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  • 3 weeks later...
On 27/03/2024 at 21:01, rasher80 said:

@Graham A  How's the Bruce Thomas now you've had it a while?

 

Just as update for @rasher80 & anyone else who maybe interested. Really loving my Bruce Thomas Profile, i've been alternating it with my Mike Lull PJ4 & it's really holding it's own against the Mike Lull. My band mates really love how punchy it is, & when my wife first heard it at a gig she commented how good it sounded. I'm loving both of them, so i'm now taking them out to gigs, & my Fender P is consigned in it's case under a bed. 

I've added some links to Youtube video's so you can hear how it sounds in a band mix ( best heard through headphones ). The last video is a compilation from our gig on Saturday where i playing the Mike Lull so you can compare. I'm playing through a Genzler Magellan 800 head & Barefaced Supertwin. 

 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, Graham A said:

 

My band mates really love how punchy it is, & when my wife first heard it at a gig she commented how good it sounded.

 

 

That's a good word for it: punchy.  Also the word I would use to describe Thomas' sound on the Costello songs.  Also, it's the loudest pickup out of all my instruments.

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I sold my Jack Casady, posted it last night. Probably lost £200-£250 in money as well as a beautiful bass. But, the chap who bought it claims to have met Mr Casady himself a few times and seems incredibly excited about receiving the bass, so at least I know it's going to be cherished. I'll miss it, but realistically I wasn't using it enough to justify keeping it, and I can now buy a decent new washing machine with the money.... It sucks being sensible.

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6 hours ago, uk_lefty said:

I sold my Jack Casady, posted it last night. Probably lost £200-£250 in money as well as a beautiful bass. But, the chap who bought it claims to have met Mr Casady himself a few times and seems incredibly excited about receiving the bass, so at least I know it's going to be cherished. I'll miss it, but realistically I wasn't using it enough to justify keeping it, and I can now buy a decent new washing machine with the money.... It sucks being sensible.

 

That reminds me of something one of my 20 year old summer interns said to me.  After a few weeks on the job she turned to me and said, "Adulting is really boring, isn't it?"

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I neglected my Aerodyne for too long so I got it out the case, tweaked the setup and bought a decent strap to get it back on the gigging rota. I forgot how good this thing sounds.

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13 hours ago, kevham said:

I neglected my Aerodyne for too long so I got it out the case, tweaked the setup and bought a decent strap to get it back on the gigging rota. I forgot how good this thing sounds.

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The are really great for hard rock.  It must be the pickups.  They distort really nicely with an overdrive pedal too.

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My Harley Benton fretless jazz is a lovely bass. Recently I acquired what I guess used to be a kit bass that needed some work and thought rather than buying new parts for that, why don't I upgrade my Harley Benton and then lend the old HB parts to the kit bass?  It seemed sound logic to me. Even though I always maintain there was nothing at all wrong with the HB stock, here's what I've done...

 

Monty's wax on the fretboard because I use round wounds with this bass;

KioGon loom so I could use the HB electronics in a different bass;

New Hosco bell plate;

Cream coloured pickup cover... I couldn't quite fit the bridge one without fettling the body and have grown to like it just like this;

Gotoh high mass bridge.

Knobs swapped around because I just wanted to.

 

Worth a further upgrade would be the nut and the tuners but honestly I'm not fussy about those. The bass is perfectly good as is. It just looks a bit better now.

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