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I emailed the other day about getting a Backbeat G2 ordered and Marcus replied the same day, but it went into my spam folder.
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One thing's for certain, he's not spending all his money on haircuts!
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
ped replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
This is what’s in mine https://www.geminipickups.co.uk/bass/thunderbird-bass/degenerate-tb I really like it; having one extra hot coil gives a nice wide range. Worth checking out their full range, they’ll do you a custom job too. Some of their offerings look like the same case/cover as your stock pickup (could be wrong) -
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ped replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Looks like he's changed the control plate for a Jazz bass one too (three holes, and it's not slightly bent like the 'stang one). Either way he's on the right track, modded mustangs are cool -
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ped replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Bruce’s neck pickup is definitely moved right up to the neck, and I think the location of the pickup (prob a humbucker) qualifies it for mudbucker vibes. -
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ped replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
So he's been copying me too -
You guys think you had it bad, I used to be a teacher!
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AH ok yeah could try that, good excuse to buy more things... cheers!
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Not really sure what to do with the 'Dry out' except into a tuner or something... any bright ideas?
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They do quite a clever loop switch pedal with the impedance switch and phase switch too which looks awesome. https://eastwoodguitars.co.uk/collections/valco-1/products/valco-kgb-loop
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Just noticed the one in the video above doesn’t have the polarity switch. Maybe it’s a prototype? Yeah it’s quite a big enclosure but I guess it needs to be quite big to allow all the controls. I like big pedals anyway 😂
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The more I play this the more I like it!! The impedance switch is one of the best features. It can really alter the character of the fuzz. You can use it to create a more rounded clean sound which makes the fuzz less raspy and more growly, for a driven jazz bass/Geddy Lee kind of vibe, or open it up for a more modern open ended hard edged sound. Also the polarity switch means even more options - it can cause some phase cancellation which means the clean blended sound really works with the fuzz, giving that kind of dissonant collapsing sound which sounds super thick and rich. I’ll try and do a video soon. Earlier I had my bass board cranked up and the feel of this thing vibrating through my body was just amazing 😻
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It says: “(The bass has a) Fender factory natural stripped finish with matching factory stamps… The body cavity still has some of the original Blond paint, which was the only color on Precision basses made during this era” Is that true, the factory painted them all then stripped some back to be sold as natural?
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Sure, and I was trying to inject a little humour which has clearly been a fail. But I’m saying that if I had personally built thousands of basses I’d probably be able to say that within certain tolerances, basses with one sort of neck sound roughly like A and another type of neck is more like B.
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I think they're super cool.
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KGB = Keyboard, Guitar Bass. Super flexible fuzz that I’ve been after for a while. First impressions are that it does everything I’d want it to plus more. Full thoughts in due course as I compare it to the tall font muff. More info here https://valcofx.com/pages/valco-kgb-fuzz Not my video below but it shows the bass sounds
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I’d lean towards having better audio than video. 4K I’d suggest isn’t necessary.
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Mate
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These are SOoooo good -
sorry I didn’t mean to sound dismissive like ‘you’ve watched ONE YouTube video’ 🫢
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Some have it down to quite an art though when they can select the timber themselves. I remember Christian Celinder saying about using danish ash from only certain trees and only using certain pieces so the number of basses produced was tiny but they were super consistent, but expensive as a result. That kind of knowledge comes with experience I guess. Whilst other builders are quite happy to use nice prices of wood and going with a certain pickup location will give a sound in the ballpark of A or B depending on the recipe. Both approaches are fine, and I’d never have a custom build for me because I don’t have the ability or necessarily trust a builder to get it exact for me - I’d rather they the finished item in the round and see if it works as a whole.
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And the way the string vibrates is affected by the wood. Graphite necked basses for example have a very particular sound. There’s no escaping the fact that the strings are attached to a piece of wood at each end. But I get your pic that it’s insignificant compared to other things. I’m sticking to my point that it affects the sound in a way which pickup location can’t, and vice versa.
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So the wood does make a difference 🫣
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I’m coming! My brother is up for the weekend too so he’s going, as are my two new potential band mates from work. Oh and a girl that I’m trying to set my brother up with. I’ll make sure I come and say hi!!
