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  1. neepheid
    That mirror has some terrible neck dive...
  2. neepheid
    It's all b0ll0x, innit?
  3. neepheid
    It's a filter, but instead of your typical high pass filter as found in a tone control (using a capacitor, typically), it was intended as a notch filter (using an inductor), blocking some midrange frequencies and letting everything else through.
  4. neepheid
    Oh yeah, forgot about the choke!
  5. neepheid
    On a purely theoretical level (owning none of these basses), the neck pickup on the original EB-3 is a mudbucker, a monstrous ~30kOhm humbucker. The neck pickup on the SG is a Gibson TB+ in disguise. The Epiphone presumably has the same Epiphone "sidewinder" they've been using for decades. The TB+ and sidewinder are probably quite a bit closer to each other than being anything like the mudbucker in terms of sheer amount of windings and DC resistance. For sonic adjectives, I'll wait for the actual owner to chip in.
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    Nice one, congrats. It is an odd feeling, even when it's a weird, local, spoof awards. My originals band got nominated a few times for our local "Fudge Awards" - a few times for "Best of the Rest" (ie. the unpigeonholeables), and once for best EP. Came second one time (2019), attended the "awards ceremony" and the band who won weren't there so they just gave it to us instead. It was a rubber duck wearing a crown with "Best of the Rest" written on it in permanent marker. We got hold of a pen and added "2nd" to it (because we don't like to misrepresent ourselves). Then we got drunk. Your award sounds much more professional and legit. Good luck!
  7. neepheid
    I think it was in dire need of a setup. Suspect this one was taken straight out of the box.
  8. neepheid
    Capitulated and ordered a gold Babicz bridge. Bloody expensive, and will probably delay obtaining other parts for the project but what are can you do when alternatives are thin on the ground and it's the last one the shop has, with the price likely to rise at the next restock...
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    Oh Lordy

    neepheid replied to a topic in Bass Guitars

    It's not an MFD in the LB-100 - it's G&L's take on the common or garden P pickup. FWIW I like G&L's alnico V P pickup, but it's no MFD.
  10. neepheid
    They were in the shops before the website got updated. I heard about them on Lobster's discord server. Just blame Gibson
  11. neepheid
    I'm only 47, and I've checked out completely. Stopped looking for new stuff, couldn't even begin to name you anything current. I'm not saying it's all crap, I've just got lazy and unmotivated.
  12. neepheid
    You would have preferred if they had reissued/reimagined the post '63 Newport then... (picture lifted from flyguitars.com)
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  14. neepheid
    Ahem - https://www.epiphone.com/en-US/Collection/original-bass Relax, their website is poorly laid out. They've got a Sheraton in the bass section FFS! Your beloved Tbird is safe, but the EB basses seem to have bit the dust. Oh well.
  15. neepheid
    Completely understandable point of view to take if you own a Serek As a neutral who owns neither and has no desire to do so, I'll go with historical precedent.
  16. neepheid
    If I had to guess - it's an inexpensive bass, so they'll reuse the wiring harness (and knobs) from the Embassy to save money. The modern Gibson SG has been VVT for some time now, so there's also some precedent for this kind of simplification.
  17. neepheid
    I think it's a bit cheeky to call this a budget Serek, considering the Newport was Epiphone's idea in the first place. Surely a Serek is an expensive/boutique Epiphone?
  18. neepheid
    Get both, obviously
  19. neepheid
    Spooky that Epiphone should issue one with a very similar colour to yours!
  20. neepheid
    Completely different target market and price bracket - they should be able to coexist happily.
  21. neepheid
    All the skinny on the OG Newport Deluxe courtesy of Fly Guitars - https://www.flyguitars.com/epiphone/bass/1962EpiphoneNewportDeluxe.php
  22. neepheid
    I hope they're not the same garbage tuners as found on the Embassy, but I suspect they will be, so even if you like the small buttons you'll want to change 'em. Very vague and too much play in them.
  23. neepheid
    After they put out the Embassy, I wondered how long it would take them to do the Newport. Well, now they have, short scale lovers. Around £350 gets you a pretty decent modern reinterpretation of the pre '63 Newport. Nice colours too. There's not even a sniff of them on the Epiphone website yet, but they're in retailers now (picture nicked from Peach Guitars, Guitar Guitar have 'em too, probably others)
  24. neepheid
    If I may be pedantic, it does have the treble boost option, so the preamp does do one tone altering thing...
  25. neepheid
    That photo is a good start
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