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G. Gould Club!
- Thread starter nick g.
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The inference is that after 36 years, I don't know how to do a set up. Fact is, I very much do. However, I do not set up my personal basses. It is all about choice. I 100% choose to never set up my own bass. I leave it up to a professional who does this for a living and I completely trust.
This is like....lined or unlined fretless fingerboards....use what works for you.
I live in an area that goes from high humidity in the summer to low in the winter so some adjustments are needed to keep basses playing their best. I have reduced the problem greatly by keeping my instruments in a room with a humidifier. The only instruments I have only set up one time and they stayed perfectly set up are my Roscoe basses and my Zon Sonus. I assume the G. Gould will be stable.
By the way, no negative inference was intended in my previous posts. We all find our own best ways of getting things done. Here in San Antonio, I have yet to find someone who can set up a bass better than me. He may be out there....I gave up looking for him years ago after countless disappointments. After a lot of mistakes, I learned what works and what to look for.
I humbly apologize if I offended you.
I live in an area that goes from high humidity in the summer to low in the winter so some adjustments are needed to keep basses playing their best. I have reduced the problem greatly by keeping my instruments in a room with a humidifier. The only instruments I have only set up one time and they stayed perfectly set up are my Roscoe basses and my Zon Sonus. I assume the G. Gould will be stable.
By the way, no negative inference was intended in my previous posts. We all find our own best ways of getting things done. Here in San Antonio, I have yet to find someone who can set up a bass better than me. He may be out there....I gave up looking for him years ago after countless disappointments. After a lot of mistakes, I learned what works and what to look for.
I humbly apologize if I offended you.
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Not at all. And Thank you. You hit it on point. If you can find someone who can set it up better than yourself. I have that. And he lives 2 miles from my house. I have 35 basses. Waiting a couple of extra days for a bass doesn't concern me. Having it properly set up and ready to play when it is done is a comfort. My luthier takes care of my personal basses. If I have any issues with it, he takes care of them. For me, that peace of mind when I pull my bass out is gold. I prefer the action on my bass extremely low. I have a light touch with my left hand. Super low action allows me to be effective, fast and play with ease. Especially when we play 3 hours without a break. Jam band "Dead" type music is active and I use a lot of movement over the course of a 20 minute tune. Having not to worry about my set up is very much why I do not do my own. If this were my 1968 Kay KB-2, that I set up myself. This is going to be my main bass, it needs Tim's accuracy to set it up. That's all I'm saying.
This is my first Gould, but I have 9 Modulus'. My guitar player has 9 Mod guitars. I am a bit off put by the width of the neck of mine. Seems like a 5W neck. Much wider than my Quantum basses. WAY wider than my prototype Modulus Bassstar 5 neck thru.
What are the measurements the outside (B string to G String) at the nut and bridge? String spacing on my bass feels okay to me. Not tight and not narrow.
GeoffGould
Commercial User
So many basses, all at once! There is a question about dimensions of the 5-string here. When I designed the GGi5, Modulus was still alive, and I felt like doing something different. Not every string spacing is right for every player. My 5 and 6-string basses have a designed string spacing of 17.5 mm at the bridge. My old Modulus designs were 17.0 mm.
All our basses have been fret-milled using the German PLEK system, and I believe that with a little patience and tweaking, you will be able to get them to "play like butter," which is my goal. If you have any specific questions, even though I don't sell direct, I am happy to communicate directly with anyone. I can't be all things to all players, but I think we do pretty well. Thank you kindly.
All our basses have been fret-milled using the German PLEK system, and I believe that with a little patience and tweaking, you will be able to get them to "play like butter," which is my goal. If you have any specific questions, even though I don't sell direct, I am happy to communicate directly with anyone. I can't be all things to all players, but I think we do pretty well. Thank you kindly.
I am certain the bass will play as good as it looks after it has been tweaked.. I just don't tweak them myself. My wait continues for another day or so.. Then I will be able to get into playing it and feel it out. I very much am looking forward to try it out.
GeoffGould
Commercial User
GeoffGould
Commercial User
I appreciate it when players notice some shortcomings in my web site. It's kind of ironic that a jillion years ago, I had the very 1st web site of any musical instrument company, but now, I'm not very good at keeping it upadated. So, I added a brief specifications chart to page 2 of the price list (PDF):
http://www.ggould.com/PriceListBasses.pdf
http://www.ggould.com/PriceListBasses.pdf
I put a set of D'Adarrio EXL170-5SL on the GGi5 this morning. This really brought the bass to life for me. It sounded good with the stainless strings, mind you, but sounds huge with the nickel strings. Much warmer and fuller sounding and very much to my liking. This is really a terrific bass.
Nice to hear. I use the same strings on my other graphite neck basses. Been using them for years. Always liked them. Glad they are working for the GG..
Brought my GGi5 home last night. A huge difference. The bass is now good to go. Played it only a few minutes last night, but I will have it for practice and 2 shows this week. I will run it though it's paces with a good 15 hours of playing this week. Since the bass did not come with the strap portion of the strap locks, I have to pick up a set. I still need to figure a strap for it. You know the little things. Going to not be on my main amp until Wednesday, tonight will be my smaller 250w combo for practice. Played it plugged into a very small combo at the luthier and what a sound. Clean, clear crisp...
Well I had to open my big fat mouth. Here's the story, I as of yet really had not had any chance to play my GGi5. I am excited to do so. I have been wanting one for 4 or 5 years now. My expectations were extremely high. Probably why I am so critical of the bass. Maybe unfounded, maybe spot on. Not really sure. Going to have to noodle 10 or 20 shows to get a real feel for the bass. I certainly am looking forward to showing it off.
Peek a boo
Look who came out to play!!
So much was said before I played the bass and I would like to say a bit now that I have played if for 2-1/2 hours last night. Wow. Can I say Wow? 24 frets 35" 5 strings of tone. Killer clean highs from the Low B to the High G. My favorite note was Low D on the B string. That sucker rang and rang. To the point where the other 5 members of the group stopped playing and we talked more about the bass. The Neck is super thin. Almost too thin. Much thinner than all my other basses. I had thought the neck was way to wide at the heal, but it was comfortable. Easy you might say. Tone. Wow.. I think I said Wow.. Clean. Sonic notes all over the place and right where they should be. From a non-wavering low B to a beautiful clean clear everything above the 12th fret.
Look who came out to play!!
So much was said before I played the bass and I would like to say a bit now that I have played if for 2-1/2 hours last night. Wow. Can I say Wow? 24 frets 35" 5 strings of tone. Killer clean highs from the Low B to the High G. My favorite note was Low D on the B string. That sucker rang and rang. To the point where the other 5 members of the group stopped playing and we talked more about the bass. The Neck is super thin. Almost too thin. Much thinner than all my other basses. I had thought the neck was way to wide at the heal, but it was comfortable. Easy you might say. Tone. Wow.. I think I said Wow.. Clean. Sonic notes all over the place and right where they should be. From a non-wavering low B to a beautiful clean clear everything above the 12th fret.
