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The Bass Zone / Re: NPR Music Blog Dissing Bass Solos
« on: February 14, 2010, 11:24:12 AM »
I hadn't read this until now, but my thought was, it's just someone's opinion, and whether a site is publicly funded or not, a blogger is entitled to personal opinion. NPR has never claimed to be devoid of personal preferences.

Then I looked. It's Carrie Brownstein. More than 10 posts in this thread and nobody mentioned it was Carrie's blog? Nobody else here knows her? IMO she's a great guitarist, and a much better guitarist than Michael Anthony is a bassist. YMMV, of course.

I don't think she was trying to be amusing. Whatever.

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Gibson Basses / Re: New SG bass, sounds soo mean, pickups or scale?
« on: February 13, 2010, 11:27:13 PM »
Quote from: sniper dog on February 13, 2010, 09:30:18 PM
An early 70's or mid 60's means it probably has the 6 pole Strat pickup under the rubber cover. ;D ;D

I think it's a Musicmaster guitar pickup, not a Strat. Flush polepeices, IIRC. Whatever, it sounds better to me than any replacement.

6 poles seem to work fine (another example: Rick toaster) if the polepieces are magnets, but not as well when the polepieces are steel with the magnet underneath the coils.

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Fender Basses / Re: 64 P-Bass on Craigslist
« on: February 13, 2010, 06:19:34 PM »
It probably is earlier, but don't tell the seller.  :-X

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Gibson Basses / Re: New SG bass, sounds soo mean, pickups or scale?
« on: February 13, 2010, 06:13:18 PM »
IMO it's both pickups and scale. The wide spread of the neck pickup coils, the location of the bridge pickup and the rounder, less aggressive attack of the short scale.

Note to Al: The Epi EB-0 doesn't sound anything like this to me.

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Fender Basses / Re: 64 P-Bass on Craigslist
« on: February 13, 2010, 09:33:49 AM »
Look here and scroll down close to the bottom to Jerry Ward's Bass & Amp (note that the page copyright is 2002-2004).

He was the original bassist for Merle's Strangers and played on most or all of Merle's big hits of the mid and late 60s. Also wrote some for Bonnie Owens, IIRC a couple of songs for Merle too.

If I were interested I'd certainly want more photos, but my gut feeling is that it's real, although the finish looks either stripped or worn off. Price does seem high to me but I haven't checked 64 P prices lately.

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The Outpost Cafe / What if Journey and Metallica....
« on: February 13, 2010, 09:23:18 AM »
Be sure to read the premise at the beginning.  :)


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The Outpost Cafe / Re: DC Snowlapse
« on: February 13, 2010, 09:20:29 AM »
I haven't seen snow that deep since the Halloween 1991 blizzard in Minnesota.

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Guitar humbucker sized bass pickups, what to use?
« on: February 12, 2010, 03:14:14 PM »
Quote from: Deathshead on February 12, 2010, 10:06:30 AM
Are you sure Dave? they are still listed in their current catalog and i see them listed on a very few online stores in germany..

I'm not sure but you could check with Allparts since they're official importer for Schaller. My guess is that you'll find those online stores either don't actually have it in stock or have some old stock. As always, I could be wrong.

I remember we went through this several years ago with the replacement bridge for the EB-0. It was on Schaller's website and some stores had it listed but it was discontinued well before. I don't think any of the stores actually had any left.

Quote from: Deathshead on February 12, 2010, 10:06:30 AM
just got word from a dimarzio dealer that the X2N-B is still available, for $75 bucks.
take 7-10 days special order..

I wonder how 2 of these would sound in the LP standard.

Twice as bad as one of them.  :mrgreen:

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The Outpost Cafe / For manure audiences only
« on: February 12, 2010, 03:05:58 PM »
Farmer creates manure Valentine

The wife thinks it's cute.

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The Outpost Cafe / DC Snowlapse
« on: February 12, 2010, 09:50:04 AM »
From February 5-6:


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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« on: February 12, 2010, 09:46:16 AM »
Quote from: hieronymous on February 11, 2010, 07:27:27 PM
Interesting analysis! I've never played a Dark Star equipped bass, but it seems like the whole point was to tap into the magic of the early bass sounds of Jack Casady and Phil Lesh, who were not only using Bisonic-equipped Guilds but heavily modifid proto-Alembic electronics, the whole point of which was to use filters to emphasize certain frequencies. So I don't think the point was the full-range sound by itself, it was to mold that full range sound with filters (whether lo-, band-, or high-pass). That seemed to fly over a lot of people's heads...

I wonder too (and this is just a thought) how much of the "magic" of Dark Stars is in the name - even if you aren't familiar with the Grateful Dead, it's kind of mysterious and magical sounding...

That made me wonder too. If Casady and Lesh weren't just interested in the full range sound, why emphasize that? Then there's the fact that neither of them used these for long.

Whatever. If you put these in a Rick, you lose the the Rick sound. And you make your bass look ugly.

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Guitar humbucker sized bass pickups, what to use?
« on: February 12, 2010, 09:34:26 AM »
Schaller 232 Bassbuckers haven't been made for years. Schaller has a number of things on their site that have been discontinued. I think they just keep the specs or diagrams up for reference.

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Guitar humbucker sized bass pickups, what to use?
« on: February 11, 2010, 06:41:27 PM »
Quote from: Lightyear on February 11, 2010, 05:05:12 PM
Rio Grande pickups are made here in Houston and they are associated with Rockin' Robin Guitars and Robin Guitars.  I discussed the Pitbull with the owner and he told me that the Pitbull was two of their 51 P pickups under the chrome cover.  Might be that they trim the bobbins to facilitate the cover.

I know that's his standard response but I'm not buying it. Similar, yes. Two 51 P bobbins, could be, but would require some noticeable trimming.

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« on: February 11, 2010, 06:25:28 PM »
It doesn't bother me at all that some love the Dark Star, what irritated me is the fervor about it being the perfect replacement for just about anything. It was the perfect P replacement, the perfect Tele Bass humbucker replacement, the perfect Rick replacement et al. No matter that these pickups sounded very different from each other, the Dark Star was said to be everything they sounded like and more.  :rolleyes:

I heard ad nauseam about how the DS is such a full range sound. That's why I don't like it. What makes various pickups interesting is that they're not full range, they each have their own distinctive frequency ranges, peaks, valleys, etc.

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The Bass Zone / Re: Chromey Checkerboard 'Bird
« on: February 11, 2010, 11:02:22 AM »
Mark, the Lulls may be all that. I have no reason to doubt you. But if something is a POS, then it's not worth copying. The originals didn't get to be iconic by being bad.

It doesn't help Lull's reputation to have an endorser or quasi-official spokesman saying that the originals were real dogs. If I were in the market for a Lull, that would really put me off.

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