The Last Bass Outpost

Just by the range of the string the Pitbull reads, I'd say any minibucker doesn't stand a chance against it especially in the bridge position.

John (the hound without howl) posted only recently that his whitey EB sounds like a Yamaha Attitude, that mix of Fender and Gibson worlds popularized by Herr Sheehan.

I have an EB-O with an RD Standard stacked humbucker pup in the bridge position, sounds great and in connection with the mudbucker even a little Ric'ish overall. Anything is better than those minipups really.

Rule of thumb:

Vintage = not hifi, more mids than highs and lows, some overdrive and distortion, signal not compressed to death, i.e. notes drop in and out, side noises, fret buzz, amp hiss,

Current: Clean signal, presence and bass stronger than mids, ample sublows you only hear over the right speakers, no distortion unless wanted, even, but sometimes lifeless signal due to compression, bass drum and bass battle for the same frequencies and bass drum wins everytime

Save when involving furry rodents, your imagination leaves much to be desired, Ken!

The artist as a young man and before his "ooops, how did I wake up in this girls' dress and my face all made up?"-phase OR his "darn, all I wanted to do was photograph that pup and now I have this strange reflection of my manhood"-phase.

I'm happy you apparently had innocent days too, George. 

He should have joined Queen (no pun intended). He's one of the few singers who can almost match Freddie Mercury's bombast and range. The tracks he did with them for the memorial concert are stellar, far superior to anything Paul Rodgers can muster.

How he creamed (pun intended?) everyone into the ground vocally on that day is firmly embedded in public memory. He felt that song.

The album Rick Rubin will do with him ten years from now will be brilliant.

Paul Rodgers was as good a fit in (the remnants of) Queen as Simon Kirke would have been in Return to Forever or Mick Ralphs in the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Uwe, your avatar reminds me of the Bullet Bass ... still got that?

Sure.




Why should I sell it? And into a country where they shoot basses?!!!! Orville Gibson forbid!

It doesn't look right to me. And I don't see how it will sound much like an SG.

The SG Bass pickups are not the same as TB Plus. Gibson's site doesn't even call them TB Plus anymore. The blades and the coils of the neck pickup may be identical to a TB Plus but the coils are so widely separated that it would make a big difference in the tone since the portion of string being "read" is so much wider. And it's in a different position than the neck pickup on Thunderbird. The SG bridge pickup is apparently a regular mini-hum.

That's why the SG RI front pup sounds woofier than a TBird or LP front TB Plus, but the basic character is still there.

Thunderhobbit!

Or:

Hobbird!!!