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Jean Baudin's Pacman Bass

pretty close dude!

ziricote top
walnut body
35"-32" mac ebony board
I don't think they are ABM bridges... the other guys (I don't remember the name).
custom pac tuning pegs and knobs by thgknobs.com

it's a bart pre with special pickups made by bill bartolini.
They split in the middle and each pickup has a 3 position switch
up - bass only (lower 4 strings)
mid - all strings
down - treble only (high 5-strings)

then the 2 outputs have a 3 pos. switch.
up - both pickups to top output
mid - neck pickup to top output, bridge pickup to lower output
down - both pickups to lower output.

so if I had 2 amps I could send just the bass strings (or all strings to a bass amp) and I could send just the high strings (or all strings) to a guitar amp.... or any number of combos.

Too bad I rarely used 2 amps at the time. haha.

the knobs are
pac - master volume
blinky - neck volume
pinky - bridge volume
clyde - top = tone blinky, bottom = tone pinky

Also the design for the tuning pegs was made that no matter which side was facing up you Pac gets chased on the low strings and the ghosts are being chased for the high strings.

Hope that helps you out Cyber Soda.

Yeah, I'm a gamer. Working on my Platinum for Street Fighter IV, but I'm getting sidetracked with Fallout 3 and Resident Evil 5.

As for that pic, David Grossman took that before a Nuclear Rabbit show a long time ago. The venue didn't have a proper backstage to show him the bass.

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One of these days I need to take a nice pic with all the tuners on there.

... *faints* :D
 
joeinsprings = yeah, I just started it a couple of days ago (a friend loaned me his copy).

cyber soda = no worries, my pleasure.

bass_masta = I thought the "platinum" was a dead giveaway. I'm on PS3. ;)

I was at 3000+bp using just E. Honda on ranked but I lost a couple of matches and now I'm around 2600. :mad:
 
joeinsprings = yeah, I just started it a couple of days ago (a friend loaned me his copy).

cyber soda = no worries, my pleasure.

bass_masta = I thought the "platinum" was a dead giveaway. I'm on PS3. ;)

I was at 3000+bp using just E. Honda on ranked but I lost a couple of matches and now I'm around 2600. :mad:

No matter how many times I've seen them before, my jaw always drops whenever I see the Pacman bass or the Hideous Claw :hyper:

It's not bass related, but is E. Honda your main char Jean? I don't know if it's the same for the guys on PSN but ranked matches on Xbox Live are getting stale for me... nearly EVERYONE picks Ken :rollno:
 
hey big bass bob, yeah it's the same on PSN. Everyone picks Ken and occasionally I run into zangief, ryu, sagat or akuma.

Yeah, E. Honda is my main and I just play him for ranked. In casual games, I'll throw in some Dhalsim, Cammy or Blanka and I just started picking up C.Viper.

Thanks for the compliments on my basses.