Stub Mandrel
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I was flirting with the idea of an economical double bass that's on here at the moment. My SO was not amused... hmmm. EUBs...
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A good jazz, neck maxed, bridge dialled down a bit is loudest setting. Bridge turned to about 10% is the sweetest sound. The volume and tone on a p-bass are redundant except for home practice late evening...
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I was playing devil's advocate. I think more likely some people get a sound/feel they really like and simply aren't motivated to try hard with other instruments. Me, I get motivated by playing different instruments.
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I won't buy a bass I can't bond with so I can say some Fenders are ick, but mamy are very nice. I've put plenty back on the shelf, sometimes with real regret. My two most out-there p-sounding basses are a Westone Thunder 1 and a Harley Benton kit build with mega cheap pickups! Personally I prefer the mellower sound of vintage style pups.
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Some genres still sell enough vinyl to be viable.
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As someone who plays both, I'll play devil's advocate and ask is failure to get results out of both types of tried, tested and proven instruments, a failure of the bass or the player?
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I am astounded how many of you report 'out of tune syndrome' ... I thought it was just me.
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For portable amps. A few inches is enough for permanently installed horns, like they used to use in cinemas.
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Been there Usually lasts half a song. It's possible that it's actually someone else being a bit off...
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Unless it's fitted in a well designed horn.
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Was: From the ashes of disaster...now various projects
Stub Mandrel replied to Dom in Dorset's topic in Build Diaries
<Pedantic botanist alert> Sycamore isn't native to the UK, although there's lots of it here. Provenance can therefore be UK. -
The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Stub Mandrel replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Went to a gig tonight. Bass player had a Supernatural he's owned for 40 years. I said if someone told me a Jaydee into a Markbass I would have expected super clean funk, but he had a greatn if middley, bluesy growl. -
Springsteen has had a load of grief from Trump. Proves what a sound guy he is, if you ask me. I have a LOT of memories around 'The River'.
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Yes. Not unusual a century ago! What glorious engraving. But the tuners are totally insane!
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Let me fix that for you
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I choose what bass I play 🙂 Jazz bass compared to p-bass? Just crank the gain a bit and enjoy the versatility.
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Hopefully this means they plan to reissue the real Performer.
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I knew you had a squishy hippy progger trapped inside that crunchy punk shell :-)
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Stub Mandrel replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Just added neodymium button magnets on top of the jazz pickup pole pieces, which I poked into their holes. Makes up the huge volume difference. -
What's interesting is the frequency/loudness curve that has perceived volume dropping off rapidly below guitar frequencies. Which is why we need more powerful amps than guitarists.
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Stub Mandrel replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Did some rough basslines this evening, using garageband for a project I'm helping out with. Relatively small room with lots of gear in so I took the Squier Jag SS. Acquitted itself well. -
Slightly off that line of discussion, on Facebook today was saying they use a class D 3000W karaoke speaker for their bass at home and it sounds great. A bit of digging showed the '3000W PMPO' device as rated at 2 x 150W into 4 Ohms.
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I think that if tuners have rounded ends to the notches, then they are modern ones, no matter how 'aged' they look.
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I would have been impressed by Prime randomly playing me matching mole, except I wanted to hear the CCR track again...
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Double bass rebuild - not for the faint of heart!
Stub Mandrel replied to The Guitar Weasel's topic in EUB and Double Bass
Don't forget, the M8 screws need washers in their pockets to spread the load. The force will be equal to the load on the inside so spreading it over a greater area than those two washers is redundant.
