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My .02£
I haven't literally compared them, i.e. they haven't been put in the same bass. My impression was that The Duke is way more mellow maybe, not as bright as the Classic P. Some people say, the Classic sounds more like '62 P (Custom Shop?), and The Duke replicates Pure Vintage '63, more or less.
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1 hour ago, Cliff Edge said:
Black trainers. Have you no sartorial decency?
Shorts worn with black trainers and black socks. What is wrong with you?
Socks with sandles. I know that’s an old one but the guilty are getting younger.
Actors in TV shows and films who mumble and whisper. Might be my old ears though.
And have I mentioned baseball caps worn backwards?The price of gin.
Which ones are irrational?
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9 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:
The ring finger is Allen Key and the wrist is the neck. You just need to choose the correct diagram based on the phase of them moon.
I'm sure, the Russians are duly confused now.
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6 hours ago, Dad3353 said:
No, that was King Jamas.
I wonder what would it sound like if read out loud by a Spanish person
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4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:
Is that supposed to be understood by a bass player?
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Just my two pennies.
In one of his videos, Billy Sheehan said he would spend some time every day just noodling around on an unplugged bass, learning something new about the instrument, technique, etc. every time he does. I've been following his advice since as much as I can. I think it works. It doesn’t matter how good (or bad, in my case) one is at playing the bass, or understanding what exactly they do. It may well be just playing four notes per string or the like. I reckon, it’s a good way to get a feeling of the instrument. I'm sorry if it doesn’t sound very understandable.
Another thing is to learn how little of pressure one needs to do with their fretting hand. Someday, I started to play some passages like Tony Franklin (it wasn’t my intention, it just happened somehow), with the thumb of the fretting hand under the neck. It might be considered as a bad technique, but it helped me.
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12 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:
It sounds very plausible to me.
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26 minutes ago, HeadlessBassist said:
In order to love the Jazz bass you need to love its scooped burpy sound. I loved the punch and scoop of the 2008 standard models, and was dismayed in 2012 when I tried the 'new' model with the Custom Shop pickups. They'd flattened out the scoop and made it sound very generic. Luckily things got better in 2016.
It seems I like quite the opposite. The only JB I liked to play was a Harley Benton JB-75 MN. It's got a neck profile which is a way more to my tastes, and it's bridge PU is placed a bit further towards the bridge. I then tried to find a Fender Classic '70s JB, nut to no avail. Looks like nobody would like to sell theirs. So I gave up on JB. Stingray does the job very well, and there always is some P-Bass there too, just to avoid getting an itch I always get when I have no P-Bass
Each to their own.
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Jazz Bass.
Guy Pratt and an awful lot of others play Jazz Bass, so I thought, it'd be the way to go. Having tried a couple of those, but never really got on with. Dreadful neck profile, weird body. The "default" sound is as annoying as Warwick Corvette, and everything else feels like a desperate try to get a P or Stingray-like sound out of it.
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8 minutes ago, 2elliot said:
This is a total ball ache, I need to complete this form now. I'm probably going to pull out of the deal, I don't feel confident with the paperwork.
Can't you just call your authorities by phone and ask for help?
In Germany, it wouldn't be a biggie for them.
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9 hours ago, Hellzero said:
FedEx
The worst one in Germany. The courier will ask to pay their expenses and custom fees in cash (no credit cards, no PayPal, nothing else but cash) and then be sending invoices for the same sum every now and then. Those responsible for the mess cannot be reached by phone nor by e-mail. The other ones answering phone calls will know nothing and be unable to do anything. But of course, they will be very sorry, the bastards. Then, a couple of months later, there will be some stupid guy asking per e-mail for one's IBAN "to make sure that everything has been paid properly." Then they'll hopefully sod off and go touch grass. Bloody scammers.
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8 minutes ago, Geek99 said:
I think the accepted order of events is
1. Face tricky choice
2. ask here
3. wade through 617 replies veering wildly between helpful and “not so much”
4. Agonise for days ignoring partner and children in a wilderness of indecision and despair
5. toss a coin
6. repeat steps 4 & 5
7. Buy one
8. regret it and buy the other, vowing to sell the first one
9. fail to accomplish second part of step 8
10. buy Precision and play it almost always whilst buying and selling other ones.
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17 minutes ago, BassmanPaul said:
My Ampeg B15NF is a delight to play through and always makes me smile no matter my mood.
You might also like B-15NC if you came across one (well, it'd be rather B-15 Heritage, but still). With a 60'ish P-bass it sounds delicious.
P.S.: sorry for off-topic. My vote would obviously be for the Ampeg. I only tried an RB-110, so no experience with a way more powerful RB-210, but it sounded amazing. That thump as if there was a compressor for the low frequencies.
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15 hours ago, Hellzero said:
You know Angles and Saxons were Germanic tribes: Does this make U.K. a German property?
Well, at least, not Danish. It’s a kind of relief.
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1 hour ago, HeadlessBassist said:
The Sire P5 (and P7) are a little wider at 1.653"
Sire P7 has the width at the nut of 38mm according to their web-site as well as Thomann's one.
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Sire P7 would do. I'm just not quite sure whether it’s still considered as inexpensive.
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On 15/07/2025 at 19:15, Chiliwailer said:
Cheers for the GAS Chris, I wonder if fretless sales will be up this week?
I think they got up indeed.
Looking at pictures of fretless Ps some nasty people posted here, I finally bought a Tony Franklin one.
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Stingray sounds gorgeous with Cobalts. And so does P-bass.
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These are great strings, and the most opinions are sort of positive. But it depends on your technique, your mood, weather, and moon phase whether you like their sound or not. Give it a try, otherwise you'll never know.
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In my humble opinion, it depends on a couple of things. First one, which strings you're playing. For example, I liked The Duke with Chromes 40-90, but it's nothing special with well broken in Sunbeams. And it's of some importance too, which Split-P you call "standard".
Some people who know Fender Pure Vintage '63, say that The Duke sounds very similar to PV63, but not exactly the same. They say, it's got a little bit more mids.
I'd say, it's jolly well worth a try as those don't cost an arm and a leg.
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5 hours ago, Geek99 said:
It changes the tone ….
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Well, on fretless, it jolly well does.
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On 14/06/2025 at 15:13, Geek99 said:
That’s my daughter’s guitar btw. It isn’t mine 🤮
A wonder that that lovely (Classic White?) Stingray hasn't left you for someone guitarless yet.
Ernie Ball Pino Palladino flatwounds - £90 a set
in General Discussion
Posted · Edited by ghostwheel
post scriptum
I think it's rather "why don't give it a try despite the fact they're an artist signature ones."
An effing lot of people play TI Jazz flats, but they hardly sound like Pino, neither do they want to (at least, I suppose they don't).
In my humble opinion, it's just a very expensive set of strings. They might be good though.
P.S.: I assume Pino has never played those on any recording yet, so we actually don't know whether they sound "like Pino"