And thus grows the legend of Donovan Bankhead... he needs to invest in some silver bullets to leave behind when he rides off in to the sunset, having just made another bassist blissfully happy.
That's going to be one great looking bass.
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And thus grows the legend of Donovan Bankhead... he needs to invest in some silver bullets to leave behind when he rides off in to the sunset, having just made another bassist blissfully happy.
That's going to be one great looking bass.
Sorry, I should have responded when you first posted the specs. I'm WAY caught up in BIG family stuff (good stuff) and traveling, so I'm spending a minimum amount of time here lately.
I know first hand your wood choices are perfect. You are going to love how it plays and looks and sounds.
I know you don't slap -- at least with this bass -- so your extending the finger board all the way to the neck pickup makes sense.
The 16mm string spacing surprised me. I know a lot of players who like that spacing, and I guess it makes sense if you are mostly playing that bass. I hear it makes them very speedy in their playing.
I move back and forth from basses though, and I found I make the transition much more quickly if all my basses have the same string spacing.
I'm curious about the placement of your dots. Let us know what you decide.
Tom
Spacing will be new for me too!...my other bass is 17mm now, odd..but the longer I play the narrower I like my bridge spacing!...I have played my profs Fbass's..his is 16mm and really dig the feel and ergo of the right hand position and feel.
Glad you approve of specs...there is no question this is going to be a killer Fbass!!!!!..cant wait..this could very well be the longest 6 months..LOL
I have attached a pdf...i think im going with option #2(bottom) for placement...not sure about size yet...as we get closer, George said he would shoot me a few pics of different sizes..(ie. 4mm or 3mm face dots)
Gotta say...great guy to deal with, really patient with me!!LOL
Spacing will be new for me too!...my other bass is 17mm now, odd..but the longer I play the narrower I like my bridge spacing!...I have played my profs Fbass's..his is 16mm and really dig the feel and ergo of the right hand position and feel.
Glad you approve of specs...there is no question this is going to be a killer Fbass!!!!!..cant wait..this could very well be the longest 6 months..LOL
I have attached a pdf...i think im going with option #2(bottom) for placement...not sure about size yet...as we get closer, George said he would shoot me a few pics of different sizes..(ie. 4mm or 3mm face dots)
Gotta say...great guy to deal with, really patient with me!!LOL
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HAHAHA! I love it!
This is an easy gig - you get to make new friends all over the world that have similar interests to you, and you get to play the best instruments in the world. What's not to love?
Ah now I get it - Parallax Error, more accurately motion parallax, is the change of angular position of two observations of a single object relative to each other as seen by an observer, caused by the motion of the observer. Simply put, it is the apparent shift of an object against a fixed background that is caused by a change in the observer's position.
So just keep your head still
I prefer the top set, but both are cool.
Its Big Bro has minimal dots.
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Hi, all. Dropping in again as it looks like my GAS has brought me full circle back to FBass. I know the BN has sometimes been referred to as "a jazz bass on steroids". How well does it cop a P bass tone?
I've loved every FBass I've had my hands on, but was always intimidated by the preamp's wide array of versatility. My local dealer pulled a brand spankin' new BN4 out of its gig bag, and it might be "the one". I may have to sacrifice my current P bass (which I like, but am not necessarily wedded to) in order to swing the deal.
I play both blues/rock in one setting, and with the guitarist for this band, I play some P&W at his church. So I'd like something that can give me that vintage P tone, but can also get "polite & proper" when needed. Could a BN4 be the right tool for the job(s)?
I've loved every FBass I've had my hands on, but was always intimidated by the preamp's wide array of versatility. My local dealer pulled a brand spankin' new BN4 out of its gig bag, and it might be "the one". I may have to sacrifice my current P bass (which I like, but am not necessarily wedded to) in order to swing the deal.
I play both blues/rock in one setting, and with the guitarist for this band, I play some P&W at his church. So I'd like something that can give me that vintage P tone, but can also get "polite & proper" when needed. Could a BN4 be the right tool for the job(s)?
No. A BN neck pickup, no matter if it's in single coil or humbucker mode will never sound like a P pickup.
I agree but then again in humbucking mode, tone rolled back a little and a bit of bass & mid boost I think you can swing it in a live setting. IMHO.
Btw, I just saw a few new hotties in the In Stock page of the FBass site... Wow!
I have been able to achieve a reasonable fat P bass sound using this setup on the bass and using the twin mid tone controls on my Shuttle Max head. I use the FET channel for most of my playing so I keep the Tube channel set with my P-bass tone settings so it's a quick channel change and a knob tweak and I'm almost playing a P, I did say almost.
Ya..its a bad condition, the only cure is an Eyeserectumamy...and no man should have to stand for that!...LOL
Ah now I get it - Parallax Error, more accurately motion parallax, is the change of angular position of two observations of a single object relative to each other as seen by an observer, caused by the motion of the observer. Simply put, it is the apparent shift of an object against a fixed background that is caused by a change in the observer's position.
So just keep your head still
Also, I have been classically trained to: Grimus facial features while protruding upper lip, while bobbing head at 1/4 beat intervals!!!
Keeping Head still....impossible...LOL
Keeping Head still....impossible...LOL
Theoretically speaking, Zortaion is right, but practically speaking it's not so black and white, simply because (as Richard_P_Harve and YCBass have inferred), there is more to shaping our tone than playing a bass at its default settings.
In my view, part of the answer to your question is embedded in the question itself.
As you said, BNs are wonderful sounding JAZZ basses. If you think a great jazz bass can produce an acceptable pbass tone for blues with with help from on board and amp tweaks, then it stands to reason that a BN will as well, and perhaps do it just a tad better.
I guess I'm one who thinks a Jazz bass can (with some help) do an acceptable blues pbass tone. Ed Friedland, the "bass whisperer," seems to think single coil Jazz bass pickups can approximate pbass tone in certain cases as well, as you can see in this video clip bass review.
Ed refers to one j-style single coil tone as "a p-bass killer if I've ever heard one." Of course the placement of that pickup is part of the reason why.
I've read that both halves of a split P Bass pickup are wired in-phase, in series and are hum cancelling.
Of course, BN pickups can be set to be hum cancelling as well.
The in-phase series wiring of passive pickups tends to cut highs and accentuate lower mids, a tone very similar to an Fbass BN4 set in hum cancelling mode with the tone rolled back slightly, and bass and mids boosted a bit.
That said, I'm sure that experienced ears listening to a recording could tell the difference between a pbass and a BN, but these experienced ears would probably think the BN fits right in with that genre of music and sounds great.
Of course, probably the best thing would be for you to get down to that seller and give the bass a test drive yourself and see if it works for you.
@Amp'd.2play - not sure if this would help, but here's my BN4 bridge PU turned off 100% as to try and assimilate a Pbass sound considering i was poorly attempting to channel Anthony Jackson...sigh...
well, hope this helps
cheers! 
If you can compare a VF and a BN, then imagine what the VF would sound like in a PJ configuration you might want to consider that as an option.
You'd certainly get a great P sound, but of course the VFs aren't as polite sounding as the BNs.
You'd certainly get a great P sound, but of course the VFs aren't as polite sounding as the BNs.
Yep. By the time this dealer pulled out the BN4, I had to leave the shop to ensure I got to work on time. I plan to head back there either this or tomorrow morning to run it through its paces.
Thanks to you & the others who responded, I now have a better idea how I should tweak the EQ. With my annual bonus coming in July, if I end up getting this BN4 AND keeping the P bass, that wouldn't be the worst thing.
@YCBass - Pare, did you ever post clips of your giant BN6? i'm super curious!
I forwarded videos to Tom7 privately... Just jamming in my garage recorded live with my iPhone... Nowhere close to being good enough for public display - audio quality and playing quality. LOL.
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