Paulhauser

18 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

 

This looks like something that just escaped from Aliexpress 🙂

Cool find! I think they have nailed the Dimension pretty well, the headstock is nice (though that string tree is strange) Would have loved if the pickups are slanted a bit differently ( more to the direction of the bridge at the lower strings) 

4 hours ago, Doctor J said:

Made in Japan. (F is an internal factory code)

Most likely referring to FujiGen Gakki, the Matsumoto based guitar manufacturer. 

Love the TRB II series btw. 

6 hours ago, Ramsay777 said:

The Classic is weight-relieved like the Euro LT?

Yes, both the 4 and 5 string versions are weight relived.

Congrats to this wonderful piece of subtle beauty. I am a longtime Spector player and for me the NS design is the best out there coupled with one of the most useable sounds a bass can have. (Yes, I’m a fanboy 😀) 

This classic lineup is really tempting but I really should not buy yet another Spector.

Anyway, enjoy your new bass!

Considering pickups are the source of the sound of an electric bass I'd rather change them if I were unsatisfied with the sound of the bass rather than trying to shape a sonic spectrum that is 'flawed' from the source.  Of course it all depends on whteher the culprit really is the pickup or something else. 

I assume you already have the DG pedal so you can experiment first w/o changing anything and see if you can come to find the sound that fits your requirements. 

1 minute ago, Tjhooker said:

Thanks for the input

Anyone got any thoughts on different combos of EMGs?

I'm not set on anything really but I will probably go for a P at the neck as I'm a P player at heart and like that sound but the bridge is open to experimentation!

I have a couple of Spectors so I have tried quite some combinations. If you are putting a 45P to the neck I'd recommend using a 45DC or 45CS for the bridge partly for better maching the outputs (the P has a lot bigger output than the J ) and also the q has a bridge pickup closer to the bridge so a J in itself might be too thin sounding in that position. 

From my experience the 45px and 45jx are a lot harder to find anywhere in stock whereas the dcx is is readily available with most vendors.

I have Spectors using both dcx/dcx and px/jx and the dcs have fuller sound with more of everything while the pj sound more "dry" for the lack of a better word.

I love both for different reasons.

This was a shocking news this morning. Can't really say much.... 

Awesome player who by all accounts was a very humble and kind person. 

May he rest in peace!

Congrats! Eventhough I'm a diehard Spector player I have a special place in my heart for Ibanez SR six string basses (and own two Prestige SRs, too) and that is the platform upon which the ANB was built. I have contemplated getting one when they released it but the 18mm spacing put me off (prefer the 16.5mm of the Prestiges' )  

As expected lots of opinions here so I'll throw in mine as well. 

One of the nice surprises I had lately is how good the Ernie Ball Cobalts sound and how long they last. They are my fav strings now (and I wasn't a fan of the usual EB Slinkys)

I'd keep the Lakland purely because of the aesthetics, really like the bound maple neck with block inlays plus I prefer pristine over roadworn 🙂

24 minutes ago, SimonSaysUK said:

NG3 - Question is, which one feels more natural to the dingwall design and features. 

I've always loved the 5 string models and have never been fortunate enough to try the 6er. I wonder whether the neck will feel too chunky on the 6, as Dingwall like a bit of chonk to the neck. 

I think both BUT tapping and chord playing where you can really utilize a 6ers potential can be tricky up above the 12nd fret or at least it was on my Canadian Dingwall AB5. Up there the frets are fanning in a way that wasn't naturally serving the position of by fretting hand (left) for chords and tapping did get some time to be adjusted. Funny because adjusting to playing fanned fret basses in band / song setting was about 5 mins (where I mostly play on the money end of the neck 🙂 )

Also Dingwall has 18mm spacing on the sixers as well IIRC so there is a certain width to the neck which might be too much for some. My above mentioned AB5 had some of the best becks I 've ever tried so who knows?

20 minutes ago, ped said:

Never seen that before. Cool idea. I like 👍🏼 

Thanks @ped. It was not entirely my idea as I saw something similar on a Ritter bass in that he moved the pots to the back onto a recessed part of the cavity IIRC. Can’t really remember but I asked a local preamp maker if the pots can be replaced with sliders and it turned out to be possible so the rest was figuring out how to mount them to the control cavity cover.

Also it’s worth mentioning that there are two microswitches at the right of the two top sliders which do the coiltap for the TW pickups 

I have refinished my Spector and while at it I moved the controls to the back. The sliders do what the pots did, vol, vol, bass, treble. This was my gigging bass for a long time, I never touched the controls on the bass but got annoyed when they were accidentaly turned when getting it out from the gigbag etc.  So I thought it was a great idea and it was since I never regretted. Love the clean look of the front also love when it takes a while for peolple to realize what's missing 🙂 Also the sliders are sticking out of the plate just enought so you can move but never with your body or leg or whatever it is getting in contact with in the heat of the gig 🙂

1 hour ago, AndyTravis said:

Did they make them in 2006?

Yes they did. Killer score, never seen a 435 in red. 

I think that some of the most important part of the Ibanez SR experience is the neck and those who love SR's do so because of the ergonomics (body and neck) I'm certainly like this, I started out on a SR500, switched to 506 and even though I almost exclusively use Spector 4 and 5 string basses the Ibanez SR 6 string basses' ergonomics have been the benchmark for me in terms of sixers (and currently own two of them, a SR3006 and 5006)

So based on my experience I'd recommend getting the fanned fret Ibby. I had a fanned fret Dingwall some years ago and I have to say that the fanning was really easy to get used to.

39 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

Wow, what are the pickups?

These are splitable dual coils made by a Hungarian pickup maker called Woodhead. 

1 hour ago, Doctor J said:

Ah cool! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

Yes I did and still do (though it is on a loan to a dear friend of mine now)

It was pre basschat days and found your ad somewhere I don't know where but we did the transaction nevertheless.

It was July of 2008. 

Looks like this nowadays:

And with my Spector and another great Ibanez Prestige 5006 (still have them all three)

2 hours ago, Doctor J said:

I sold it to a guy in Hungary, IIRC. It was a really nice bass but I just wasn't digging the six string thing at the time.

That is me:-)

On 16/08/2020 at 20:13, Doctor J said:

The exes... SR3006, SR1500, RS924

I don' remember if I bought it from you or somebody else but I have this SR3006 for 12 years now. Changed the bassculture pickup and the original preamp since plus put up a ramp. It is a very comfortable bass, one of my all time fav's. 

7 hours ago, BritBass 2 said:

The photos  were  taken during lockdown.

Thanks, I thought at first glance they were the original pics from the ad. 

3 minutes ago, BritBass 2 said:

Yes , it’s the one in the ad . Over the years the company have featured it on various promotional literature  . 

 

Beautiful! I wonder how it looks now. 

On 29/10/2020 at 13:03, Dov65 said:

Received on Monday past...a lovely pair 🙂..

Congratulations! Awesome pair, how much of a sonic difference is there between the two? The pu positions seem to be the same even with traditional P / reversed P config. 

1 minute ago, ead said:

Got to love an NT table.

Yeah! You know that sustain that these neck through tables have is another level. It really makes your dinner last a lot longer... 😂