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Lovin my short scale Banshee, great punchy sound.
They sure look sweet ! Like to find and play one locally, for sure.
Do you know anything about the Pickup they are using in that ?
The specs just call it out as a "Schecter Diamond QPA". I'm guessing the "A" stands for Alnico.
Have you taken an Ohm Meter to it yet ?
Thanks
Those Banshees sure look cool and I’ll bet they sound cool, too. I’ve been Jonesing for one of those. What kind of strings do you have on it?
Hmmmm quarter pounder Alnico?They sure look sweet ! Like to find and play one locally, for sure.
Do you know anything about the Pickup they are using in that ?
The specs just call it out as a "Schecter Diamond QPA". I'm guessing the "A" stands for Alnico.
Have you taken an Ohm Meter to it yet ?
Thanks
Do you know anything about the Pickup they are using in that ?
The specs just call it out as a "Schecter Diamond QPA". I'm guessing the "A" stands for Alnico.
Have you taken an Ohm Meter to it yet ?
Thanks
The name is pretty much all I know too but I think nuage420b might be right. All I got with my cheap Harbor Freight multimeter was 1___., but I think it actually has the highest output of any of my basses except my ss passive Stingray in series mode.
I had Daddario rounds on it but now have GHS Brite Flats on it. Sounds good with both.
Thanks. I like the Brite Flats myself. I have them on my Reverend. Love those Banshees.
Just ordered my 1st ever Schecter. Stiletto Stealth-4. Be here in a week. Pics to come.
Did I need another bass (probably not).
Did I want another bass (absolutely).
Did I need another bass (probably not).
Did I want another bass (absolutely).
Will look forward to the pics. I tried a Stealth-4 in my local shop just before shutdown, and it was just about the most comfortable, balanced, easy-to-play bass I could remember.
I've recently rediscovered my Raiden Special-4. I took off the La Bella White Tapes and put on a set of D’Addario ProSteels and that’s been a very nice change. I have played it at church the past two weeks and have been pleasantly surprised.
I’ve been using it in Humbucker mode at church and blending the pickups to taste. When playing at home I tend to use the single coil mode. I’ll say this- it’s not my number one bass for a reason. I think a lot of my appreciation for it comes from the fact that I’ve missed frets (my number one is a Squier VM Fretless Jazz).
July marks seven years that I’ve owned this bass. I don’t see myself getting rid of it because it isn’t worth a lot.
It’s light in weight and heavy on sound, such that even my wife noticed it when I played it at church. She asked if they had turned up my volume and said that it sounded good. That’s high praise from her!
Can the link on Post #1 be fixed please. So part 2 of the club can be accessed.
Thank you very much.
Got a Stiletto Studio 6 couple months ago and really liked it, so much so that I picked up another this week and restrung it F# standard (one on the left).
F# is the next string lower than the B string, or tuned a fourth lower like all bass strings (5 frets lower). The strings are tuned F# B E A D G, the gauges are .170, .130, .100, .075, .055, and .045.
Prog Metal and “Djent” use F# quite a bit, it mates up with the 8 string guitars they use that have the F# and B added. I have a 5 string tuned E A D G C, but it’s actually one octave lower (E0) than usual bass tuning (E1) and rocks out at 20.6Hz. There’s a cat that used to hang here on TB that tuned even lower to C# that is below that (the next string below F#). He used it for Jazz, and actually put out some tracks. The semi-recent 9 string guitar actually mates up with that tuning, and there is at least one Prog Metal bassist (Nolly) that has produced at least one track where he’s hammering on a .226 (I believe) string tuned that low. I would love to hear that track in a car loaded with massive subs. The C# is below average human hearing, but your brain uses the harmonics to fill in the gap and give you the sensation you hear it. Either way, you definitely feel it. The lowest one could go with proper string tension that I am aware of today is B-1, an octave lower than the typical 5 & 6 string B. The string for that is .266 if memory serves (over a quarter inch!), and I have not found any string shops that go larger. One could drop tune it, but the flop would no doubt be devastating, and likely sound like something metallic broken on the bass rattling around.
On the older forum platform, things "worked better" if threads didn't go much beyond 1000 posts. I don't know the technical details of why, but we don't have that issue anymore so we stopped that practice.
