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    Fender Pbass American ? Worth it ?

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    On 21/05/2022 at 15:41, Ed_S said:

    In my experience, some MIAs are better than MIMs and some really aren't. I'd say they tend to feel more pleasingly tactile, but playing and sounding better is not so consistently the case.

    I'd agree with this.

     

    When I was shopping for a Jazz last year I found the standard of fit and finish so variable on both MIM and MIA that good MIM's were easily in the ballpark, and the poorer MIA's were easily sub MIM average.  I must have looked at and played 20 before I found one that had the perfect compromise - for me - between sound, feel, and finish, and that turned out to be one particular MIM. Others of exactly the same model didn't have the mojo, but that individual example kicked all comers in the nuts for the combination of qualities I sas after.

     

    It's a product made for largely natural materials, still hand assembled and hand finished, and even some of the mechanically manufactured components rely on the diligence of the machine operator to ensure their consistency (pickups, for example), so it's natural that their will be variability that has nothing whatsoever to do with the countey of manufacture.

     

    So the answer is that there is no blanket correct answer to your question. You don't know until you've played an individual instrument and tried it.  So get round some shops, try a few, and see what you think. 

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    How was your gig last night?

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    Gig last night. We all awoke yesterday to news thst our singer had gone down with a cold and ebola of the vocal cords. By utter chance, our singers neighbour is a singer in a different band and we all know him to at least say 'hello' to.

     

    A quick bit of grovelling and he agreed to cover, which resulted in a frantic 90 minute technical chat and practice.

     

    We made it very clear to the crowd - our home crowd - that he was an emergency backup singer in order to set expectations of any major musical clangers to come.

     

    Except he knocked it out the ballpark with nary a stumble. About half our songs he'd never done live and had to use an ipad clipped to the mic stand for the lyrics but you'd never have known, he was that slick.

     

    So many thanks to Simon from Band Substance http://www.bandsubstance.com/www.bandsubstance.com/Home.html for standing in and doing a truly first class job, and we hope Darren recovers quickly from his cold and regains his voice for our Jubilee gig.  Although I may have accidentally told the crowd you were suffering from a nasty STD rather than a cold!

     

     

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    It appears wood has little to no effect on tone.

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    On 14/05/2022 at 09:52, Phil Starr said:

    Uncanny I was about to start another thread on this, fortunately we are all spared this :) To state my position I'm agnostic about this and a You Tube video isn't really evidence, however interesting. For me it's about physics and the amount of energy involved in picking or plucking a string is limited and the mass of a bass large so if it does make a difference then that needs some explaining.

     

    So the reason I came here to post was some evidence/research on decay time in pianos using a single string on a soundboard, certainly analogous to a guitar if not a bass. Lots of interesting (to me) data but one graph stood out.

     

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    So the plots of the decay times of each note on the piano and the time it took for a 20db decay. You can see there is a general trend for the bass notes to decay slowly and the treble notes quickly. What's interesting though are the differences between adjacent notes. In the middle of the graph Gb4 sustains way longer than G4. playing that piano Gb4 would really jump out at you and if held would colour subsequent notes very differently toa transposition up a semitone. 

     

     

    An excellent point. You've just shown how hi mass bridges act as mass dampers and reduce 'sustain', not improve it.

    How much??

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    On 30/04/2022 at 12:01, Machines said:

    I've just ordered some D'Addarios for my Spector from Amazon for £27, they will arrive tonight ! 

    From Amazon, eh? So not the remotest chance they might be counterfeit. No Siree.

    First person to see will buy…

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    Not so much for instruments, but...

     

    Serviced religiously makes me chuckle.  They forgot to add "once, in 2004".

     

    Also, "it has a minor such and such fault, but its an easy/cheap fix." Really? Then why don't you get it fixed easily and cheaply and earn top dollar with your sale?

     

    Motorway miles. And the point being what, exactly? That might be nice for the transmission, but not so nice for an engine that wears best when its speed and load is varied.

     

    Same family from new.  Translation - 3 generatikns of kids have thrashed it.

     

    I can't say ive seen it so much with instruments, but the pricing sometimes puzzles me.  Take a bass that still in production. A seller may have a 2002 model of that bass (I use that year as I've seen this elsewhere recently) and they're advertising is as 'vintage', even though an identical one is still in production. They also priced it only a few dozen quid less than new, so why they expect anyone to buy their used one for that cash when a new one that costs barely any more, with warranty, which can be painlessly delivered to their door is anyones guess.

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