My friend assembled this fretless and when he showed me the pictures I said the usual "if you ever decide to get rid of it...". That day came yesterday.
The bass has a body from G&L Tribute, the neck and the Wal -style 8-coil pickups built by the said friend @MPU and a JTEX Distiller filter...
I have this mutilated hack job of a J-style bass that has one J-style OBL humbucker in approx. "Ric" bridge pickup position (plus two reverse P's in larger housings in Lee Sklar positions). I also have a '91 4003 and decided to compare how close they sound (Ric naturally with only the bridge...
I recently bought a Boss Line Selector and after some tweaking found out that the clean signal with a low pass filter blended with an overdrive is the best way for me to get the slightly overdriven sound.
I've used the (now controversial) Bad Monkey for quite a while without any blending and...
One of my favourite bass sounds is on Hatfield & The North's "The Rotters' Club" album from 1975. The bassist is Richard Sinclair and I used to wonder about his sound compared to the recordings he did before and after that album (Caravan, Hatfield's debut, Camel etc.). He usually had a prominent...
I made these two short comparison clips of these two basses:
T-Bird (Epiphone Vintage Pro) has only the neck pickup on. All the settings were the same between basses. In the clean clip T-Bird first, in the dirty P-Bass first.
What's the point? For fun and also for how close they eventually...
Just came across this pic dated 12/13/1978.
Never seen Geddy playing a mapleglo 4001 during that time. Could it be his '73 4001JG that has been sanded down? Has the same Badass bridge mod with a white plate underneath and the 1/2" neck pickup placement?
This bass I mean:
He started to use...
I've been trying to find the info about John Sauter's Telecaster Bass since I saw the picture of him playing in front of huge Sunn Coliseum stacks. It seems he had two, the other one has white pickups (most likely Fender wide range humbuckers without covers).
Here he is playing with Rusty...