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Gibson Basses / Re: Special of the week............ Evertilt/Tiltomatic Bridge!
« on: February 21, 2011, 04:58:57 AM »Who's behind windycityguitars?
Must be you and EB2 if you ask me. You're the only two people I know who advocate this
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Must be you and EB2 if you ask me. You're the only two people I know who advocate this
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Gibson Basses / Re: Genesis on the bay!
« on: February 21, 2011, 04:56:21 AM »Current bid of 202.50 is already too high.
That's harsh, Dave, those were (again) good basses, not the Epi trash from the early seventies.
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Gibson Basses / Re: So Barkless
« on: February 21, 2011, 04:54:29 AM »Dayamn ! Do you keep that beauty in the office or at home ?
Pic is my (former) home (hey, but I still own half of it!
), but like all Gibbies it is in the office now, I keep the non-Gibbies in the (new) home.
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Gibson Basses / Re: So Barkless
« on: February 21, 2011, 04:52:05 AM »
It is, you know how bad these things are ... I think that was even done by the pre-owner, so John is innocent for once.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Horseshoes are in.
« on: February 19, 2011, 03:54:49 AM »
Better than a non horseshoe I mean. I don't hear Chris Squire sounding fundamentally different to other Ric, just more extreme. And I can-t imagine that picking up the signal of the strings from above leads to a vastly different result to picking them up from below though I'ne heard that the Ric' cavernous bridge pup routing contributes to the sound and that its effect should be less with the horseshoe.
I don't care about the looks (nice, but no must-have), but I'd buy one if it would make one of my Rics sound very much better or at least different.
I don't care about the looks (nice, but no must-have), but I'd buy one if it would make one of my Rics sound very much better or at least different.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: My Friend Dale
« on: February 19, 2011, 03:45:54 AM »
This is horrible, losing a loved like that. But you'll be around for him and so will hopefully others. And he'll have the time for a proper good bye to his wife which can help the healing process later on.
Be the best friend on earth.
Be the best friend on earth.
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Gibson Basses / Re: NAMM 2011: Return of the TB front jack? (And other things, but no chrome!!!)
« on: February 18, 2011, 11:20:42 AM »
That's a nice bass except for the bridge. It looks cheap on everything but Fenders.
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Gibson Basses / Re: So Barkless
« on: February 18, 2011, 11:17:48 AM »
Ooops, now I get it! I thought you were referring to Validation, Verification, Testing. I'm so bad at acronyms, sorry.
Yes, vol, vol, tone. One of the control routings used to be the jack which is now at the side.
Yes, vol, vol, tone. One of the control routings used to be the jack which is now at the side.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Anybody in Albany for a Rickenbacker 8 string bass?
« on: February 18, 2011, 11:15:01 AM »
Pic of the action? 
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Horseshoes are in.
« on: February 18, 2011, 11:13:33 AM »
How and why do they sound better?
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Gibson Basses / Re: So Barkless
« on: February 18, 2011, 10:34:10 AM »
My love for the Evertilt/Tiltomatic/two-point-bridge is well-documented in this forum. It's the second-worst American engineering invention/crime since the electric chair.
And that at least worked. Most of the time.
And that at least worked. Most of the time.
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Gibson Basses / Re: So Barkless
« on: February 18, 2011, 09:17:10 AM »
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.
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.
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The Bass Zone / Re: difference between Vintage & Current basses?
« on: February 18, 2011, 05:33:19 AM »
I think that is true. Any of todays 600 buck Yamaha or Ibanez basses would have been considered the epitome of bass building in 1970.
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The Bass Zone / Re: difference between Vintage & Current basses?
« on: February 17, 2011, 04:46:06 PM »
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
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
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Gibson Basses / Re: NAMM 2011: Return of the TB front jack? (And other things, but no chrome!!!)
« on: February 17, 2011, 04:34:42 PM »
Silly remark. Because it's from a Dunderbird, that's why.