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[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1342301133' post='1733116'] P's have a habit of doing that! [/quote] Yeah, just sometimes a bit of bridge pickup... and that funky tone ahhh I guess sometimes I just don't want the modern piano type notes on the.... baahhh never mind

what brought this about was my wee session playing today. Last week or so saw the P bass get a lot of play time, it's still got 2 year old strings on it but it sounds great like perfect. Well some stuff just needs a bit of back pickup in it. so today got the warwick out. Now at the moment it doesn't have a preamp or controls in it- just the pickups wired straight to the jack socket. Now I love this bass, it weighs nothing, it fits me like a warm glove, the neck is perfect.... and... it's I dunno. I was trying to play stuff and it just sounded wrong, ah I thought, that's because it's a active bass.... and then realised it's got no activeness in it. and I just struck me, I want this thing to sound like a jazz bass, but because of the neck construction and the pickups, and the pickup placement and the very woods it's made of it never will, theres this thing going on in the upper mids, the treble is more open, theres a lot of natural lows... and...so then I start thinking pre amps, and eq, or set up or selling it and getting a jazz bass, and maybe if I did this, or if I did that or.... and I just think that without the net I probably would have shrugged and kept playing the thing and not been dissatisfied. I dunno, funny mood. cheered up when I just got the P bass out again

[quote name='Cyrene' timestamp='1342297435' post='1733070'] i saw him use a capo on IoW footage last year or the year before. Never seen a bass player use one before. Forgive my ignorance, but why would you need to? [/quote] well the baseline of the song was of a backing track- I couldn't even work out what he was playing

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1342207734' post='1731836'] If you can't get on with floating thumb, try this: *YOU TUBE CLIP HERE!* This is pretty much the technique I've used in the last 15 years playing a 5 string. It'll probably be the case that you can use this on a 6 as Adam Nitti does here. [/quote] wow that's my technique too! I do it as a lefty playing right-handed I didn't have the control, I push the fingers into the thumb as well but thats my technique- good to see I'm not an utter idiot. I do it on 4 strings mind!

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1342291352' post='1732955'] I was going to say ... remember books? [/quote] yeah, but you wouldn't have had such a wealth of basses available to you. You might know a fella made a bass cos he took an advert out in some magazine- but you wouldn't be bombarded with all these pictures. I dunno, just been thinking and playing and in a funny funny mood

It strikes me that if the internet didn't exist there wouldn't be much in the way of GAS and I was thinking. If I sold every bass I have, and had just a (good) passive jazz bass.... well all the music that I want to play that could do. and wouldn't it be easier that way?

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/86953-pingray/page__hl__pingray it's a basschat legend.

I think.... If I were you, I would play this one and.... PM ou7shined and get him to make you a custom... his ping ray pickup placement would be perfect for you. and then sell this one.

do you think it's just markbass or all class D amps?

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1342210230' post='1731908'] Your post is very witty, and I'm sure you were joking - [/quote] yep

I used to work at gigs. Worked at one of their gigs, they had drunk a fair bit... but the bass player I couldn't work out, he was using a capo and not playing the baseline coming through the FOH. Well they had a drum break and he went too fast and so the band came in at a different time... and all of a sudden you could see half of the sound was off a backing track, including the bass. Disapointing.

and what do we make of two part bridges a la warwick and alembic?

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1342136100' post='1730393'] Well the difference is you get:- 1) A strings through bridge - lots of debate over the effect but suffice it to say my Classic has ludicrous amounts of sustain - more than other Stingrays I had/have. 2) Mute assembly on the bridge - useful for getting a very thumpy old school sound 3) Choice of birds eye or flamed maple neck with laquered finish 4) Chrome truss rod adjuster wheel 5) Mid 80s headstock logo 6) Original chrome battery box cover 7) Different range of colours - dependent on colour choice, the pick up cover is white or black (but you can buy covers if you don't like the colour you get) The rest is the same as a stock 2 band Stingray - the EQ has been the same spec more or less since 1979 - my Classic is capable of being a bit more aggresive sounding than my 1980 pre EB sunburst was - possibly because it had an alder body whereas all the Classics are ash. So for me it was worth it just for the cosmetic touches, and especially the neck - it's more of a re-make of the early 90s era Ray with the strings through bridge than a re-make of a pre EB bass. You can probably get a good deal on one if you shop around, and who knows on future values but they're probably one of the nicest Stingrays made in recent years which should count for something. I use mine all the time. [/quote] so translated... this bass will give you.... 1) something that might increase the sustain 2) something to stop the sustain 3) softer versions of maple less suitable for a bass neck than non figured 4) a shiney thing 5) a different sticker on it 6) another shiny thing 7) pretty colours. and 8) possibly a 5th string

Put it another way Remember the video I stuck up with me switching the pups out my JV squier... from Seymore Duncans to the original, could anyone NOT hear the difference?

when I was younger and learning to play I had a problem.... being left handed playing a right handed bass I had little or no control of my right hand. Long strap so that the my arm was dead straight hanging down sorted it for me. I could probably have strapped my elbow up straight and been ok, you just let it dangle with everything straight. I think I then had the bass really tilted upward for the left hand. No idea- not done it in ages. (i also have an odd technique for the right hand too)

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1342099680' post='1729562'] Couldn't agree more. The build diary section should indeed be spilt in two. One for self builds and one for pro builds. Both would be equally as interesting but for fundamentally different reasons. And maybe a third section for minimal mods (my new pickguard, I screwed this neck to this body etc) which I'd most likely not subscribe to. [/quote] nah it's where they blend that's interesting. I like seeing experts do stuff and I love the post i found on talk bass from a guy in india who had no experience and went and bought all this fancy woods and seemed to be making a good job of it. I'ld love to do my own build some time when I have the space and a bit of money for basic tools. (the one thing I would be nervous about is cutting the fret slots) the thing that will encourage me is them all in together. To be honest I would rather the builders ACG, Shuker or whoever stuck up the posts rather than the 'look what someones making for me' threads. And yes. Your fender jazz now has a black guard rather than white. and however many sycophants say how great it is... the buggers still going to sound the same!

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1342094690' post='1729430'] It's basically the same reason why in a Les Paul if you've got both pickups selected, and you set the volume on one pickup to zero then you get no output. [/quote] penny drops!

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1342050485' post='1728928'] That's so true. How many pups have been lucky enough to have been auditioned through a transparent sounding rig... how many have been rejected because of the amp or cabs characteristics being more dominant? [/quote] 345. but one set of barts were out of phase and the fella didn't realise so it was that that he rejected them for