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    The Mothers of Invention :
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    Flower Punk (by The Mothers of Invention)
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    Crispin Glover - "Clowny Clown Clown" :
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    Both phaser pedals were faulty. The TC Electronic phaser sucked tone, even if it is supposed to be true bypass, and when engaged there was a noticeable volume drop as well as both a high end and bottom end suck, making it sound really thin, weak and anemic. The NUX mutes the signal if you plug the jack plug all the way into the input jack socket of the pedal, like you are supposed to, though that can be fixed by pulling it slightly out again, but engaged it sucked high end and seemed to boost the bass as well, resulting in an extremely muddy signal, and on top of that it hardly produced any phaser effect, even on max settings. So returning both and getting a TC Electronic Helix phaser instead. Placing my order on Friday on that, as well as a Harley Benton SpaceShip 40 pedal board, to mount all my pedals on, and patch cables with extremely flat plugs, for a tight fit.
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    Not enough controls! That's a bit too much, not to say way, way too much, even for me who otherwise visually quite like basses with a lot of knobs and switches, even though my current main P/J bass only got two dummy knobs, as the J pickup has been disconnected and the P pickup is wired directly to the output jack socket. For me it's either completely minimal, 1 knob, or over the top, think 60's/70's sci-fi spaceship control board, amount of knobs and switches, ideally in all sort of different shapes and colors.
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    Because it is semi hollow, and I am wondering if the center block of wood it got inside the hollow body construction goes all through the middle of the bass and covers the width of the bridge.
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    Yeah, maybe what you need is really an effect combining delay and reverb, sometimes marketed as an echo effect, though that term is also often used interchangeably for a regular delay effect. I know the EHX Cathedral pedal got a mode called echo which does exactly what you are looking for. Though of course you could achieve pretty much the same by combining your delay and reverb effect if using the right settings.
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    Actually 100ms is in fact quite a lot of pre-delay for a reverb effect, almost gets into echo/delay territory, in comparison your typical build in spring reverb in an amp will have almost no pre-delay and react almost immediately. And a lot of reverb effect pedals will even not have any pre-delay at all and almost response immediately. If you imagine the reverb coming from a room, as in acoustic reverb, it would have to be a pretty darn big room for the reflections to have that much delay. Sound travel with about 343 meter per second, and 100ms is a 1/10 of a whole second, which means at 100ms, if you sit in the midle of a room playing, that the walls of that room would be 17m away all around you, since 1/10 of 334m is 34m, and the sound will need to travel forward to the walls and then back again, and 2/34m = 17m. I will typically use just about 10ms of pre-delay on my main always on subtle plate reverb. The trick for your clean bass tone to not be drowned in reverb is having the right mix of the reverbed and clean signal and to use HP and LP filters on the reverbed signal, so that it doesn't effect the full frequency spectrum of the clean bass signal, a real acoustic reverb of a room wouldn't either, and then of course also make sure not to have crazy decay times that will stretch long over each pick and keep adding up as you play, making it all quickly turn into a mush of reverb.
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    So I ponder on buying a Danelectro Longhorn bass, as I once owned the high end Jerry Jones clone of these basses and loved it (which unfortunately I was stupid enough to sell, they are out of production and I can't afford a used one, since these were pretty expensive basses, about 1200$ new, and are pretty rare to find for sale too), and actually quite like the tone the Denelctros got judging from YouTube videos. However I am not too crazy about the one piece wood saddle, so I was wondering if the area beneath the bridge is covered by the solid block of wood, and I would be able to replace the stock bridge with 4 mono rail bridge pieces, as the string spacing is a couple of milimeters closer together than the standard 19mm? I will properly also wire the two lipstick tube pickups in series, since the Jerry Jones I owned got that option on the pickup selector from stock and it was the only pickup setting I ever used.
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    Awaiting a NUX Mini Core SE Phaser, which is the same as the Koko Mini Phaser, a digital emulation of the MXR Phase 90, just with an added depth and mix control, beside the speed control of the original, as well as a TC Electronic Blood Moon phaser, which is analog, and likely to be a clone of the Boss PH-1r, both should arive with the mail service tomorrow. One of those is going to replace the Xvive V6 Phaser King that I previously used, parallelly mixed with a flanger via my Boss LS-2, since I discovered that the Xvive sucked the high end out of my signal badly. Also concluded that I don't need a compressor first in my chain, beside my EHX Black Finger, that is placed towards the end of it, the TC Electronic SpectraComp is still an amazing compressor pedal though, I just have any use of it currently, but will keep it anyway.
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    Thank you. Well, my economical situation is not nearly as good as it was back then, so as it is now I can't really afford to have something like that build. But if I ever get the money it require then yes, I will definitely have something similar made again.
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    Well, not a head, but the amp in my Trace Elliot GP7SM, 130W, combo. Sounded no short of amazing, awesomely full and rich, yet still very clear and punchy, and with just the build in single 15" speaker unit it was loud enough to keep up with a drummer and guitarist in a loud stoner rock/metal -esque band at rehearsals without issues, in fact the master volume was only set to about 10/11 o'clock or so at all times.
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    Looks awesome.... And no, it's fine, I suppose basses with a from about 25" scale length and up to 28,6" scale length or so will be fine for this thread (changed the title and the OP to accommodate that). Just had the couple of basses currently in production at just about 28,6", and for the ESP 28,5", scale length in mind when I created the thread. By the way before I even was aware of the existence of the Mikro Bass I had this 28 5/8" scale bass build out of Warmoth baritone parts, with a humbuker Seymour Duncan Rickenbacker Neck replacement pickup in the neck position and a humbucker Seymour Duncan Hot Rails Strat guitar pickup in the bridge position (I designed the headstock myself, but might have gone a little too far with that ) : It sounded absolutely awesome, very clear, almost piano like, but unfortunately I was stupid enough to sell it, which I still regret.
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    I used to own an Ampeg B-15S, 60W tube amp, that actually was loud enough for band rehearsals and small gigs without PA support, but unfortunately I was stupid enough to sell it, which I regret much. When that is said, even if the B-15 sounded awesome, I do actually prefer the tone you get from solid state amps, though I use an EHX Black Finger, tube driven optical compresor, with it's 2 preamp tubes run at proper high 300V voltage, as much for a light compression as as a tube preamp stage, which actually beautifully give me a nice touch of that characteristic tube warmth and flavor, and, with the the input gain dialed up to just before the tubes starts to break up when I dig in, an ever so slight touch of tube breakup grid.
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    You know Ashdown does in fact make a tube preamp pedal, I am quite sure with a DI too, right? Though no cab sim, as far as I know, and not exactly anywhere near a budget price tag. I'd personally like a Trace Elliot-esque preamp. Of course I could just get the new Trace Elliot Transit B preamp, or cheaper, but with less tweaking options, a full functioning, but tiny, 200W amp, namely the Trace Elliot ELF amp head, and use it as a preamp, if that was what I wanted, it actually being both smaller and lighter than the Transit B preamp. Both supposed to get really close to the classic Trace Elliot tone, but again neither exactly being budget pieces of gear.
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    I'm not Mike from Penarth, and I am nowhere near Cardiff. I think you dialed the wrong number.
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    Well, it's still a bit cheaper than the EHX Mel9 pedal, got more sounds in it, and will, at least for bass, track much better.
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    Edit/Update!!! : Seems like the sources for my claim about the EHX 9 serries of pedals not tracking properly beyond open A of a 4 string bass tuned in E standard tuning were inaccurate, as it has been confirmed that they will in fact track decently all the way down to the low D, as in 2 half steps bellow open E. My apologies for giving off misleading information. The only thing I really know is that the EHX 9 series pedals only are designed to track properly down to the low A, as in the open A string, of a 4 string bass, which explains the dodgy tracking of your B9. A shame really, cause judging from the demos they are amazing sounding pedals with really good tracking otherwise. I simply don't understand why they would not let the pedals track properly down to at least the low E of a 4 string bass, can't see any obvious advantage to that limitation, neither from a production perspective, it is not like it would be impossible, the Boss SY-1 is a testament of that, as good as flawless tracking, and in the full range of a bass too, and even if it possibly would have meant slightly higher production costs (no idea if that in fact is actually the case, but can't imagine it would have made the production noteworthy more expensive if it was), I would think that would be balanced out with these pedals that way being more attractive to bass players. In my opinion EHX made a mistake by designing the 9 series that way, potentially losing a part of the potential market. I know that I personally at least would have been interested in most of the pedals in that series, had they been capable of tracking properly down to the low E of a bass, even if that perhaps would have meant them being slightly more expensive, but as they work now I have no interest in them. ' If this is an issue to you perhaps you should try to look into the Boss SY-1, even though it won't do exactly what the Mel9 does I believe it can get somewhat in the same ballpark, plus having a load additional sounds in it, actually being capable of getting quite close to a lot of different sounds similar to the EHX 9 series, that you otherwise would need several of the 9 series pedals to be able to do.
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    I am kind of curious about how the DiMarzio Split P pickup sounds with the two halves wired in parallel, since they are basically functioning as 2 individual humbucker pickups, but the only clip I have been able to find is a YouTube video where it's demonstrated in a just 10 seconds or so clip with slap bass, so that is basically totally useless to me. So my question is if any of you got an audio clip or video featuring the DiMarzio Split P wired in parallel, ideally playing with a pick, and with as little as possible other effects or editing done to it?
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    So inspired by the "Super Mini Basses" thread about basses with an about 16" scale length, I thought I would make this thread about basses with an about 28,6"/28,5" scale length (basses with a scale length from about 25" to about 28,6" will be fine for this thread), as there are quite a few of those on the market currently (and because my 4 string 28,6" scale Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro Bass is actually my main bass). Here's my 4 string 28,6 " scale Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro Bass (with various visual mods, the J pickup disconnected and lowered considerably, and the stock P pickup swapped for a DiMarzio Model P, wired directly to the output jack socket) : And here's my 28,6" scale 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass (with various visual mods, and the 2 stock J pickups wired in series, directly to the output jack socket) : Edit/update!!!: A more recent shot of my 4 string Ibanez Mikro Bass, with a fair deal of changes, among those a whole new GSRM20B body, and the DiMarzio Model P replaced for the pickup I had installed in it previously, namely an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup: A list of 28,6"/28,5" scale basses currently in production, and the mention of a couple that is out of production : 4 string 28,6" Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro Bass : https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/detail/gsrm20_03.html )* 4 string 28,6" Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass : https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/detail/gsrm20b_02.html )* 5 string 28,6" Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass : https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/detail/gsrm25_02.html )* 4 string 28,6" Jackson JS1X Concert Minion Bass : https://www.jacksonguitars.com/gear/shape/concert-bass/js-series-concert-bass-minion-js1x/2915556568 4 string 28,5" ESP LTD B-4 JR : https://www.espguitars.com/pages/junior-models 5 string 28,5" ESP LTD B-5 JR (out of production 5 string version of the ESP bass mentioned above) 4 string 28,6" Squier Mini Precision Bass : https://shop.fender.com/en-DK/squier-electric-basses/precision-bass/mini-precision-bass/0370127554.html?rl=en_US 4 string 28,6" Fender Precision Bass Junior (out of production, and as far as I am aware the first major production bass of this specific scale length. The Squier mentioned above is a cheaper budget take on this bass, just with an added tone control, as the original doesn't feature any tone control but just one single volume control) )* USA links, following linked to is the only version of the Mikro Bass distributed in Europe (though Thomann got the Weathered Black Finish GSRM20B and the 5 string GSRM25 version in stock as well) : https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/detail/gsrm20b_2y_05.html I'd personally really like to see a more high end take on this concept (about 28,6" scale length), as all the listed basses above, bar the Fender Precision Bass Junior, which was kind of mid priced, are cheap budget production basses.
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    Bela Fleck and The Flecktones (with Victor Wooten on bass) :
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    I am pondering on the specific rosewood species used for the fretboard on my December 2010 Chinese production Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro Bass. I am inclined to believe it would likely be Indian Rosewood, but the color of it looks much more like Brazilian Rosewood, as it is quite dark brown, almost black, and Indian Rosewood is usually a much lighter pronounced brown color. So do anyone know which rosewood species was used for the fretboard of the Mikro Basses back then? Here's a closeup picture:
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    Japanese Cowboy (by Ween)
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    Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band from the album "Trout Mask Resplica" :
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    No! Read the second comment of this thread. The last generation of Zoom effects are not compatible with the newer generation, and the other way around as well.
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