Recent content by Thumb of War

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    Does anyone here only play passive basses?

    I think adding batteries and extra circuits in the mix you compromise your tone a bit. My main bass is a NT 5 st Warwick fretless Thumb. It ha an amazing active circuit, but I always leave it in passive with no tone controls active. It seems to have more warmth in passive mode. Better sense of...
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    Zaolla players

    It's all good Bongo. I like the sound. That's all that matters now. I can try to find the time soon to do a recording. In the mean time i will look into the cables you mentioned. No need to try to jump the band wagon and try to "put me in my place" so to speak. Thanks for your input.
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    Zaolla players

    Appreciate the feedback Dialog. I spent a few hours testing just a 15 ft instrument cable. I plan on getting balanced TRS-TRS for my preamplifier to poweramplifiers. As well as 2 5 foot speaker cables. I would imagine that even though they are silver once your past 20 feet the signal dies off. I...
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    Zaolla players

    I appreciated your initial response Floyd. I would imagine you have not tried it yourself. So instead of giving me the benefit of the doubt. You jump right in with the Koolaid Statement. I'm new to the forums and I have avoided this community for responses like that. It is my opinion I could do...
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    Zaolla players

    Until you sell enough gear to be able to afford one, you will never know it seems. It probably would make much difference with your crappy amps anyway.
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    Zaolla players

    Well I just got done testing a Mogami Platinum and a Zaolla Artist 500. Holy crap you can hear a significant difference. Waayyyyy more so than if you went from a crappy copper cable to the Mogami Platinum. There was a boosted presence and top end it seemed with the pure silver cable. Bass...
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    Zaolla players

    Hello all! This would be my first thread on the forums. I hope this is not redundant but I am interested Zaolla Silverline Cables. I would like to see what people have to say About using them. I get a wonderful deal on Mogami stuff but will happily jump if it's sonically worth it. I would like...
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    Flatwound Shootout!

    Thomastik Infeld Jazz Flats for anything. Stainless steel round core silk veneer between the pure nickel tape wrap. Profound tone...
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    Married gear addicts: How do you do it?

    Hmmm chances if your doing a church gig.. And your wanting to with hold or lie about your gear purchasing... Chances are Your buddy up above is probably not too happy. Maybe you should land better gigs that don't involve you waking up early in the morning to play for old ladies.
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    Body of 'dead alien' found in Siberia

    It looks exactly like the little alien from Men In Black that sits inside of his robot humans head.