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    Captain Beefheart - "There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evening Stage"
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    One of my absolute favorite finishes for basses and guitars is matte black, in fact all up on the first place, shared only with metallic deep purple finish (of which I unfortunately own no basses or guitars). So this thread is for posting pictures of those of your basses that got a matte black finish! The only instrument I own in matte black finish however is my Ibanez Mikro Bass, which is currently my main instrument of choise, technically Ibanez call it Weathered Black finish, but it's basically just an open pore matte black finish. So here it is, my Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass, which I named "Dud Bottomfeeder", and which I added a Jack Skellington (from Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas") skull sticker, two transparent lampshade knobs, and some respective red and green electrical tape (also known as insulation tape) to, as well as swapped the stock side mounted barrel type jack output socket for a regular front mounted one, pulled out the stock J pickup all together, replaced for a folded piece matte black cardboard, and swapped the stock P pickup for an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, strung with Elixir Nanoweb nickel-plated roundwound steel core guitar strings, gauge .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 (using cut off ball ends from old bass strings to thread the strings through in order for them to be able to mount in the bridge holes and not slip through), to accommodate the F# standard tuning, that is 2 half steps above regular 4 string E standard tuning, I use for this just 28.6" scale bass :
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    I can't remember if I posted this more recent photo of my just 28.6" scale Ibanez GSRM20 neck + GSRM20B body Mikro Bass, that I named "Dud Bottomfeeder", but anyway here it is, possibly again : Equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler P pickup, and strung with Elixir Nanoweb coated nickel-plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings of the gauges .068 - .052 - .038 - .028, tuned in A# standard tuning, as in 1 half steps above the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning.
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    My Mosky XP Booster, which is a clone of the Xotic EP Booster V1, does this nicely, at the very beginning of my signal chain in my "amp-less" setup, and then my EHX Black Finger as well, which is a tube driven optical compressor, though I use it with the compression practically being dialed completely out of the equation, essentially making it a tube preamp stage, with it's 2 preamp tubes, which by the way operates at proper high 300V voltage, driven to just on the verge of breakup point, towards the very end of my signal chain. I can warmly recommend both for adding saturation, enhancing and generating harmonic content, and adding an extra depth, or dimension if you will (I suppose this is what people speak of when they talk about 3D effect in terms of tone), to your signal. The Mosky can be had dirt cheap but is genuinely amazing, and actually appears to be of a quite sturdy build quality too, and the EHX Black Finger is absolutely amazing as well, though discontinued, but fairly frequently pops up on the used market, at quite reasonable prices, not exactly a budget pedal, but far from insanely expensive either.
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    In my defense how he described the tone of the Trace Elliot in the post I responded to initially it did very much sound like he was describing how a Trace Elliot sound with the pre shape button engaged, and very very far from how I would describe the tone of the older Trace Elliot amps when the pre shape button has not been engaged, in fact almost quite the opposite, I quote: "...absolutely gutless.... ...no low end as well as that endless void in the mids...". In other words I could simply not recognize how he described the tone at all from my personal experience with Trace Elliot amps, unless he was describing the sound with the pre shape button engaged. It was not just the fact of him not liking the tone, we all have different personal preferences, and thank God for that (that doesn't however make everything that doesn't fit our personal taste, I quote: "terrible", and one should be able to recognize the difference, especially as a musician with as much experience as he claims he has). At least I know now who not to trust when they are describing the tone produced by anything. But you are perfectly right I don't know anyone on this forum personally, but I was of the impression that it was not a private club, apparently I was wrong about that assumption. I just hope that everyone haven't put me on ignore at this point because they don't know me, cause else I'd rather not waste my time writing here.
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    Coil - "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near" (from the "Winter Solstice: North" EP) :
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    Well, Stanley Clarke is a very tall man with pretty huge hands and he prefers short scale electric basses. In the end though it is still down to personal preferences, much more than it's a matter physics, there are plenty of examples of short people with small hands doing well and prefering playing long scale basses as well, so really no way of telling whether your son will prefer short or regular long scale basses, before he has played both for a while.
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    User error! The old Trace Elliot bass amps sounds absolutely amazing, that is if you don't engage the mid scooping Pre Shape buttons, which you obviously did. If you don't like mid scooped tone, which I don't do either, then don't scoop the mids (in this case engaging the mid scoop button), simple as that! Not the amp's fault you dialed it in with a tone you didn't like, when it was perfectly capable at other settings that definitely doesn't sound like what you describe. Everything is crap if you insist on dialing in a tone you don't like.
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    Well, that is basically what Stanley Clarke does, so why not... He seems to be doing quite ok.
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    Gorm Askjær Trio - "Blodmånen Og Dig" (translated: "The Blood Moon and You") :
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    Better upper fret accessibility too.
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    I bet that they got the specs wrong and that the supposed tone knob is indeed really a pickup blend knob. Wouldn't be the first time Harley Benton and Thomann got the specs wrong in the spec list of their products.
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    August Rosenbaum - "Victim" :
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    Another vote for a Fender Bass VI type instrument. That is a 30" scale 6 string bass, but tuned like a guitar, just one octave lower, and with tighter guitar like string spacing.
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    I don't think it is discontinued, just sold out. Though I might be wrong. Rondo Music seems to sell them any now and then. Like getting a batch home in one finish, then sell out, and then after some months they get a new batch up for sale in a different finish. I just think this might be how Brice produce these, which kind of makes sense, since I figure it would pretty much be a niche instrument. Strongly considering getting one at some point too, so I keep an eye on Rondo Music's homepage frequently. A shame I missed the purple one though, but didn't have the money at the time to get one. Hopefully the next one will be black and I'll have the money while they are still in stock.
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    @lidl e 3 X Harley Benton PowerPlant ISO-2AC Pro Modular, that as the name suggests are modular, that is they can be coupled/chained together so that they effectively work as one big power supply. Not quite enough outputs for all the pedals, so some of them are daisy chained in couples from some of the outlets, it did help immensely on the noise though from when I had them all daisy chained from just two standard power supplied, and if I want there is room under the board for expanding with 2 more modules, one unit on each side of the exiting mounted ones. And yes, very satisfied with the board, which admittedly is a bit messy and could be in use of a bit more systematically organized wiring.
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    The sunburst finish one looks surprisingly amazing! https://harleybenton.com/product/mv-4msb-gotoh-sb/ Will no doubt grab one of these at some point. Also the person who complained about the headstock, as far as I am concerned the Harley Benton headstock shape looks far better than the Fender one, that is it actually looks great, unlike the Fender one. Also appreciate the much flatter fretboard radius to the Fender one, and overall look.
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    Harley Benton SpaceShip 80 :
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    Laurel is considerably harder than Hard Maple though and very verry close to being as hard as Rosewood (and about as stiff as Hard Maple): https://www.wood-database.com/indian-laurel/ Hard Maple: https://www.wood-database.com/hard-maple/ Indian Rosewood (which is the kind of Rosewood used as the fretboard for most basses and guitars, Brazilian Rosewood being rarely used, but also only slightly harder): https://www.wood-database.com/east-indian-rosewood/ Also I think I need to get this bass, but I'll wait till they Thomann get more color combinations available, the sunburst one looks surprisingly amazing: https://harleybenton.com/product/mv-4msb-gotoh-sb/ Edit!!: Ah, Thomann does have them all available, overlooked this :
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    Trevor Dunn's (Mr. Bungle) Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre quite amazing new "Séances" album:
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    Peter Danstrup :
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    I didn't consider this might be why I have no issues with this. Cause yes, I use a FRFR (studio grade headphones at home, PA speaker at band rehearsals), however in front of it I do actually also use a simple faux, EQ based, cab sim, practically just being a LPF set at 3.6 kHz with an approximate -12dB/Oct slope, which actually isn't too different from your typical, non tweeter horn equipped, bass cab high end roll off.
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    After adjusting the pickups properly, which should be an expected adjustment to make, together with a proper full setup in general, on any guitar or bass regardless of price point, this ought not to be an issue either, at least I don't experience this on my Harley Benton GuitarBass. Though relative string gauge between strings will have something to say in this, thicker strings will create a stronger interferrance of the magnetic field from the pickups than thinner strings, and therefor higher output, to a lesser extend the tension will have something to say in this as well, but with my custom made very close to perfectly tension balanced set, the output of the individual strings on my HarleyBenton GuitarBass at least are very near to absolutely perfectly balanced.
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