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01-05-2013, 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga  Any which way but loose! Naw, naw, naw ... it has Dunlop recessed strap lock recepticles at the normal places. I use a wide, suede-backed strap to eliminate neck dive.
Well, if Paul was looking for anything like his Höfner, he might not like the LeCompte. It has a monster modern sound, but you can dial in some pretty nice vintage tones on the front pickup set passive in single coil mode. It's hugely versatile with Aguilar OBP-3 preamp and Nordstrand dual-coil pickups. It sounds like a big bass - reminiscent of my Foderas. Fun to play, too. | Macca is no stranger to modern bass sounds though... 
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01-05-2013, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Blazer Macca is no stranger to modern bass sounds though... | What is that thing? It almost looks like it has an oval bridge on it.
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01-05-2013, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga What is that thing? It almost looks like it has an oval bridge on it. | Looks Conklin-esgue.
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01-05-2013, 11:35 AM
| | | I believe that is his Wal bass. It's weird seeing him with a five-string, especially since "McCartney only needs four" is one of my go-to excuses for not wanting a fiver myself. 
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01-05-2013, 11:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: West of Stumptown, USA | | Yep, it's a Wal.
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01-05-2013, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by NightTripper I believe that is his Wal bass. It's weird seeing him with a five-string, especially since "McCartney only needs four" is one of my go-to excuses for not wanting a fiver myself. | I didn't know Wal made a boner bass.
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01-05-2013, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by MaskedJackal 
This one gets made fun of every time I post it, but I love playing it. It's custom and was made for my senior project last year by a friend and I. EMG pickup, Kahler bridge, Gotoh tuners, Carvin neckthru neck, alder wings. | love it! It's the one this dude is playing right? >  |
01-05-2013, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by superdick2112 My circa 1995 NEO RockBass, custom-built by Pennsylvania luthier Rich Roland.
It throws off some serious light, and is a guaranteed jaw-dropper & conversation starter.  |  you win! |
01-05-2013, 02:31 PM
|  | Face it. Nobody cares what you post. | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: So. California | | Good to see this thread come back to life. Here's something you don't see every day. It's a custom P-bass with an angled headstock. If you guessed that I dislike string retainers you would be right. From the front (audience view) it looks like a Fender headstock. From the side it looks like this. 
M. M. 
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01-05-2013, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga I didn't know Wal made a boner bass. | Geddy Lee had a red Wal with a horn like that and in an interview he claimed it was a horny bass. He used it on the 91-92 tour.
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01-05-2013, 02:38 PM
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01-05-2013, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Immigrant | Is that a Pecan fingerboard?
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01-06-2013, 01:11 PM
| | | | Mine is angled too
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Originally Posted by blowinblue Good to see this thread come back to life. Here's something you don't see every day. It's a custom P-bass with an angled headstock. If you guessed that I dislike string retainers you would be right. From the front (audience view) it looks like a Fender headstock. From the side it looks like this.
M. M. | Nice bass! BTW: one of my P-bass headstocks is angled, too (some electronics to do, than I willpost more pix):
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01-06-2013, 01:53 PM
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Karl Hoyt made two of these - one fretted and one fretless.
Claro walnut front and back, cocobola fingerboard/nut/bridge, maple accent and chambered mahogany core, Bill Lawrence P'ups, piezo P'up in the bridge with a Bartolini buffer circuit
The pole pieces don't line up with the strings perfectly: I e-mailed Karl about that and he told me that "that placement gives the most even response across all the strings".
Works for me - tuned E-C: 
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01-06-2013, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by superdick2112 | Nice snare, too!
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01-06-2013, 02:48 PM
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01-06-2013, 04:56 PM
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01-06-2013, 07:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Boulder Suburbia, Colorado | | It's dark in my basement, but here's my Reverend Rumblefish XL in Bug Eye... One of 30 they made like that.  |
01-06-2013, 07:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois | | I have posted this before... and NO it's not a Wishbass, but it was patterned off one.  |
01-06-2013, 07:12 PM
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