Baloney Balderdash

Most stupid thing I ever did was selling my Jerry Jones Neptune Longhorn Bass, which is kind of a boutique, high end, version of the Danelectro one, and not in production anymore, as the guy who made them retired, and rare to find used (if I even had that kind of money as I did then), such an amazing bass, greatest bass I ever had in my hands, sounded and felt awesome. That, and being stupid enough to sell my Ampeg B-15S (the 60W 1968 version), are my biggest regrets. I do however also really regret selling the 28 5/8" 4 string bass I had made out of Warmoth baritone parts, with an awesome sounding humbucker Seymour Duncan Rickenbacker Bass Neck pickup in neck position, and a humbucker Seymour Duncan Strat guitar Hot Rails pickup in the bridge position. Unfortunately I don't even got any pictures of my Jerry Jones bass and the Ampeg B-15, but I do have picture of the sub-short scale Warmoth bass (I designed the headstock myself, and might admittedly have gone a bit too far )

Danelectro Longhorn Bass!

Kathleen - Townes Van Zandt Here covered by Tindersticks :

Black Antlers (Where's your Child?) - Coil

What? Some strange kind of bass that can only be tuned one way? Curious... My apologies for having wasted your time on my behalf inciting you to write that snide remark. But there is a reason why the bass player from Meshuga plays the same octave as the 8 string guitars.

Love Is... - Dinosaur Jr.

Looks interesting. And yes, reverb stacked into a high gain distortion or fuzz makes a for a monstrous deep wall of sound, especially with chords, but I suppose very rarely of any use in classic pop and rock. Also reverb (or a short delay low in the mix) is a very good idea for clean bass solos or melodic solo work, especially on fretless bass.

As in F#0, 5 half steps bellow regular 5 string bass B0, or F#1, as in 2 half steps above regular 4 string bass E1? If it is the latter early The Smiths and late Meshuga (Edit: Forgot Meshuga tunes their 8 string guitars one half step bellow regular tuning, so that would actually be F (and yes, the bass player plays same octave as the guitars)).

Can you do colored knobs as well? Like red and green?

Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney

Sounds like you lead guitarist is genuinely oblivious that he did anything wrong, to be honest. Maybe have a friendly but serious talk with him about what the f*** is going on and how this works. Though chances are probably high that he still won't understand what he possibly did wrong.

8 semi tones or half steps, yes.

Well, I don't have that problem with my 5 string Mikro Bass, since I tune in in G standard tuning, that is 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass tune to regular B standard tuning, and use guitar strings. Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings have just about the perfect length for these basses. I realize that doesn't help much though if you are tuning to regular bass tunings.

That's a quote from the OP, as in original post.

How about reading the actual OP again:

Funny, I could ask you the very same question. Keeping referring to how he only got 3 effect per patch, when he actually got 6, and that his effects are crap, doesn't help for sure. At least I paged a couple of people who I was pretty sure could actually help OP.

Well, we were talking about wood properties and the nature of resonance in specific here. That however does very much relate to the general debate in this thread, and indirectly to basses and guitars in general as well. But if you are looking for a simple answer I guess that sums up to a: Yes!

Density affects resonance, yes. It is however not the only determining factor for resonance, not least stiffness is very important, but there are others as well, such as texture/structure.

I was referring to the physical phenomena of resonance, which I think should be clear in the context it was written: Also I am not really discussing Roger Sadowsky's beliefs here (honestly I couldn't care less about what he believes or not), whatever they might be, but the concept of "tonewood", from the perspective of using actual facts.

Another issue with "tonewood", or at least one of the common arguments against it, is that no two pieces of wood, even from the same species will be or sound exactly identical. But while this is indeed very true it does not mean that specific species of wood doesn't have general tendencies and traits, tonally as well. Also the argument isn't really about all same types of wood sounding exactly identically, or that some types of wood objectively sound better. So yes, you can probably find a specific rosewood fretboard out there that sounds very much like another specific maple fretboard out there, especially if the body wood and other (con)structural choices of each of those instruments makes them individually lean in a common direction, that is counterweights the characteristics of the fretboard wood somehow, but that isn't the norm or how those types of wood will sound on an average.

Isn't taste in tone very subjective too? I don't get why people are insisting on this being some kind of scam, resonance is a very real phenomena. It's basic physics really. That you can't hear the difference doesn't mean it isn't there, it means you have bad hearing. But maybe that is hard to accept for someone who consider themself a musician, so it got to be a scam. Also this discussion isn't actually at all about exotic woods somehow supposedly sounding objectively better, no one claimed that, except the people who are trying to make this look like a scam.

As I already replied to you once he got a MS-70CDR, which is also stated in the OP, which allows for using up to 6 effect slots per patch. Also I would claim that pretty much no digital multi effects really excels at anything but being versatile. But I still stand by my claim that the EQ models are as good as anything, and that most of the compressor, modulation, reverb and delay models are genuinely great in these Zoom multi effects, and for a lot of them it is really down to a matter of making the right adjustments and personal taste whether they are any worse than any more recent, more expensive digital multi effects, or standalone pedals for that matter. As I also stated earlier in this thread some of the very sought after digital reverb effects has lesser CPU power, resolution and bit depth than these units. For some effects it is simply more important getting the algorithms right (amp and drive emulations does seems to be more picky about the capabilities of the hardware though). Also you should never used the premade factory patches of any multi effect, they are usually horribly exaggerated.

Personally I have been pondering for a long time about getting the DiMarzio Split P, but wiring the two halves, which already individually got 2 humbucking coils each, in parallel, instead of wiring them in standard series connection, for a flatter response, with less boomy low end and more high end. I've pondered on the Herrick multi coil P too, as it seem like a really interesting concept, and I am extremely curious as to how it would sound. JBE/Joe Barden pickups are blade pickups as well. This I can warmly recommend, will balance out the tonal difference between low/thick strings and high/thin strings, instead of emphasizing it, as a traditional orientation P pickup will actually do.

Just bought an EHX English Muff'N on Reverb, which despite it's name is tube based Marshall'ish preamp/overdrive pedal, for just 100 Euro, which is nearly half the price of what they usually go for used : Edit/Update!: Send today, and as the seller lived in Denmark too I should have it already Monday or Tuesday, probably Tuesday though. Really exited about getting to try this out, I kind of plan for it to become part of my main setup. Not sure if I will use it as an overdrive effect, or it will be used mainly as yet another tube preamp stage. Probably will end up as either my main pre reverb overdrive effect, or possibly replace the Joyo Orange Juice overdrive that I currently use as part of my main high gain distortion setup, mixed in parallel with a Mosky Black Rat in Tuebo RAT mode. Edit/Update 2!: I have received the pedal, and not only does it work flawlessly, it also sounds no short of amazing, both as cleanish preamp and as overdrive! I had high expectations, but got to say they have been exceeded, I am blown away with how awesome this pedal sounds.