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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2019, 02:44:15 PM »
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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2019, 08:48:03 PM »
A Wishbass thread! Excellent! I've been looking for an excuse...
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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2019, 10:04:54 PM »
^^^
Wishbass...tone like an elephant fart!

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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2019, 09:32:36 AM »
^^^
Wishbass...tone like an elephant fart!

But that's good, because it's "organic," right??   ;)
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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2019, 11:26:10 AM »
I guess He'd sound the same on Jaco's personal bass.

Here's a guy with a very early (#5) Wishbass, ugly as f*** but sounds good.

The guy who bought the same bass twice — first in 1977 and again in 2023

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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #20 on: November 22, 2019, 09:24:24 PM »
Doesn't sound good to me. At least he can play.

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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #21 on: November 23, 2019, 12:49:37 PM »
How about this one?

The guy who bought the same bass twice — first in 1977 and again in 2023

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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2019, 02:42:18 AM »
Doesn’t sound very well balanced to me. All the notes on the G string are too loud in comparison to the other strings. But maybe that’s his playing technique.
At least this guy can play.
The ones in the other videos not so much. And especially the two guys in the Wishbass demo. They could at least have tuned their instruments... ;D
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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2019, 12:45:48 PM »
Way too middish for me all those sounds. I blame the pup placement way back at the bridge. I never ever play just the bridge pup on a double pup bass - can't stand that tone. That is also why I never was such a great Jaco fan - I find mids at the expense of almost any other frequency tiring.
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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #24 on: November 24, 2019, 10:05:15 PM »
Way too middish for me all those sounds. I blame the pup placement way back at the bridge. I never ever play just the bridge pup on a double pup bass - can't stand that tone. That is also why I never was such a great Jaco fan - I find mids at the expense of almost any other frequency tiring.

All of the videos are all mids all the time.

Jaco? Not a fan at all.

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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #25 on: November 25, 2019, 05:03:33 AM »
Doesn’t sound very well balanced to me. All the notes on the G string are too loud in comparison to the other strings. But maybe that’s his playing technique.
At least this guy can play.
The ones in the other videos not so much. And especially the two guys in the Wishbass demo. They could at least have tuned their instruments... ;D

The man playing the bass in that Wishbass demo clip is the inventor himself if I'm not mistaken.

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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #26 on: November 25, 2019, 12:20:07 PM »
That is hilarious!

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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #27 on: November 25, 2019, 04:38:22 PM »
The man playing the bass in that Wishbass demo clip is the inventor himself if I'm not mistaken.

I thought so too.  But if that is what his audience is looking for . . . . YIKES

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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #28 on: November 26, 2019, 01:24:40 AM »
His approach seems to be low cost at all costs. And once again, he can't actually play, only demonstrate the aquired taste sound:


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Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« Reply #29 on: November 26, 2019, 09:42:12 AM »
I tried to watch the entire video. But I just can't sit it out. Tried twice but gave up  after a minute or so.
Nothing seems to work properly. And he doesn't seem to care.
Now I know exactly why his builds look and sound they way they do.