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10-25-2009, 05:32 PM
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Well, pretty self explanatory.
For me, its Fender Precision (or Squier, etc.), with flats, specifically Chromes.
By the end of next week Ill have 4 Precisions, all with flats, and hopefully at least one fretless.
You?
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10-25-2009, 05:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | | Quote:
Originally Posted by J. Crawford  By the end of next week Ill have 4 Precisions, all with rounds, and hopefully at least one fretless. | What?
Anyway, my perfect tone is a Jazz Bass with rounds. Cliche, I know, but it's so cool-sounding! My current bass is a Squier Affinity Jazz V with Ernie Ball Slinkies. Sounds awesome.
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10-25-2009, 05:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Houston, Tx | | | It sounds kinda like it's played through a tin can and then you are hearing it in another room for fretless. For fretted, anything that sounds good slapping, and it will always have a good rock tone. |
10-25-2009, 05:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Palm Harbor, Florida | | | I am still searching for my "perfect tone". I am sure most others on this forum are still looking too...
My pbass with ti flats has to be pretty close though...i luv it. <3
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Reason: error i pointed out is no longer in OP =D
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10-25-2009, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Poor Tom Why would your P basses all have rounds on them if you like flats? | Didn't make sense to me either.
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10-25-2009, 05:47 PM
| | | | My current bass gets quite close to my "perfect tone".
It sounds ballanced and open.
All notes up and down the neck and on all 5 strings have the same tonal quality and they sustain evenly. From the bottom B to the top C.
Chords sound good in all ranges too.
It's a bolt on bass with a 36" scale maple neck , brazilian rose wood board, one piece alder body, one pickup ,no electronics and a light bridge.
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10-25-2009, 05:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Paris | | | The "perfect tone" really depends on the music you are playing and even that changes. In the group I play with most of the time it is a MIJ '61 reissue with rounds but there are certain songs that call for a Precision with flats, an Epiphone Allen Woody with flats or a Hagstrom 8 string with rounds. |
10-25-2009, 05:48 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Gravity Picks | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ohio/West Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassist4dalord What?
Anyway, my perfect tone is a Jazz Bass with rounds. Cliche, I know, but it's so cool-sounding! My current bass is a Squier Affinity Jazz V with Ernie Ball Slinkies. Sounds awesome. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Poor Tom Why would your P basses all have rounds on them if you like flats?
Anyway, I am still searching for my "perfect tone". I am sure most others on this forum are still looking too...
My pbass with ti flats has to be pretty close though...i luv it. <3 | Quote:
Originally Posted by madbassplaya Didn't make sense to me either. | Hahaha, thats my bad guys. I typed it wrong. I edited it, I apologize.
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10-25-2009, 05:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bergen County, New Jersey | | | WICK!
Yea, that whole flats/rounds thing confounded me too...  --- but I will play anyway.
For me, the perfect tone is my Warwick Corvette Standard 4, with GHS Bass Boomers (Med.light).
I will say another bass is giving me some serious G.A.S. right now though - the Corvette may be forced to share the spotlight sometime soon...
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10-25-2009, 05:51 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | I was close last night. F Bass BN5 into Glockenklang Heart-Rock and Quattro cab. Mighty tasty. But that rig sounded great with a Jazz Deluxe FMT V, too.
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10-25-2009, 05:52 PM
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10-25-2009, 05:53 PM
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10-25-2009, 05:55 PM
|  | Will work for groove | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middletown, OH | | | I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect tone to me. I like a lot of bass tones. From clanky Rickenbacker, to growly Jazz, to round toned Precision, to piano-toned MTD.
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10-25-2009, 05:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: sheffield, england | | | I've found mine, at 26 yrs old! (from what people have said about THAT SOUND they've been chasing for ages and finally found at middle age I consider myself lucky!)
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10-25-2009, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by EagleMoon I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect tone to me. I like a lot of bass tones. From clanky Rickenbacker, to growly Jazz, to round toned Precision, to piano-toned MTD. | Exactly!
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10-25-2009, 06:00 PM
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Endorsing Artist : Genz Benz | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago - LA | | | my perfect tone....tuff one. SOmedyas I like Marcus' tone. Other days I like Doug Johns tone. other days I like Richard Bonas tone. And I get pretty much all or a good simblance of them on stage..
I guess I lean a little more to a blend of Bona and Johns.
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10-25-2009, 06:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: West Bend, Wisconsin | | | Maybe I'm to naive to know any better, but its my Wicks (fretted and fretless) straight into my Hartke. No effects for me.
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10-25-2009, 06:04 PM
| | Will work for groove | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Middletown, OH | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike Exactly! | Which is why we both have a bunch of basses. 
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10-25-2009, 06:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | I have 2 favorite tones, depending on what I'm playing. 1st tone is my Valenti J5 into my GK 700RBII along with my Alesis comprssor and BBE Sonic Maximizer into a 410 and 212 and my on board preamp maxed out. My second favorite tone is my Valenti with the pickups panned to the bridge pickup 75%- neck 25%, the treble knob turned way down, the mid knob maxed and the bass knob right in the middle. That goes into my BBE Opto Stomp and then to my EA iAmp 350 and that runs through a 410 and 212.
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10-25-2009, 06:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: England | | Until you have tried every bass and every amp I dont think you can know what is the PERFECT tone.
Surely the point of owning 4 basses is different tone ?
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