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#7,921
CallMeAl said:
My new toy:
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Love the combo life! :thumbsup:

NAD! Markbass CMD 121p
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al, congrats on your latest addition! Enjoyed that one for a couple of years. If you'd like to add some spice, save your shekels and add the New York 121 extension cabinet. That unleashes 500 watts and makes the rig an automatic even in larger-venue gigging. Free additional advice: if the white noise from the tweeter begins to annoy you, detach a wire after pulling it out. I took the short cut and snipped it from my memory forever.

I may have forgotten to tell the new owner though...I can't remember.

Anyway, please enjoy your MB for many years!
 
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The middle of Page 4? Gotta bring us back to life or they may threaten to turn off the lights on our clubhouse. It's no fault of anyone's, I had one of those weeks and was AWOL as much as anyone else. Think teacher purgatory with busy days, nightly homework, and not even a Presidents Day to kick back and play bass on. We've got professional Development all day which is a fancy way of saying Zzzz...

Enough whining, how is everyone? My buddy The Reverand was home last weekend for the Super Bowl and brought his acoustic back with him, so we played on Monday night before he left the following day. I decided it was the perfect time to try out the PJB Double Four with both of my basses.

I posted earlier to someone looking at this combo and was asking for thoughts. Basically I said it's a beautifully built, solid little amp that for the right situation would be an excellent piece to add to the arsenal. I'm still not sure that is me though as I was kind of disappointed, or maybe still behind the curve of what this PJB is giving to me. Hey, I'm as much a neanderthal as the next schmuck. All I could think of was to get up and switch out the Double Four for the Ampeg combo and put some dang bass back into my sound! I think I said it like, "My boutique taste got in the way of my old school ear."

The funny thing is playing alone with music I can find a happy where the amp puts out my sound decently, but adding my ham-fisted buddy churning away the chords on his acoustic soured my vibe. Maybe I'm just too used to that baked-in tone of Ampeg and Fender, I dunno, but we wrapped up after a couple of hours and I was feeling like my darn impulses had once again gotten the best of me. I remember Morrighan advising to look at Phil's newer combos and maybe she was right. So we'll see what happens.

As I mentioned to Gone Plaid in the past week, I'm done with amps for a while. No, really. I mean it, seriously. I'm on the wagon from combos. I'm already behind saving up for my retirement bass (whatever that'll be) and have dedicated the rest of 2020/2021 to doing just that. So it means I'm living through you peoples for my combo amp fix. Who's on the prowl for something new or old?

Chime in especially if you haven't posted for a while. It's Valentine's week so let's share a little love in the club. RR, planning on getting you a tune or at least a tone from the PJB tomorrow before I hook up the Superbeetle rig and give it some work unless there's another busy work week ahead.
 
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Heading to bed but had to offer you this link of various basses and their tones with fingers, slap, and pick. Maybe you've heard this one but I thought it might create some discussion for this week.



My fave, and still reigning champ in my head, is the P-bass, but I gotta admit a close second is GP's alter ego, the T-bird. I thought it sounded better with fingers than the Jazz did. Gone Plaid is helping me find one for my retirement bass, but a lefty version under $1,500 is quite the lofty goal.

I went to Fender's Mod Shop this morning (you have to go there if you haven't yet) and put together myself absolute stunning Precision and Jazz basses. So many colors to choose from it's crazy. And for a brand new lefty wit hall the trimmings, a scant $1,749 for the P and a cool $1,849 (if I remember correctly) for the J. Right now, I have $40 in the savings box for one of them, or possibly a 'Bird. I think I'll need all of the next two years to make it happen. And no more combos for this guy...maybe.

Talk to ya'll this week,

Fearless Leader :bassist:
 
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Thanks for posting a great video demo. I think it's going to be a reference for many guys going forwards. Some basses lean to certain styles and strings. Old P basses take flats like no other.
To my ears the P bass sounded so nice finger style and easily the goto vanilla sound on bass. The MM was a close 2nd for me. However...slap and the MM rocked. I thought the Riccy had the early model bass cut circuit engaged which is why it sounded so thin. So that would need some re-soldering or some heavy post EQ to bring that bass alive in the mix. The tones are there but need coaxing in the mix.

Finger style wise...apart from the fret clank / bark which is unique to each bass style...the basic tones for each bass can easily be EQ'd or mixed to sound the same or copy each other.
 
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iagtrplyr said:
The middle of Page 4? Gotta bring us back to life or they may threaten to turn off the lights on our clubhouse. It's no fault of anyone's, I had one of those weeks and was AWOL as much as anyone else. Think teacher purgatory with busy days, nightly homework, and not even a Presidents Day to kick back and play bass on. We've got professional Development all day which is a fancy way of saying Zzzz...

Enough whining, how is everyone? My buddy The Reverand was home last weekend for the Super Bowl and brought his acoustic back with him, so we played on Monday night before he left the following day. I decided it was the perfect time to try out the PJB Double Four with both of my basses.

I posted earlier to someone looking at this combo and was asking for thoughts. Basically I said it's a beautifully built, solid little amp that for the right situation would be an excellent piece to add to the arsenal. I'm still not sure that is me though as I was kind of disappointed, or maybe still behind the curve of what this PJB is giving to me. Hey, I'm as much a neanderthal as the next schmuck. All I could think of was to get up and switch out the Double Four for the Ampeg combo and put some dang bass back into my sound! I think I said it like, "My boutique taste got in the way of my old school ear."

The funny thing is playing alone with music I can find a happy where the amp puts out my sound decently, but adding my ham-fisted buddy churning away the chords on his acoustic soured my vibe. Maybe I'm just too used to that baked-in tone of Ampeg and Fender, I dunno, but we wrapped up after a couple of hours and I was feeling like my darn impulses had once again gotten the best of me. I remember Morrighan advising to look at Phil's newer combos and maybe she was right. So we'll see what happens.

As I mentioned to Gone Plaid in the past week, I'm done with amps for a while. No, really. I mean it, seriously. I'm on the wagon from combos. I'm already behind saving up for my retirement bass (whatever that'll be) and have dedicated the rest of 2020/2021 to doing just that. So it means I'm living through you peoples for my combo amp fix. Who's on the prowl for something new or old?

Chime in especially if you haven't posted for a while. It's Valentine's week so let's share a little love in the club. RR, planning on getting you a tune or at least a tone from the PJB tomorrow before I hook up the Superbeetle rig and give it some work unless there's another busy work week ahead.
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What about a Double Four and a doghouse?
 
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iagtrplyr said:
Heading to bed but had to offer you this link of various basses and their tones with fingers, slap, and pick. Maybe you've heard this one but I thought it might create some discussion for this week.



My fave, and still reigning champ in my head, is the P-bass, but I gotta admit a close second is GP's alter ego, the T-bird. I thought it sounded better with fingers than the Jazz did. Gone Plaid is helping me find one for my retirement bass, but a lefty version under $1,500 is quite the lofty goal.

I went to Fender's Mod Shop this morning (you have to go there if you haven't yet) and put together myself absolute stunning Precision and Jazz basses. So many colors to choose from it's crazy. And for a brand new lefty wit hall the trimmings, a scant $1,749 for the P and a cool $1,849 (if I remember correctly) for the J. Right now, I have $40 in the savings box for one of them, or possibly a 'Bird. I think I'll need all of the next two years to make it happen. And no more combos for this guy...maybe.

Talk to ya'll this week,

Fearless Leader :bassist:
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Is it just me, or is the first Ric with a pick demo, starting at 3:53 in the video, THE bass sound of "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey"?


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iagtrplyr said:
Heading to bed but had to offer you this link of various basses and their tones with fingers, slap, and pick. Maybe you've heard this one but I thought it might create some discussion for this week.



My fave, and still reigning champ in my head, is the P-bass, but I gotta admit a close second is GP's alter ego, the T-bird. I thought it sounded better with fingers than the Jazz did. Gone Plaid is helping me find one for my retirement bass, but a lefty version under $1,500 is quite the lofty goal.

I went to Fender's Mod Shop this morning (you have to go there if you haven't yet) and put together myself absolute stunning Precision and Jazz basses. So many colors to choose from it's crazy. And for a brand new lefty wit hall the trimmings, a scant $1,749 for the P and a cool $1,849 (if I remember correctly) for the J. Right now, I have $40 in the savings box for one of them, or possibly a 'Bird. I think I'll need all of the next two years to make it happen. And no more combos for this guy...maybe.

Talk to ya'll this week,

Fearless Leader :bassist:
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I refuse to watch any video like this that does not include the Hofner 500/1. Besides the Fender Precision, the Hofner 500/1 is the only bass in constant production since the 50s (if we count the Rickenbacker 4000 as distinct from the 4001 and 4003). It was also the first electric bass to use two pickups. So it's absence is notable in my eyes.
 
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iagtrplyr said:
Heading to bed but had to offer you this link of various basses and their tones with fingers, slap, and pick. Maybe you've heard this one but I thought it might create some discussion for this week.



My fave, and still reigning champ in my head, is the P-bass, but I gotta admit a close second is GP's alter ego, the T-bird. I thought it sounded better with fingers than the Jazz did. Gone Plaid is helping me find one for my retirement bass, but a lefty version under $1,500 is quite the lofty goal.

I went to Fender's Mod Shop this morning (you have to go there if you haven't yet) and put together myself absolute stunning Precision and Jazz basses. So many colors to choose from it's crazy. And for a brand new lefty wit hall the trimmings, a scant $1,749 for the P and a cool $1,849 (if I remember correctly) for the J. Right now, I have $40 in the savings box for one of them, or possibly a 'Bird. I think I'll need all of the next two years to make it happen. And no more combos for this guy...maybe.

Talk to ya'll this week,

Fearless Leader :bassist:
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FYI, I've linked this bass sounds comparison post on the Combo Club Wiki page, linked in my signature, in the new Combo Club Cyclopædia section for easy future reference.
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