Recent content by ilikegrindcore

plays great, feels great. the neck is just right (medium thickness, not an ibanez toothpick, not a warwick baseball bat, it just fits). it feels fast and still smells fresh from the factory. the low frets help give some clank and cut with fingerstyle (important for metal), as well as making it...

So I got this beauty recently. Used. Spector Rebop 5 DLX, amberburst, Czech made. Completely blows my Charvel out of the water (not that it's a fair comparison). Great metal fingerstyle tone, which is what I was looking for. Took it to my thrash metal band's rehearsal last weekend, awesome...

same here man :)

who's Adrian Smith? oh yeah he plays the cheese cutter strings alongside the mighty Steve Harris!!! hehe but yes, the resemblance is there. good call

I got the Spector, and I'm stoked :) Thanks for your help anyway lamonica!

hahaha me too (my Charvel is green tho) :bassist::hyper: Even if Rex used only 4 strings while playing a 5 string I can totally relate to that... the low B makes a hell of a thumb rest if nothing else when playing fingerstyle, but I'd imagine it complicates things when using a pick? :confused:

why don't they make them like this anymore

Another thrash bassist with Ellefson's kind of tone is DD Verni from Overkill. Pick, steel strings, hit hard. Henkka Blacksmith has a cool gritty overdrive pick tone that you can hear especially on their latest record, Bloodrunk (audible bass due to good production). Also, can't forget Lemmy...

Yeah man, the OP has a great tone, but he doesn't have exactly have two heavily distorted, downtuned guitars and a double bass pounding, snare thrashing drummer to cut through... Which is why I'm asking him if the Rebop or the Human Base would be better suited to my purposes :bassist: Either...

nice bass! What is it exactly about the Human Base that made you let go of the Spector Rebop 5? I'm in a bit of a pinch between buying a used Rebop 5 DLX (for 900 Euros / new price 1250) and a used Human Base BaseX.oc5 (for 1000 Euros / new price 1500) and you're probably the only person in the...

Dude I have a Charvel Fusion V bass - yes, with the awesome pointy headstock - and the guys in my band really dig it. But we're a metal band. And we're pretty young (18-20). And the guitarists also play guitars with pointy headstocks (a Charvel Model 4, and a Vesta), so... it fits. But even our...

Doesn't matter if you're a beginner or intermediate, when it comes to buying gear and you're short on cash, go used! So much more bang for the buck. I got an EBS HD350 for half the price it sells new by going used, 600 Euros instead of 1200! And the bugger is built like a ****en tank so it...

thanks all for the input. I've decided to go for an Ibanez SRX :)

Yeah, because everyone else is trying to tune their basses in ADGCF as well, right? Not. I have a specific question with regards to the tuning and if you're unable to answer it then that's fine.

Hi! I'm looking for a new bass because my good ole Charvel Fusion V simply cannot hack ADGCF. It has a 34" scale length, I have it strung with Elixir Nanowebs 45-130 and although bass is great sounding and a wonderful player, the intonation of the low A string is simply miserable. I can't...