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for the record: i can hear it w/o the special ears apparatus
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Different Pickguard Changes Tone
- Thread starter D Bopp
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Most of my basses do not have pick guards. That could explain why I'm so mediocre. Thank God, because I thought it might be because I sucked!
Yeah, guys on bass forums have NO idea the sort of stuff that goes on and gets talked about in audiophile circles - magazines, forums, etc. Tonewood debates are nothing compared to the garbage those guys get into...and I say all of this as a rather diehard audiophile myself!
For example, metal beaks being placed on speakers...it improves the tone, or so they say. No, I'm not kidding.
There are brands of toilet paper that have a fragrance, so they do change (or mask) the smell. I don't know about pickguards with fragrances, though. Maybe you stumbled onto a new industry: boutique fragrance pickguards, perfect for the funky bar gigs. I know Rics have a scented polishing cloth.
Alls I know is there was this lady on tv I called and she said to put the magic crystals on my cab, and my bass never sounded better, dude. What was her name?... Miss Cleo, mon! I think she's making license plates now.
I know, right? I mean, maybe if the beaks were made from tort, I could see it, but metal?
This is unbelievable.
8 pages and counting, in hardly over a day since the original post was made. Whether people are giving serious answers, or otherwise hilarious comments, this is nuts.
Talkbass is like a zoo at the best of times but I've never seen a thread take off like this one, of all threads.
8 pages and counting, in hardly over a day since the original post was made. Whether people are giving serious answers, or otherwise hilarious comments, this is nuts.
Talkbass is like a zoo at the best of times but I've never seen a thread take off like this one, of all threads.
No no no. For hi fi you need beaks made from pure, aged Tribillium Phosphor Unobtanium Most Excellent Alloy. The ore must only be mined on alternate Tuesdays, at the base of the Andes mountains by ordained Trillium monks, who tirelessly do their work blindfolded, and suspended by their feet from ropes made from the pubic hair of strictly Marxist virgin horses.
The processed ore is forged into billets which must be heated only by the fires of burning stacks of old Laser News and Omni magazines. The billets are then machined into finished form with an Okuma CNC lathe.
One time, at band camp, we boiled our strings then tried to make a Picadillo with them but it was a mistake.
I remember when I switched from Schaller to Dunlop straplocks. Talk about an epiphany! The difference wasn't in the actual sound of the notes played, but the "space" between the notes and the existential groove of my playing. The Dunlop straplocks provided a sense "air" and "space" to my playing. Black backgrounds between plucked notes were seemingly "more blacker." There was simply more "there" there. I installed the Dunlop straplocks when the humidity in my home was 34% and allowed no ionizing substrates to operate in a 32 meter radius as to not interfere with the wood to metal interaction as I didn't really want to have to screw the straplocks into the body more than once; 1 fiber of wood lost can drastically decrease the blackness of the blacks. The sense of immediacy and detail in my playing increased substantially. But, I ended up ultimately having to take the straplocks off and reinstall them because I initially installed the Dunlop straplocks during a full moon cycle, but I realized that the alloys contained therein might not "mesh" with the moon's cycle so I uninstalled them using latex-free gloves, waited exactly 4 days, and reinstalled them again this time during a harvest moon, specifically at 11:07pm as there are scientifically less charged free electrons in the air at that specific time and the harvest moon has less of a chance of contributing to the oxidization of the exposed screwthreads. I also ordered specially treated Jamaican alloy steel screws this time, just for the funk of it. This made a HUGE difference, and what I thought would be detrimental by unscrewing the straplocks turned out to be a mindblowing sonic revelation! Once again, the black spaces between notes were actually even more "more blacker." The sense of immediacy was immediately more immediate than immediately before, and I had an even greater airy sense of spacial air in the same air space. There was even more "there" there, even more "there" there than there was "there" there before. Dunlop straplocks are keepers! But, I might be missing some of that fluidity of note sustainability mojo that I was soooo used to when I was using the Schaller straplocks...but I've found that if I use baby wipes versus regular Charmin my fluidity improves substantially...and the blacks are even blacker upon visualization. I never knew I had so much funk in me!English language at the fullest expression!... I love it!
The common pilcrow — chanages walls of obfuscation to words of enlightenment that people may actually then read.
The pilcrow, so easy to use, yields such a great return on investment.
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...ah, it's always a revelation when the grammar nazis can't even spell a word such as "changes" properly.
1) Knees.
2) Commence.
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Ooo... Ya Got Me!
Just goes to show, everybody needs a good editor! Let those who have not typo'd cast the first white-out/tippex.
Honestly, I enjoyed your post I quoted tremendously (or I wouldn't have bothered quoting it), but it was a hard read without any para breaks!
I'm no Nazi, just gettin' old and find walls of text hard to read!
Uhm, can I get off my knees now? They're sore, I'm old remember.
Good on ya Ggoat!!!
PS: I'll take a little liberty and go past the point of no return ...
Funkin' great.
