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One bass to rule them all
- Thread starter DeanGallberry
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Oh dear, I've become a cliche!
My 2020 Professional II Precision is it. Its fitted with a Customshop '62 pickup and an anodised gold pickguard and a maple fretboard so it looks every bit 1957. Played acoustically it is nice and loud with very good resonance. Through an amp it is deep and warm but the signal still hits the preamp pretty hard with a snappy address at the start of the note giving way to a nice rorty growl. It has become my favourite ever neck and although perhaps a little wider than my preference the depth and curve make the fretboard feel narrower than it actually is (and coming from a 16.5mm spaced 5 string Ibanez it still doesn't feel wide). The frets are very comfortable and well finished, the action is set very low and I love string-through bridges. The controls are simple but effective. And I guess thats the sort of player I want to be too, simple and effective.
Yeah, yeah; "Jaco wasn't simple but effective" but I'm not Jaco. (Well that admission ain't gonna look good on my resume...)
P.S. Well, simple but effective with flashy bits when desirable then...
My 2020 Professional II Precision is it. Its fitted with a Customshop '62 pickup and an anodised gold pickguard and a maple fretboard so it looks every bit 1957. Played acoustically it is nice and loud with very good resonance. Through an amp it is deep and warm but the signal still hits the preamp pretty hard with a snappy address at the start of the note giving way to a nice rorty growl. It has become my favourite ever neck and although perhaps a little wider than my preference the depth and curve make the fretboard feel narrower than it actually is (and coming from a 16.5mm spaced 5 string Ibanez it still doesn't feel wide). The frets are very comfortable and well finished, the action is set very low and I love string-through bridges. The controls are simple but effective. And I guess thats the sort of player I want to be too, simple and effective.
Yeah, yeah; "Jaco wasn't simple but effective" but I'm not Jaco. (Well that admission ain't gonna look good on my resume...)
P.S. Well, simple but effective with flashy bits when desirable then...
Kinda looks like a Dingwall crossed with a Ken Smith.
Thor. 5 string fretless no sissy lines. Real telecaster shape. Translucent purple. Ebony board. 7 piece exotic neck. Mahogany body. Nordstrand MM. Passive. Sounds like fretless thunder.
If I had to go down to just 1, which is just wrong, I guess it would be my passive 30” Bordwell, but I might swap out the pickups with big rigs from the Nordstrand DCs I have in there now.
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one bass? no way. gotta have at least a half dozen
My LTD AP-5. PJ setup with active pickups, can do literally anything I'll ever need.
I'm telling the Lull company.
Lol! That’s why I said: “At this time”.
I’m still planning on buying a Lull PJ5.
I’m a dyed-in-the-wool P-Bass/PJ Bass fanatic.
I could probably cover a lot of ground with this..
That's bonkers. Do people actually play something like that or just build such things for funsies?
