I have come to a realization

godofthunder · March 31, 2011, 01:33:46 PM

Quote from: rockinrayduke on March 31, 2011, 09:31:52 AM
Wish I could make a deal on that C64. $:-\$

Talk to me.

TBird1958 · March 31, 2011, 01:35:14 PM

Please tell me you don't have an RD Artist you're going to pedal.............

Denis · March 31, 2011, 01:45:25 PM

And the vultures swoopeth!!!

godofthunder · March 31, 2011, 01:53:05 PM

Quote from: TBird1958 on March 31, 2011, 01:35:14 PM

Please tell me you don't have an RD Artist you're going to pedal.............

Sorry Mark sold one a while ago....................... not my cupa

Highlander · March 31, 2011, 02:41:24 PM

Jackie knows I have six and a half basses, one electric guitar, one acoustic 12 string, a mandolin and a midi keyboard - she's a bookkeeper - she clearly advises me that no matter how hard I try to explain to her I can only play one of them at a time... the joys of married life and the bookkeepers copybook...

Mark - ya just gotta keep looking and stop dancin' round the issue...

http://bassbuy.co.uk/2011/1978-gibson-rd-artist-bass-ebony-with-original-case-ec/

UK add but it's in Seattle (if I read this correctly)

uwe · March 31, 2011, 04:08:19 PM

Buy a worn RD Standard, stick your Thunderlulls in and have it refinned in one of your garish colors and you'll be all set. To an avid TBird player, the active sound of the RD Artist is indeed hard to swallow, play too hard and the thing distorts with just that 9 volt circuit, play too soft and you have that curious dead compression (and I'm not talking about the switch-on on-board compression). The bass just doesn't react like a passive TBird. The Standards are much better in that way. Perhaps the Artists are good studio basses (hence John's very good results with his), but in a live/rehearsal room situation I find them lacking.

But the RDs are beautiful basses alright. Worthy of a - passive - reissue.

TBird1958 · March 31, 2011, 04:26:59 PM

I want one, but not so much to play onstage ( I even struggle with playing 'Birds other than my Gibsons live!) but to play at home while seated ( my back doesn't seem to be aging well $:-\$ ) learning something new.

rockinrayduke · March 31, 2011, 07:40:12 PM

QuoteTalk to me.

PM sent.

PhilT · April 02, 2011, 06:08:24 AM

Quote from: Kenny's 51st State on March 31, 2011, 02:41:24 PM

http://bassbuy.co.uk/2011/1978-gibson-rd-artist-bass-ebony-with-original-case-ec/

Great, Kenny. I really needed another bass for sale site.

This could be useful, though. Is he offering therapy?

Highlander · April 08, 2011, 01:48:12 PM

Mark could always sling the PCB (onto ebay) and run the pups passively - I'm very happy with the sound of them that way...