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    Does bass construction affect harmonics?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by iconic

    1 hour ago, Chaddy said:

    Cheap?? the build quality alone is insane! - Been trying new kit out for months - and cant work out how 1k Fenders are that price and alot of other brands 

    Yeah - the Tone is unique, The stock pickups do enjoy a OD/Distortion. 
    My 5 string has SD Q'pounders in and set for Drop C/A. Has a lovely growl to it :)

    I cant really say the weight is an issue , as I own a Warwick which is half a tree and love it :D 
     

     I agree I think they are beautifully built.....alas, it seems bass players are indeed a fickle bunch, as if we ever needed reminding.

     

    Light can mean less for some where as, in my books less is more.

     

    Can't see Yamaha going down that route again in the foreseeable future. 

     

    My A2 is amoung my three true keepers I'll own, along with my 1st generation VMJ and, strangely my Westfield B1000 in pink and maple that is delightful.

     

    Many others have come and gone in the last few years after a serious culling.....the Stingray, the Fenders, Aria SB etc

     

    I've been to bottom of the bass rabbit hole only to find I can make any bass sound broken, regardless of cost😄. 

    Does bass construction affect harmonics?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    On 11/01/2022 at 14:32, Chaddy said:

    Yamaha RBXA2 & 5


     

    I've an RBX4-A2 in the aircraft white/ grey....the lightest AND certainly loudest bass I've ever heard played unplugged, it's truly uncanny.

    It's also one of the few basses to have it's own real unique tone.....in that most are very similar to my old ears. 

     

    ......odd thing about those A2s be they 4 or 5 string, bass players moan/moaned about a heavy bass, Yamaha pull the stops out and make a very clever uber light one.....bass players then whinge it feels light, toy like and cheap.....🙃

     

    Sold a car to ex UK Yamaha sales manager, 10 mins to sell the car, 2 hours talking Yamaha instruments😃

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    Does bass construction affect harmonics?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by iconic

    According to a Mr L Fender (small town luthier some may of heard of) the reason the '57 P bass had a bigger headstock was to try and remove the 7th fret deadspot......or more 5th to 7th.

     

    It helped but, never completely resolved it. 

     

    In modern times Fender even used graphite rods inserted in the neck in another effort to cure this issue.

     

    So from that I guess we can say construction does influence the sound...at least around a D played on the G string, assuming std tuning😉

     

    What is kind of odd is that often you don't even recognise a 'dead D' playing solo but, it sure drops off in the mix, the timbre of the note possibly? 

    Mahavishnu Orchestra, Rick Laird P... err M bass?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by iconic

    Loving this....kept thinking the pickguard near the neck was reflecting lights then, thought hang on a mo' three control knobs, then realised this P bass has had a mudbucker nailed on it, not something I've seen before😎

     

    Doesn't get more 70's either, it's a cliche for all things 'fusioney', the look, the gear, hmm nice👌

     

    I gota day they are all masters of their crafts but, wow the drummer is simply incredible and Rick Laird, well must of had the patience of a saint, all that going on around him bouncing off the walls but, just playing what's needed. 

     

     

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    Level 42 Before Level42

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    Posted

    On 01/01/2022 at 20:36, drTStingray said:


    Im surprised you didn’t look at a Wal - they were ‘affordable’ back then. I chose a Stingray at the end of the 70s because I wanted that fat, staccato (Bernard Edwards) sound - active basses did that well with concurrent amps, as well as slap sound (Wals have a great slap sound as well). I was turned on to Wals at the time by Alan Spenner (funk and also Roxymusic) playing one and Percy Jones (jazz funk). 

    I had my Stingray bubble burst this week.

     

    Niles been saying that a lot of the Chic et al recordings, were actually done on a Fender P but, Bernie used Stingray and BC Rich on stage as they looked cooler. 

    Power thirds....erm?

    in Theory and Technique

    Posted · Edited by iconic

    Hi guys, hope ya doin OK, long time no see.

    OK, along with the bass that I play - some may argue that point -  I've got a Fiddle coming on Friday, lockdown may as well learn something else....this time tuned in 5ths😀

    A fiddle on basschat, what next. But, it has brought up, for me,  a WTF are these diads called, or if indeed two note chords indeed have a name?

    I guess they are chords, afterall guitarists play 2 note power chords? 

    Why diads? Now, being a boring old git I'm sitting here trying figure out how those folk and 'blue-grass' (I hate that term along with streetfood) play some of the those double stop diads...think Bugs Bunny Hill Billy hare intro here

    So, now I know that these fiddles do a 'country' stylee great power chord and, also a umm err, power third?🤠

    https://youtu.be/h4CenuFbGiA

     

    So, with my poor grasp of music theory in that second video...

    1/ G double stop:- G on the D string and, B on the A string gives a major third.

    2/ C double stop:- E on the D string and, the C on the A string gives an inverted major third, C/E

    3/ D double stop:- F# on the D string and, the D on the A string also gives an inverted major third, D/F#

     

    .....if there is such a thing as a C/E to describe a E over a C?

    So, these are diads, or partial chords. Now a power chord is root and 5th G5 for example, so are these 'power' thirds called G3?

    All the best, stay safe guys.

     

    PS if you drink fine wines it's a violin, if you prefer cider, it's a Fiddle I believe?

     

     

     

    Tony Jones - The Christians ?

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    Posted · Edited by iconic

    Holy Thread Resurection!

    Just been playing along to Harvest For The World...having a 5 year old its that time of year.

    So, been listerning to their old classics, always liked them back in the day, When The Fingers Point, Hooverville, Forgotten Town but where there is some footage of the bass player from the 80's playing the original bass player is on various Fender 4 string Jazzs.

    But, that glorious bass tone seems to me, a 5 string, 4 string thru an Octaver or maybe bass synth'? Whatever its bloomin' lovely



    [url="https://youtu.be/LjEla5Lw_TI"]https://youtu.be/LjEla5Lw_TI[/url]

    [url="https://youtu.be/dssA5ApFbo0"]https://youtu.be/dssA5ApFbo0[/url]

    PS did they have Bass Octavers back then when it was all fields 'round here?

    Vintage EST96A active....any good?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by iconic

    Thanks guy, I bought the bass and have to say the fit and finish is very, very good indeed, even under the pickguard with surprisingly nice tidy wiring, soldering and routing.

    New set of strings, truss rod and nut setup and she sings, great neck good 'n shallow.

    She will having the pup to parallel this week and I'll chime back later. The one critisism being a slight lack of top end fizz.....acres of bottom though!

    Wilkinson Stingray style WSM4 humbucker wiring

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted · Edited by iconic

    Got a Vintage EST-96 active and currently it looks like its wired in series, I want to wire this to parallel to get a brighter sound.

    My wiring colours are red and white (currently joined together) green and black.

    I'm being lazy as I could, given enough time and reading, work this out, but would anyone know the wiring for these humbuckers...picture below is of a WSM4 off the web....you can just see the white and green wires...well OK you can't but believe me they are there




    I [b][i]think[/i][/b] its wired like a Semour Duncan so from the images below, do these look OK?














    good link for wiring:-
    http://www.1728.org/guitar.htm

    Wiring Diagram for Wilkinson HB pickup

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted

    [quote name='Bottle' timestamp='1309186661' post='1284258']

    Matt,

    Had the control plate apart now, looks like I've got ~ 4.5k between black and white, and about the same between red and green, seeming to suggest it's the same as the SD wiring colour code (it appears that when in series it didn't matter if black and green were reversed). In that case, I'm going to use the SD colour scheme and switching arrangement - I've got a spare DPDT toggle knocking about at home.

    Tasks for tomorrow will be to re-dress the control cavity wiring (BTW it ain't screened either!) and fit the switch as well as drill 'n' fill a couple of holes with stripped threads.

    Ta muchly fella,
    Ian
    [/quote]

    Did you ever finish this mod? Did wiring n parallel make the sound brighter and quieter?

    I see you are still logging in to BC!

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