tegs07

Just to merge the two topics and play devils advocate. Is there a possibility that top luthiers are also artists and choose their materials according to their own tastes, experience and skill, including the wood as they know what they are trying to achieve. The audience are probably just teenage dorks and middle aged duffers talking twaddle on the internet?

Can I kick it - A tribe called Quest

Just like heaven- The Cure

Problem is the high street is typically rammed with large chain stores who also don’t care, treat their indifferent staff like commodities and are hopelessly inefficient, have nothing in stock, take ages to order anything and can only deliver it on the only day your not available.

True. When the next generation of engines were not so reliable I went Japanese. Buying something you know isn’t very good just to remain loyal to a brand is definitely cult like, irrational behaviour on that we agree.

I went through a stage of only driving VW cars. I couldn’t care less about VW as a brand the decision was based purely on past experience. They were well made, reliable and not too expensive for parts and servicing. I don’t get the cult like fanboy approach but do get why people gravitate to the familiar if they have had positive previous experiences.

I rarely play any of the records now but went to several memorable gigs that were a load of fun.

I bought one from here a while back and love it. My only complaints are: 1) it’s just too pretty and feels like it wouldn’t take much punishment. 2) I’n used to the P bass shape and find the offset body is taking a bit of adjustment to get used to. Its a quality bass though and the neck is superb. For its price band, particularly used, it’s a lot of bass for not a lot of cash. The stock pups are fine but I have a set of Geezers that I had in another bass so replaced the stock pups with these. To me it’s a big improvement, but that may be more down to personal preference/familiarity.

Can work well in Rockabilly/Psychobilly stuff though and visually can be good theatre with a DB.

Interesting thanks. For me it sort of confirmed my thoughts that there are marginal differences with a very clean isolated instrument but nothing that can be differentiated once effects are used or in the mix.

Summer Shadows - Martin Harley

Start! - The Jam

Night nurse - Gregory Isaacs

Green and Grey - New Model Army

Instant Karma! - Lennon

Evil (is going on) - Howlin Wolf

The whole of the moon - the waterboys

I think there is a cultural context as well in terms of vintage clothing and vintage instruments being seen as desirable, whereas simply being “old” is just outdated.

Vintage is is subjective. To my kids anything from the 80’s is vintage. Edit: maybe a broad definition is anything from your parents era is vintage. Anything from their parents era is just history.

Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies

Jesus gonna be here - Tom Waits

I agree with this and about Creamery pickups. Despite the mockery there is a sound associated with those 50s and 60s recordings that is very enduring. Some of this will be down to recording techniques, including the often rushed nature of the recording and lo-fi production but some is down to the instruments. Less aggressive pickups combined with valve amps do sound pleasing to my ears. This is all subjective but I understand why people seek to reproduce it. I don’t think you will achieve it with a hi-mass bridge though!

Little red corvette - Prince

Probably back in the day with no internet and the nearest music shop was in a city a few hundred miles away so if you wanted something you had to make it. Sadly not everyone is good at woodwork!

Whenever I look up vintage pickups the words scatterwound and heavy Formvar wire seem to crop up so my conclusion would be pickups made in this way combined with a valve amp would give more of a vintage sound than a high mass bridge. So I would lean towards marketing guff TBH.