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To the OP 30 years ago, absolutely yes. Now a days, not so much as quality control on many budget intruments is so high you dont have to worry about contruction much anymore. Just find a bass you like and is made well and there is an abundance of boutique pickups you can buy if you had a certain tone in mind. The only exception is luthiers like Roscoe who get pickup builders like Bartolini to custom make pickups for their basses and there is no way of buying the same pickups from Bartolini. Therefore basses like that will always sound unique. Rickenbacker would be another example of truly unique as they use their own pickups and a hollow steel bridge that gives them their unique sound.

I dont know the true story but I imagine Joe Dart was suffering from back problems as he used the stand a few times for a period and the others used one too just to make him feel better.

You can always buy a stand for your bass like Joe Dart and the guys did here:

Anyone notice La Bella Strings arnt the same as they used to be? On my main P bass, I have a 10 year old set of La Bella Deep Talking strings that still feel and sound fantastic. The new sets I have bought recently are just not the same. They feel/sound more rubbery and break easily. Almost like Im buying fake sets but theyre from big named online shops so that cant be. This just me?

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Just viewed some youtube videos and I might want to consider the Quad-Coil Musicman pickups too... Still its hard to tell... I might want to consider parallel/series switching too but I rather not and just keep it simple.

Hello all I was hoping for someone with experience in Bartolini Pickups to give advice. I have a custom Musicman 5 String style bass I am putting together. I already have a Bartolini Musicman Classic pickup installed in the sweetspot. Im planning to buy another Bartolini Musicman Pickup and arrange them like the Bongo pickup locations. Keeping the bass passive. Does anyone know if the Bartolini Original Pickups have more low end and more specifically, high end than the Bartolini Classic pickups? Thinking of placing a Bartolini Original at the bridge and the Classic at the neck positions. Thankyou!

Ok thanks all, ill swap the strings back over to another bass to see what happens

So bought a Fazley Hot Rod P bass from Bax. The quality is what you expect from a bass priced that low. I strung it up with La Bella flatwounds and it sounds lovely, however... If I fret anyway along the D string it sounds like a fretless! You know, that kinda Mwaaaaaaah decay. And I have nooooooo idea why! Doesnt make a difference if I adjust the truss rod or action. Ive tried two fender style bridges now and the same thing happens. If anything I kind of want to get the rest of strings to do the same! It sounds great. Any idea whats going on? Oh I should mention I had the same La Bella strings on another precision bass and it didnt do this.

Ooh they look pretty cool too thanks

Those Eko acoustic basses sure seem the loudest unplugged. Thanks for the recommendations

Thanks all yeah I was not using google properly XD Found one example called The Spector Timbre acoustic

Are their any real world examples of this happening? Im talking full size acoustic bass bodies like dreadnought. Obviously theres the smaller hollow body fretless basses out there such as Ibanez. I have a Status Fretless neck longing for a suitable quality body and I thought, how about a full sized acoustic body instead of the typical standard size solid body so I could potentially use it unplugged with the right gauge strings to emphasize the upper harmonics instead of worrying about reproducing fundamentals acoustically. It would of course also be wired up to use as an electric. Thanks all

New member to the C4 here. Great pedal looking forward to getting to know it more! * Solved my original hiccup. It was just the preset I was using.