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Baloney Balderdash

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  1. Nonsense, quite on the contrary there are too few VU meters! I would want 5 VU meters, 1 pre input gain, 1 post input gain and 1 post output gain, and then 2 additional ones, 1 for respectively the drive and the clean mix each! Now that would be a pedal to behold!
  2. Just discovered this track "Grenadine", from Danish band "Tys Tys" (translated "Shush Shush"), and I get a very Syd Barret's solo work -esque vibe from it, brilliant!
  3. As you can see on the specs listed in above image, on the contrary, string spacing is 17.5mm at the bridge, compared to the usual standard 19mm.
  4. Back on my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, which is just 28.6" scale as well, with a Poplar body and a Maple neck with a Jatoba fretboard, with 16.5mm string spacing. There is something wrong with the stock neck J pickup, so I got the J bridge pickup wired directly to the output jack socket as the only functioning pickup. This gives a somewhat growly, but also somewhat smoother, more polite, less raw, tone than my 4 string Mikro Bass mentioned in my OP. The bass is also far more resonant, and got sustain for days. And the fact that it is a single coil pickup also makes it more dynamically responsive, that is not only the volume, but also the tone changes slightly depending on how and how hard the strings are picked. For a cheap stock pickup it sounds surprisingly great, and for a single coil it is surprisingly quiet, not a lot hum going on at all, which I assume is thanks to Ibanez having started to use shielded wiring, that is the ground running as a braided shield all along the individually isolated hot wire. I do however still plan on swapping out this pickup at some point. The bass is strung with Elixir Nanoweb nickel plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings of the gauges .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026, and tuned to G standard tuning, that is 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning. We'll see how long this lasts, it seems like I always at some point returns to my 4 string Mikro Bass, mentioned in the OP, no matter what temporary infatuation I have, be it other basses or guitars, just something about it that feels so at home. In any case here it is, my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, which I named "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer" (note that the Jatoba fretboard has taken on a less redish and much darker hue since this shot was taken, which Jatoba typically will over time, more of a dark brown hue now) : I will probably at some point replace that big ugly BBOT bridge with individual mono rail bridge pieces milled from solid brass.
  5. You might find your answer here:
  6. Strange, parallel mode should give less output, and series more output, low end and mids.
  7. You're thinking cause the pickups then would look comically huge, or?
  8. Also as I said, the body appears to be contoured, not a slab body as a standard Telecaster Bass.
  9. I would teach my cat how to play bass properly, and then start a bass duo with it, named "Baloney Pussy Cat".
  10. Now, I don't have any actual in person experience with a physical unit of this cab, but my favorite IR cab sim is created from this cab model.
  11. Plus as OP suggested winds and thickness of the wound wire. But yes, magnet strength have a huge influence on how much output a pickup has as well. And parallel vs. series connection too, if humbuckers.
  12. Looks like the Fender Wide Range humbucker bass pickup, not a Mudbucker. Same as in the current production Squier Paranormal Rascal : Also that bass appears to not just be a slab body like the original Telecaster Bass, but actually feature contours.
  13. Yes, the drum parts are piece of cake... And who couldn't pull off those vocals... Have you had a listen to the "Latheralus" album?
  14. And pretty much everything with Captain Beefehart & The Magic Band.
  15. And pretty much every Mr. Bungle song, really.
  16. You can, but it will effect the quality of the sound of the repeats (which might or might not be desired). Personally I was fully aware of the short maximum delay time when I bought the pedal, and planed to use it as such (that is more as an ambient effect than a rhythmic delay effect).
  17. I don't have any pictures of my exact actual units, but these two makes up my most recent pedal purchase (ordered and delivered at the same time) : DigiTech FreqOut : Behringer VD400 Vintage Delay (Boss DM-3 Analog Delay clone) : Both amazing pedals. And the Behringer is just astonishing value for the money, a genuine all analog delay that sounds absolutely gorgeous (mind though that it only got 300ms as max delay time).
  18. It's an overdriven Marshall JCM 800, all tubes amp, an old SS Peavey bass amp, run clean, and an old all tubes Ampeg SVT, overdriven with an Xotic BB Bass Preamp run into it, all run simultaneously, of course with each their own cabinet. Or at least it was in that gear rundown I watched where Lou shows and explains about his live setup: Lou Barlow is another one of my absolute favorite bass players.
  19. Pull out the old enclosed jack socket and replace it for a quality regular open jack socket (stereo I believe, as I assume the bass for an active preamp).
  20. Ah, yes, the "Disco Volante" album is absolutely just as amazing, agree, forgot that momentarily, both those albums are much better than their debut self titled album in my opinion (even if I do still like that album):
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