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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!

#22,961
The J is a 2011 Highway One, finished in 1961 Chevrolet Fawn Beige w/ a transparent back. Loaded w/ Lindy Fralin noiseless J pups w/ 5% overwind and an Audere 4-band pre. The P is a parts bass I just finished, it is loaded with a Lollar P pup. Both basses are amazing players!
 

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My AVRI 62. All stock except for the Spitfire guard. It’s the one bass I’m forcing myself to use the ashtrays with - not naturally my thing but I love the look. The bridge cover is stuffed with foam and it’s got broken in TI’s. I’m trying to be less “versatile” on purpose if that makes sense- I tend to go for this sound, that sound, this technique, that technique- I’m purposefully limiting myself to use a thumpy 60’s studio tone and expand my vocabulary within those limits. This thing sounds killer, has an amazing neck profile, and is 8.0 pounds.
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A rather poor photo of my just 28.6" scale length 4 string Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, equipped with just the bridge J pickup from the EMG Geezer Butler P/J set, wired directly to the output jack socket, and Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings of the gauges .068 - .052 - .038 - 028, and tuned to B standard tuning, as in the 4 lowest strings on a baritone guitar, really making it more of a long scale baritone tenor guitar.

Okoume body and Maple neck with Purpleheart (Amaranth) fretboard.

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Sounds and plays awesome!
 
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Ritter667 said:
A rather poor photo of my just 28.6" scale length 4 string Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, equipped with just the bridge J pickup from the EMG Geezer Butler P/J set, wired directly to the output jack socket, and Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings of the gauges .068 - .052 - .038 - 028, and tuned to B standard tuning, as in the 4 lowest strings on a baritone guitar, really making it more of a long scale baritone tenor guitar.

Okoume body and Maple neck with Purpleheart (Amaranth) fretboard.

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Sounds and plays awesome!
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Sound sample of me playing it.



Mind it is run through an always on TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini octaver, for an octave up effect, dialed in, via the Toneprint editor, to somewhat mimic an 8 string bass -esque effect.

I always do this, just part of my basic setup.

Recorded directly though my amp-less setup, into my handheld Zoom H4n recorder, with no additional edits, and this is my basic "clean" tone (not really clean, but it is what I use for my basic tone), without any additional effects used.

Also I have since, after this recording was made, raised the J pickup a smidge low B string side.
 
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I've had this for a couple of months. I had to get some proper strings, the previous owner had roundwounds on it. It also had a bad buzz at the 3rd fret.

I strung it up with LaBella Beatle Bass strings. Got the setup where the buzz is almost gone, but it still needs a little work.

So, now that's it's playable, I took it to church last night. Much brighter than I expected. I'll need to do something to make the strings more dead with that thud.

1966? Ideal Beatle Bass knockoff. No idea who made it, pretty sure it's Japanese. There are two stickers missing on the back. I suspect one of them was the serial number, and the other said Made in Japan. Pretty cool old 55+ year old bass!


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embellisher said:
I've had this for a couple of months. I had to get some proper strings, the previous owner had roundwounds on it. It also had a bad buzz at the 3rd fret.

I strung it up with LaBella Beatle Bass strings. Got the setup where the buzz is almost gone, but it still needs a little work.

So, now that's it's playable, I took it to church last night. Much brighter than I expected. I'll need to do something to make the strings more dead with that thud.

1966? Ideal Beatle Bass knockoff. No idea who made it, pretty sure it's Japanese. There are two stickers missing on the back. I suspect one of them was the serial number, and the other said Made in Japan. Pretty cool old 55+ year old bass!


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One of over 40 different brands coming out of the Fujigen Gakki factory founded in 1960 by Yuichiro Yokouchi, some of the more familiar ones being Greco, Electra, Ideal and Kent. An important manufacturer of the '60s guitar boom.

If strings don't warm it up, you can change the capacitor to help cool-off the highs.
 
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The three I've got, after almost four decades of trying to figure out what I like:

On the left, my very first bass, a 1986 Aria Pro II 'The CAT Bass,' one of the low-priced Samick-made models. Bought it in Germany in 1988 and taught myself to make noise with it. Has had a lot of mods over the years- it's on its second bridge and set of pegs, third nut and set of frets, third set of pickups (Dunan QPs). Has also had the dots replaced with bigger prettier ones and I made the inlaid cover over access-rout for the truss rod as I always found that hole kinda ugly.

In the middle, the most recent addition, a 1989 Esh Serious Bass 5. When I was buying the Aria Pro in Germany, one of the shops I looked in carried Esh, which at the time was a very small operation, basically unknown outside of Germany. It's hand-made, one of a small handful 5-string Seriouses made, with the 4-string version only numbering something like 40 or 50 made. Fast forward to the early 2020s and I decided it was finally time to get a Serious and the modern internet-age made it possible to shop overseas from home! Didn't even know they made it as a 5 until this one came up as the only Serious available. Totally fantastic instrument, neck-through, active Bartolini system, fingerboard extension, top scooped for digging in, asymmetric radius, Schaller hardware, sounds amazing, sweet to play, but heavy as hell!

On the right, and early '80s Kawai F2B, purchased in the early '90s when I wasn't looking for another bass but wandered into a shop to kill some time and saw it hanging on the wall, caught my eye because I thought it was an Alembic at first...hmmm, Kawai? Don't they make pianos? Let's try it out...Hey, NICE! Five minutes later I was asking the shopkeep where the nearest ATM was! The way it played really impressed me, and the build-quality is a luthier's wet dream! Nice details too like a massive brass bridge, strings through body, an aluminumcavity-cover secured by machine-screws that go into threaded metal inserts, graphite nut, 18V active electronics. Around ten years ago I had a shop do some stuff to it like a fret-dress, intonation, etc., and the guycalled it a 'beast,' saying it really impressed him too.

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Ritter667 said:
A rather poor photo of my just 28.6" scale length 4 string Ibanez GSRM20B Mikro Bass, equipped with just the bridge J pickup from the EMG Geezer Butler P/J set, wired directly to the output jack socket, and Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings of the gauges .068 - .052 - .038 - 028, and tuned to B standard tuning, as in the 4 lowest strings on a baritone guitar, really making it more of a long scale baritone tenor guitar.

Okoume body and Maple neck with Purpleheart (Amaranth) fretboard.

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Sounds and plays awesome!
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Ritter667 said:
Sound sample of me playing it.

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Mind it is run through an always on TC Electronic Sub'N'Up Mini octaver, for an octave up effect, dialed in, via the Toneprint editor, to somewhat mimic an 8 string bass -esque effect.

I always do this, just part of my basic setup.

Recorded directly though my amp-less setup, into my handheld Zoom H4n recorder, with no additional edits, and this is my basic "clean" tone (not really clean, but it is what I use for my basic tone), without any additional effects used.

Also I have since, after this recording was made, raised the J pickup a smidge low B string side.
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A better shot, and now with a sticker and a different strap as well:
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gtirard said:
Nice. Can you add a caption? (or is it some kind of teaser?)
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A few of us here post 'art pics' of our basses w/o description just to be enjoyed visually. :)

It's a detail of my '63 Burns of London Vista Sonic -
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Jeff Scott said:
Wild Dog says it all. ;)
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I was really looking forward to hearing the "Wild Dog" setting but it sounded more like an anemic weasel. :cautious: For whatever reason, Jim Burns felt reversing the B-pu pole wiring (reversing polarity) more commonly done on 6-string guitars for a sort of nasally sound was something a bass player would like/could use. They later called it "Split -Sound". So by reversing the ground & hot wires, it links the bridge and center pu's much like a Jazz bass and it sounds great! Jim Burns was a very different company founder than Leo Fender - more of a dreamer than a technician. But, he introduced the 1st 9v active guitar in the early '60s!

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