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It is a pleasure to play and the tone is really good with the extra bottom dialed in. Could certainly be worse—especially for the money in the Trib series. If I got this same response with a significantly more expensive US-made instrument I'd be less pleased for sure.
Update: Just had a look inside my Trib JB-2. Wiring is correct, if a little oddly configured. Both pickups read about 6 kohm: neck 5.95, bridge 6.12. They are hum-cancelling, so oriented correctly. Still, with the pickups up high (but not dampening the strings), the bottom end is just not there.
Anybody got any idea what else I could check? Poor magnetization?
I know that your heart is set on a 5, but I also know that you're back is against the wall.I just can't believe that @armyadarkness hasn't pounced on me for coming home with a four stringer, yet!
Have you tried outside yet? That's where I find they all photo best! Smile for the camera!
I'd like to say that it's just the pup cover jilted to one side, but I can't tell for sure from the pics... and it does look off from the others. In my personal experience, I have little things like that on several of my G&L's... but most here rave about the fit and finish, so unless it's really bad I just deal with it. Of course, you could raise the pole, but that won't help OCD.
Part of me says to just keep it. It does work fine and I really don't want to mess with the wiring. Soldering passive pups is one thing I can do.... not sure with active. Also I will be going on a month long tour this fall and debating on bringing this bass. Part of me wants to keep it beautiful but the other part says to play the hell out of it! In that case the little pickup issue won't be a worry any more
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At first, I thought that it was funny that the SB-2 is not in your arsenal, given your love of the P bass sound, I thought that, for you, having that extra bite from the neck pup would really help push your sound but then I checked myself and remembered that when you are playing covers, you need to sound like the band that played it, not like @armyadarkness playing someone else's song. On the rare occasions that we've done covers, we've made the conscious choice to sound like us even though we are playing someone else's song. So for us, it more like a remake/ re-imagining of the song. When you play it, people get to hear the faithful reproduction of a Ramones or Clash or STP tune. When we play it, people hear us interpreting someone else's work. Yours gets people moving to a memorable classic and ours usually ends up only ever being enjoyed by us because no one wants to hear our crappy interpretations... case in point, I did an industrial metal cover of Burning Love by Elvis .... everyone thought it was some obscure Foreigner recorded during the brief period when Lou Gramm was replaced by Dani Filth
I tried very hard with the SB2's... Two of them for many years, but ultimately, the LB just fell right into where I wanted it to... and now with the addition of the Kilo, I can't ever imagine needing more than either of these two can provide.I've been eyeing the SB because I just can't get the damned PJ sound out of my head and I can't accurately replicate with anything else. You and I have had many conversations about people chasing a sound instead of just going and getting the actual thing that makes that sound (i.e. tube amps and big cabinets). This was indeed the case for me and the SB. I was able to comfortably eliminate the fretless requirement after doing some serious time with one, side by side with my existing basses. However, I still wasn't getting the PJ sound that I need for this new project. I tried a Fender P5 but it didn't have that little bit of edge that the J pup gives. Yeah, I could have bought the P5 and then bought a J pup, had the body routed, then the pup and pot installed, etc. but then I'd have spent $2000, all said and done and still not have what I want because I can't stand the color/ FB wood combos on the Fenders
And that's why welovetoleratelike you so much, brother!
and for the record, I'denjoyexpect nothing else when I'm down
At first, I thought that it was funny that the SB-2 is not in your arsenal, given your love of the P bass sound, I thought that, for you, having that extra bite from the neck pup would really help push your sound but then I checked myself and remembered that when you are playing covers, you need to sound like the band that played it, not like @armyadarkness playing someone else's song. On the rare occasions that we've done covers, we've made the conscious choice to sound like us even though we are playing someone else's song. So for us, it more like a remake/ re-imagining of the song. When you play it, people get to hear the faithful reproduction of a Ramones or Clash or STP tune. When we play it, people hear us interpreting someone else's work. Yours gets people moving to a memorable classic and ours usually ends up only ever being enjoyed by us because no one wants to hear our crappy interpretations... case in point, I did an industrial metal cover of Burning Love by Elvis .... everyone thought it was some obscure Foreigner recorded during the brief period when Lou Gramm was replaced by Dani Filth
I sat for a long time with a Kiloton and the SB-2, side by side and end up going with the SB. It was that special something in my ears that the SB had vs. the Kiloton... but man! that Kiloton sounds amazing!!!
I will say this for it so far, I was about to rip the Way Huge Pork Loin that I just got off of my pedalboard because I HATE it with all my guitars and my L-2500 (I've not played my 004 through it). BUT the SB-2 is able to make it sound like the aggressive, crunch monster that I'd heard/ hoped it would be. It just doesn't sound good at all paired with the 2500... which is still weird to me. I attribute the difference to the overall tone of the SB-2 being brighter than the 2500.
