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12-15-2011, 11:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SF Bay Area North CA | | | Signs a bass you pick up is a good one
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...Sounds good and is fun playing cold even if the intonation and settings are wrong. |
12-15-2011, 11:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nashville | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ksandvik  ...Sounds good and is fun playing cold even if the intonation and settings are wrong. |
Started off good, ending was solid, but what happened there in the middle? |
12-15-2011, 11:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: British Columbia | | | When the neck doesn't dive when you let go with your left hand...? |
12-15-2011, 11:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Spain | | When itīs a Squier? 
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12-15-2011, 03:49 PM
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Endorsing artist: Carvin, Micheal Kelly Guitars | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Austin, Tx. | | | When you can feel the vibrations strongly through the body when it's played unplugged. No neck dive & a comfortable body to carry. |
12-15-2011, 03:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SF Bay Area North CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by stflbn Started off good, ending was solid, but what happened there in the middle? | With 'cold' I meant unplugged. |
12-15-2011, 03:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: London, Ontario, Canada | | | When attractive women start offering you their 'phone numbers, unsolicited, right after you play a couple of riffs on it. |
12-15-2011, 03:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Algonquin, IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by steve_rolfeca When attractive women start offering you their 'phone numbers, unsolicited, right after you play a couple of riffs on it. | I'm pretty sure that's an indication you've accidentally picked up an electric guitar....
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12-15-2011, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Punk Rock Jason I'm pretty sure that's an indication you've accidentally picked up an electric guitar.... | Or an indication that the attractive women don't know the difference.
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12-15-2011, 04:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: under your bed | | | Or an indication you weren't trying to show off your slapping skills. That would only get you a bunch of chubby, balding bass players.
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Meh.
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12-15-2011, 04:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dublin, Ireland | | | If I like the way it looks and plays, it's good.
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Welcome back, genericusername. Get off talkbass and go practice bass.
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12-15-2011, 05:02 PM
| | | | Sometimes a real honey sounds rather good before I even plug it into an amp, but that's only one aspect.
I love it when I pick up a bass and start playing it as though I've been wood-shedding with the thing for past year or two. If it's got that fit that feels like home sweet home, that's nice. I experienced this with a Kinal a few years back when I was too poor to give it a home. That bass put its arms around me and gave me a big hug!!! It was also effortless to play without even looking at the neck. |
12-15-2011, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Punk Rock Jason I'm pretty sure that's an indication you've accidentally picked up an electric guitar.... | Or when they mistakenly thought the Porche parked outside was yours.
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Fender Jazz /GK 400RB III /210MBX
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12-15-2011, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Colorado | | | Is more than the minimum catch & release length !
sorry, had to say it .
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12-15-2011, 05:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Jacksonville, FL | | | ...because it catches my eye in the first 15 seconds it takes me to quickly survey the bass area of a new music store I go into.
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12-15-2011, 05:31 PM
| | | | No fret edges sticking out sides of fretbaord. Near straight neck, good feeling neck. No excessive neck dive, No signs of build flaws. Himass bridge. Type of pups and electronics wanted. Attractive appearance. Good degree of felt string vibration thru the body and neck. Good to excellent sound thru amp. tweak pups if get to maximize sound likes. And useful active electronics controls.
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12-15-2011, 05:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Missouri | | | It's good when you pick it up and you forget it's there and the music just flows out of you effortlessly.
When that happens, buy or steal whatever it is you discover you are holding when you come back to reality. |
12-15-2011, 05:52 PM
| | | | I don't know about others but some basses you just have chemistry with. I can play 2 identical basses that also sound the same but 1 I will like over the other and somehow just be drawn to it like we were meant to be. I bought a bass 2 years ago that I had been wanting since it came out and while I liked it, there was just something missing after I purchased it. I then traded it for the last bass I got a few weeks ago and the exact opposite has happened. This new bass I can't put down. When I'm playing it, it plays so smooth and I just groove with it. Granted, it's another Music Man bass and every one of them I own, I have had that kind of connection with but there have been a few basses that I have bought and after I purchased them, there was just something missing from them even though there was nothing wrong with them so I ended up eventually getting rid of them.
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12-15-2011, 06:11 PM
|  | Tuxedo BassŪ - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | | 1) It says: 'Fender' on the headstock
2) It's NOT an RW
3) It's NOT used
4) It has NO scratches or dings - a virgin in other words
I won't waste my time playing it without an amp - after all, I never play a bass without one, why would it matter?
I don't care about intonation (it's adjustable) or action (it's adjustable) or type of strings (they're replaceable).
Oh, and number 5) It HAS to be new, just outta the box and not bought online or through a catalog.
Frets are able to be cleaned with a file and I'll dress them anyway - so it don't matter either.
I don't really think there is an inherently bad bass out there. They are all fixable. |
12-15-2011, 06:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Lumberton, TX | | | when its pleasing to all senses...even taste :I | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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