"Bass players don't need tubes."

SKATE RAT · January 19, 2012, 09:08:52 PM

but remember the JSII is a short scale Mahogony bass while i have 'em in a 34" alder Ripper.

gearHed289 · January 20, 2012, 12:45:58 PM

Quote from: SKATE RAT on January 19, 2012, 09:08:52 PM
but remember the JSII is a short scale Mahogony bass while i have 'em in a 34" alder Ripper.

Mine is leaving on the UPS truck today.

chromium · January 20, 2012, 01:00:20 PM

Been a while now since I've heard them, but I remember the pickups in my JSII having very prominent mids and being rather punchy - possibly on par with the sound of an unfiltered mudbucker. They didn't strike me as docile, but it's all relative and maybe even varies between specimens(?)

Dave W · January 20, 2012, 05:44:52 PM

Quote from: chromium on January 20, 2012, 01:00:20 PM
Been a while now since I've heard them, but I remember the pickups in my JSII having very prominent mids and being rather punchy - possibly on par with the sound of an unfiltered mudbucker. They didn't strike me as docile, but it's all relative and maybe even varies between specimens(?)

Are those originals? If so, they aren't the ones I'm talking about.

chromium · January 20, 2012, 06:04:26 PM

Quote from: Dave W on January 20, 2012, 05:44:52 PM
Are those originals? If so, they aren't the ones I'm talking about.

Pretty sure they were; somebody had just removed the cans from them...

iamthatguy32 · January 27, 2012, 11:50:17 AM

I've never played a solid state amp that I've actually liked, and I've played out through a lot of rig combinations in the short amount of time I've been trying out gear. Sure, I can get 'my' sound out of it, but it's much harder to dial in for me, and I always feel like I sound glassy and way too up front... kind of like ear buds vs open ear headphones. To me, it's like trying to get a Strat to sound fat when what you want is Les Paul tone. Of course you can do it, it's just gonna be different.

In all fairness, though, I've heard some other bassists get great tone out of solid state amps who swear that they can't get a tube amp to deliver their sound. And I believe them. There is no one stop, end all gear setup that makes every player sound good. Tone is a sum of all the parts, and at the end of the day it's all subjective anyway.

As for me, I'll stick to my V-4B.

Pilgrim · January 28, 2012, 11:10:25 AM

All I can say is that no matter what kind of amp I play through, when I get it set up, I sound just like me.