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Fantasy Time- Design Your Signature bass!
- Thread starter nutso42
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Actually, scratch the nordstrands. Seymour duncan SSB-4's, in the thumb4-string positions.
(ANd SSB-8's for the 8-string, I guess
(ANd SSB-8's for the 8-string, I guess
I've totally changed my idea of what my sig bass would be.
I'm thinking...
5-String, medium spacing, 35" scale, probably neck-through
Warmoth Gecko-style body but a little sharper in the top horn
Headless, but accepts regular strings
Nordy 'buckers or Big Splits, two of them
2-band preamp with active/passive switch, at 18v
Swamp Ash body, nice figuring, NPF finish, grain filled black then a clear to dark burgundy finish
Thick neck, like 1.2" (yeah) with an asymmetric profile, ~1.7 nut
All-bubinga neck, low stainless frets, no inlays, 22 (maybe 24) fret
Chrome hardware
Yeah...
I'm thinking...
5-String, medium spacing, 35" scale, probably neck-through
Warmoth Gecko-style body but a little sharper in the top horn
Headless, but accepts regular strings
Nordy 'buckers or Big Splits, two of them
2-band preamp with active/passive switch, at 18v
Swamp Ash body, nice figuring, NPF finish, grain filled black then a clear to dark burgundy finish
Thick neck, like 1.2" (yeah) with an asymmetric profile, ~1.7 nut
All-bubinga neck, low stainless frets, no inlays, 22 (maybe 24) fret
Chrome hardware
Yeah...
Fender starcaster style body - Maple
Bolt on maple neck with rosewood fretboard
Vintage frets
34" scale
1.5" width at nut
Hipshot ultralight tuners
Bartolini soapbars
Volume/volume/Tone control
NO NECK DIVE
I know a good polish luthier who could make that for about 2000 $ with carved plain wood body.
Bolt on maple neck with rosewood fretboard
Vintage frets
34" scale
1.5" width at nut
Hipshot ultralight tuners
Bartolini soapbars
Volume/volume/Tone control
NO NECK DIVE
I know a good polish luthier who could make that for about 2000 $ with carved plain wood body.
It would be a graphite-necked Dingwall 5-string. With pretty much the same specs as their current offerings. I'd just want a graphite neck, and some nice, classy colors over some nice tops that us bassists don't get to see everyday.
Wow. Typing this up got me kinda hyper.
Wow. Typing this up got me kinda hyper.
For now, I'd go with a soft maple jazz bass body painted a barely translucent black, Nordstrand npj5s P/J set of pickups, b/w/b pickguard, roasted flame maple neck and maple fretboard musicman stingray 5 classic neck. 34 inch scale, hipshot vintage style bridge, and a bass Xtender on the low B on those days I just want to go crazy.
mine would be a 4 string Explorer body type: midnight or Cobalt blue sparkle; J-bass control set-ups (VVT) Fender Vintage 62 j-bass pups, Badd Ass 2 bridge
maple neck with maple fretboard; 24 frets and Gibson style headstock
or a clear lucite Fender P-bass with a maple neck, rosewood fretboard with pearl block inlays...just like a friend of mine back in the 80's. I loved that bass
maple neck with maple fretboard; 24 frets and Gibson style headstock
or a clear lucite Fender P-bass with a maple neck, rosewood fretboard with pearl block inlays...just like a friend of mine back in the 80's. I loved that bass
I would do 2 different ones-- a classic 4-string for blues, hard rock, punk, grunge, and speed metal-- and a modern, versatile 5-string for variety, metal, and session work.
The 4-string would be a G&L, sort of a "hybrid" between the "El Wunkay," "El Toro," and "El Tookay." The middle pickup would be a big Magnetic Field humbucker, paired with a soap-bar mini-humbucker a la "El Toro" bass in the bridge position. The switching would be pretty simple-- just a series/parallel switch for the big MFD humbucker and an on/off switch for the 18V active electronics, which involve a bass, treble, and a "tone" control that boosts lower-mids at one end, and "scoops" the mids at the other end. If the batteries die, just switch the active electronics off, and pull up on the active "tone" control to reveal a standard passive treble roll-off. Two volume controls (not a "blend" knob) round out the setup.
The body would be made of sand-blasted Swamp Ash, finished with a black pore filler and brightly-colored stains, similar to the 2-tone ash finishes by Sandberg and F-bass. The hardware would be chrome, with a black-crackle-finished bass bridge like the G&L's from the early 80's.
The 5-string would be a hypothetical "California Carved Top" bass by Carvin. The body shape would be loosely-based on the ICON body shape (which I think is gorgeous), slightly-modified (likely a bit more wide and stout) to accommodate a 35-&-1/4" scale, 24-fret neck. The neck contour would be wide-spaced asymmetrical, like the BB75, but with a wider nut, like ~1.9". It would have an alder back and a carved maple top with natural-masked binding, available in Carvin's wide array of translucent colors, although I'd order mine with a satin top coat. My personal instrument would also feature a jet-black ebony fretboard with white mother-of-pearl "Cemetary Cross" inlays.
Electronics would consist of the radius-top single-coil soapbars used on the Brian Bromberg model, with 2 volumes, stacked bass/treble, and stacked mid/sweep.
Fantasizing is fun, but it would be pretty awesome if some of our ideas actually sparked some creative juices with the makers/manufacturers we have been mentioning (in my case, G&L and Carvin)...
The 4-string would be a G&L, sort of a "hybrid" between the "El Wunkay," "El Toro," and "El Tookay." The middle pickup would be a big Magnetic Field humbucker, paired with a soap-bar mini-humbucker a la "El Toro" bass in the bridge position. The switching would be pretty simple-- just a series/parallel switch for the big MFD humbucker and an on/off switch for the 18V active electronics, which involve a bass, treble, and a "tone" control that boosts lower-mids at one end, and "scoops" the mids at the other end. If the batteries die, just switch the active electronics off, and pull up on the active "tone" control to reveal a standard passive treble roll-off. Two volume controls (not a "blend" knob) round out the setup.
The body would be made of sand-blasted Swamp Ash, finished with a black pore filler and brightly-colored stains, similar to the 2-tone ash finishes by Sandberg and F-bass. The hardware would be chrome, with a black-crackle-finished bass bridge like the G&L's from the early 80's.
The 5-string would be a hypothetical "California Carved Top" bass by Carvin. The body shape would be loosely-based on the ICON body shape (which I think is gorgeous), slightly-modified (likely a bit more wide and stout) to accommodate a 35-&-1/4" scale, 24-fret neck. The neck contour would be wide-spaced asymmetrical, like the BB75, but with a wider nut, like ~1.9". It would have an alder back and a carved maple top with natural-masked binding, available in Carvin's wide array of translucent colors, although I'd order mine with a satin top coat. My personal instrument would also feature a jet-black ebony fretboard with white mother-of-pearl "Cemetary Cross" inlays.
Electronics would consist of the radius-top single-coil soapbars used on the Brian Bromberg model, with 2 volumes, stacked bass/treble, and stacked mid/sweep.
Fantasizing is fun, but it would be pretty awesome if some of our ideas actually sparked some creative juices with the makers/manufacturers we have been mentioning (in my case, G&L and Carvin)...
Ibanez ATK - modern smaller body and headstock.
Late 00s ATK neck profile - basically a Ray with a nice big volute.
5 piece Neck, Wenge/Yellowheart/Wenge/Yellowheart/Wenge
Ebony Fingerboard, medium frets, some kind of glowing side dot markers only, with this logo:
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at the 12th fret, inlaid in yellowheart.
Bubinga body, monorail type bridge, ebony pickguard. Black hardware, d-tuner on the E. 4 string.
Delano P-MM Hybrid pickups, wired so the MM runs through an 2 band MM preamp and it's own volume pot before hitting a 3 way, with the P on it's own volume and tone pots as well. Thats 5 knobs, two switches.
I used to think about this stuff sitting through operations management classes in grad school, a short few months ago...
Late 00s ATK neck profile - basically a Ray with a nice big volute.
5 piece Neck, Wenge/Yellowheart/Wenge/Yellowheart/Wenge
Ebony Fingerboard, medium frets, some kind of glowing side dot markers only, with this logo:
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at the 12th fret, inlaid in yellowheart.
Bubinga body, monorail type bridge, ebony pickguard. Black hardware, d-tuner on the E. 4 string.
Delano P-MM Hybrid pickups, wired so the MM runs through an 2 band MM preamp and it's own volume pot before hitting a 3 way, with the P on it's own volume and tone pots as well. Thats 5 knobs, two switches.
I used to think about this stuff sitting through operations management classes in grad school, a short few months ago...
Deep purple (i mean the color, not the band) Gibson EB-2 with the output jack at the back inside of on top. Also a 24 frets neck. Yeah. That's it. That's all that needs to be changed....i'm not asking for much.
What? I just described a Midtown?
YEah...i guess i did. Ok, but deep purple.
What? I just described a Midtown?
YEah...i guess i did. Ok, but deep purple.
SKYRIVER juliet enza:
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It's an even more warped Thunderbird shape, strings through body and tune-o-matic bridge, Thunderbucker pickups, custom headstock, ...
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It's an even more warped Thunderbird shape, strings through body and tune-o-matic bridge, Thunderbucker pickups, custom headstock, ...
