Recent content by Rafael

I sort of cheated because my first bass, which I still own [someone posted "never sell your first bass"] is Boogie Bodies #0014, a P-bass clone out of birds eye maple. Body, neck and fretboard, bird's eye maple. Weighs a ton. Still has the original brass nut, brass bridge, Bartolini High-A...

Even on mass-produced instruments there are variations dependent on those factors. You can walk into your local guitar shop for example and grab three identical Les Pauls, plug them in, and find they each have a unique character to them. Physically they are identical: You cannot measure a...

This: I'll try to post some sound clips later.

There is hardly a such thing as a "hand made bass" but many factors go into more expensive axes: As you said, it starts with the wood. CHeap bass, cheap wood, usually cheap tone. My main bass is solid birds eye maple. Just the raw wood cost for my Boogie Bodies Bass is more than a cheapo Fender...

I couldnt' keep up with my guitar playing friends so I dropped in to Palace Jewelry & Loan and spied a likely suspect hanging on the wall. The proprietor said it was a "Fender copy." I gave him $200 and walked out, in hardshell case, with Boogie Bodies Bass #14: Solid birds eye maple body, neck...

This must be the most exclusive club on talkbass!

Kinda hard to call it a Seattle Get Together when it is an hour drive from Seattle....There MUST be a WAY!

I think these things are so rare as to be difficult to price. Of course MINE is PRICELESS!

I agree there are heavy basses that sound like poo and light basses that sound like God, but that being said I prefer to gig these days with my lightweight and user friendly Godin: Easy on the back both on-stage and in the case back and forth to the truck, plus active EQ and pups give me access...

Darn! I missed it this year! Oh well, time to start gearing up for the next one!

Did anyone already mention Horselips?

As a bit of an iconoclast myself, this religious litmus test always makes me smile......I don't buy the comb filtering, phase canceling, etc claims about this combo, and in fact played for years with a 1x15 and a 4x10 and it sounded GREAT. The main issue I will agree with is that the...

I don't see why not....if you aren't going to use the 200s at all for driving speakers I would think you could just pull the output tubes and leave it at that, as for driving the power amp, I'd take a signal from the wiper of the treble control and route that to a jack as a line out....here is a...

Different animal entirely....running the combination of say 1x15 and a 2x10 usually involves hooking them to the same amplifier output, meaning both combinations get the same signal. This is what leads to the problems people talk about. However, in a 15/6 cab the two different sized drivers...

I believe you need to make sure your amp is mac compatible before trying this.... :hiding: