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  1. Baloney Balderdash
    I replaced the stock P/J pickups in my Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro Bass with a P/J set of EMG Geezer Butler pickups, and the tone went from decent to amazing. I can only recommend it. Definitely no boomyness. Quite on the contrary, these pickups are really articulate and adds a ton of definition.
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    I love my 4 and 5 string Ibanez Mikro Basses as well. The 5 string being my current main instrument of choice, though strung with guitar strings (gauge: .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026) and tuned to G standard tuning, as in 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. Really using it more so as a 5 string Bass VI type instrument with wider string spacing, rather than a traditional bass. And the stock bridge J pickup sounds pretty damn amazing, rather growley, really dynamically sensitive, covering a quite broad frequency spectrum, and is surprisingly quiet for a single coil as well, with no hum to speak of. Also perfectly leveled frets from stock. I got just ever so slightly below 2mm string action on the low G string at last fret, with no fret buzz whatsoever anywhere on the fretboard, and seems like I could go even lower if I really wanted to. Also sustain for days. Simply astonishing value for the money.
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    Glad you found it useful. And yes, I too am quite pleased with the outcome. As said it took a lot of tweaking, trial and error to get to a result I was actually satisfied with. Still I would wish that EHX would make the bass version of their Bass9 pedal, that is made for guitar to sound like different types of basses, a Guitar9 for bass to sound like a guitar or 8 string bass. The Bass9 actually sounds surprisingly and impressively authentic. But the potential market for such a Guitar9 pedal is probably too small for it to ever happen.
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    Children of Stone - Espers
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    As I happened to actually for once have the money to spare to buy this, judging from all I read and watched/listened to featuring it, incredible bass, I am strongly considering taking the plunge while I can (as this bass is likely to only be offered for some kind of limited time period), and I really love how the green one looks as well. So could someone who owns the bass be kind and measure the string spacing at the bridge for me, pretty please? I assume it would be 17mm, since it has a Mustang styled bridge, and that is the string spacing of the Mustang basses, but can't seem to find that piece of information anywhere on the internet, despite really trying. For me I would love the slightly more narrow string spacing of 17mm, versus the standard 19mm (yes it is only 2 mm, but multiply that by 3 and it actually makes a bit of a difference in feel. Think of how much difference a 38mm nut feels to a 42mm nut for instance), but that said it is in no possible way a deal breaker, and won't affect whether I eventually chose to buy it or not, just would be really nice to know.
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    Very strange that they left out Stanley Clarke, but might had been because he is one of those huge people playing a short scale bass who is a looser and looks like an idiot? All together a strange premises for the video since short scale basses has never been more popular, and that there has never been as many different, and high quality, short scale models on the market/in production as currently. But they got me to click and watch so suppose they have achieved all they wanted with this video really. If you have nothing of substance to say about a topic you can always just provoke people's attention by being offensive I guess. This certainly was a new low (yes, pun fully intended) point in the steady decline of quality of the Scott's Bass Lessons channel, in their desire to "grow". One have to ask though: "Grow" into what? And remind one self that popularity never can be a measurement of quality, one way or the other, but always will be nothing but a quantitative parameter/term. Ultimately though I suppose the answer to this, as, sadly, in so many other aspects of this World, comes down to a question of generating money.
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    Who says that? I mean anyone who would would kind of not be up to date with the development for the last 10 years or so. Also I don't think Stanley Clarke would play one as his main if they were (though of course that is an Alembic, still however a short scale bass).
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    Class D amp with tube preamp, I suppose? If that's the case it's not exactly news. Also did you make this thread to generate Google hits?
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    Do any of you frequently left hand tap/hammer on the note ever so slightly, almost simultaneously, before you pick/plug it? I personally do it a lot, and I suppose it is kind of a faux manual way to get sort of a doubler or slap back delay thing going, but done right it doesn't actually sound like two notes, you just get a more prominent, but also somewhat much fuller sounding, attack, and it allows you to kind of control the dynamics of the attack part of the note both with your right plucking hand and left fretting, or in this case tapping, hand. I suppose in some ways it sounds a bit like a much less aggressive slap, it gives it more of that same sort of metallic piano like tone, just with a less aggressive attack. I don't know how much this has to say in the usefulness of this technique, but it might be worth to know that my main way of finger plucking, is really more of a stroke, with a slight inwards slapping motion, with the outmost tip of my fingers/nails (have to cut my nails to a quite specific length for this to work properly, too much nail and you get too much click, too little nail and you get a too weak and thuddy attack. Perfect nail length for this is the nail being pretty much flush with the top of the finger when looking at the back of your hand), rather than really striking or pulling the strings, really light touch, but with plenty of dynamic space both ways (both 1, 2 and 3 fingers, depending, and this is where I use the above mentioned technique in tandem, but beside that I also utilize classical acoustic guitar finger picking technique, as well as flamenco guitar index and/or middle and or ring finger flicking technique). Also I should maybe note that I don't have any audio samples of this, and you won't find anything documenting it on my SoundCloud profile either, as this is something I figured out relatively recently.
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    HoTone Ampero One
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    It is literally broken, as in two parts. Please do read my OP again.
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    Uhm? Thanks for your reply, but what I am asking is where to get a fitting magnet? That is one of the right dimensions (size). And as I wrote I don't care if it's an exact match to the old one regarding strength, as long as it works (that is not too weak or strong to work for a pickup on a bass to work properly).
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    I got a ceramic pickup that has a single flat long bar magnet attached under the pickup/pickup poles, but it is broken, so I am looking for a replacement, it's a standard sized neck pickup, anyone who knows where I can get one? I have tried Ebay, but I am not sure how to search for the right size and strength of the magnet? I don't mind that it isn't the exact same strength as the old one, as I have no way of measuring it, just that it isn't two weak or string to work properly, and I'd rather have a bit too strong a magnet, rather than one that is weaker than the current one.
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    Already posted pictures of the recent visual mods incarnation of my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass in a couple of threads recently, but why not this as well, since it does fit the theme, named "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer" : You can read more about it, and the mods I made to it, here :
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    Not very metal though... If you could get an AI to make him in aluminum or something, or even better lead, since I assume we are talking about heavy metal it would be gold though. This is somewhat more metal though:
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    Seems highly illogical to me to get rid of an otherwise awesome bass because of unsatisfactory electronics. It's like selling a car because you don't like the tires that is on it (yes, I know nothing about cars). If you can't get the current preamp to work for you turn the bass passive and see how that works or get a different preamp.
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    The "Soused" album by Scott Walker and Sunn O))) (playlist containing the songs on the album in order):
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    Meshuggah Though his bass is tuned in drop B / F# standard tuning. That is B - F# - B - E - A. For playing an octave lower for older songs written on 7 string guitar, but unison/same octave with newer songs written on 8 string guitar, rather than tuning his bass ridiculously and inaudible flappy low down.
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    America Drinks & Goes Home - The Mothers of Invention
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    As already said the 4 lower strings are tuned exactly like a standard 4 string bass, and it features a 30" scale length, so same as a standard short scale bass, but with 6 strings, tuned like a guitar, only an octave lower, and with narrow string spacing like a guitar as well. The Beatles used it as a regular bass on quite a few tunes, whenever John Lennon or George Harrison had bass duties, instead of Paul. "Helter Skelter", just to mention one, is an often used example of this. And The Cure used it on most of their songs really, played by Robert Smith, but more as a melodic instrument. You can see him play it on pretty much any live shot of The Cure, or in the music video for "Pictures of You".
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    Most of these builds look amazing! Love your style!
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    I'd like to be able to do this: But it is completely and utterly unrealistic that I'd ever be able to learn it, even if I did a genuine effort.
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    I use a Turbo RAT clone myself, the Mosky Black Rat on the Turbo setting, and am extremely satisfied with how it sounds and how it blends with clean signal (via my Boss LS-2), and I am extremely picky with tone (the Mosky does have a darker tone, and retains low end a bit better than an original Turbo RAT), but I have no experience with the FAT RAT. Though if you want to try out how a FAT RAT works for you Joyo makes a very cheap but great clone of the FAT RAT, that as far as I have gathered only received positive reviews and general praise, the Joyo JF-21 Splinter. 33£/39 Euro at Thomann : https://www.thomann.de/gb/joyo_jf_21_splinter.htm Though I have always been told that the Turbo RAT is the best RAT for bass, cause it retains low end better than the other variations, but I am sure that comes down to personal preferences and taste, as well as specific application/context, and as said I have no personal experience with the FAT RAT (with both switches on the Stock setting it works as a classic regular RAT).
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    I love that one! Wish I owned one. It is such an original and elegant design. A shame it was discontinued way too early, because of.... well let's not offend anyone... But this is why we can't have nice things, unless paying more than I could ever afford.
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