Recent content by Norman Hunter

I have a Fender American Professional Precision Bass with the V-Mod II pickups and they sound okay to med but I did change the V-Mod II pickups on my Fender American Professional Jazz Bass to Lindy Fralin and the bass sounds markedly better. I just felt that the V-Mod pickups were a little dark...

I would be curious to know. I have a Suhr Classic J Bass. It just sings. There is a world of difference between the Suhr and the American Fender Professional II that I have. I even put Lindy Fralin pickups in the Fender that greatly improved the sound but the Suhr still beats it for clarity and...

I have to say I had to look that reference up. My brother gets me to go to concerts of groups that have had their day. The show never lives up to the their younger days. I rather put a record on although I have been surprised on occasion.

I didn’t see The Who in the early seventies but know people who did and said The Who blew the roof off the place. That is something that no legacy act can deliver today for any amount of money.

Yes. I saw them in Columbus, Ohio about eight years ago. Townsend and Daltrey with a backing band is not The Who. I wouldn't go again. Joan Jett opened for them. I thought that she was actually better.

The one time that I heard a Gibson EB-0 sound good was when it was being played through an Acoustic 360 amplifier with the single 18 inch speaker and being powered by a 100 watt amplifier build into the cabinet. I believe that I read that the amplifier was equalized with a cut at 350 hertz. As...

I have the Sadowsky JJ bass. While it is true that you can play it in passive mode by pulling up on the VTC, the tone is pretty lifeless and does not sound at all like a passive Jazz Bass. The Sadowsky JJ is ment to be used in active mode. The passive option is good if your battery dies I...

I use both the DR Sunbeams and the DR Pure Blue bass strings. It depends on the bass. Mostly I would say DR Sunbeams but I have two basses that need more presence in the upper midrange that sound best with the DR Pure Blue bass strings. The Pure Blues can sound pretty aggressive. The high end...

I have changed pickups on two of my basses resulting in a better sound. I have a Serek Armitage Bass and replaced the Guild Bisonic pickup with a Curtis Novak BS/DS pickup which improved the bass quite a bit and I feel was worth the $305. Also I replaced the stock pickups on my Fender American...

Regarding the scooped midrange of the HH Stingrays, I get my best tone by boosting the midrange to about 2:00 o’clock using the third position (both humbuckers blended) and maybe some additional bass with the treble at 12:00 o’clock. I put DR Pure Blue strings on the bass which have a forward...

Regarding the sound issues of having a Stingray H or HH, I have both a Stingray Special H and a Stingray Special HH and find that although the HH does have more tonal variety than the H the single pickup Stingray has a sound that easier to manage and in fact goes lower in the deep bass. I just...

Duck Dunn split the difference and put a Jazz Bass neck on his vintage Precision Bass. I have seen this the other way around. The bass player for a band that I knew back in the nineteen seventies put a Precision Bass neck on his Jazz Bass.

I just put a set of DR Pure Blues on a Serek Armitage Bass with a Curtis Novak BS/DS pickup. The Pure Blues really added punch and definition to this rather warm sounding instrument. I ususally use DR Sunbeams on basses including a Stingray, and a Sadowsky Metroline JJ bass. Also I have DR...

I wish that I had learned how to use a pick when I played during the 1970s. Many songs really needed a pick like anything by The ABB. Berry Oakley was a pick player. A pick on flats sounds great Phil Lesh was a pick player as was Joe Osborne of the Wrecking Crew. I think that Wrecking Crew bass...

Well, today is Saturday, April 5th. I finally got my Serek Armitage back from the shop where I had the Guild BiSonic Pickup swapped out for a Curtis Novak BS/DS without the coil tap option and the sound of my bass did improve in that there is more low end which the Armitage needed. It is not...