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View Poll Results: Which one gets the flats? | |
MIA Fender Jazz Deluxe
|    | 30 | 46.88% | |
Squier Modded P (with EMG's)
|    | 11 | 17.19% | |
Mighty-Mite Parts P-bass
|    | 21 | 32.81% | |
Peavey USA Foundation (p/j)
|    | 2 | 3.13% |
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07-15-2006, 01:01 PM
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07-15-2006, 02:11 PM
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07-15-2006, 02:13 PM
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07-15-2006, 02:25 PM
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07-15-2006, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevorus I popped the flats on the jazz. That's some good stuff. Stainless flats, and an active setup really delivers the tone. Very nice stuff! | So, now you just have three more basses you need to put flats onto right   |
07-15-2006, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Aaron Noguer | Not quite.
I tried it on my EMG equipped p-bass, and it never sounded right, but the Jazz with the active preamp and DiMarzios just works.
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07-15-2006, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevorus but the Jazz with the active preamp and DiMarzios just works. | my 5 string Benavente with flats has a pair of DiMarzio Ultra Jazz and a Suhr pre |
07-15-2006, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by James Hart my 5 string Benavente with flats has a pair of DiMarzio Ultra Jazz and a Suhr pre | Mine is equipped with model J's, and a Suhr pre as well. It's a 1998 model; that was the last year of the Suhr preamp.
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07-15-2006, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevorus Mine is equipped with model J's, and a Suhr pre as well. It's a 1998 model; that was the last year of the Suhr preamp. | cool! Which flats are you using? I just moved to the heaviest LaBella Deep Talkin' I could order... Hard to wrestle, but that tone is SOOOOO worth it to me! |
07-15-2006, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | Plain old Fender Stainless Flats. The only ones I could find in town that weren't like 40 dollars.
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07-15-2006, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Sebring, FL | | Flats and Active EQ are quite a powerful combination.
TI Flats on my 55-02 could get everything from thumpy P bass to snappy Jaco bridge tone to the a tone similar to a 'Ray with flats. Fantastic!
I've been bitten by the slapping bug, so now the 55-02 has DR Hi-Beams. This just means I need another 55-02 to leave strung with flats, right? 
Also, I'd replace the EMG pickup in the MM P bass with a Lindy Fralin P pickup. Proceed to string with flats (TIs!) and you'll be in P+flats heaven. |
07-15-2006, 03:03 PM
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07-15-2006, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevorus Yeah, get another lakie, and pop some flats on there! Nothing like buying a bass to go with some strings! | that's why I need another fretless 6 now
one with DR Hi-Beams
one with LaBella Flats
my fretted 5 got the flats since my fretted 7 is here! |
07-15-2006, 09:11 PM
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07-15-2006, 09:51 PM
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07-15-2006, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Cioe P-Bass with flats is a great combination. | I may have to do that when I change my Squier back to passive.
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07-16-2006, 07:23 AM
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07-16-2006, 07:52 AM
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Flats and Active EQ are quite a powerful combination.
TI Flats on my 55-02 could get everything from thumpy P bass to snappy Jaco bridge tone to the a tone similar to a 'Ray with flats. Fantastic!
| Definitely, you can get a wider variety of sounds from flats than many assume. I think a lot of people associate flats with that old Motown "thump." You can get that, sure, but the nice thing about flats is that they tend to give you a solid, focused fundamental without all those metallic, ringing harmonics which you can then shape with outboard processing.
I did a track a while back with flats on my Jazz fretless on which I played over the bridge pickup and used a resonant lowpass filter plugin to get a strong midrange peak (a trick inspired by the Wal's active electronics). It almost came off sounding more like a Steinberger than a Fender. It's kind of up to you to do what you want with the "raw sonic material" flats provide you with. |
07-16-2006, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevorus Not quite.
I tried it on my EMG equipped p-bass, and it never sounded right, | I agree, I didn't like the sound I was getting with the EMGs that were on my fretless P when I got it; I kept the flats [cromes] and changed the pickups to Duncan antiquitys, now, that's the sound I wanted!  |
07-16-2006, 03:08 PM
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