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#61
lousybassplayer said:
I understand. I apologize for saying lucky. That is the result of a lot of hard work and budgeting, not to mention years of experience. I won't slight you by saying it was dumb luck. Regardless, thats a fine brace of Alembics and I am appropriately green with envy.
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LBP,

Hope I didn't come across as being hyper-sensitive. I didn't take your post as a poke, so no apologies necessary. I just felt like after stating "but wait...there's more" I should qualify my statement by pointing out how I come across so many cool basses. Some people tend to think those of us who own a lot of cool basses just buy them willy-nilly.

Peace,

James
 
#62
duckbutter said:
LeCompte CBXSC
Ash Body
Spault Maple Top with matching headstock laminate
Black Hardware
Birdseye Maple board with spault block inlay
Dark Star pickups
Hipshot Xtender
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I just ordered a cbxsc from bud (5 string) specs are:
Two piece ash body
Clear satin finish
Single action truss rod
Chrome Hipshot Ultralite tuners
Chrome metal control knobs
Nickel Dunlop Straplocks
DR Sunbeam strings (lite)
LeCompte gigbag
Flamed maple top
Wenge accent stripe
Five piece maple wenge neck
Birdseye maple fingerboard
Matching maple headstock
Chrome Hipshot "A" bridge (0.750" spacing)
Nordstrand Big Split pickups
Aguilar OBP-3, 3-band preamp

Think its gonna be a great bass
 
#63
lars-h said:
I just ordered a cbxsc from bud (5 string) specs are:
Two piece ash body
Clear satin finish
Single action truss rod
Chrome Hipshot Ultralite tuners
Chrome metal control knobs
Nickel Dunlop Straplocks
DR Sunbeam strings (lite)
LeCompte gigbag
Flamed maple top
Wenge accent stripe
Five piece maple wenge neck
Birdseye maple fingerboard
Matching maple headstock
Chrome Hipshot "A" bridge (0.750" spacing)
Nordstrand Big Split pickups
Aguilar OBP-3, 3-band preamp

Think its gonna be a great bass
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#70
The dream bass is hard to imagine, it would probably be a musicman sterling that sounded like a stingray that I would have a hard time playing because of the scantly clad stacked girl bringing me a golden mug of beer, and the strange cartoon guy jump-roping would mess up my concentration, and I would be at work in my underwear.... I wonder what I ate before I went to bed that caused all that?
 
#72
My dream bass is very close to my current bass, a Ristola 6er:

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The only thing I would change is I'd put a MM-style 'bucker in the bridge position instead of a second Delano dual coil, and I'd make the upper strap horn an inch or so longer, and I'd put a little lip out for the butt-end strap button, so it sticks out an inch or so farther (to make it balance better). The bass has a little neck dive, but not bad for a 6-string. It might not hurt to make the headstock a little smaller, too. I play with weird technique, stolen from classical guitar with some upright bass mixed in, so I tend to play with my bass nearly vertical, and almost every bass dives for me when I position it like that (see my avatar). This one is very good for a six-string, but my dream bass wouldn't dive at all.

Overall, it's a wonderful instrument: I love the clear-gloss-over-flamed-maple finish, the pao ferro fingerboard, the electronics, the neck profile, the tone (could be a little punchier on the bridge pickup, if you're used to MMs), but it's a great, great bass.
 
#73
Like some others, I'm fortunate to own my dream basses.


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A Sei Offset Flamboyant 7 string www.seibass.com. Sei's are up there with the world's best and I wanted one for over a decade. When I had the chance to order one, I didn't need a second invitation.


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James Tyler 4 string. Hands down the best 4 string bass I've ever played. I bought it sight unseen from The Bass Gallery in London, the home of Sei Bass. A bit of a gamble based purely on James Tyler's reputation, but what a great result. This bass has everything; great feel, huge sound and because it's black it goes with any outfit that I'm wearing. :D


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The ACG 9 string www.acguitars.co.uk came about as I could see how a 9 string would work after playing a 7 string for the last 7 years or so. This bass has an acrylicised, bookmatched, spalted maple fingerboard and the ACG EQ-01 filter based preamp.
 
#76
Madbassplaya, you have excellent taste in aesthetics!

Anyhoo,

Mine would basically be a Warwick Corvette with stainless steel frets, black hardware, and a graphite nut to replace that dreadful Just-A-Nut. It's light, got excellent tone, it's basic, and awesome. And it feels like I'm holding the baby Jesus himself in my hands.
 
#80
To me, the whole concept of a "dream bass" is one that you could never imagine ever actually owning (short of some unexpected windfall, eg, lottery winning, discovering oil in your back yard, writing & recording a hit record that sits on the Billboard #1 slot for 27 straight years, etc.) I may have literally dreamt about some of the basses I currently own, but I don't call any of them my "dream bass"; likewise, I swear to god someday I'll own a Sadowsky NYC 5-string w/ swamp ash body, flamed maple drop-top, maple fb, & soap bars, so it's not really my "dream bass", it's just the one I'm GAS'ing for.

So my "dream bass" would be an Alembic Series II 4-string, 32" or 33" scale length, Large Standard body w/ Omega cut but also tummy- and elbow-bevels, red LED side markers, ebony fb & neck stringers, something exotic but subtle for a top& back wood (burled rosewood perhaps? or maybe AAAAA flamed and birds-eyed maple?), and -- here's where it really gets into Dream World -- modified Series II electronics that include selectable LP/BP/HP for both filters, a master Blend control to mix unfiltered signal around the filters (in parallel), and all pots & switches replaced by digital encoders so that their positions can be documented & recalled by an onboard microprocessor. iow, a bass w/ a pantload of knobs...that are instantly recallable, aka Presets.

And it has to weigh under 9lbs.



Yeah, that might happen...not. So I dream.
 

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