Hellzero

Here are the main 8 basses I'm playing these days, in alphabetical order. I think I'm quite very well served... ACG Finn R Type 5 Fretless : Ibanez AFR A104F (Fretless) : Leduc Masterpiece HMP 624 : Leduc Masterpiece MP 524 : Leduc Masterpiece MP 628 SF (Fretless) : Leduc U-Basse U-MM4 SF (fretless) : Leduc U-Contrebasse 6 Moaï : Le Fay Remington Steele 6 RHT CC CAP Big Block (fretless) :

A friend of mine has one and I know it's an excellent bass. Anyway thanks for the advice @Killed_by_Death.

You can also get a Fender Flea first generation in this price bracket. Excellent value for money bass. That said a Yamaha TRB -4P can be had at this price tag and it's a killer bass that won't lose its value over the years on the contrary.

Go for a Squier JV (1981 to 1983) in very good condition if Fender's are your type of basses. They are certainly going to increase in value over the next minutes. There's a 1983 Squier JV Jazz Bass for sale on eBay at the moment at a correct price. Don't hesitate to negotiate if you have reasons to do so. Here it is : Sandberg, well, urm, no. They are losing value faster than your bank account. An old German Warwick could be had at this price tag, but I'm not sure it will increase in value. Luthiers instruments are not a bad idea, but which one will see its value increasing is quite a mystery.

Maybe I should have, indeed, maybe...

@Geek99 : What secret do you know about wood and tone that I might not know after 3 decades of never ending research, more than 300 basses owned and played, quite the same amount of amps, many gigs and concerts, a few recorded albums, having owned my own (little) recording studio, having recorded other musicians quite a lot and done so many experiments concerning tone, having built my own instruments and amps, having set up and repaired thousands of basses and amps, having exchanged a lot with top of the top electrical and classical luthiers ? Please. You can, of course, PM me which would avoid starting again the whole shebang. Please enlighten me. That said, I'll take the cake and the party bag that you never gave me @ped... 😭

I checked the East tone knob that I still have as spare part, not the Ibanez EHB tone that I don't own (don't know where you got that info), so yes, you definitely have some reading problems. Maybe you should stop cross reading and simply take the time needed.

100 nanofarads with a 500K pot for the tone control. Just checked right now.

My tone is woody. 🤣

Turd polish ? 😮 Ok, I'll (better) get my coat.

But how do you pick up the alder ?

It looks really good, Ben.

I wish you all the luck @JapanAxe and will follow this thread with interest.

I can say I'm lucky they don't burn heretics these days... But heretics are, well after their trial and burning, judge again and rehabilitated as they were right. So burn me, but remember not to let me in.

IBTL.

Never seen a piano ?

Reading glasses may certainly help...

Don't you think that it's about time to admit that an electric instrument is before all an acoustic instrument, otherwise it wouldn't be able to produce an acoustic sound, so in fact moving air through vibration of the wood, certainly not as loud as an instrument with a thin top and back acting like membranes to amplify this movement by moving more air ? Once this is admitted, the same laws of physics are applicable, so tone coming from the wood as, in these acoustic instruments, there is no pickup (a typical Anglicism for microphone, that said). Try reading Félix Savart mémoire about the trapezoidal violin as it's full of informations and ways to understand the principles of tone without any computer assistance. Especially for @Killed_by_Death there's a science that uses both additive and subtractive synthesis to achieve similar results : photography. So even if wood only uses subtractive synthesis, a skilled luthier with trained ears, knowledge and experience will know exactly what to do to achieve a specified result by tuning the wood(s)... Then comes the electronics that will colour the sound to certain tastes or, better, that will be the most transparent possible to retain the original tone of the (acoustic) instrument.

Reversed engineering ?

It's Dave Richmond on bass, even if Brian Odgers have been considered for a long time to be the one on this Serge Gainsbourg fantastic record. 😉 Francis Darizcuren that I mentioned earlier has been working a lot with Serge Gainsbourg too and had that "knack bass" sound too. At that time, musicians were paid, but rarely credited.

5 years later, Mick... 😉

But the system is interesting soundwise, of course.

Wow, it's exactly what I'm saying since the beginning : I'm speaking of WOOD and it's the WOOD that is making the difference and the WOOD is, here, the only variable and because WOOD is not really predictable (won't enter another debate that has been around for so long), it's, strangely, the WOOD which makes the difference, not the rest of the instrument, but WOOD as a generic term, not a particular WOOD, but simply WOOD whatever species it may be. And to be complete, Le Fay pickups are not scattered wound, sorry for you. @drTStingray they do obviously hear a difference and say it, but simply refuse to admit it, because it's all their previous beliefs that are becoming questionable...

I discovered today that the earth is almost flat, but I'm not sure if the it's the center of the universe. Wood some body tale E ?

Because as I wrote, but as usual people comment without reading, the only variable in this experiment is the wood, but even with the evidences before their eyes or between their ears, people keep denying. Same old Galileo syndrome.