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11-20-2006, 09:57 PM
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Every now and then, I just start tweaking my basses, and I can't stop!!! I'm raising action, lowering, playing with the neck tension. Anyone else get like this? |
11-20-2006, 10:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canyon, Texas | | | Oh, absolutely! I'm constantly jackin' with string height for the perfect low action without buzz. Then, I mess with my pickup height. Then, I individually adjust the pole pieces to ensure even volume from the E to the G. I'm about to change strings (Slightly lighter gauge) and it'll be on all over again!
BTW - Is your username a reference to Ed Gein, or something less sinister?
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Originally Posted by spudmaster34 Pretty much any time you ask about which color pg you should get on this forum, they'll say tort. | |
11-20-2006, 10:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Stoneham, MA | | | That is in fact the referance, I don't like to make them, just talk about them. I've never thought about my pole pieces before, you've created a monster!!! |
11-21-2006, 07:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canyon, Texas | | That's pretty creepy. I'm not sure that I really want to talk to you anymore... Oh, alright. Anyhow, the pole pieces on my DiMarzio Model Js are allen screws. So, if one string sounds a little weak, I can just run it up a little. I love it.
Seriously though, that is pretty creepy...
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CHICKEN HEAD KNOBS!!!:spit: Quote: |
Originally Posted by spudmaster34 Pretty much any time you ask about which color pg you should get on this forum, they'll say tort. | |
11-21-2006, 07:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Ecuador (South America) | | | Well my fellows. I hereby stand here today to publicly accept that Im a setup addict.
I tweak everything. Action, Relief, neck tilt (by shimming the pocket) Pickup Height, Intonation.
There is one of my basses that has a perfect setup that wont move ever, and thats my Modulus. It serves me as a setup reference to compare my other basses.
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11-21-2006, 07:59 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New Hampshire | | | I'm pretty picky but not as bad as I used to be. I used to adjust my basses every few days to get everything perfect. Now I still want as good as I can get but it doesn't drive me completely nuts anymore.
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11-21-2006, 10:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Glendale, CA (LA County) | | | You know, I think I saw just a little to much relief in my neck last night...GTG
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11-21-2006, 10:45 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New York, NY | | | Absolutely. It's called OCD. |
11-21-2006, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by excane Absolutely. It's called OCD. | Optimum Calibration Disorder?
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11-21-2006, 11:58 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New York, NY | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by fourstringdrums Optimum Calibration Disorder? | Yeah, something like that.  |
11-21-2006, 02:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Stoneham, MA | | | I must calibrate my instruments to an optimum, But my Corvette is always perfect, however, every now and then I scrutinize it heavily to try and find something wrong with it. |
11-21-2006, 02:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: URUGUAY | | | Obsesive Calibration Disorder?
Well, i join the club.... it seems that my basses can always do better with a little twist |
11-21-2006, 04:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | | I do most of my tweaking once a month, it is marked on my callender, but I do sometimes stray from schedule
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11-21-2006, 04:42 PM
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11-21-2006, 04:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canyon, Texas | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by spudmaster34 I do most of my tweaking once a month, it is marked on my callender, but I do sometimes stray from schedule | So, should we try not to tick you off during "that time of the month"? 
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CHICKEN HEAD KNOBS!!!:spit: Quote: |
Originally Posted by spudmaster34 Pretty much any time you ask about which color pg you should get on this forum, they'll say tort. | |
11-21-2006, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by The Dave So, should we try not to tick you off during "that time of the month"? |
nope, I have fretboard oil, and allen wrenches and screwdrives, all of those could put you in a fair amount of pain if I were to be ticked off  ... ( I am a guy)
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11-21-2006, 06:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Milton, WV | | | I'm in, first step is admitting you have a problem.
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11-21-2006, 07:13 PM
| | | Just to drive all of you guys nuts:
I bought a bass from a pawn shop and started playing it daily without even touching the set up.
After a couple of weeks I realized that the intonation is less than perfect, but I didn't fix it and kept playing it daily.
Then the strings went dead and I changed them (get ready) to a different brand and still didn't check the set up.
...sorry if that sent any of you OCD set up guys into convulsions. I guess I'm just not one of you.
(FWIW - The set up on the bass feels really good) |
11-21-2006, 07:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New Hampshire | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Matthew Bryson Just to drive all of you guys nuts:
I bought a bass from a pawn shop and started playing it daily without even touching the set up.
After a couple of weeks I realized that the intonation is less than perfect, but I didn't fix it and kept playing it daily.
Then the strings went dead and I changed them (get ready) to a different brand and still didn't check the set up.
...sorry if that sent any of you OCD set up guys into convulsions. I guess I'm just not one of you.
(FWIW - The set up on the bass feels really good) | If it feels good then there's no reason to mess with it. As I said before I used to obsess with having a perfect setup all the time, now unless it feels wrong I don't bother with it. I might tweak it once in a while but usually I leave it alone.
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11-21-2006, 07:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: From Aptos CA to Solon IA | | | I'm facinated by my Gotoh 206 bridge, great fun for a rainy day!
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