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NBD!!!!!!

#23
trickyric said:
The record player is not hooked up to the amp.. just fit there really well.. I don't use them at the same time ;)
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It could be like a new form of dj turntable tricks... controlled by the BASS GUITAR. hit teh big low thumper note and the turntable jumps... get it going in rhythm and mix it with the bass output... damn, this could really be something!

I mean, probably it would be garbage. BUT it COULD be something amazing! It's not like turntable scratching was a nice thing to do to a tone-arm/LP/stylus/cartridge worth hundreds of bucks, but someone did it and made it big. (WHO? I have no idea... some moron). ;-)
 
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Congrats on buying a fantastic bass! ....love the powder blue color.
Yamaha quality is great, and just amazing on their higher end basses.

I have a Yamaha Attitude Custom from 1990 that I bought used from GC a couple years ago.
I had no clue when I bought it what the neck would be like.
Guitar Center had it priced so completely wrong that I had to buy it just because I knew it was worth five times what they were asking for it.
So the bass shows up and I find out that the bass is made extremely well and that it's a lifetime keeper.
The neck is 1- 11/16" wide at the nut but the profile of the neck is nothing like any other bass I have played and it is crazy comfortable.
It's wide but pretty flat and that somehow works really well with my short finger hands.
Most of my basses are USA made Peaveys with 1 1/2" nut width and notoriously fast comfortable necks.
I have a EBMM USA SUB Bass that has a 1- 5/8" nut and a meaty neck that feels great but nowhere near as fast as the Attitude neck.
I'm not sure how it is possible but my Attitude has the largest neck of the dozen basses here but is the most comfortable.

I wonder how similar or different it is from the Attitude LTD basses.....?

Is the Attitude LTD neck wide and flat?
 
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58kites said:
Congrats on buying a fantastic bass! ....love the powder blue color.
Yamaha quality is great, and just amazing on their higher end basses.

I have a Yamaha Attitude Custom from 1990 that I bought used from GC a couple years ago.
I had no clue when I bought it what the neck would be like.
Guitar Center had it priced so completely wrong that I had to buy it just because I knew it was worth five times what they were asking for it.
So the bass shows up and I find out that the bass is made extremely well and that it's a lifetime keeper.
The neck is 1- 11/16" wide at the nut but the profile of the neck is nothing like any other bass I have played and it is crazy comfortable.
It's wide but pretty flat and that somehow works really well with my short finger hands.
Most of my basses are USA made Peaveys with 1 1/2" nut width and notoriously fast comfortable necks.
I have a EBMM USA SUB Bass that has a 1- 5/8" nut and a meaty neck that feels great but nowhere near as fast as the Attitude neck.
I'm not sure how it is possible but my Attitude has the largest neck of the dozen basses here but is the most comfortable.

I wonder how similar or different it is from the Attitude LTD basses.....?

Is the Attitude LTD neck wide and flat?
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I have no real reference to compare but I think your description is pretty accurate..I have small hands too. It is wider at the nut than my Jazz basses. However it is flatter or thinner so my fingers really have no problems moving around he fret board.
 
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trickyric said:
I have no real reference to compare but I think your description is pretty accurate..I have small hands too. It is wider at the nut than my Jazz basses. However it is flatter or thinner so my fingers really have no problems moving around he fret board.
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Fender Jazz Bass has a nut width of 1-1/2" , the Fender Precision can be 1-5/8" wide nut or sometimes 1.65" (slightly wider than 1-5/8")
...and some old Precisions were 1-3/4" nut width.
I think the nut width on the old 1968 Fender Tele Bass neck Billy had on the original "Wife" Bass was a 1-3/4" nut width, but I do not know how fat or not fat (flat) the neck was.
I am from Rochester New York and Billy is from Buffalo New York, so we would see him with his band Talas in Rochester bars in the middle to late 70's (he's five years older than me).
He had the loudest bass rig I had ever heard at the time, my eyes were jittery at the front of the stage the first time I heard him.
 
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58kites said:
Fender Jazz Bass has a nut width of 1-1/2" , the Fender Precision can be 1-5/8" wide nut or sometimes 1.65" (slightly wider than 1-5/8")
...and some old Precisions were 1-3/4" nut width.
I think the nut width on the old 1968 Fender Tele Bass neck Billy had on the original "Wife" Bass was a 1-3/4" nut width, but I do not know how fat or not fat (flat) the neck was.
I am from Rochester New York and Billy is from Buffalo New York, so we would see him with his band Talas in Rochester bars in the middle to late 70's (he's five years older than me).
He had the loudest bass rig I had ever heard at the time, my eyes were jittery at the front of the stage the first time I heard him.
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that is cool.. I saw him play with David Lee Roth.. I hope to see him play again when all this pandemic stuff is over
 
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When he was with Talas in those days, he was already doing things that nobody else had ever done with a bass guitar.
He was the first guy I saw smack the body with his fist to get sounds, he played with his left hand from the top of the fretboard for a several notes and then come back from under like normal. The grabbing the body and headstock and flexing it against his hip to get vibrato. He did all that stuff already when he was in Talas.
These days, his playing is just way too busy to be that interesting to me but holy crow he is way beyond everyone else in his speed and the crazy stuff he can fit into ten seconds of playing.
I also think he is about the nicest most down to earth rock star ever, just way nicer than most people.
In another life, he would have been the best school teacher you ever met.
 
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