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Club Fbass (thread 13)

#4,081
Thanks for sharing your music - very inspiring!
Laurence




You can also listen here on Spotify:



and on Apple Music: Rue des romantiques (feat. Russell Ferrante) by David Hughes

For those interested in the details, My BN6 has an ash body, maple/wenge neck, 18 mm string spacing and 51 mm nut width and the stack coil pickups with exposed pole pieces. I have a demo of it here:



I use F Bass strings and record into an Avalon 737SP preamp and an Apogee Element interface into Logic. In mixing I only apply slight compression and minimal EQ.

I hope you will enjoy it![/QUOTE]
 
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Hey F Bass family!
I am a real lucky owner of a gorgeous BN6 since 2019. I'm happy sharing pics and thoughts about it with you guys. :)
Specs are "basic" BN: ash body, maple neck/fingerboard, classic BN single coils, Hipshot B-style bridge, etc. The color was my design - my idea was "red like a beautiful glass of Pinot Noir". It got the dark grain enhancement. Tone is killer! I can really confirm what most of you experience here: It's extremely versatile! Reminds me so much of a beautiful J-Bass Tone (I measured the pickup position/spacing and I can confirm it's 60s JB style). The Tone is really nice and smooth... easy to get killer Marcus Miller slap tone... nice warm and round P-Bass tones from the neck PU soloed... nice Jaco Tone from the bridge PU... smooth and round "bell like" fingerstyle tone when both PUs full on. The preamp is really killing! Gives really great character, without coloring the tone too much artificially as with most Bass preamps. Also not those extremely harsh very high end treble frequencies that get lost in the mix anyways. Nice tight bass, very homogenous mids (not so high and guitar-like as with most modern boutique basses, instead more in the lower mid range, that fits so much better in the band mix). The tone control is really a game changer too! When bridge PU soloed and tone all the way down, it's instand vintage "P-Bass" like a dream! Same with bridge PU soloed and tone control all the way down. All together: A really versatile dream bass. It's really the "1-bass-for-everything". That's exactly what I was looking for and I'm really happy with this instrument. The neck feels so smooth. Action can be really, really crazy low (that was the way it was shipped) but I have raised it quite a little bit and it enhances the "J-Bass" tone much more this way. The exposed-core F-Bass strings are really great. Tried DR "Fatbeams" for 1 time (those are my favorites on all my other basses) but have changed them to the F-Bass immediately again - they complement each other really perfectly for that kind of tone. They also last damn long! I always clean the bass and strings with a micro-fibre towel, to remove sweat and dust, etc.

There are some shore live clips playing the BN6:

Looking forward to your feedback! Have a great time and best wishes from Austria!

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Basstard777 said:
Hey F Bass family!
I am a real lucky owner of a gorgeous BN6 since 2019. I'm happy sharing pics and thoughts about it with you guys. :)
Specs are "basic" BN: ash body, maple neck/fingerboard, classic BN single coils, Hipshot B-style bridge, etc. The color was my design - my idea was "red like a beautiful glass of Pinot Noir". It got the dark grain enhancement. Tone is killer! I can really confirm what most of you experience here: It's extremely versatile! Reminds me so much of a beautiful J-Bass Tone (I measured the pickup position/spacing and I can confirm it's 60s JB style). The Tone is really nice and smooth... easy to get killer Marcus Miller slap tone... nice warm and round P-Bass tones from the neck PU soloed... nice Jaco Tone from the bridge PU... smooth and round "bell like" fingerstyle tone when both PUs full on. The preamp is really killing! Gives really great character, without coloring the tone too much artificially as with most Bass preamps. Also not those extremely harsh very high end treble frequencies that get lost in the mix anyways. Nice tight bass, very homogenous mids (not so high and guitar-like as with most modern boutique basses, instead more in the lower mid range, that fits so much better in the band mix). The tone control is really a game changer too! When bridge PU soloed and tone all the way down, it's instand vintage "P-Bass" like a dream! Same with bridge PU soloed and tone control all the way down. All together: A really versatile dream bass. It's really the "1-bass-for-everything". That's exactly what I was looking for and I'm really happy with this instrument. The neck feels so smooth. Action can be really, really crazy low (that was the way it was shipped) but I have raised it quite a little bit and it enhances the "J-Bass" tone much more this way. The exposed-core F-Bass strings are really great. Tried DR "Fatbeams" for 1 time (those are my favorites on all my other basses) but have changed them to the F-Bass immediately again - they complement each other really perfectly for that kind of tone. They also last damn long! I always clean the bass and strings with a micro-fibre towel, to remove sweat and dust, etc.

There are some shore live clips playing the BN6:

Looking forward to your feedback! Have a great time and best wishes from Austria!

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You’re talking in color descriptions I understand...g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s Pino Noir BN! Sounds terrific/great playing, too!! Thanks for sharing...:thumbsup::)
 
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Stupid question about the Custom Builder on the F Bass website:

- on an instrument with a fretless fingerboard, it appears I cannot specify maple fret lines without also specifying offset face dots?!?!

Anyone know, is that just a weird glitch in the Custom Builder, or are F Bass adamant about always incorporating their trademark offset face dots?
(I'm looking at an AC6, in case that's germane.)

Thanks.
 
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Did you have a chance to compare modern BN5 vs VF5 neck?
Older necks were chunkier (VFs definitely were), a thicker D, while the recent VF are thinner front to back with less shoulder.
I was wondering if that basically the same profile as the BN necks?
 
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Basstard777 said:
Hey F Bass family!
I am a real lucky owner of a gorgeous BN6 since 2019. I'm happy sharing pics and thoughts about it with you guys. :)
Specs are "basic" BN: ash body, maple neck/fingerboard, classic BN single coils, Hipshot B-style bridge, etc. The color was my design - my idea was "red like a beautiful glass of Pinot Noir". It got the dark grain enhancement. Tone is killer! I can really confirm what most of you experience here: It's extremely versatile! Reminds me so much of a beautiful J-Bass Tone (I measured the pickup position/spacing and I can confirm it's 60s JB style). The Tone is really nice and smooth... easy to get killer Marcus Miller slap tone... nice warm and round P-Bass tones from the neck PU soloed... nice Jaco Tone from the bridge PU... smooth and round "bell like" fingerstyle tone when both PUs full on. The preamp is really killing! Gives really great character, without coloring the tone too much artificially as with most Bass preamps. Also not those extremely harsh very high end treble frequencies that get lost in the mix anyways. Nice tight bass, very homogenous mids (not so high and guitar-like as with most modern boutique basses, instead more in the lower mid range, that fits so much better in the band mix). The tone control is really a game changer too! When bridge PU soloed and tone all the way down, it's instand vintage "P-Bass" like a dream! Same with bridge PU soloed and tone control all the way down. All together: A really versatile dream bass. It's really the "1-bass-for-everything". That's exactly what I was looking for and I'm really happy with this instrument. The neck feels so smooth. Action can be really, really crazy low (that was the way it was shipped) but I have raised it quite a little bit and it enhances the "J-Bass" tone much more this way. The exposed-core F-Bass strings are really great. Tried DR "Fatbeams" for 1 time (those are my favorites on all my other basses) but have changed them to the F-Bass immediately again - they complement each other really perfectly for that kind of tone. They also last damn long! I always clean the bass and strings with a micro-fibre towel, to remove sweat and dust, etc.

There are some shore live clips playing the BN6:

Looking forward to your feedback! Have a great time and best wishes from Austria!

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Beautiful bass and super solid playing!

I am patiently waiting on my VF6 to come in the mail. I am super excited!
 
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Freddy-G. said:
That statement implies that there are bad BNs. :bored: They don't go bad like apples! :dead: They're all great. :woot::D Just jokin' with ya, Dave. How long have you had your beautiful ceruse BN5 now? Here's your opp to post a pic.
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18 yrs with the BN5. Still haven’t touched a better bass.
31 yrs with the lovely bass stand. Haven’t touched a better one of those either!
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