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Sound clip quiz for you: Lakland vs. Squier

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GassieBall

Oct 15, 2006
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#1
It's time for a rematch. Many people participated in the last couple of challenges and I thought you might be interest in my continuing quest to make my Squier sound more like my Lakland. I put some Nordstrand NJ4's (70's wind) into my Squier and I'm quite pleased.

So how do they compare? (And which is which?)

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#5
I'm guessing that I would only have a 50/50 chance of guessing which is which from these clips (I haven't listened), but that I could play either bass blind folded for 5 seconds and know for sure, even if I didn't touch the body, bridge, headstock or the pickups...only the neck and strings.
 
#10
Well, when I opened the Carrot clip with WMA, the name of the bass showed up under "Now Playing"--so I won't be guessing.:p But I wasn't surprised when comparing the clips.
 
#13
Ha! LOL. That's funny. The name of the bass must be embedded within the info section of the sound clip, despite me renaming the actual file itself.

Oh well, I tried. For those of you who have the self control, try not to peek!!!
 
#14
I'm hearing what to me sounds like the frets interacting with the string a bit on the "carrots" clip... so that suggests to me that "bacon" has a better set up / better neck / better fret work... So based on that, I say carrots = Squier and bacon = Lakland.
 
#16
I won't guess which is which, but the carrot clip is much cleaner, and more even sounding through the frequencies. I can hear a lot more detail, and the mids are richer, too.

The bacon clip is more muffled, and there is a bit more bottom, but maybe a little more scooped, with a less clean and less extended high end. It almost sounds as if the strings are deader.

I listened through good headphones and the differences are huge, IMO.

It seems my impressions are opposite nearly everyone else's here.
 

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