...so I could see the Rumble block diagram.
I guess this means I have to own up to being a bass player now?
As I've been trying to figure out bass playing and gear the Talkbass forum has been a fantastic resource. I've been on TDPRI for a long time and really like topic focused forums.
I got my first bass from my kid's guitar teacher, a cheap and modern shaped P/J that I just hated but it allowed me to back him up as he was learning. I gave it away as an Xmas present.
Then as a guitar player not wanting to be the third or fourth guitar at a jam I snagged a Ashbory from Craigslist on a whim. It's pickup quickly disintegrated and the friction pegs were terrible. Its still languishing on a shelf in project purgatory.
So I picked up a cheap Samick P-bass that I actually enjoyed playing. 34" still felt SO huge but when playing simple bass on bass (instead of playing guitar on bass) I really didn't have to move or stretch my hand THAT far. I got a little fustrated with the setup and discovered that the truss rod bottomed out accommodating the tension of the medium gage roundwounds that it came with. Some cheap light/low tension strings made it totally playable if a bit of a cheese grater.
Now it's progressed to choosing to play bass in another little pickup group. We all play guitar too, and a fantastic solo acoustic guitarist learning to be in a group has guitar covered, but for this the rest of us all picked other instruments we like and are trying to learn. With guitar, digital finger drums, mandolin, banjo uke and me on bass it has been a blast!
Guitar Center had their little blue Mustang on sale and I couldn't pass it up. The shorter scale made it easier to try to come up with actual basslines intead of just sticking to roots and fifths. I swapped in a Wilde S-45 strat pickup I didn't use in another project and it sounds much cleaner/fuller/flatter than the stock pickup. The exposed blades also make it much harder to play guitar on bass without making a crashing ruckus, an added bonus!
At some point I'll pony up for some TI Jazz Flats for the Samick P, nearly as much as I paid for the bass! For now that little Mustang and my wife's Rumble 40 are everything I need to learn to "get gud" on bass.
Thanks for this place and reading this far. If you see me posting in the gear forums feel free to remind me it's all in the hands.
I guess this means I have to own up to being a bass player now?
As I've been trying to figure out bass playing and gear the Talkbass forum has been a fantastic resource. I've been on TDPRI for a long time and really like topic focused forums.
I got my first bass from my kid's guitar teacher, a cheap and modern shaped P/J that I just hated but it allowed me to back him up as he was learning. I gave it away as an Xmas present.
Then as a guitar player not wanting to be the third or fourth guitar at a jam I snagged a Ashbory from Craigslist on a whim. It's pickup quickly disintegrated and the friction pegs were terrible. Its still languishing on a shelf in project purgatory.
So I picked up a cheap Samick P-bass that I actually enjoyed playing. 34" still felt SO huge but when playing simple bass on bass (instead of playing guitar on bass) I really didn't have to move or stretch my hand THAT far. I got a little fustrated with the setup and discovered that the truss rod bottomed out accommodating the tension of the medium gage roundwounds that it came with. Some cheap light/low tension strings made it totally playable if a bit of a cheese grater.
Now it's progressed to choosing to play bass in another little pickup group. We all play guitar too, and a fantastic solo acoustic guitarist learning to be in a group has guitar covered, but for this the rest of us all picked other instruments we like and are trying to learn. With guitar, digital finger drums, mandolin, banjo uke and me on bass it has been a blast!
Guitar Center had their little blue Mustang on sale and I couldn't pass it up. The shorter scale made it easier to try to come up with actual basslines intead of just sticking to roots and fifths. I swapped in a Wilde S-45 strat pickup I didn't use in another project and it sounds much cleaner/fuller/flatter than the stock pickup. The exposed blades also make it much harder to play guitar on bass without making a crashing ruckus, an added bonus!
At some point I'll pony up for some TI Jazz Flats for the Samick P, nearly as much as I paid for the bass! For now that little Mustang and my wife's Rumble 40 are everything I need to learn to "get gud" on bass.
Thanks for this place and reading this far. If you see me posting in the gear forums feel free to remind me it's all in the hands.
