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The Reverend Jazz Bomb is one of the best I’ve ever heard. The 7 combinations in this video should help… the four string has two neck sized pickups, the five has 3 bridge sized pickups. What is your preferred order of unconventional? Is it Tone, look, or technology? These cover the first two.

You might look inte the Lace Aluma J for looks a tech at least.

JAZZ BOMB PICKUPS IN THE REVEREND TRIAD… VERY INTERESTING.

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ClassicJazz said:

If you want to take that bass to the next level, drop in an Audere preamp. Pretty much plug and play, you will have an entirely new bass in regards to tone.

I put Audere preamps into both my Japanese Bacchus basses. They both sound incredible!

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Hey nice Handmade WL DX4 I have one also, the Handmade series are very much one of the best Jazz ever made. I’ve watched factory tour and it’s impressive how much attention to details they put in crafting their instruments without CNC machines, if they were to be a western brand they’d easily be comparable to Sadowsky NYC/Fodera.

Thumpin6string said:

Still never heard of him or the Tony! Toni! Tone'!.

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You're not alone. I'm 50 so I don't care anymore. I've been out of every possible loop for decades at this point haha

Smallmouth_Bass said:

I like them both. I'd go for the British Racing Green if I had to choose between the two.

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The ox blood is cool, but I attracted to the racing green. Would probably get a matching racing stripe. Decent price for a Fender these days.

I’ve had a Venture V7 and the MG800. The Venture was very under powered in comparison ( massively so ) and felt cheaply made. The MG800 is a beautiful looking amp and sounds awesome.
What do I gig with, well it’s Ampeg but a V4B RI rig and at 100w all valve it sounds awesome with a different sound and feel that only a valve amp gives (3D kind of sound )
My MG800 is now my back up amp

When I picked the bass back up last time I had a friend who was a drummer and we'd get together in his basement and he would give me a beat and I'd try to keep up. It was some of the best training I had early in my restart. It was were I learned to count without really counting. I'm sure that does not make sense but it's the only way I know to kinda sorta describe it.

Put this thing through the paces at another band practice (where we introduced a new member). Some band members wanted to experiment in drop A (AEADG), so I was afraid of everything being floppy and muddy.

But even despite my Aria being a 34" scale with a 120 B-string, it didn't sound or feel floppy in drop A! It sounded good! So yay! This is why I say things like scale length only tell part of the story with regard to 5-strings. I've played 35" scale 5ers that felt and sounded floppy in both B and A, even despite setups with strings like DR DDTs.

This bass continues to surprise me in all the best ways.

I got it switched, and “new” drivers loaded in this evening. Thanks for the help!

TroyK said:

I am impressed with Rumbles, especially for the price, but they do greatly benefit from a high pass filter.

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Same for the GK MB 112. I’m playing a gig tomorrow with an Ampeg RB112 that I haven’t gigged with before. Curious about how it’ll sound.

agedhorse said:

There are no factory recone kits available, all of the aftermarket kits I have seen are poor to abysmal. Just beware.

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I'd take poor over abysmal any day.

I'd call that livin' large!

Hopefully not derailing the thread, but I’m looking seriously at the Trickfish 3K and the 1.5K… playing some larger places, and at present I’m gigging with an Epifani Piccolo with the 1000 watt mod… any opinions on either of these amps from you veteran bassmen? I really appreciate the input!

As usual, CNN has it wrong. The singer actually fired the drummer and is chucking his kit. He really means it this time.

been getting this one multiple times today. No warning. I navigate to a thread, start reading and scrolling as normal then POP it clogs my screen.

Aloe said:

I wonder if it can be used as a tie clip to pitch check a vocalist.

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If you string him high enough, sure

IK, old thread, but I just had to learn this tune for a gig. I have been diving into Larry's playing of late after listening to him a bunch. Larry is a monster and his playing is great here as always. It's obviously a five string and to me sounds like just a really tasty and warm active five string tone w roundwounds--could be a Yamaha, MTD, mighta been a Tobias-I think he had one back then. Don't think it's a Sadowsky - many Nashville cats used those(and still do) but this doesn't have that sound to my ears. I hear no effects or amp sound, just DI'd bass, but you know it's going through an as-good-as-it-gets front end, comp, eq, etc. Brent Mason is no slouch on guitar either

There’s been nobody online here recently that you had issues with, have you? Wouldn’t surprise me to see someone go to such lengths to inconvenience you this way. To set up a dupe account, that is.

Worked out fine. I couldn't find a model with just two segments, so I got one with three. Kareem Abdul Jabar could play the bass at full stretch, but it also works well for normal sized people. Actually it was a brilliant idea by Steve Azola to use a monopod. Very sturdy and solid; easily adjustable; hardware readily available. And the monopod I got still fits into the original Azola bag.

Another bass that Miss Pink.bass slaps effortlessly is this red Fender-ish looking model. She gets a great sound, and can play for hours.

bass player 53 said:

I have a 2012 RAV4, and the answer is yes.
My db goes diagonally with the back seats folded.

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I will have to quality my original answer to say that the 2013- current RAV4’s are a different length and width. If you push the front seat all the way forward, you still might be able to lay the bass diagonally. But, no one will be able to sit in the front passenger seat. Another thing, though that
would probably work is to put a travel type pillow or small couch pillow or two under the scroll.

As far as I know, the gas RAV4’s don’t have
CVT’s as stated. I know mine doesn’t.
The 2026’s are all hybrid’s. There is a new line of Toyota EV’s.

My car had fantastic initial build quality, and I’ve had no issues with it for 14 years.

fu22ba55 said:

I'm just more curious about how others accept the poor tension on the Drop D, and the majority of the answers are just "deal with it.".

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Not everyone accepts that the tension is "poor," in which case there's nothing that needs accepting. To many, the tension change either isn't that noticeable or else doesn't make a big enough difference to care about. I used that Hipshot device for a couple of years, until I went to 6-string, and the tension change never bothered me as much as the fact that you seemingly were never *quite* in tune when you used it (though a quick little tug on the string usually sorted things out well enough).

Or, to paraphrase @thrashingbass and @JimmyM, it's not a compromise if you were never compromised.

I've long since resisted running a preamp pedal (in this case the AO Ultra) into a head preamp (Orange Terror Bass), it always just felt like I'd have so many EQ options clashing and struggle to get a good tone. AOU always went directly to power amp, Orange amp would only be driven by regular distortion pedals.

Of course, it turns out that's nonsense. Haven't tried it at gig volume yet, only at home, but plugged the AOU into the Terror Bass regular input, set the EQ pretty flat - some bass boost and treble roll off on the amp, turned down the bass shelf and raised some mids of various frequencies on the pedal - and it almost immediately sounded great. Really easy to fine-tune with the 6-band on the Darkglass, lower gain on both than I'd usually run, some clean blended in. Exactly what I want from my sound.

I've been playing for a good amount over two decades now, and I'm still semi-regularly having to learn to listen with my ears, not with my eyes or my preconceptions.

trothwell said:

I came across this post from a while back:

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/wh...ing-stainless-preferred.1671402/post-29067014

describing using the LaBella RX, in particular a light 6-sstring set with an especially thin B string that supposedly sounded very good. Sounds intriguing! I ordered a set.

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I really loved the old hard rocking steels they made and these are similar. The clarity described is definitely a trademark. I don’t know how they do it but I always get clarity, depth and great body to my tone.

michael_t said:

How's the volume in active? I ask because this particular model is designed to have the same output between active and passive.

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I finally got a chance to look. No, active is louder.

I learned the hard way.
I spent a lot of money on basses that sound different and offer different things. 4 strings, 5 strings, 6 strings, fretless and fretted. Different pick ups, different woods, different necks.

Moving between all of these was work. So after analysis of what I used the most I narrowed it down to 2 - the same exact quality bass, one fretted and one fretless. I have found I play fretless the most but like the ease of chord work with frets. And I found that maybe I didn't use the B or C on every song, but I did use them enough to warrant them being there. I also realized that I played better and was more comforable with wide necks.
So.... problem solved. EQ, preamp and playing techniques solve any tonal variance I might want from gig to gig.