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SHOW YOUR BLACK BASSES!!!
- Thread starter Mikeyd74
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Black bass alert! All black mim Fender Mustang short scale is on sale at the GC. Real ebony fretboard, black headstock and hardware. There were less than 100 left on Friday when I ordered mine. Pictures later this week.
Time to raise this thread from the dead.
Say hello to "Mr. Growly - The Noodlemacer", a just 28.6" scale 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass:
Poplar body and Maple neck, with a Jatoba fretboard, with just the stock bridge pickup connected (as the neck pickup is faulty), wired directly the output jack socket.
Strung with Elixir Nanoweb roundwound guitar strings of the gauges .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026 strings, and tuned to G# standard tuning, that is as one half step bellow the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in B standard tuning, plus a high E string.
Sounds pretty damn amazing, surprised by how great the stock bridge pickup sounds, rather low output, but really well clear, defined, articulate and growly, with an impressive dynamic range, and by some witchcraft pretty much silent from stock, despite being a single coil pickup (they used shielded wiring at the point this was made, still by Cort in Indonesia at that point, 2019).
And quite low action, without any fret buzz whatsoever, at exactly 2mm (~0.078" = 5/64") low G# string side, at the last fret.
Say hello to "Mr. Growly - The Noodlemacer", a just 28.6" scale 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass:
Poplar body and Maple neck, with a Jatoba fretboard, with just the stock bridge pickup connected (as the neck pickup is faulty), wired directly the output jack socket.
Strung with Elixir Nanoweb roundwound guitar strings of the gauges .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026 strings, and tuned to G# standard tuning, that is as one half step bellow the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in B standard tuning, plus a high E string.
Sounds pretty damn amazing, surprised by how great the stock bridge pickup sounds, rather low output, but really well clear, defined, articulate and growly, with an impressive dynamic range, and by some witchcraft pretty much silent from stock, despite being a single coil pickup (they used shielded wiring at the point this was made, still by Cort in Indonesia at that point, 2019).
And quite low action, without any fret buzz whatsoever, at exactly 2mm (~0.078" = 5/64") low G# string side, at the last fret.
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Here is my neck through JD Schecter.
Hipshot D-tuner, Gotoh Resolite tuning machines, a complete paint job and Sadowsky preamp, it’s one of my favorite instruments.
Black everything!
Hipshot D-tuner, Gotoh Resolite tuning machines, a complete paint job and Sadowsky preamp, it’s one of my favorite instruments.
Black everything!
Have I posted this already for this thread? Duh! Can't remember. Forgive me if I did.
My 1982 Fender Standard Jazz Bass , Fullerton tweed case with all original paperwork/accessories still intact . Had one of these back in ‘83 and foolishly sold it the following year . Took several decades to find another matching one in mint condition as it features white pickups/guard/controls/binding and Pearl blocks which were only made for one year . Opening up the case every time takes me back to being seventeen , the power of nostalgia is strong .
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