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    Congratulations. Honestly the headstock also looks nicer than the Epiphone one. Actually even really nice, and not paddle like at all like the Epiphone one. Tuners too.
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    Fender have finally managed slacking behind sufficiently to undertake Gibson in the race to the bottom of the big corporate business low quality racing lane. Now if they could only crack the code of how to design their headstocks to snap off at one wrong look they would truly become untouchable. Absolute minimum quality for absolute maximum prices here we come! Every capitalist's wet dream. Hell's the limit for how low we can go from here!
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    Why get a lower end Harley Benton at a 100£ that's boringly absolutely perfect, when you can get this unique abstract piece of art with a genuine Fender logo on for just 12 times its price, that's right just 1200£ of thrilling imperfection!
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    Except what? That's exactly what the sentence you replied to imply:
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    While I do really love the Joyo Orange Juice, so much that I own no less than 3 of them, and all currently in frequent use on my main board, from how I understood the OP it doesn't seem to me like it would do what OP is looking for. The Joyo Orange Juice excels at either a really dynamically sensitive low gain tube like breakup grid in one end of it's gain spectrum, or at the opposite end of it's gain spectrum a really grindy and biting type high gain overdrive/medium gain distortion. It doesn't really do low end grunt or fuzzy, and is really more grindy than gnarly. It does do grindy exceptionally well though on higher gain settings, and as said on lower gain settings it does dynamically sensitive tube like breakup grid really well too. I might have interpreted what OP is looking for wrong though.
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    Here's a great demo of the DiMarzio Model P, compared to a regular standard stock Fender P pickup, that I think demonstrates the character and qualities of the Model P really well :
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    Generally speaking I would think a regular traditional Mustang pickup would have less low end and low mids, more high end, and overall adding less coloration on their own, perhaps slightly more open and neutral sounding, due to the slightly more narrow coils of a Mustang pickup versus those of a P pickup, as well as a somewhat sharper, more prominent, attack, due to the single pole pieces per string of a regular traditional Mustang pickup versus the dual pole pieces per string of a regular traditional P pickup. However this is all qualified speculations based on the known effects of the physics/design of the respective pickups as I haven't actually got any personal experience with Mustang pickups or looked deeper into this subject matter (like I haven't actually read up on documentation on the tonal differences between Mustang and P pickups in specifics, watched comparison videos e.t.c). In any case I assume these would be relatively subtle differences (and as said very generally speaking, as it obviously would depend on the specific individual pickups) as the regular traditional Mustang and P pickup still share a very similar basic design/typology, though in my experience subtle differences can actually be quite essential when we are talking tone and music in general.
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    Mooer Hustle Drive is a great OCD clone, which works great for bass, the One Control Hookers Green Bass Machine is amazing too, and I would consider a Mosky Black Rat too, which is a RAT clone, and maybe would come closest to what you are looking for , in Turbo Mode at low gain it can do an overdrive thing, but at the same time get quite fuzzy on high gain settings. The Joyo JF-309 Ironman Boogie Master, which is an all analog emulation of a Mesa Boogie type drive might be worth considering as well, it at least is a darker type drive and has a really wide range of gain, actually all the way down from perfectly clean, over just on the verge of breakup tube amp like grid, to low gain overdrive, and then all the way up to an upper medium gain, but quite massive sounding, distortion. Can't speak of the Cog 66 Mini, as I am not familiar with it.
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    Truss rod is for setting neck relief, nothing else, if your neck relief is good don't touch the truss rod. Also it is perfectly normal that the string action increases slightly as you move up the neck, in fact it needs to, as that is how you avoid strings resting on the next fret in line when you fret a note. However the angle at which it does so might be unreasonably steep, which is actually not that uncommon either, and which is usually fixed by adding a thin shim (we are talking factions of a mm thick) to the back of the neck pocket (obviously by detaching the neck and subsequently reattaching it again once the shim has been inserted). Another possibility is that you just need to lower the bridge saddles if your string action is overall too high, a good starting point is about 2mm or so string action measured from top of 12th fret to bottom of low E string and slightly lower for high G string. Pictures would help immensely to properly assess what needs to be done, if anything.
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    And with that same logic there are people out there who just hears music and couldn't even tell what a bass is, does that make playing bass obsolete? I can for sure hear a clear difference between whether a bass is being played with fingers or a pick, unless the bass player deliberately go to lengths for it to sound the same (which though kind of defeats the purpose). I also think how aware the audience is about music in general partially depends on the type of music played. That is some types of music doesn't really require of the listener to actually really listen to enjoy it, where as other types of music does, which again attracts a different kind of audience. Also it is not just about the sound, it is also how it feels to play, which definitely regardless would matter to the person playing the bass and partially actually the output as well, how he is playing and how it sounds, alone on account on how it feels to play.
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    Baloney Balderdash replied to a topic in Bass Guitars

    Nice. However how does a neck develop an S at the first fret, and if only a tiny bit of an S, which bit of an S exactly, and in that case couldn't you just have used a de-esser to fix it? Joking aside, not trying to be snarky here, but I genuinely have no idea what that is supposed to mean, so if you could please elaborate I would appreciate. I do realize it must be referring to the shape of the neck, but I simply can't picture how on earth the neck could possibly develop a shape like an S, and even less so just at the first fret.
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    They don't. However I have never had any issues with cutting regular long scale strings to size to fit short scale basses, and I've done that a lot. As long as the strings are roundwound with a hex core and you remember to make a sharp 90 degree bend bellow the cutting point before you cut you should be safe (be aware though that this only really work with roundwound hex core strings and that you really shouldn't try to do this with non roundwound or non hex core roundwound strings as chances are high that you otherwise will end up ruining the strings). If you really got OCD about it though then following dip the short bend piece of the string in super glue (obviously the really thin kind) and let it cure for 24 hours (yes, it will bond and dry in a matter of a few minutes, but by far most super glue actually takes about 24 hours to fully cure), but as said I have never had any issues whatsoever just doing as described above. @Lozz196 And yes, I agree, it seems strange that, as far as I know, the string manufactures haven't really followed the general tendency of the market and started to offer more short scale string solutions at all as short scale basses have become increasingly more and more popular and more and more short scale basses has been introduced to the market, with probably more currently in production short scale bass models available and more people playing them than ever before. To me it seems like they are missing out on an obvious business opportunity.
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    *ba-dum-chi!* Ah, of course, makes sense, must be that Quad Pickup mentioned in the control pictogram. Also just found a video with a recording of a song from that concert. Must admit I was never any big Grateful Dead fan, but actually did sound very nice, and the bass sounded no less than awesome on that recording, also really like Lesh's very meandering bass play, that almost magically just fits in perfectly and never gets in the way despite being all over the place, almost like a paradox. Maybe I really ought to check out some more Grateful Dead stuff, the few songs I have heard just always came off as a bit boring, kind of too straight and off the mill bland, for my taste, but perhaps I just need to keep away from studio recordings and stick to their live stuff, sure does seem like that is where the real magic is happening. Liked just about every live recording I've watched and heard with them so far, but disliked every studio recording I've heard, or well maybe dislike is too strong a word to use, leaving me completely indifferent would be more accurate. This one:
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    Assuming you already doesn't apply more pressure than needed when fretting notes, Elixir Nanoweb nickel-plated roundwounds, hands down. If you don't like coated strings D'Addario NYXL are a bit smoother than regular XL strings as well, and actually last longer too.
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    Also is that there in the middle the battery for whole preamp, and attached with strips of copper tape? If that is the case you would think they could have come up with a less hack like and more practical/easily accessible solution with all that overengineering otherwise going on there. I do love the 60's sci-fi spaceship control panel aesthetics of it though, but would have been even better if they had cramped in some flick switches as well, and used a variety of different knobs.
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    More is Lesh!
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    As several people already pointed out the default wiring of P pickups are the two pickup halves connected in series. Some people do add the option for having them wired in parallel though, but in my opinion most P pickups, with a few exceptions, the exceptions generally being mid heavy, high output ones, doesn't really sound all that great wired in parallel. And also a J and a P pickup, the latter, as explained above, which would normally already have it's two coils wired in series, wired in series with each other would usually be way too boomy and muddy to be of any real practical use either. My advise would be to just solo your P pickup with the respective two coils of each half wired in series, exactly like a regular P bass. If in doubt just use the setting that works, it's not like you got 100's of options, just try the few you got out, and then use the one that sounds right in the context, simple as that really.
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    At least they dare every once in while making some really unusual innovating stuff available on the market, and at fairly reasonable prices considering, if usually only for a limited period of time (I guess until the main chunk of the niche segment of customers at that given time potentially interested in the given niche product in question has been supplied, and sales then as a result dips), despite clearly being a niche product, which is a lot more to say than of by far most other similar big corporate guitar/bass companies their size. They actually bother catering the more niche segment of their customers (hard to blame them for only doing so for as long as it is actually profitable, they are after all a business and not a charity organization).
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    That's the exact tuner I have had a look at, the Gotoh 20600CT Hipshot GB7 Xtender D tuner, or rather the left hand version, since I will be using it for the top string of a 4 string bass with a 2 + 2 headstock. To be exact it would be for my Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, which I tune in F# standard tuning, 2 half steps above regular 4 string bass E standard tuning, so this would be for the high A string (high G string in regular E standard tuning), for dropping it to G# (Ab), to obtain a third interval similar to that between the G and B string of a 6 string guitar, for chord/chord arpeggio work. So to the point, do you know if this would be a direct drop in replacement for Ibanez basses? Looks very much like it would be, but would be nice to know for sure. Edit!!! : Never mind found the answer myself with some Googling magic, and the answer would be: Yes! This would be a direct drop in replacement for the tuners Ibanez uses for their basses.
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    Yes, that is the point of my post, it's a full step, hence why I ask if such a mechanism, designed to drop the tuning of a string a full step can be set to only drop the tuning half a step instead.
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    As the tittle says, can a D detuner tuning peg mechanism be set to only tune a string down 1 half step, rather than a full step?
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