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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!
- Thread starter smperry
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so off we go again , bass track is tone rolled down , I think you'll be able to hear it and "lead" is tone full on , has verb , echo & chorus lol .
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Nope. I bought a set of Rotos the day before so I put those on it as soon as I brought it home.
There's so many mids with this bass now that it just sits perfectly in a mix. I really gotta get it on a song!
Thanks Dude I tweaked the setup. Took care of that dead note. Action was a wee low before. These maple necks have some serious bite.
I have already remarked about this post - But wanted to say.
"They say a picture is worth a thousands words", well this one proves it!
Finally found the time to snap and post a picture of my collection
Left to right:Ibanez SRMS805 - stock save the 45-130 Sunbeams. Saw one hanging in the bass corner of my local L&M at the time, played it and decided I HAD to own it. Was a bit out of my budget so I thought about it for a couple of weeks, and when I decided to pull the trigger it was gone. Had to get another one ordered in, which was maybe for the best because this one has much nicer figuring in the top than the one in the store. Extremely pleased with the way this instrument sounds and feels, especially with the string change, though I do think the active/passive switch is just an EQ bypass because it doesn't play well with some of my unbuffered pedals even in "passive" mode.
2005 Epiphone Embassy Special IV - my first bass; picked it up used for $95. Added the bridge cover and thumbrest, and replaced the tuners for some generic sealed ones (which are a significant improvement over the cheapo stock tuners). It's wearing 40-95 Chromes, pickup is just the stock ceramic thing (~8.5K) and currently has a homemade switched-capacitor tone circuit in it. While I don't mind the sound of the pickup, there's room for improvement and I don't love the tone circuit, so it might get gutted sometime soon. Lovely-feeling bass to play though, nice slim neck and not too heavy.
Spector Legend 5 Classic - got this at a pawn shop for $300. EMG HZ pickups with the B30 preamp (I think) and set up EADGC at the moment with medium-light Fodera nickel steels. the bass is beastly (read: very heavy) but plays and sounds great, but the EADGC was an experiment and I'm not sure this bass is the right home for it.
guitar content - Hanson Firenze T90 - an esoteric instrument to be sure, but such a nice guitar. Pickups changed to a GFS Lil' Puncher 10K in the bridge and one of the GFS Metal Foil P90-size humbuckers in the neck (not because I didn't like the originals, but because I'm an incorrigible tinker). I could take or leave the bridge pickup, but the neck sounds amazing. This one gets Cobalt Slinkys as a rule.
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Finally found the time to snap and post a picture of my collection
Ibanez SRMS805 - stock save the 45-130 Sunbeams. Saw one hanging in the bass corner of my local L&M at the time, played it and decided I HAD to own it. Was a bit out of my budget so I thought about it for a couple of weeks, and when I decided to pull the trigger it was gone. Had to get another one ordered in, which was maybe for the best because this one has much nicer figuring in the top than the one in the store. Extremely pleased with the way this instrument sounds and feels, especially with the string change, though I do think the active/passive switch is just an EQ bypass because it doesn't play well with some of my unbuffered pedals even in "passive" mode.
2005 Epiphone Embassy Special IV - my first bass; picked it up used for $95. Added the bridge cover and thumbrest, and replaced the tuners for some generic sealed ones (which are a significant improvement over the cheapo stock tuners). It's wearing 40-95 Chromes, pickup is just the stock ceramic thing (~8.5K) and currently has a homemade switched-capacitor tone circuit in it. While I don't mind the sound of the pickup, there's room for improvement and I don't love the tone circuit, so it might get gutted sometime soon. Lovely-feeling bass to play though, nice slim neck and not too heavy.
Spector Legend 5 Classic - got this at a pawn shop for $300. EMG HZ pickups with the B30 preamp (I think) and set up EADGC at the moment with medium-light Fodera nickel steels. the bass is beastly (read: very heavy) but plays and sounds great, but the EADGC was an experiment and I'm not sure this bass is the right home for it.
guitar content - Hanson Firenze T90 - an esoteric instrument to be sure, but such a nice guitar. Pickups changed to a GFS Lil' Puncher 10K in the bridge and one of the GFS Metal Foil P90-size humbuckers in the neck (not because I didn't like the originals, but because I'm an incorrigible tinker). I could take or leave the bridge pickup, but the neck sounds amazing. This one gets Cobalt Slinkys as a rule.
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I've been busy this year acquiring basses.
The collection is now so big I had to split it between Jazzes and non-Jazzes.
From left to right: Sadowsky MetroExpress JJ4, De Gier Bebop 5, Fender Standard Jazz Bass fretless (with De Gier prototype pickups), 1966 Fender Jazz, Blade B2 Tetra Bass, Sadowsky MetroExpress JJ5
From left to right: Fender Justin Meldal-Johnsen Signature Mustang, 1971 Fender Precision, De Gier Soulmate, Sterling Ray 34 w/ Status fretless neck and Nordstrand MM4.2 pickup, Dingwall Combustion 5, Yamaha BB N5II
From left to right: Sadowsky MetroExpress JJ4, De Gier Bebop 5, Fender Standard Jazz Bass fretless (with De Gier prototype pickups), 1966 Fender Jazz, Blade B2 Tetra Bass, Sadowsky MetroExpress JJ5
hey @Gothic how is the HB MM? I am curious about how the neck feels on their flat black MM, P, and T-Bird. I am. Not a fan of painted necks but can see how those might come off like a satin neck.
Can't really fault it in any department. Sound's awesome once you change the crappy strings, some very usable tones with the V/V/T passive controls and overall quality's unbelievable for the price.
The neck is extremely comfortable for me and I like the tighter spacing. Some people find it a bit thick, I strongly disagree. It's way more comfortable and "faster" than the PJ fiver.
I dislike the paint on the back of the neck but it's satin and doesn't feel sticky at all. I dislike it visually too but I can't be bothered to sand it down just for that. Not yet, at least.
I had to shim the neck to drop the saddles enough to get the action as low as I wanted but other than that, it's a very good bass. Just change the strings as soon as you get it out of the box.
New build completed, and not shabby. This body is the Warmoth roasted swamp ash in clear satin. It's a shame I can't pick a low weight body from their showcase, but it seems they are not currently keeping many bodies in stock. Fender MIM roasted neck which also has a nice satin back side. I went with SD Antiquity II pickup. 
