Spector fans!?!

[Cosmo Valdemar]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

 

The Pulse does sound great in the videos I've seen. I think it would suit me better than the Ethos.

The Euro LX is pushing the budget a bit but definitely a possibility. 

I'm currently trying to decide whether to go 4 string and tune down to C# for the new band or just go 5 string. If I go 5 it'll avoid setup issues but the G string will probably never get used. There's also the multi scale Dimension 4 confusing matters.

I can personally confirm that a 4 string Euro tuned down to C# is a thing of utter brutal perfection. They should come with this tuning from the factory 😆

[SteveXFR]

33 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Well, it doesn't change much other than the length, you still have the 4/5 string issue.

Is the new band just C#? I joined a new band that does a lot of metal and they are all in different tunings, the 5 is essential for that. I use a drop D bass for 3 songs and a standard 5 for songs in E, Eb, C#, C and B, and then have to downtune, because someone always wants one song in A!

 

 

All their songs seem to be in C#.

The Dimension 4 just has the bonus of the 36" scale on the E string which will give extra tension or allow lighter strings.

[cetera]

See if you can pop along to Bass Direct and try out a Pulse II, a Euro LX/Classic and a Dimension HP. See which you prefer....

[Woodinblack]

4 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

All their songs seem to be in C#.

The Dimension 4 just has the bonus of the 36" scale on the E string which will give extra tension or allow lighter strings.

 

So I guess that means it has a slightly shorter E string than the 5?

[ezbass]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

or just go 5 string

 

[Jonesy]

As a newb to Spector this could be a silly question, but here goes...

 

Why do a lot of 4 string models come with PJ pups and then you get to the 5 string of the same model and they have humbuckers?

[SteveXFR]

8 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

So I guess that means it has a slightly shorter E string than the 5?

 

Longer I think. 5 is 35" the 4 multi is 36" - 34". The 5 multi is 37 - 34

[SteveXFR]

8 hours ago, cetera said:

See if you can pop along to Bass Direct and try out a Pulse II, a Euro LX/Classic and a Dimension HP. See which you prefer....

 

I'm probably going to do that. Just need to work out an interesting route for a trip on the motorbike. 

[cetera]

3 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I'm probably going to do that. Just need to work out an interesting route for a trip on the motorbike. 

Tell them that 'Spector bassist Gary' sent you. They'll look after you!

[cetera]

12 hours ago, Jonesy said:

As a newb to Spector this could be a silly question, but here goes...

 

Why do a lot of 4 string models come with PJ pups and then you get to the 5 string of the same model and they have humbuckers?

 

Until recently, 5 string PJ sets were hard to come by. The new Euro CST series has a 5 PJ set though!

Of course, in any other Spector 5 - should you wish, you can swap the soapbar humbuckers for Reverse P & J EMGs in soapbar housing.

[Woodinblack]

4 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Longer I think. 5 is 35" the 4 multi is 36" - 34". The 5 multi is 37 - 34

 

I meant than the 5 multi - if the 4 is 36-34 and the 5 is 37-34, then the E must be 35.33" on the 4 and 36.25" on the 5, almost an inch longer. Not that I believe that really it makes that much difference!.

[SteveXFR]

4 hours ago, cetera said:

Tell them that 'Spector bassist Gary' sent you. They'll look after you!

 

I'll try to remember that!

[ezbass]

4 hours ago, cetera said:

Tell them that 'Spector bassist Gary' sent you. They'll look after you!

I’m going to keep that handy too if I go for a visit (I really need to move some gear on and that violet Pulse 2 keeps looking at me).

[SteveXFR]

5 hours ago, ezbass said:

I’m going to keep that handy too if I go for a visit (I really need to move some gear on and that violet Pulse 2 keeps looking at me).

 

That ones all yours. Wrong colour for me

[Woodinblack]

I always wished I didn't get a cinder red pulse 1 when they came out.

[Misdee]

Apropo of nothing,  today I came across some footage from the early '90's of Bernard Edwards playing his Ferrari Red Spector NS2. Looked like a fairly early model with dot markers rather than the crown MOP inlays they come with now.

 

It must be the bass he played on Addicted To Love by Robert Palmer. I know that bass went to John Taylor after Bernard died.

 

 

[Mediocre Polymath]

Interesting that this thread has popped up on the front page today. I have had the last two days off, and in an absence of anything better to do (and a desire to get outside and touch grass after a long and stressful book project) I've been walking off in random directions across London, stopping when I reach a guitar shop.

 

Today, I ended up in the shop not far from my parents house – it was the place I always went for strings and stuff when I was a teenager. I remembered it as a sort of dusty, neglected Tutenkahmun's tomb of beginner-to-mid-priced-instruments, a sad place with drop ceilings and heaps of cardboard boxes full of plastic recorders piled against the walls.

 

So, it turns out it hasn't changed a bit.

 

Amidst all the utterly unremarkable instruments, there was a Spector Legend – one of the four strings with the twin soapbars. It was covered in dust, but much to my suprise it played absolutely beautifully. I spent a while noodling away on it, but the guy in the shop couldn't tell me anything about it or how the electronics worked (it was in the stock of the store when he bought the place as a going concern in 2019). It seemed like it had active bass and treble controls, but they had no centre detent and behaved really oddly.

 

So yeah. Not sure why I'm writing this other than to A) mention that I played a Spector for the first time and really liked it and B) to ask what's up with the electronics on the old Legend models (the Korean ones, from the early 2010s, I'd guess).