gobasserk

Looks very good!

I had my old B2 in the chain for the drums 🙂

The Hartke combos -especially the HD combos sound great played alone. I switched to two of the 12" combos with 500 watts each two years before but with the band I just could not cut through. Every time I played for myself I had a dream come true sound. But with the band.... It was also a dream to transport... went on a tour and played a normal analog rig one night... sold the Hartkes and thank god Mark Gooday saved me with a very potent analog bass rig. The recording is just a mobile ...the low frequencies can't be heared... but just to give an impression.

BB414 / Harkte 25 watts combo. Mobile phone on the floor. Goes from PJ to P to J back to PJ BB414 PU sounds

It started with a BB300 back in the 80s.... in love with BBs ever since..!

I used to use Warwick red labels on everything because they are so cheap you can change strings every week. I love nothing better than fresh steel strings. I tend to say you can always dial highs out but if the strings are old, dead or done you can't dial anything in anymore. But I noticed a significant degradation on the red labels that occured with time. I had quiet a lot ..well how is that called in English..? The string core was broken on numerous new set of strings. It hit me once on a weekend in the studio when 5 out of 10 sets had dead e strings right out of the packing. I had to fight in the shop for getting them replaced and again 2 of 5 sets were like that. Even more bad was that suddenly I had problems to get my basses ..oh god...my english... in German it is called octave purity? What it means is that you can play an octave anywhere on the bass on any frets and it is "in tune" and sounds fine. I gave two of my basses to my tec guy and was afraid their necks had gone twisted but it turned out that with any other strings than the Warwicks tuning was just fine. Only with the red labels the problems occured. So I changed to D'addario Steels. Double the price of the Warwicks but I think they last a bit longer and they have more bottom.

Sandberg is not to mention together with genious org. designs 😉

I- for my happiness need this silly but BEAUTIFUL pick up surrounds to be happy !!!!!!!

And doesn't it look a tiny little bit like an Jaydee? 🙂

Man what can I say.... it looks absolutely stunning for me. The best finish of the BB series. What I did not expect is the difference in sound... it is so different to the 1000ma..! I don't know if it is only the pu position but it has so much more low end. But the biggest thing ist that is has way more output. I had to build totally new sounds on my effect pedal because all sounds that I am using with the 1000ma are now distorted... had to build new sounds on a very low basic sound to get a decent undistorted sound.

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And one more Yamaha BB pic of that area....

This is from the live set of the gothband. I played some festivals plus a 2 weeks tour for them.

This is from 2017 I think... did a record for a gothrock band. I remember bringing several basses to the session but the BB won Godex / BB1000ma

So it is not a typical BB sound you'll hear. But the 1000ma does all tunings well.

So this is no recent stuff at all but I remember tuning the BB1000ma down to record this album for a German mediaval rock/punk band that lost their bass player due to bad behavior (by them) back in 2009 🙂 🙂 Schelmish : Mosaik 2009

You are right! 😛

With all the years gone by....working the day after a new bass still sucks !! 😛

The opposite...I am thinking on building an armada of "cheapo" BBs instead of buying one expensive one 😜

Guys, I realy recommend the 414 over the 424 and the new 234/434!

Now clean

Man.... I will call it...butterfly from caterpillar .... I bought the bass ...old strings, dusty... smoker flat, dogs.... but even with the old (!) Warwick red label strings it was a promissing sound... Came home and spend some long time cleaning bass and fretboard, oiling etc...it turned out to be a very beautiful bass! With new d'addario steels it sounds superb!!! I am realy happy. Had a BB424 last year (white) that did not sound like this one. Bought and sold a BB1024 last year..it had a baseball racket neck and was far to heavey. This one plays and sounds great, will try to do some recordings tomorrow. 1 pic: from the advert 2 pic: the dirt of the fretboard..... 3 pic: start of cleaning / oiling 5 pic: Shiny beautiful new bass

I tend to buy it anyway if it is in a good condition. If I won't play it myself I will be pleased to give it to a BB fan! 😉

For a quiet recent project to display I am working on getting the org. stuff on youtube. Tonight I will be able to test (and buy) a good looking BB414 in red burst(?) - don't know the name of the finish. I still can give it away for the same price if it does not fit me.

Yes...if I could have some of the basses back that I sold ...or did not buy.... I would be the luckiest guy in the world! 🙂 I do both...sessions from time to time and mainly own band stuff. Mostly rock music.