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itu

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  1. If you play with any acoustic instrument, your tuning should not be calculated from some basic "sixth root of two" because instruments like piano cannot be tuned mathematically straight. Otherwise they would sound funny (read: terrible). My Peterson SAM has tuning temperament for bass. It tunes lowest notes slightly too low. Works and sounds like a dream. And yes, our band has a piano player and some brass. The answer to the original question is: "No". I would be far more interested in the stability of my bass necks than the tuner accuracy. Modern quartz tuners are very good and stable - and I have half a minute to tune my carbon neck instruments before the rehearsals or gigs start, so I will sleep my nights just like before.
  2. Mouradian CS-74.
  3. My dear father had somewhat similar issue with his iPad. Updates were not happening anymore. I did not find the answer right away. The problem was that the updates are already 64-bit and they won't go in to an older 32-bit system. Solution: went to a store and bought a newer unit to him.
  4. An all white Moon with a mic has not been mentioned. A 36" Overwater C... what else? Yes, a two string fretless played with slide! Adventurous people, have to say.
  5. Where's Billy Sheehan? Stan the man? Phil Lesh (Modulus, Alembic, Ritter...)? I love those experiments, not so much the basic models while talking about "signatures". Stingray is a Stingray. And after saying this, the Pensa-Suhr of the late Victor Bailey looks good, while I do not like the maple colour of MM's bass.
  6. It can be read through several comments here already, but I want to point out that adjustments should be done with a new set if strings. Old, worn and dirty strings may give strange results.
  7. Some obvious and some not so obvious suggestions: - Daring Audio Phat Beam for comp and LPF - an auto wah, like Subdecay or IE Xerograph - an octaver, like the small Cog T-16 or Valeton OC-10 - a decent distortion or fuzz combined with the octaver and the comp would make... noise!
  8. A red Guild Ashbory, Clevinger 5, Misa TriBass, Kramer Ferrington, Ibanez Ashula, Moog Prodigy... I still own the Clevinger and the Misa, which hasn't been to gigs.
  9. Jerry Auerswald (DE) is the maker of selected Prince's instruments.
  10. Here are two variations of the theme. Easy to play, pretty light, compact body, lots of sound possibilities...
  11. Heavier in weight than the blond (fretted 4) but pretty easy to play. I do love the 19 mm string spacing.
  12. I could look after that fretless 5 as well as the Zon...
  13. Series has the sound and high level, single can be slightly compressed and has that edge. At the moment I might use only single and humbucker in my basses.
  14. You actually want two sounds only. The functional choices are: 1) series - parallel 2) series - single coil Parallel and single coil are so close together that it is pretty hard to hear any distinctive difference between them while playing. Parallel gives slightly more output, but only so little that the difference is very close to nothing. On the other hand single gives slightly more edge (compared to parallel), although we are talking about really tiny details. If you need a boost sometimes in your act, consider the second option, single / humbucker.
  15. Weight? Setup? This kind of monster may be a real steal now, and if the builder gets lots of orders via reputation, the price may rise to unobtanium or similar. Of course the bass may be one of few this guy will ever build and you could get a good deal. If I was not able to test drive a bass, I'd be careful, as always.
  16. SS RW sound very good on a fretless. Me like.
  17. You want 19 mm bridge spacing and you are in trouble. Status does not have, neither does MG. Modulus builds wide necks but I only know about complete basses, like Quantum and Genesis. Wide 5 is pretty uncommon, so a luthier could really be your best bet. Graphite is not the most obvious choice and it will definitely cost quite some.
  18. Sliding 'n' finding, yeah, that's fretless.
  19. An Interstellar and a MoBass or a MiniMo are still on my wishlist. There are very few in Reverb and the pricing is everything but modest. IO is really hard to find.
  20. I think I have said this before... I bought an MM neck with a few extras (no dots, tinted green, satin finish). I had the opportunity to speak to honorable Mr. Green in the ordering phase. Very fluent. I also got an estimate of the delivery. I was travelling when a strange number was calling me. It was the wonderful lady Dawn who told me that the neck is ready to be shipped. Two weeks before the estimate (remember: this was a custom order) and the neck came to my house in impeccable shape. I would say that there are shops that have nice products, but people at Status really showed to me the first class service, product, and experience. Once again, thank you all.
  21. alusonic 2 x 12" + tweeter https://www.alusonic.com/aluminium-cabinetsxl.php 1 x 12" + tweeter https://www.alusonic.com/aluminium-cabinets.php
  22. Neck serial tells us it was made in 1988. My guess is that there is no truss rod - there's no need to it. The bass looks really kool!
  23. itu

    Ibanez GVB 36

    As it says in the specs, this specific model has a very narrow string spacing, 14 mm.
  24. I... think the Factor bass had tuners in the head, but you meant Ex-Factor. It seems that there are nowadays two Factor models on top of the Ex-Factor: https://kubicki.com/
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