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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

After 9/11 our workman's comp rep came to do a safety talk to the electrical company I worked for.
His speech went something like this: "When people pay their premiums we (the insurance company) add it to our big mountain of money. Well when bad people do bad things like what happened last week (I think that time is right) our mountain of money gets wiped out. We don't like that, so y'all need to make sure and work safe so we can get our mountain of money back."

Why the shag does any working slob give a poopie about some one else's mountain of money, when he ain't got one? Worse so, after 9/11 that idiot didn't have one sympathetic thing to say about the victims.

My opinion of insurance companies has never recovered. Only got worse after I got laid off my job a few years back. Called my life insurance rep and arranged a meeting to change to a policy I could actually afford. Meeting goes fine, new policy is signed and paid for with a check. Instead of canceling my previous policy my agent let's it but my bank account the following month which was tapped out (not to mention the nasty NSF fee I got slapped with too).
I called him up livid and asked why he didn't cancel it. He said it's their SOP to only cancel policies after 3 months unpaid premiums.
Needless to say I barged into his office and acted like a lunatic until his boss got involved. I got my money back and he changed careers.
They are shaging crooks all of them.
 
So I have a string question, ever go to a higher gage and your tone seems flat? I usually run 105-50 weather standard or drop c and when I switch to something bigger (110-55) I get the added tension but my tone gets extra dull. I tried to eq it out but wasn't successful. Even my pedals sounded funny. Everything was great last week before the string change. Thoughts? Mostly run daddario since it's available in the sizes I like.
 
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Well... Recording was different than I was hoping for. Guys has his methods. Were tracking individually, I was hoping to track everyone live then go back over any parts that needed it...No space for that.
11am till 9pm, I agree was enough for the first round. Drums and one guitar done... Guitar took a while with double takes and some overdub corrections. Two Drum takes needed a fix.
I was able to hit three songs before he wanted to call it a day. Going back there next Saturday to hit the next five then we reamp my bits. Second Guitar next then vocals. Going to be a little more than the initial two day deal with this process.
Had to work on my setup some. He pulled out a strobe tuner and my intonation was not 100%. I also raised up the action a little to let notes ring out a bit more.
 
That bass was crazy light weight. I also would have sworn it was a 32" scale by the look of it, but it's 34". Just the placement of the neck in the body and the bridge I guess, it seemed really small when I was holding it.

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Love that early headstock. Mine has the later one which is basically a bastard child between Fender and Gibson Thunderbird. As much as I love my Ibanez, the headstock on it is a bit meh.
 
So I have a string question, ever go to a higher gage and your tone seems flat? I usually run 105-50 weather standard or drop c and when I switch to something bigger (110-55) I get the added tension but my tone gets extra dull. I tried to eq it out but wasn't successful. Even my pedals sounded funny. Everything was great last week before the string change. Thoughts? Mostly run daddario since it's available in the sizes I like.

Did the different strings change your neck relief/pick up height? Different type of strings? Nickle/SS?
 
Four knobs I assume passive. What's the difference in the two passive?

The Magnums I & II have the body style we think of when we think Magnums.

The body style changed for the Magnums III & IV.

Magnum I and Magnum III were passive. Magnums II and IV were active.

Pics of Magnums I -IV in numerical order:

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All so motherscratchin' hot...
 
Did the different strings change your neck relief/pick up height? Different type of strings? Nickle/SS?
No neck didn't budge and I didn't mess with the action or pups. Took off some super cheapie strings and replaced with daddario 110-55, all the strings have been nickle. My pedals and amp all sounded extra dull. The muff was the worst as it lost all its attack.
 

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