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Baloney Balderdash

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  1. Baloney Balderdash
    Shameless self promotion (lead guitar/bass/backing vocals/cover photo): Taking Pictures - Janosch
  2. Baloney Balderdash
    String spacing, which indirectly relates to neck width, is an aspect to consider as well. It usually go from regular 4 string standard 19mm, in some rare cases even 20mm, spacing and all the way down to 16.5mm, in some rare cases even tighter string spacing. 19, 18, 17 and 16.5 mm string spacing are all fairly commonly used for 6 string bases.
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    Congratulations! Yes, the pickups are usually the weakest link in otherwise great budget instruments, and with the right upgrade it can take a bass from decent to amazing sounding. Personally the EMG Geezer Butler P is my go to P pickup upgrade, for a vintage voiced pickup with some extra spank that sounds exceptionally clear and articulate, or for a more modern full and aggressive tone the DiMarzio Model P.
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    You missed one in the first paragraph, second sentence, of your OP post. And yes, auto-spell sometimes is a pain in the ass.
  5. Baloney Balderdash
    You might want to change that, I assume auto-spell, typo from "regret" to "re-fret".
  6. Baloney Balderdash
    While tension is lower relatively on a short scale bass the strings are, also because of the shorter scale, considerably stiffer/less flexible relatively to gauge and tension than on a regular 34" scale bass, something that becomes particularly apparent when you move up the fretboard, above the 12th fret or so, and can make for a verry thuddy dead tone. Personally I use the same gauge strings on short scale basses as on regular 34" scale basses, that is a tension balanced set of gauge .095 - .075 - .055 - .040 hex steel core nickel-plated roundwound strings. It does require a relatively light touch, but as far as I am concerned also results in a far better tone.
  7. Baloney Balderdash
    Swung From The Gutters - Tortoise
  8. Baloney Balderdash
    Same... Didn't last long though (that is me playing a 5 string bass as my main): From this: To this: And back again to the 4 string.
  9. Baloney Balderdash
    Well, that was a relatively short love affair, just feel much more at home with the 4 strings and narrower neck of my 4 string Mirko Bass "Dud Bottomfeeder", which is tuned to A# standard tuning, as in 1 half step above the 4 upper string of a six string bass in regular B standard tuning. Also while I loved the amazing sustain of "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer" it also made it a bit hard to tame in terms of muting, and also it just sounds a bit too polite for my taste compared to the reverse P pickup of the 4 string, so I am back on "Dud Bottomfeeder", and the 5 string will probably only be used when specifically called for in the future. Dud Bottomfeeder :
  10. Baloney Balderdash
    And now a commercial break:
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    Agree with all this. And I too utilize minimal relief, very close to dead straight, that is less than even just a business card thickness.
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    Yes, but it got 3 gain settings that you can switch between (the middle switch, marked MOD),that is supposed to emulate tube gain stages, and he has it set at the highest setting, Hot Wired, add to that the California (Mesa Boogie) setting (last, AMP emulation switch) already got the most gain of them all, meaning that it'll distort quite a lot even with the Drive knob at minimum. .
  13. Baloney Balderdash
    Note that his distortion, not his more or less always on bi-amping Turbo RAT + Boss GEB-7 dirty chain, or the fuzz build into his wah pedal, but regular distortion in his main effects chain, actually is a Tech 21 GT2, guitar preamp/drive pedal. I own the dirt cheap, but great and pretty accurate, Behringer GDI21 clone of it, and I can attest that it works pretty amazing as a bass distortion. Here is a great demonstration of the Tech21 GT2 pedal's capabilities as a bass distortion:
  14. Baloney Balderdash
    Some pictures of said bass might help too.
  15. Baloney Balderdash
    Both Mozart and Bob Dylan has been done.
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    Wrote above comment before I actually watched the video, but as others have commented on: great interviewer and interview, and Justin being the great guy and amazing bass player as he happens to be. Just overall a really interesting and enjoyable video to watch.
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    You might need to patent that finish and call it "Carbonized Black" or something like that.
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    I think I heard about this too, and more specifically how the individual coils for each pickup pole that the unique Wal pickups features are wired. Think it has something to do with them either used to be or are now being wired in parallel pairs, as apposed to series pairs as they either used to be or are now being wired. But yeah, think I have read about this before somewhere, and that it has something to do with what I mentioned above here, but not absolutely 100% certain, and can't remember the details and what is how they used to be wired and what is how they are wired now.
  20. Baloney Balderdash
    One of my absolute favorite bass players, with one of my absolute favorite bass tones, from one of my absolute favorite bands.
  21. Baloney Balderdash
    Here I go through the custom Toneprint settings I made for my Sub'N'Up Mini (works just the same as the regular big version of the pedal, the only difference is fewer physical controls on the Mini version), that I use for a faux guitar/8 string bass kind of effect:
  22. Baloney Balderdash
    Well, I play 24.75" scale electric guitar, classical acoustic nylon string guitar, 30" scale Bass VI, 28.6" scale 4 and 5 string and 34" scale 4 string bass, and the only thing that really takes some time to adjust to when swapping instrument for me is the really tight/narrow string spacing of the Bass VI and my electric guitar. But as said I do prefer 28.6" and 30" scale instruments, depending.
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    I refrained from voting as I never heard any low B on any bass, regardless of scale length, actually sound great. And as far as I am concerned anything bellow low D1 (that is 2 half steps bellow regular 4 string bass low E) just doesn't work all that well for bass guitar. It does sound great on a grand piano though.
  24. Baloney Balderdash
    That's a really cool looking bass! Congratulations!
  25. Baloney Balderdash
    Depends... Is it a micro chip for tracking? If so it might mean that your tech is spying on you! 😱
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