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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #45 on: January 13, 2013, 08:15:47 AM »
The newer passive stuff does sound different. But I still detect something of that old EMGishness in them, a lack of warmth, but it might be my mind/preconceptions playing tricks on me. It doesn't bug me enough to tear them out.
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #46 on: January 13, 2013, 10:18:06 AM »
I had a fretless Jazz with active EMG's...hated it.

My Precision has a passive select in it, and it's pretty wonderful...best $29 I ever spent.
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #47 on: January 13, 2013, 09:05:31 PM »
I've only heard good things about the Selects. Don't recall ever hearing them though.
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« Reply #48 on: January 13, 2013, 10:08:13 PM »
My JB-Player from the 80's has a set of the EMG Selects (P/J set) The best way I can describe them is "super clean". I had a guitar with Select pups (a Strat copy) and that sounded terrible (thin and anemic and low output) but the bass pickups sound great. The "real" Jazz I borrowed sounds "fuzzier" thru my crummy Peavey practice amp if that makes sense. Not distorted, just less clear. Almost like "regular D vs. HD" or something.
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #49 on: January 14, 2013, 02:00:54 PM »
[rambling] I have a pair of Select humbuckers in a headless thru-neck (Hohner Jack) that I've always liked the sound of, but I'd like to turn that into a stealth TB at some point and move those into a fretless rebuild (stalled, like far too much I'm doing) that needs two and I only have one, and that came out of my PC before I rebuilt her, and that one had a great sound... [/rambling]
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #50 on: January 16, 2013, 12:13:38 PM »
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #51 on: January 16, 2013, 12:20:05 PM »
Ick..

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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #52 on: January 16, 2013, 01:06:07 PM »


 I vote for vomit  :puke:
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #53 on: January 16, 2013, 01:24:23 PM »


Wow, that's a fugly bass. They took everything elegant and beautiful about a Thunderbird and yanked it all out!
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #54 on: January 16, 2013, 01:36:35 PM »
I played some 'normal' versions of this bass last Messe and I kinda like the shape. A bit Jag, a bit Nonrev. Not that bad in sunburst or solids.
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #55 on: January 16, 2013, 01:46:40 PM »
Quote from: OldManC on January 16, 2013, 01:24:23 PM


Wow, that's a fugly bass. They took everything elegant and beautiful about a Thunderbird and yanked it all out!


 Yeah, shot at and missed, sh%t at and hit!
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #56 on: January 16, 2013, 01:56:56 PM »
:mrgreen:
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #57 on: January 16, 2013, 02:39:36 PM »
It's fugly and the bass isn't very nice either.
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #58 on: January 16, 2013, 02:55:43 PM »
It looks very wide in the middle to my eyes  :o
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Re: Nikki Sixx
« Reply #59 on: January 16, 2013, 03:27:33 PM »
Are you inferring that Mr Sixx may be developing a middle-age spread...? ;D
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