SonnyBassPlayer

Thanks a lot!!!! We aren't on radios yet but we're looking forward a few interviews in local ones! And yeah we're pretty lucky to stare at Italian shoes hahaha

Goodday Basschatters, Today I'd love to share with the community the first single of my current main project called Kodaclips. We got inspired by bands such as DIIV and the early Smashing Pumpkins together with a hint of my bloody valentine and will release our first album in September. This is our first single, Drowning Tree. Hope you enjoy! Drowning Tree by Kodaclips

Thank you so much!!! It means a lot!

I'm so proud that I'm actually listening to my band's first sinlge Kodaclips - Drowning Tree

That's what I'm talking about!! I had no idea I pretty much made a replica of that bass. any other example?

I actually didn't mention (I'm dumb) in the thread title, any split coil with the '57 body & Tele headstock around? That's the very precise thing I was looking for 😆

Goodday all, I was wondering if there was already a thread dedicated to such hybrid basses and I found nothing, so I thought about starting a discussion. I own a Fender replacement tele/51 bass neck that was sitting on a Classc Vibe Squier body; I found an Italian relic split-model body and decided to try making them fit, since I really enjoyed the Fender neck but not quite much the tone of the overall bass. Being the body I found used and off-brand I decided to butcher that and keep the neck original, slapped a Fender re'62 pickup on the body and filled the missing parts with leftovers from past years coming un with this: The relic laquer body feels greats and incredibly resonant, the neck is and always has been simply amazing, the pickups are the same I've been using the last 12 years on my main bass and I love them.. This thing turned out to be a killer instrument and I look forward to make the body way more reliced with some real life playing. What's your take on this combo? Has anyone got anything similar?

Of course one more option is always useful, but what I meant is that having a cab sim in chain before the cab is IMHO not truly useful as a preamp or Eq would work better in that situation, but of course if the cabsim is out of the chain providing signal to DIs, mixers and FOH that's a great value and I'm the first using it that way, cab on stage with me and sim to the mixer

My choice has been the Dunlop Gator .71, been using that for years on both rounds and flats: I played on flats with that pick both alternative rock on a Jazz with Chromes and stoner/desert rock on a P with Rotos 77 tuned in C std.

I actually haven't played a PJ that I truly liked, but I didn't try many. I really love P and J tones and when I had a PJ in my hands I was maybe expecting just too much.

There isn't much point in putting a cab sim if you do have a cab to sound from, but I'm currently using a Mooer Radar with great results. I connect my ABM's DI out (post-eq) to the cabsim (set only with cab and eq - just a high pass filter matching my cab's response, no preamp in the pedal) and go straight to FOH. I had the IRs of my very own cab made in a studio and it's really great. I mounted it all in the back of my head's case.

I actually love those dark shy colors. The walnut-y one (not the reddish) is great IMHO.

The body shape looks really cool on bass, but the standard Fender headstock shape seems oversize compared to the sleek body. A tele-style or an unholy (for a Fender) Peavey T-40 style headstock would have matched that body much better IMVHO.

I used to play stonery/desert rock with a P bass & 50-110 Roto flats tuned in standard C because I wanted a sloppy sound to distort badly; standard tension would have never given me that tone. Kyuss heritage I think.

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Soo this is my honest rig Ashdown ABM500 Evo II RC from 2007 in Gator retrorack case with a power socket mounted on the back to power the head, pedalboard and Mooer Radar; Gallien Krueger CX210 & CX410 @8ohms that I keep at rehersal place; I almost always ony take the 2x10 cab to gigs In front of that is just bass and pedalboard.

The Firemist Silver Jazz is one of the most beautiful Jazz basses I ever saw.. Online. Haven't met one yet in shops

This post just made me find out about this bass and I'm in love; I always had a thing for hollow bodies' but not enough to justfy owning one.. But I'm a P bass guy and this model triggers me over the top. I'll be waiting for a black or wood-ish color since red-scale colors are really not my thing.

They should be the very same bass except for the finish & wear.

I have very mixed feelings about these instruments because of my experiences. Starting from the most relevant to the post, I got a used 2021 50s P bass (single coil model) for a decent price, and after taking it home to set up with my favourite strings I realised that the truss rod turned but had literally no effect on the neck. After visiting my luthier who told me the neck was shot and not worth repairing, I got a deal on a Fender replacement 51 neck (mexican) and replaced the pretty, yet faulty, squier neck. This got me a bit mad but I'm glad I now have a kinda custom bass (the pickguard is handmade by me): Going back in time I also own a '70s Jacck from 2020 and a '60s P from the same year. The jazz has the truss rod bumping up the fifth fret, making playing on the 4th on any string extremely buzzy unless precisely set with light strings; the '60s P had the neck going up and down on its own and I got used to it. These instruments look great IMHO and sound very well for the price point, but I can't ignore the fact that the necks, apart from being very comfortable and pretty looking, are just rubbish structure-wise...

One of my favourite pedals is the EHX Hot Tubes and it's damn great for the 40€ I spent (used)

Some 3M 80345 pink polish should do the job.

I play various genres and own different basses, this is how I face it. My bigger concern is tuning since I have 4 bands in standard, one in drop-D and one in Eb std. My main bass is a mexi P with upgrades which I try to play in most projects. I use it for shoegaze, alt-rock and pop basically with the same sound: rounds, pick, light overdrive. I just close the tone a bit for alt-rock since it's acoustic and the pop band. I have a small pedalboard in fron of the amp which i use mostly on the shoegaze band. I could use the same bass in a fourth project which is a trash punk duo but I built a custom bass for that just for the heck of it. Another alt-rock acoustic duo plays in Eb so I use a second P bass, a CV 60s from 2019 setup as closely as the main one. The latest band I joined plays modern alt-rock full band this time, and plays in drop-D for which I use a CV 70s Squier Jazz. At the end of the day I'd just play the P bass all the way around but I dislike messing with the tuning, expecially owning more instruments. I will just detune the main P bass for the drop-D band but only for live gigs, I keep on rehearsing and studying on the Jazz. As far as the amps go, I use my ABM500 and GK CX210 cabinet for all full band gigs with almost the same settings and a Fender Rumble 100 combo for "acoustic" duo gigs. I just like having my tone as a sort of signature and as far as today has gone it has fit all my bills.