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  1. You can install some taller rubber feet to give you some extra height
  2. ped

    Envelope filters

    Speaking of which (the DIY scene) - I'be been borrowing this funky thing from @LukeFRC It sounds great - with a fixed fast attack it excels at the bubbly funk sound. Build quality is great, I really like the punched lettering.
  3. I know a bloke who works for the company who do the contract manufacturing for Origin (Tioga Ltd). I'll see if he knows anything!
  4. Love it when that happens!
  5. Yes they have. It can be harder to find an original as they are often modified (not necessarily badly) but even some of the badly modified ones are silly prices. A good one with a racing stripe seems to be around £3500. Pre-stripe is about 4K. Post stripe around 2 grand? I do think they vary quite a lot probably more so than P basses I have tried from various eras but a nice one is a terrific and versatile bass, and a little bit different. Are you looking for a specific one?
  6. A simpler way to deal with it is to give your opinion and back it up, and if someone proves otherwise (and you disagree) just say: “OK, my evidence shows otherwise, but there you go” Not hard. Let the silent majority who enjoy the well presented experience and information make up their own mind. Nobody knows for sure anyway. Surely that’s part of the fun.
  7. A young Andy Baxter dismantled it to check its authenticity
  8. Back to normal now please? One of the most useful threads on BC. Don’t ruin it by arguing about something so daft.
  9. Hi there. I know what you mean. I think it’s a cool sound too, it really works and the clicky clank makes the bass really stick out if the mix and fits in so well with the drums. I’m not sure why Fieldy is often a figure of ridicule. It’s not my sound but I remember asking a similar question years ago on Talkbass. To this day I like a slightly clanky sound. He plays an Ibanez Soundgear, but a modern 5 string with two pickups will work. Super low action, detuned of course. His amp is very clean and probably somewhere there’s a limiter to give the sound a definite ‘wall’ so it can drop in between the guitars and drums. A similar approach without limiting would likely lead to a fairly uneven sound and struggle for volume. Oh and not much in the way of mids!
  10. Reduced to £550 - crazy cheap for this awesome rig!
  11. I bought a vintage mustang which had a pickup change to P/J in the 70s. It sounded great - just like a full scale P/J but more even across the board. It lost the 'tubby' sound and had a much wider range. However the pickups weren't installed perfectly straight (and shrinkage of the pickguard pushed the P out of position a bit) so i had them changed to Thunderbird (dual coil) and Rickenbacker pickups, mostly because they were the only ones that would fit the existing cavities. Full story here and clips of what it sounds like here
  12. Realised how much better nickel plated strings sound compared to stainless (on my mustang)

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    2. ped

      ped

      They might work better on other instruments, but I've only used Elixir nickels for my basses for as long as I can remember. Maybe steels would have suited some of the 30+ basses in that time, but I never tried! I also love that Elixirs last about a year...

    3. JapanAxe

      JapanAxe

      You only get a year out of Elixirs? One of my Teles has Optiwebs that were fitted in 2018 and they’re still fine!

       

      But yeah, Nanowebs on all my basses except the NG2 because they don’t make a set that fits.

    4. ped

      ped

      You’re right, they can last longer. I sometimes change them thinking that they MUST be dead and I’m just not noticing it, only to realise they aren’t and I wasn’t! I was also worried they wouldn’t fit my mustang but snipped down they’re fine. Dunno what I’d do without them otherwise. Shame they haven’t come out with extended and shortened sets but I think Gore aren’t as agile as smaller manufacturers so it probably makes it harder to add additional lines to the range. 

  13. ped

    Envelope filters

    That's cool. I had the Octavius Squeezer which also combined both pedals but used a fairly user unfriendly digital interface. Sounds great in your clips
  14. Make him or her peel the old velcro off
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