 3 basses rule.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='783398' date='Mar 23 2010, 01:31 PM']Random idea:

High gain distortion reduces all dynamics from the input signal. What if a pedal "read" the dynamics of the clean signal, then obliterated it, then used the "reading" to vary the volume of the output?[/quote]

so something on the input to read the level which then changes a resistance to the output?

like the narrow depth of field in the photo! and nice bass too

I was working infront of an open window most the time and got into the habit of holdinhg my breath when the fumes come. (sprint training years back does have a use!)

Tried out the pedal just now, its awesome. chorus volume drop not noticable if the sft is on, the wiring inside possibly causing that! The muff sounds good, have to play a fair bit to get a goo sound.
To be honest that SFT is amazing, it would be worth having two of them in a box for two different channels!
I am happy