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Thanks, all!

I'll be starting with a body using some construction lumber for a spare Peavey neck I have sitting around. I'll be just dropping in a pickguard with some prewired pickups, and a spare badass bridge.

I'm thinking of this as the next step....and with the bolt on, so that I can experiment with different weird stuff like wings that are bolt on, or a somethign with folding wings using a T-track.

From Michael Brecker's 1987 self-titled release.
Charlie Haden is the double bassist.
Mike S.'s harmonic and melodic knowledge is frightening and beautiful.
Here is the YT version.
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It's a deceptively hard solo, sort of like Mahler 1. I like to keep vibrato minimal the first time and then expand when the violas (I think?) join in with the counterpoint. Congrats!

agedhorse said:

Doesn’t make sense. If the two 9V outputs gave adequate current, the series connection (18V) will have exactly the same current.

Note that the pedal industry is like the wild west. Lots of made-up BS that’s technically wrong, written by folks that organize in copying existing work (warts and all) rather than learning how electronics work.

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I agree, it makes no sense.

I'm skimming stuff I have looked at recently to figure out what the pedal was. It's driving me nuts I can't remember what the pedal was, or why I was reading the manual to begin with.

He's got more guts than I'd have had: Jerry Barnes is a monster player.

BassBrass said:

, I'm not aware of him playing tenor (although it's certainly possible, but when he had Dewy Redmond around for that...) IF Ornettte played tenor

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He did indeed play tenor, pretty much right from the get go. I believe when he was playing in R&B bands, he was mainly playing tenor, which thus would likely make it the horn that was destroyed when he was assaulted in NOLA.


Along with the "Ornette on Tenor" album, he also recorded a duo album with Charlie Haden called "Soapsuds, Soapsuds" where he played tenor and trumpet. Either way, Ornette sounds like Ornette on whatever he plays.

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Welcome to our little club, Bergerama! Number 38 is yours!

BTW, check the second post on Page 1 of this thread for a picture of a bass just like yours.

Updated list:
1. OmegaZ27
2. Chopshonky
3. djmb913
4. mudsound
5. Dluxe
6. keithmolo
7. jcburn
8. QueziRider
9. basscraft
10. rogerbmiller
11. Turock
12. audreycashin
13. jmastanduno
14. Synthax
15. LAST_C
16. Mikespraggi
17. BuckeyeBassman
18. Fixitinpost
19. badbrown
20. Infamous T
21. feschyn
22. davy4575
23. Bringindafunk
24. Iridescentone
25. CustomX
26. pla1109
27. pangeabassist
28. HoraceRed
29. Deztroyah
30. ElBecko59
31. FatOwlBass
32. fruitlabor
33. rwsnixon
34. MusiQmaN
35. OldSchool50
36. WayneP
37. Vince Bertolani
38. Bergerama

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Wayne A. Pflughaupt

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From what i remember the M80 (capsule) was a favourite of Pooch

Love'em both!
Great musicians and both are mensch.

Probably not.

The Spector Performer 5 uses two EMG 40/G4-size soapbar pickups.
Nominal pickup dimensions are 101.6 × 38.1 mm, with an enclosure height of approximately 19.05 mm, reaching up to around 22.35 mm near the cable exit or connector.
The mounting screw holes are approximately 95.25 mm apart, center to center.

Aguilar DCB-G4 fits.

MrClassicMetal said:

Julia Lage is a solid player for sure. Smith/Kotzen has that seasoned, worn-in vibe going on.

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That's exactly it. Precision played smoothly.

Just came across this. I’ve posted it elsewhere.

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ZedLepp said:

If you are still looking for a Scarab Bass....

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A shortcut for sure! But... the quality of the hardware and electronics for most of these Chinese kits is... questionable. The tuners are usually OK, the pickups... not so much. Still, a decent set of P and J pickups shouldn't break the bank. In the OP's shows I'd probably go for it, unless the Building Urge Is Strong!

We make two compressor pedals running on internal 9V battery: Stella and Yuna. Both can be optionally be configured with a transformer DI installed in place of the battery, removing battery operation.

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CoughSyrup said:

Does the headstock say SB14? I know Sterling did a test run of SB24 basses, which were basically just SB14s with premium top woods. I hesitated too long on a cherry burst quilted maple SB24 on Reverb, still kicking myself for that. It was gorgeous, but it had "SB24" on the headstock.

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Headstock says SB 14. The cherry quilt model you referred to, I did have in my possession for a brief time. That one was an SB 24.

Seems like there was a big DI shootout in this forum a while back. And if memory serves, the lowly Rapco passive unit received among the highest marks.

Or was it all a dream?

Well y’all it came out great, exactly what I’d hoped. Thanks to @gopherbass for the dye suggestion, first one made. Fiebing’s leather dye was easy to find, easy to apply, colored just right and dries completely stain-free. Thanks also to the member who pointed out that our fingertips are also leather and accept dye readily - gloves solved that one.
Oh, and thanks to Franklin Straps for a very soft and lovely piece of leather. The original color / texture was “Bison”. Thanks all!

JazznFunk said:

It all depends on the design of the entire circuit and the intent of the player using the bass and all related elements of the signal chain. Active basses can sound 'warm, round, and vintage' too depending on how the tone controls are utilized, but it depends on the aim of the preamp (and pickup) design and how it all interacts. There are no 'absolutes' one way or another. What I can say for sure is that whether it's an onboard preamp in an active bass, or an outboard unit that you plug a passive bass into (like a Sadowsky outboard pre or even an Aguilar Tone Hammer), the whole idea is for the preamp circuit to affect the sound of the bass in some way.... otherwise, why are you using it?

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For starters, one could use or intend to use a preamp (onboard the bass or not) to simply boost signal with no other intention- if the preamp can do that, but also being aware that adding to or changing a circuit, internal to the bass or externally may do more than (simply) boosting a signal and may also unavoidably change the sound maybe in the ways intended and ways tolerable... or way unintended and not tolerable.

If I want to play warmly, roundly and with vintage tone, I'm going to find a way to make that sound come out of the speakers of the amplifier. If I want bright, zingy, and with piano-like brilliance, there are other requirements that are beyond my ability to twist knobs or change my technique/approach. Number one among them is clean/new roundwounds. Another thing is a cabinet with a tweeter, and ideally main speaker setup that has more 10 or 12 inch speakers and less 15 inch speakers. So I have to start from the position of bright, clean and with piano-like sparkly brilliance, and then find the warm tones from there. I have never found it possible to go the other direction- bass with dirty, dead strings and wooly-sounding amp with one or two 15 inch speakers and no tweeter and yet still finding those Marcus Miller/Level 42 slap tones.

So, in my opinion and my experience, it comes back to your first sentence.

LOVE that burst with matching headstock!

Bobalicious said:

Sometime in the 1990s, I wrote a letter to Bass Player in response to an interview in a previous edition. I was responding to some famous player who had said that people should always play original music and not play other people's music. I responded that I loved being able to play various styles of music with lots of different people in lots of settings. I liked being a jack-of-all-trades. I think that it was in the mid-1990s. The byline was probably "Bob McKinney, Starkville, Mississippi." I don't suppose that any of you fine folks would be able to find it in your stash and send me a photo, would you? Many thanks!

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Do you recall who was on the cover?

Oh man really nice. I had a blue prophecy 2 (bolt-on neck) for many years and it played really well. If I had a single complaint it was the glossy finish on the back of the neck.
I wanted a 3 for many years but never found a blue one in my searches (and I’m picky about the color haha).
Post up some sound clips if you are so inclined!

I know what you mean about impartial. I've had a number of pickup layouts and liked all of them.

Kenny056 said:

I saw a recent upload and it looks like he traded the Bergantino for an Aguilar head. Ive only ever played through the Tonehammer models and that one looks much larger than those. Any idea which one it is?
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That’s a db751. They did a limited edition run that was on black late last year. Looks like he got one of them.