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SPECTOR® Club - Part 24

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#703
iceboxbass said:
Ok...not to be argumentative but I thought the greatest attributes of a SPECTOR was its multi-tone capabilities?:confused: So...what is a SPECTOR suppose to sound like?:eyebrow: Because there are a lot of Jazz SPECTOR players out there....:smug:
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Originally Posted by PhatBasstard
If you want your Spector to sound more like a....Spector,
I would change that scenario around. As clean as the Aggie is, I would think that would be a good pre for the Jazz.
Agree 100%....Aggie on Jazz and Tonepump on Spector bass!!1
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When you think Spector tone.. you think full, rich, growly (at least I do) not saying that you can't get a nice jazzy tone from any spector... its kind of like you expect a Les Paul to be warm well rounded and reacts well to grit, but that is not to say you can't get a smooth jazz or metal tone from it.

Versatility is the game, but when I think Spector I think balls to the wall, full bodied growl
 
#709
grendle said:
Yet another reason Spector is the best! Amazing stuff!.

Let me personally say JP Rocks! It's one thing to put together a video segment with pros playing for the audio. It's completely another to put it together and use excellent non pro clips from lovers and believers of the brand. Sam, if that's not a dream come true, I don't know. It would be for me :). Just awesome! And Thank you JP, your the man! ( I need to start posting some music! Lol)
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It really was a dream come true. To have my tracks helping support the marketing of the 2012 Spector line is just amazing.

Especially since last January I was very depressed just counting each day thinking I would die at any moment.

I dont think I felt this much pride and excitement since the day my kids were born.

JPS for President lol ;) :D
 
#711
LimaGuy said:
It really was a dream come true. To have my tracks helping support the marketing of the 2012 Spector line is just amazing.

Especially since last January I was very depressed just counting each day thinking I would die at any moment.

I dont think I felt this much pride and excitement since the day my kids were born.

JPS for President lol ;) :D
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I thought that intro clip sounded familiar! Lol
And yes, I would like to thank JPS for doing this with the DVD. I'm honored to not only be helping out a great company, but to have my tracks in with those made by others in this club. It's cool being involved in a project with the likes of Lima, bassgiant, seventhframe, and everyone else who submitted something.
I can't wait to see the finished product.


Unrelated; but JPS, what did PJ think of the idea for the MM pickup equipped rebop? If those go into production I think one might end up being my first European Spector :cool:
 
#712
grendle said:
I just figured the god like builders of the best basses in the world said so. I'm gonna go with what they say.

If it came from a fenfer manual I might not care, from Spector? I won't question it.
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I guess all the times they've had misinformation (by their own eventual admission, the Tone Pump EQ info being the most recent) on their website (Mostly pre JPS's involvment. That site was a ClusterF***!) or literature means nothing then.

You can if you want, but I follow nothing blindly when the inescapable laws of obvious physics dictate otherwise.

How about the contridiction then that this new intonation screw (not to mention both height screws being moved up front) prevents any adjustable tilt of the saddles.
I guess "the Gods" don't feel that to be important anymore. :eyebrow:

I play Spector basses because they are closest to my ideal, not because I blindly believe they are perfect or take everything they say as gospel.
Every major builder has altered designs along the way because what they believed to be optimum before is not what they believe now.
Spector is already moving in this direction (again) with the intonatable bridge, making the saddle tilt issue retroactively (i.e. so it never was detrimental?!) irrelevant.

A little logic (and some engineering skills :p) will sometimes go a lot farther than blind faith.
 
#713
silvertripper said:
My euro is a 2006 and if I remember correctly (without it being in front of me at the moment) the saddles are tilted back.
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worshiprocker said:
does anyone know what Spector says about the saddles? can you even tilt them back on the new bridge with intonation screws... I have them flat on my NS2A.... I'm really curious now
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Silver & worship...my Forte 4 came from the SPECTOR shop 16 days ago
with the saddles slightly tilted. That's shop setup.
 
#714
grendle said:
Yet another reason Spector is the best! Amazing stuff!.

Let me personally say JP Rocks! It's one thing to put together a video segment with pros playing for the audio. It's completely another to put it together and use excellent non pro clips from lovers and believers of the brand. Sam, if that's not a dream come true, I don't know. It would be for me :). Just awesome! And Thank you JP, your the man! ( I need to start posting some music! Lol)
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I think Patrick has a scary type voice...:hiding:
 
#715
JPSBassist said:
Chris Kael of Five Finger Death Punch plays the Rex. There's a whole bunch of Spector Endorsed Artists who play that bass.

Rex, since having health problems, has gone to the lighter Euro4LX for a lot of his performances.

And although he loves the RX-T, lately he's been playing his white Euro4LX at shows.
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I believe the reference was for within our club on TB because of possible buying from one. :)
 
#716
iceboxbass said:
Silver & worship...my Forte 4 came from the SPECTOR shop 16 days ago
with the saddles slightly tilted. That's shop setup.
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Does your Forte have the new intonation bridge?
If so, and your saddle height is higher than the anchor point of the intonation screws in the back of the bridge, the saddles are probably tilted slightly back as they are inline with the screw sloping back to its anchor point. This would be physically inevitable with this bridge, not due to shop setup preference. The tilt (whether forward or back) of the saddle will have to be inline with the incline or decline of the intonation screw running through it back to it's anchor point.
 
#717
PhatBasstard said:
Does your Forte have the new intonation bridge?
If so, and your saddle height is higher than the anchor point of the intonation screws in the back of the bridge, the saddles are probably tilted slightly back as they are inline with the screw sloping back to its anchor point. This would be physically inevitable with this bridge, not due to shop setup preference. The tilt (whether forward or back) of the saddle will have to be inline with the incline or decline of the intonation screw running through it back to it's anchor point.
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watch someone warp their screws trying to angle the saddles !
 
#720
I'll keep mine flat... although my JAR has the badass bridge... and there is no angle on those saddles.... and none of my other stringed instruments have angled saddles.... it is probably a preference for intonation/string height.

I'm guessing it doesn't matter too much... :hiding:
 
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