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SPECTOR® Club - Part 57

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#601
marchone said:
Wow. I just listened to this on headphones through a good preamp. That is really well done. Super arrangement. Operatic. Congrats!
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Thanks! I do love my choirs. :)

I just bought a really great ebook on mixing metal so I am hoping I can make it sound better. This is an arrangement I've had around for quite some time so it was pretty easy to throw it back together. I'm trying to use this song as a training exercise for how to get things put together so it goes more easily as I am working on new and other existing songs.

I wish I could do this every day but right now weekends seems like the only time I get any traction.
 
#602
Thank u very much guys
I appreciate your help

Up to now this is the only bass I can hear the dream tone in my head in the real world :hyper: ..it growls for days and seems like a wild animal,hard to tame ...which I love :)

Spector all the way :bassist::)

thx
 
#603
JPSBassist said:
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OIL FINISHES are never used on Rosewood/Ebony/Pau Ferro fingerboards. We were talking about what to use to clean the fingerboard and protect it.

Because Rosewood/Pau Ferro are very oily naturally, usually a light stain is applied. But never oil. It wouldn't take.

Ebony is stained because most Ebony that's available on the market isn't "solid black" anymore. It has color variations through it.

A maple fingerboard can be treated several ways. It can be covered in a gloss polyurethane, a matte polyurethane or can be oil finished.

Since Spector didn't start offering Maple fingberboards on basses until 2010, they will be gloss or matte poly. Not oil.

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The quote above from the website is for OIL finishes (BODY)... and it's simply to "CLEAN" the wood. Formby's, which is a product I've used before when trying to recondition dried out antique wood (because you never want to refinish it), is really a deep penetrating linseed oil with a lemon smell added to it. It reconditions and cleans.

Where is your bass from? Meaning, is it USA, Euro or Korean?

Oil based finishes were used more in the Brooklyn, Kramer (NS-2O) and SSD Eras. USA models mainly, some Euros... never on Korean models.

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There can be some confusion about Matte Finishes. Oil Finishes and Matte Finishes are often mixed up for one-another.

If your bass has a gloss finish, it's neither. It's a polyurethane gloss finish.
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All thanks for your help!

It's a SSD era ns-4.
 
#604
Can you guys comment on the bolt on NS4 basses (USA made) with the EMG TW pickups?

I'm new to Spector, and I've just tried a Euro 4 LX, but I'd quite like a USA bolt on.

What are the NS4 H2 basses like? What tone will they have? I liked the Euro 4 LX which has the EMG's with a coil tap...haven't played a P/J version yet.

The NS4 also has the Aguilar 3 band pre, which I assume is a nice pre?!
 
#607
b1500 has arrived... quick run through at the house impression..... WOW this sounds great, the cab likes the extra wattage, my bass loves the extra wattage, no practice before our next show since we are going to see Adrenaline Mob and our buddies in Nothing More (check them out)... so its debut voyage will be at a show... that's how I roll lol

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#609
worshiprocker said:
b1500 has arrived... quick run through at the house impression..... WOW this sounds great, the cab likes the extra wattage, my bass loves the extra wattage, no practice before our next show since we are going to see Adrenaline Mob and our buddies in Nothing More (check them out)... so its debut voyage will be at a show... that's how I roll lol

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Nice I bet that is flat out loud.
 
#610
Beast of an amp Donny!

My GK woes continue. I got my Neo 412 from Musician's Enemy yesterday and it was obvious it was not a new cabinet but likely a return. The handle bar was bent badly and there are some marks on the side of the cabinet. I know it's going to get road worn anyway but that's inexcusable. Of course they don't have another one in stock so I basically told them they can either A) get GK to send me a new bar and credit me 25% for keeping a used damaged item, or B) they can take it back and I will get it elsewhere. I'll decide tomorrow which way things are going.

Cabinet does sound beastly though. With the MB800 driving it, it was too loud for my house and I think the master volume was at maybe 8 or 9 o'clock.
 
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mournblade said:
Nice I bet that is flat out loud.
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o ya!
bunkaroo said:
Beast of an amp Donny!

My GK woes continue. I got my Neo 412 from Musician's Enemy yesterday and it was obvious it was not a new cabinet but likely a return. The handle bar was bent badly and there are some marks on the side of the cabinet. I know it's going to get road worn anyway but that's inexcusable. Of course they don't have another one in stock so I basically told them they can either A) get GK to send me a new bar and credit me 25% for keeping a used damaged item, or B) they can take it back and I will get it elsewhere. I'll decide tomorrow which way things are going.

Cabinet does sound beastly though. With the MB800 driving it, it was too loud for my house and I think the master volume was at maybe 8 or 9 o'clock.
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That's a bummer... I'm actually sad to not have anything GK in my rig right now (except for my backup amp) Hope you get it figured out man
 
#612
worshiprocker said:
b1500 has arrived... quick run through at the house impression..... WOW this sounds great, the cab likes the extra wattage, my bass loves the extra wattage, no practice before our next show since we are going to see Adrenaline Mob and our buddies in Nothing More (check them out)... so its debut voyage will be at a show... that's how I roll lol

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NICE! Yo Donny, tell me how you have the EQ and Drive set. I'm sure these boys won't mind a little amp derail.:D
 
#613
bunkaroo said:
Beast of an amp Donny!

My GK woes continue. I got my Neo 412 from Musician's Enemy yesterday and it was obvious it was not a new cabinet but likely a return. The handle bar was bent badly and there are some marks on the side of the cabinet. I know it's going to get road worn anyway but that's inexcusable. Of course they don't have another one in stock so I basically told them they can either A) get GK to send me a new bar and credit me 25% for keeping a used damaged item, or B) they can take it back and I will get it elsewhere. I'll decide tomorrow which way things are going.

Cabinet does sound beastly though. With the MB800 driving it, it was too loud for my house and I think the master volume was at maybe 8 or 9 o'clock.
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Man oh man, what a GK pain train you've been on. Sorry to hear that bunk but at least functionally she's good. That rig is going to sing when you really throttle down and open it up.
 
#614
bunkaroo said:
I bet you just can't hide it. In fact I bet you're about to lose control, and you probably like it!
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mournblade said:
LOL, that was just wrong. I hereby revoke your metal card for one hour. You must now go listen to "A Flock of Seagulls" looped for the next 60 minutes! :)
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Hahahaha. I know what 2 songs will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day now :)
 
#616
worshiprocker said:
That's a bummer... I'm actually sad to not have anything GK in my rig right now (except for my backup amp) Hope you get it figured out man
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It's just funny how the first time I tried ordering an MB800 from MF, they shipped the wrong thing so I told them forget it. Then O bought one from Lee a couple weeks ago and the pot office mishandled it but it arrived OK.

Now I order a GK cab and give MF another shot and they screw that up too.

I like the cab so it's just a matter of whether I want to deal with the hassle of returning it just to stick it to them.
 
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bunkaroo said:
It's just funny how the first time I tried ordering an MB800 from MF, they shipped the wrong thing so I told them forget it. Then O bought one from Lee a couple weeks ago and the pot office mishandled it but it arrived OK.

Now I order a GK cab and give MF another shot and they screw that up too.

I like the cab so it's just a matter of whether I want to deal with the hassle of returning it just to stick it to them.
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I believe Sweetwater has then in stock.
 
#619
Musicman20 said:
Can you guys comment on the bolt on NS4 basses (USA made) with the EMG TW pickups?

I'm new to Spector, and I've just tried a Euro 4 LX, but I'd quite like a USA bolt on.

What are the NS4 H2 basses like? What tone will they have? I liked the Euro 4 LX which has the EMG's with a coil tap...haven't played a P/J version yet.

The NS4 also has the Aguilar 3 band pre, which I assume is a nice pre?!
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I find the tone to be very different than the neck-thru models.

The main differences are the body wood and the circuit.

The NS-4H2 has a mahogany body with a top of either figured maple or an exotic wood like Redwood Burl (not the same was Water Cured Redwood) or Buckeye Burl or Flamed Walnut.

The OBP-3 is a great sounding circuit. Not a lot different than the USA 18v circuit. Like all of the Aguilar circuits, the OBP-3 is very clean. Which in one way is really good if you want to be able to color the tone of the bass with effects/pedals or in post (in the studio).

It won't have the aggressive growly/dirty tone the Euro4LX-TW has.

The good thing is I think the USA Bolt-Ons are the most versatile Spectors made. They have the sort of tone you can do a lot of different things with.

Good examples are my friends Jason Raso (note he is playing the NS-2J which is the NS-4H2 with two J pickups... it's called the NS-2J by tradition but could easily be called the NS-4J2)

Their lead singer also plays a Spector ARC6 USA Electric Guitar.

So the application of what the USA Bolt-On models can be used for covers the entire spectrum of music really.

The traditional Spector-Made circuits provide the quintessential Spector Tone. The USA Bolt-Ons are less colored and more open to tonal variation.

If you want a USA Bolt-On with the traditional Spector Tone, you can order a new NS-2 Bolt-On and upgrade the circuit to the USA 9v Spector Circuit. That will give you a growly beast of a bass. The NS-2 Bolt-On is new for 2013.

I played the one at the NAMM Show and it has a tone more like the Neck-Thru NS-2... it also has P/J pickups.
 
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