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The Banishment - Jex Thoth

What would be really weird would be consequently buying coated Elixir Nanoweb stainless steel rounds, only to artificially age them through various processes in order to make them sound dead. I personally love the sound of new rounds, and definitely don't like dead strings, but for those who do to me it makes perfect sense, and not odd at all, to age them artificially to get there.

Sorry. Yeah, just read the OP again, and apparently the headline for this topic had colored my memory of what the actual OP post said. In any case, great that you now have a good idea of what amps referred to as hi-fi usually will sound like, and know what you are looking for. Knowing what you are looking for is a huge step towards actually being able to achieve it, cause then all you really have to do is to use your ears.

A credit card thickness relief is way too much, a business card thickness relief at about 8th fret, with first and last fret fretted simultaneously is more like it.

Well OP wanted the amp not to color the tone of his bass, and I assume that would because he wants an uncolored tone. No use having an amp that doesn't color your signal if the speaker does, and a regular bass cab will, even quite a lot. I agree though that an uncolored FRFR representation of the signal that comes from your bass rarely actually is desirable.

Pointless without a FRFR cab or PA speaker. The budget The Box PA 502 passive PA speaker that Thomann sells is surprisingly amazing for this. 300W 1x15" bass/mids woofer/driver and a 100W 1.7" high mids/high frequency tweeter :-: 300W RMS/1200W Peak :-: Crossover Freq: 2.3kHz :-: Freq response: 35Hz-20kHz (-10dB)/40Hz-18kHz (-3dB) :-: Sensitivity (1m/1W): 96 dB. Weights about a ton though. But comes in an active bi-amping (regular SS, not Class D) version too, the The Box PA 502 A. Run the bass through a neutral preamp/DI and into this and you got it!

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Enough to put the neck relief right.

I used to own one of these. And indeed it was a high end "boutique" clone of the original Danelectro Longhorn bass. Regret so much being stupid enough to sell it. Probably the best bass I ever owned. I both played and sounded amazing.

So your suggestion to a replacement hobby is knitting?

There is still hope for guitar music though:

So was Beatles. Guitar music was on the way out. Well, true, that took until the new millennium, but on the way out non the less...

Yes, why would you ever want to make something that weren't just an exact copy of something made before? Outrageous! Shame on you Fender!

"Liquid Funk", maybe an idea for a future album title, or a solo record. On a more serious note, congratulations.

It is not the sharpest photo, probably to get the bass in absolute focus. But his hand/arm looks perfectly fine, it is just a bit hard to see the lines of the hands and arms on that photo, which kind of makes the hand and lower arm melt together, and again the lower arm with the upper arm, behind it, because it is not 100% in focus and sharp. Absolutely nothing wrong with it.

The bridge on these basses is not attached to the body and moves around freely only held back by the downward pressure of the tuned up strings. And I assume whoever had it strung it right handed because they didn't happen to be lefthanded, it's not like the bass works or sounds any different that way.

So I was wondering how clean or overdriven peoples basic "clean" tone actually is. Mine is lightly overdriven, I'd say upper end of low gain overdrive, and got a subtle reverb on it too.. My basic always on "clean" signal chain looking like this: Tube Preamp with gain dialed in to just on the verge of breakup -> (other effects like modulation and distortion) -> Preamp/drive dialed in to an upper end of low gain overdrive and mixed with about 50% "clean" signal via Boss LS-2 -> Subtle reverb -> Preamp with drive dialed in to just on the verge of break up and mixed with 50% "clean" signal -> Tube preamp/DI with gain dialed in to just on the verge of breakup Update!:

Smooth Operator - Sade

Every Morning - J. Mascis

I am really pleased with how my Mosky Black Rat, RAT clone, in Turbo RAT mode, with the tone Filter at noon, and the Gain set relatively high, at just above 3 o'clock, sounds, blended at an about 50/50 drive/clean ratio, via my Boss LS-2. No reason for any crossover or anything, just sounds right as a high gain distortion, but without loosing bottom end or articulation and definition. Doesn't sound like a drive signal on top of a clean signal at all, really does blend really nicely, just like that. That cheap budget Mosky pedal might be the best RAT clone out there. And it is probably my number one favorite distortion pedal.

As a bonus Jatoba, as this one's fretboard is made of, is nearly as hard and stiff as Ebony, way stiffer than Rosewood, and quite a bit harder too, and both way harder and way stiffer than Maple, which should increase the neck stiffness and stability compared to what you got now.