The Combo Club

[GwenOnBass]

Yep, I like strange quirky things, including basses. So the Nordy Cat Bass speaks to me. Plus I'm interested in swapping my stock pickups in my Squier Affinity Jazz with his NJ4SV pups. Just to get rid of the hum when soloing one pup, but want to maintain the standard Jazz sound. But the pups are more than the whole bass was.

Looking at where Clinton and Muscatine are, it seems you and @mikeoso could easily visit one another once the pandemic is over.

Playing an ES-335-shaped bass object through a PJB combo of four (or eight), five inch speakers likely qualifies as strange, quirky, weird. Especially in light of how many 7ender-shaped objects will do absolutely everything expected of any bass-shaped object. Especially when a FSO is played through a combo with a 15 inch speaker ... first love and all.

 

[eric_B]

This goes very deep down well around when Belgium was occupied by Napoleon; French was the upper class language whereas Dutch was for the peasants. I wouldn't expect this to be solved any time soon.
Latin could solve the problem!

Maybe the Greek could help

 

[eric_B]

Yummy - is it marzipan inside the pastry?

No, we call it "(amandel)spijs", almond paste: a rather sweet mixture of sugar, almonds, lemon and egg.

 

[themickster]

Yep, I like strange quirky things, including basses. So the Nordy Cat Bass speaks to me. Plus I'm interested in swapping my stock pickups in my Squier Affinity Jazz with his NJ4SV pups. Just to get rid of the hum when soloing one pup, but want to maintain the standard Jazz sound. But the pups are more than the whole bass was.

Looking at where Clinton and Muscatine are, it seems you and @mikeoso could easily visit one another once the pandemic is over.

I put a humbucking single coil Seymour Duncan in my Aria for a lower cost than the NJ.

 

[themickster]

I at least had a go with my twin combo + outboard speaker. The Blackstars make worthy tweeter boxes. I can mike it into the PA for anywhere too big for them

 

[RodRy]

I put a humbucking single coil Seymour Duncan in my Aria for a lower cost than the NJ.

How did it sound compared to the original single coil Jazz pup? Would like to have as true of a single coil sound as possible, but without the hum. Most reviews of humbucking replacements mention a loss of the original pickup sound.

 

[swink]

Is that Dutch vs French language "war" still going on in Belgium in 2020?

No, we're applying for the UNESCO's list of cultural heritage.

 

[themickster]

How did it sound compared to the original single coil Jazz pup? Would like to have as true of a single coil sound as possible, but without the hum. Most reviews of humbucking replacements mention a loss of the original pickup sound.

I couldn't tell one from the other, but for the hum. How big a loss do reviewers talk about?

 

[RodRy]

I couldn't tell one from the other, but for the hum. How big a loss do reviewers talk about?

Depends on the reviewer. Of course, how do I know if my ears are good enough to tell the difference, right?

 

[BrusselsBass]

Well listen, here I have 2 Belgian combos that I gifted myself for Christmas- I do collect the glasses

 

[GwenOnBass]

Belgian ale is like Belgian cheese to me — fussy and exquisite
( the joke about the Trappists goes Holy Jesus, buy our cheeses )

 

[BrusselsBass]

So, I realised you turn 10 pages in the thread over 3 days - are you the talkbass-champions??? You get any reward for this. Let's turn that quickly to 700 - I volunteer to be an ambassador for this already cross-fertilising on the Wicks forum

 

[BrusselsBass]

Belgian ale is like Belgian cheese to me — fussy and exquisite
( the joke about the Trappists goes Holy Jesus, buy our cheeses )

Ahhh - la Contessa
The trapiste nuns now also make soap and other goodies

 

[themickster]

Depends on the reviewer. Of course, how do I know if my ears are good enough to tell the difference, right?

Have you thought of getting a noise gate?

 

[swink]

Ahhh - la Contessa
The trapiste nuns now also make soap and other goodies

I can still remember I bought some Moterhead and The Sex Pistols, badges and stickers in a gift shop of a monastery where they also printed The Holy Bible

 

[BrusselsBass]

I can still remember I bought some Moterhead and The Sex Pistols, badges and stickers in a gift shop of a monastery where they also printed The Holy Bible

where do you live? Roeselare or Westvleeteren??

I can still remember I bought some Moterhead and The Sex Pistols, badges and stickers in a gift shop of a monastery where they also printed The Holy Bible

 

[swink]

where do you live? Roeselare or Westvleeteren??

I grew up in Leuven (Stella- Artois) later I moved 25 km in the eastern direction...

 

[BrusselsBass]

I don't like Interbrew, it's fundamentally against all Belgian brewers values

 

[BrusselsBass]

I grew up in Leuven (Stella- Artois) later I moved 25 km in the eastern direction...

So I was told I'm the only Belge in the CC club - Tiene ??

 

[swink]

So I was told I'm the only Belge in the CC club - Tiene ??

Then I must be the only German