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Club Alleva Coppolo (Part 10!)

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#861
Vic said:
Yeah, with me, it's probably more that I look for certain kinds of sounds when getting closer to the bridge and the P just doesn't do it for me personally in that zone. Either that, or maybe I just never really learned how to hit the strings in that zone to get what I need (if possible) from a P.

At least for me, it's moot, because that's not really what I look for in a P. I'm with YCBass on the whole thing about the magic of the P being really about being over the pickup. Just at the end of the day all it means for me is if I were to go to one bass someday, it wouldn't be a P, it'd be a J. :) ...or a PJ... ;)
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Understood and agreed on the magic of the P tone played over the pickup and forward but there are time when you want the line to jump out or punch in a way the typical p played over the sweet spot just doesn't and moving your right hand back is marvelous.
 
#862
Funny cause the sweet spots for me on my P are either in front of the pickup or directly between the pickup and bridge check out where my wear marks are.

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#864
KJung said:
It has that annoying upper treble thing going on that seems to be inherent in these video recorders. The Edirol is much more 'accurate and natural' sounding. It will be fun to mess with it. The Edirol recorded clips sound very accurate to me to what I hear live while recording, which the Zoom again accents that 6K and up thing for some reason.

Anyway, thanks. Amazing that you can get a video recording of that quality for a couple of hundred bucks!
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Still sounds pretty good to me... :)
 
#868
jonno1707 said:
Ken,

Great tone your bass sounds just like my white LM and I dig the color of your bass in the video much more than in the photo's ive seen...I bet a black pick guard would look killer on it and give it a bit of a vintage vibe...
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It really is a pretty instrument! Thanks! I'm pretty set on the mint guard, but I agree, a black guard would really play off the black dots, and make it look a bit 'older'.

While the video doesn't really do the tone justice, it is very accurate colorwise, etc.

It will be fun to play around with the recorder a bit and see if I can get it closer to the 'real' tone in the room. Again, it surely isn't horrible, but just not quite accurate in either the low mids (attenuated) or upper treble (boosted) versus what it really sounds like. Fun toy though, and that being said, this bass cuts like a knife in a mix!
 
#874
Here is a video that i shot of Jimmy cutting my new LG5 body when at the shop last month.
He set aside a few body blanks that he thought that i would like and i chose from them this body.
I like a medium lightweight alder.. if i an get my bass between 8.5 and 9.25 pounds im happy.
I just shot it all with my cheap canon $100 camera.
We did this after working NAMM ,i missed my plane due to rain in LA..so went back to the shop and messed around till 2 am.
I wanted to get an idea of how much it would weigh when done so jimmy slapped it together real fast and we weighed it... The bass was still not dialed exactly, but IT WORKED! It was still missing the belly cut and the forearm cut and edge rounding over, no shielding.. its a FLINTSTONES bass right now... just a slab body at that time.. All shown in the video.

just tried it real fast through the shop amp. that starts at 8 minutes in.



I would have posted sooner after NAMM but i had to edit out the million times we said the F word:rollno::)
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#875
YCBass said:
For me there is a really cool mental factor in playing a P bass. I, like most, love that over-the-pickup sound and when I play a P bass it's that or a slap sound. So it lets me focus on playing the best I can with what I have rather than wanting to experiment with the versatility of say my J bass by tweaking knobs and changing hand positions - in the same song, just cause. Like I said it's mental.

I find there is something liberating about limiting yourself to that one good tone and just play.

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With that said, I currently do not own a P bass... But I've been dreaming of a CAR/White pickguard/Matching headstock KBP4 lately... After my LM5 perhaps. :D
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I completely agree about a mental factor and the P. A large part of the reason I got back on one regularly appx 6 years ago was to slow down and pull notes out. For me the P facilitates an economical approach, in my hands anyway, as I simply can't fly around on it.
 
#876
MixBass said:
I completely agree about a mental factor and the P. A large part of the reason I got back on one regularly appx 6 years ago was to slow down and pull notes out. For me the P facilitates an economical approach, in my hands anyway, as I simply can't fly around on it.
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+1 I was actually surprised at how big the P neck felt, since I haven't spent much time with 4 strings in general, and P's in specific over the last 20 years or so. That P neck felt bigger than my A-C 5 string necks... chunky and fat at the nut, and very round.
 
#879
Chef said:
tort=
always the right choice.

i do like the black though.
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The only thing about tort with that particular finish is that there will be a lot of color that is 'close but no cigar'. That often looks kind of bad (i.e., not close enough to match exactly, but too close for the nice contrast you get with tort and natural or tort and olympic white).

I think tort would look really nasty (not it a good way) on that particular bass.
 
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