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On 04/02/2023 at 17:49, Scapal said:

Hi, I have the same issue with my Jake C (P+MM).

Which Nordstrand pickups did you put to replace the Delanos and how is the new combination with the MM pickup (also replaced now?) ?

I can find a nice sound with the Delanos but I always have to go active with a little bit of bass above the mid position. So it's a crappy sound (not fitting the mix) without some EQ. The opposite of my Fender Am Pro II where it fit just right in the mix.
I was wondering if you felt the same and how Nordstrand fixed that (I was also considering Aguilar 4P-Hot).

I found the Delanos always needed a bit of something, depending what I was doing. I replaced them with a Nordstrand NP5 and a Big Splitman, with coil tap so it’s like a Nordstrand Big Single when it’s split, or 2 of them as a Humbucker which is a monster, all squashed into a humbucker sized package. Like that, I feel like for a lot of things it can just be DI’d and sound great, there is that bit of character that I felt the Delanos didn’t have. There’s also more difference between the neck and the bridge, and obviously more choice at the bridge. I doubt I’ll ever change it now.

I spent a lot of time in Newcastle when I was younger, mainly because I lived in Middlesbrough. I'd be very tempted to move up that way if the other half would, though to be fair I do like it here in Yorkshire. Leeds isn't a bad city but it felt like a step down from Newcastle for a night out when I moved there. My mum's family were all from up that way (they were either miners or worked at Armstrong's works in Newcastle, so that's going back a bit now obviously).

Hard to think of a better city in the UK for a night out.

2 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

I’m constantly amazed at the ability of threads from long long ago to be re-animated. Not quite sure I deserved the rudeness 

It didn't, apologies. 

3 hours ago, Geek99 said:

🧟‍♂️ thread 

So what? The poster was offering some new and potentially interesting info. His post did more for me than yours did.

3 minutes ago, TimR said:

So better to spend a lot on an older one than go new?

It's a re-issue, and (I know they're not everyone's cup of tea) with a bit of a relic / road worn job. So nowhere near the price of a real '62, but there is just something about it that I really like. It's nicely different from my other basses as well.

I thought I didn't need one for a long time, and then got a chance of a decent part ex deal on an AVRI '62 Precision (traded in my PRS guitar which I really didn't need). I do like that bass a lot.

Not sure I would have done it for one with any less Mojo than the AVRI, not when I have a P-alike with Nordstrand pickups that has never yet been knocked off its "go to bass" spot.

Finally found some time for one of these, and enjoyed it as usual.. I need to remember how much I like doing it, mainly because I always learn a lot trying.

Blurb for the voting thread: 

I’ve tried to go kind of “directly” from the pic, imagining the protagonist walking forward, imagining what happens next and thinking, “if that’s the music video, what’s the music?”. A  driving insistence to keep moving and the drama of what is encountered on the way.

For anyone interested in the gear: Bass is a Maruszczyk Jake 5A with Nordstrand pups through my Kemper’s version of a Tech 21 Bass Driver. Guitar is an Ibanez built from parts off eBay through AmpliTube and “The Finger”, an excellent Reaktor FX playable effect. The rest of the tracks are all Native Instruments, Drums are Battery playing Groove Monkee MIDI. Synths from Reaktor, Rounds, FM8 and Retro Machines, all played live on an NI S88 first before being edited. Waves Infected Mushroom Pusher and Saphira for Mix FX, plus a couple of tricks to keep things wide.

Funny seeing people taking ZZ Top more seriously than they take themselves It's clearly done for a joke, most of the strings look the same anyway, in fact I wondered if they were all E strings.

4 trussrods though.

2 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

https://youtu.be/yXlULkwhgrc

 

The White Stripes version of Jolene has got to be pretty close to being the worst thing I've ever heard. 

 

I've always liked it on Under Great White Northern Lights (live album), I'd say that version is better than the YouTube one, but it's basically the same thing.

I got told not to use my 5 string for rehearsals and jams because the guitarist couldn't work out what I was playing because of the extra string. He maybe might have had a point if he'd been playing to stuff I was coming up with but that never happened, I was coming up with lines to his guitar parts, and you could tell whether they sounded good by whether or not they sounded good.

Sadly that was the least of the problems so I did a bit of "it's not you it's me" and left.

Portugal. He Man

Residents of the United States

Rodigy

The Shame

The Mashing Pumpkins

Pear of Destiny

The Oozies

Assive Attack

The Mamas and the Paps

Brian bought a pedal from me, all nice and easy, another good bc deal!

27 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

I’ve heard of Capris being up at £70K

 

My first one was only £650

My guess (and that's all it is) is that Capris will come back down again, because they only mean anything to the generation that had them when they were youngish. This is a more specific version of one the opinions being made in the original vid, which is that certain guitars mean something to people of a certain age. Strats got slightly ditched a bit for offset style guitars arouind Nirvana time, and maybe will get a bit of the same effect.

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

I don't think so, just being around a while shows you how the values of some things is very transient, the guitarist in my band is in his 30s, loves jags, I was telling him how in the 80/90S you could pick up something like an XJS for sofa change, in the same way that you couldn't really give a 70s p bass away, now they are worth something.

 

there really is no way to predict the value of something like a collectible, like a Wal currently goes for thousands, equally good things made at the time don't, can be just down to luck 

Yeah, this is the point I was trying to make about Rollers vs Escorts. In the 80s even a nice RS2000 wasn't worth all that much, but a Silver Ghost probably still was. Now the escort is worth more. Very, very few (if any) people predicted that, it was down to changing tastes.

https://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/rolls-royce/silver+cloud/5f6bd09d-93d3-6024-b8f4-d78ab22c48f7

https://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/ford/escort+rs+2000/65a1550f-bbeb-6e0e-a8fd-e6f793da48d6

The generation that loved Rollers is on the way out, the generation that loved a rally style Escort are earning money, or cashing in their pensions.

It's not necessarily a good parallel with guitars, as they havn't really changed style as much, but there are examples of the market dropping for things which are rare and were once desirable, but which fall out of fashion. My brother in laws dad had a collection of Rolls Royces (he was a scrap dealer in postwar London and bought them cheap) which were not worth nearly as much as he thought by the time he came to try and sell, and my parents had a thing for mahogany and red velvet antique victorian furniture, which ended up being worth sod all (quite rightly IMHO).

Xotic Bass RC Booster (v1) - £75 including UK Postage

Original / v1 version of the well known and well thought of boost / tone shaper / pre amp. It can be used as a clean boost but a lot of people use them as an always on pedals. With the gain down it's good for shaping, with the gain up it will warm the tone up, almost to the point of drive. I used this and a cab sim for my whole tone for a while, and would still be doing that if I hadn't gone for a Kemper.

Fully working, I replaced the LED when it stopped working, with the one that Xotic specced for it. A few small marks, velcro on the bottom, one screw missing.

Only posting to the UK at the mo, sorry.

5 hours ago, fretmeister said:

no I didn’t.

 

I interpreted your earlier post as the process of switching tunings would do your head in, not the actual playing in different tunings.

 

The process does my head in too. But I’m happy playing in different tunings as long as I’m not sight reading.

Indeed, and I shouldn’t assume what you meant, and I shouldn’t post after a bottle of red (but I probably will do it again) 😀

I might try drop D on a spare guitar I’ve got when I’m feeling brave.

14 hours ago, prowla said:

I can oftentimes tune a bass by ear, so if I played a G I'd get an F and it would do my head in.

I suppose it'd work out if I was on one of my Steinbergers, as the strap position pushes the neck two frets away from me, though!

Okay, I get it now. I’m bit slow sometimes. The OP was talking about using a drop pedal to shift everything down. I was suggesting just using an octaver to shift everything down a whole octave and then you can eg go up to a “normal” D, in its normal place, and get something that sounds a bit like the low D from drop D tuning. I’ve done that and it sounds pretty good, and all the notes are still the same notes.

1 hour ago, prowla said:

I can oftentimes tune a bass by ear, so if I played a G I'd get an F and it would do my head in.

I suppose it'd work out if I was on one of my Steinbergers, as the strap position pushes the neck two frets away from me, though!

Now I’m lost… this is exactly what doesn’t work for me, I want the same note at the same place, which is what I get with a 5er or an octaver. Same notes in the same place. What I don’t get on with (but other people obviously do fine with) is drop tuning, including with extenders etc.

15 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

So presumably as you have a 5-string, you don't have a problem with needing drop tuning? Just sell the 4-strings and go to 5-string for everything.

Well yeah, that does make sense, and I was all 5 string at one point, but I had quite a bad wrist problem and starting switching to 4 string for everything, but still kept one 5er I didn’t want to part with, which also has narrow string spacing so is better for my wrist. now it seems to have improved (I adapted my left hand position) and I can’t decide whether to switch back. One of the 4s is an AVRI 63 P as well.

It’s only one project that needs a 5 really, the current active band I could use a 4, as it happens I use my 5 but only because of the pickups and because the AVRI has rounds on it.

10 hours ago, prowla said:

Cool.

Personally I'd find everything artificially being out by 2 frets more confusing than either using a 5-er or an eXtender.

But heck; that's me, not everybody else!

Do you mean, because you would be playing higher up but getting lower notes? I suppose I don’t notice too much because they’re parts I’ve written from scratch, and I’m getting the note I expect, sort of.

2 hours ago, fretmeister said:

that’s what a hipshot extender is for. 1 lever to move for accurate changes from E to D and back again.

 

It’s a marvellous invention.

So, to elaborate on   "switching between tunings would do my head in" (which TBH is pretty clear to start with, and it's clear that an extender would do my head in, since what it does is switch between tunings). I don't want to (and don't have to) deal with 2 different tunings where the patterns and relationship between the strings is different. I don't want low E to move to a different place, especially when I'm making stuff up. One of the best things about bass for me is that everything is in 4ths and the patterns don't change, adn the relationhips between each string is the same. I have a couple of ways of getting down to lower notes if I want them, one is my 5 string, which I'm using in a band at the mo and it works a treat. I can switch between 5 and 4 no problems these days, and often do. The other is an octaver as above, which I like, it's different and has a really nice werid effect where you can go up the fretboard and end up at the same pitch. Both of them keep all the 4 string notes in the same place, and all the strings tuned in 4ths. Tuning to drop D, however it's achieved, doesn't do that.

Hopefully that makes it clear why I reallly wouldn't like a d-tuner, extender etc. But then, I kind of think you knew that already

On 05/01/2022 at 09:22, Supernaut said:

Er... just tune to drop D?!

I'm going for delayed reply of the year here.

I'm writing with a guitarist who plays exclusively in drop D, but I'm not exclusively writing or playing with him and do a lot of other stuff, and switching between tunings would do my head in.