Prime_BASS

I use my OTB flat, and let me and my bass do the eqing. If I want more bass I'll play closer to the neck, if I want more treble I'll play closer to the bridge. More deep, go in series. Mid scoop, both pickups on full in parrallel. It means I got to change my style a bit but I don't have to keep arbitrarely turning knobs like one of doctor evils hench men.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='862454' date='Jun 9 2010, 06:25 PM']I probably wouldn't change anything at all, except the strings. If I was going to change anything it wouldn't be until I'd played it stock for a while.[/quote] me neither. I'm not too clued up on the newcamerican series as the active circuits don't interest me and there isn't a normal P bass. Unless I'm wrong.

Yeah that was also the plan, I pretty much want to copy the electronics but for 51' style bass, so I would need to find a low impendance single coil.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='863126' date='Jun 10 2010, 11:56 AM']Yeah, I think thats the idea. Its still the 'TC' sound, but if you like the Ampeg tone (more so the big SVTs) then you will definitely like this amp. WoT on this forum, a long time Mesa user, is really into the sound of the TC. I wasnt convinced by the RH450 until I tested it out. It really does sound amazingly warm and 'tube' like, but with the articulation that digital can give you.[/quote] I guess the proof is in the pudding. SVT sound isn't me, I'm more a big 2x15 vintage warm sound myself. I live the sound my jag and jazz has through my ad140, to me it's tonal bliss. How would the classic 450 compare to the rebel head? I'm not one to mess with eq or amp settings, as long as it can do warm and a decent flat response it's good.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='853669' date='Jun 1 2010, 03:22 PM']A much more interesting update today! Uffe from TC has just emailed me a new update to the program. This is the part I was most interested in! Now, I can actually changed the 'baked in' tone of the amp, just like TC did with the Staccato 51. This then means you have full control of the EQ as normal once its saved onto the amp, but at completely different frequencies compared to the normal RH450 settings. Im assuming this means the world is your oyster with regards to tonal goals. You want a more clean Markbass tone with more sheen on the high end, youve got it! Then back to the normal RH450 settings once you plug back into the PC and restore the settings. I will let you all know once Ive had a play around.[/quote] very interesting, does this all mean you can mimick any amp out there, provided you knew the details of what amp you were mimicking. All very nice but at the same time I think, if I wanted that marbass clear high or ampeg grit or orange warmth, I'd buy those amps in question, but this tweak aslo means you have all those option available no?

Trying to get in there is tight, even through the pickup slot. I'm a bit wary of breaking anything. Anyway to contact epiphone/gibson for them to send out the electronics, or anyone out there that alredy does a kit of some kind?

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='862829' date='Jun 10 2010, 01:06 AM']YES and Black blocks[/quote] probably would prefer black dots or white blocks and White binding.

I'd take pink if it had a White guard and maple neck.

I thought it was a varitone, and I've heard it been called it to but epiphone call it a impendance switch, and it's almost like it's selecting that value of the tone pot, the 500k selection let's through a lot more highs than the 50k and 250k, andit sounds just as my old P bass did with it's 500k tone pot. The 50k pot is great for pick playing cause it chokes of all the high clunky noises, and the 500k is great for finger style since the highs seep through, giving greater prescence. I thought about just copying it, but the only access is through the f holes and I don't want to start taking it to pieces to find I can't get back in, god knows how they do it in the factories. Cheers for that Bigredx I'll get to looking at the diagram and where I can get the parts.

I just finished my jazz bass project and more than pleased with the result, easily better than my fender jag. Anyway I'm in the process of drawing up ideas for a p bass project. (one of those 50s style telebass p styles) Not too interested in any active systems out there, so I want to keep it passive with a twist. Once I have everything to build it I want to set it up with the same elective as the bass in the title. It's a very nice passive system for a 1 pickup loaded bass. Anyway I was wondering if anyone could share infor on a diagram of some kind. I'll be wanting to use the usual CTS 250k pots, switchcraft jack and orang drop tone capacitor. I'm just stuck on the pickup I'll want to use and the impendance switch. 50k, 250k and 500k. I could rip out the JCs electronics but whatever I trade or sell it for the money or bass will be used for this project.

Whoop for orange!!! Nothing wrong with keeping it all flat and letting your bass and hands do the EQing

I may be interested. Could you please pm me more details. Live in Arnold 10 minutes from the city centre have played the maze a few times with my current band .

I usually lend my gear out. It's scary, but I run through it with all the bassists and make sure they know not what to do, buy since I've got like a 2/1 ratio on my compressor even when a guy with a stingray used it it only neededthe gain turning down a nudge. Silently though, sometimes I enjoy the setups and breakdowns more than the actual gig....

[quote name='Clarky' post='859549' date='Jun 7 2010, 09:03 AM']They are definitely not "cheap". I was lucky enough to pick mine up s/h, so considerably cheaper than listed on the German website. That said, they are hand-made in a small workshop and are superb instruments. Lots of reviewers on the web seem to think they are better put together and playing than Fender Custom Shop basses (which generally cost more than this amount) and often better than the vintage Fenders they were originally designed to replace (as I understand it, the initial demand for these came from musicians with very valuable old Fenders who were nervous of taking their basses on the road). My Nash (and the one I sold to Stacker) is the nicest playing Jazz I have ever had in my greasy mitts and I doubt any Sandberg/Sadowsky etc would play any better. You pays your money, you takes your choice ....[/quote] in that case they are reasonably priced. I'm currently looking into parts a bassing a P with the same specs asthenosphere 57 P, even downtown the pickups. If I had the cash I'd go for it.

IMO Tribute band should play it pretty close to the original. Covers band(songs from various artists) should sound pretty close to the original put no harm in making it your own. Originals band doing covers, either do it original or do it better than the original by making it your own. For me, if the song requires finger style over pick, and makes the difference I'll do it, but 95% of the time I'll play it my way and it'll sound like me.

Thought I would bump this To the top!

The 57 p is giving me gas. Too pricey in my opinion though.

[quote name='umph' post='854212' date='Jun 1 2010, 09:54 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marshall-4150-Valve-Bass-Amp-/200478324818?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL&hash=item2ead707852"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marshall-4150-Valve-...=item2ead707852[/url] is the the combo your shifting? ;o ever thought about going for something like a orange bass terror jobbie and one of the barefaced cabs?[/quote] I did exactly this. My full guitar rig, a SState 150w head into a 4x12 and the Orange rig in my sig was just too heavy for an amateur like me, and even when I cut down to just the Orange it was still a pain. When I made the move to bass I was in the Market for at least the AD200b and the 1x15. I think Ive got compromise for tone/volume/wiegh. IMO of course. The only thing the OTB lacks is a more natural less muddy dirty sound. This would be the way to go IMO if you want to go lighter and louder.

All my mates have brought the bad monkey for some reason. Not my cuppa though. Just brought the tech 21 sansamp para driver di. Which I prefer over the bass driver as it's got it's own middle control.

I'd be interested in a 35" or 32" for a P project I planning.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='853465' date='Jun 1 2010, 11:59 AM']Yeah I had thought about putting a Jag neck on a Jazz too but I've never tried a Jag, are the necks the same profile?[/quote] the neck is indeed a jazz neck, although mine feels a little thinner than the mighty mite one on my parts-a-jazz.