The Valenti Megathread (Mk. II)

[Ryan Mohr]

This thread needs a bump!

Big Singles, Nord 3 band pre, HiBeams...it kills.

Nice bass! Could you describe the tonal difference between this and a standard passive J bass w/ singles?

 

[Chef]

The Nord pre is pretty pure: set flat you really "don't hear it."
It doesn't have a ton of range like the Aguilar stuff does, but, it has plenty of useful range: you can't (IME) use lots of the Ag preamp without it being too much. It "sounds passive" to me, whereas the Ag/Sadowsky stuff sounds really active. Good, but, active.

The Big Singles are fairly much "pumped up J pickups."
Deeper, shiner, grindier, broader frequency response than your typical standard Fender J issue stuff. Same tonal family though.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Chef, is that David Wilson's old Geddy Vee?

 

[Chef]

Could be...was his #18?

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Yup. That bass haunted me. It came up for sale nearly a dozen times, and I had always JUST spent all of my dough and couldn't get it. I played the original Geddy Vee at a GTG- it was the same bass except without a matching headstock. The really in-your-face attack of it threw me back. It was awesome. Nowadays I still want one (played a silver Valenti 5 this year that had similar specs as well that was also awesome), although I don't know how I'd deal without a sixth string.

 

[Chef]

ahhh, yer an ERB'er then.

for me, 5 is perfect.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

ahhh, yer an ERB'er then.

Please don't call me that- I haven't taken my puffy shirts and capes out of the closet in years

 

[Chef]

It's not name callin' or nuttin'!
But, I take it back if you want me to.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Sorry, I just messin' around with an old joke about JT

 

[Chef]

cool!
i remember when "everyone got sensitive" about all that...

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Nah- I'm too old and tired to really care about any of that any more

It's funny because I'm really not a Jazz/P guy, and I've played a lot of Fenders, but I really dig the Valentis I've had the chance to play (I'm luckily in the New England area so I've tried a handful at the GTGs). Here's a really nice 4 I tried this year:
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[Chef]

whole passle of them there, eh...

 

[emjazz]

Nah- I'm too old and tired to really care about any of that any more

It's funny because I'm really not a Jazz/P guy, and I've played a lot of Fenders, but I really dig the Valentis I've had the chance to play (I'm luckily in the New England area so I've tried a handful at the GTGs). Here's a really nice 4 I tried this year:
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I love that look...the natural body with tort guard....perfect.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Yup- a GTG from a few years ago had another handful of them including the original Geddy Vee (along with some Sadowskys)

 

[Chef]

Yo!
I can tell it's not mine by the blonde headstock.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Which is why I wanted yours- I always prefer matching headstocks.

 

[west*coast*bass]

And she's done. Will ship to Australia on Monday.

Nino, that is gorgeous! Take off the low B, remove the bridge pickup and it's just riiiight!

What are the woods?

 

[TaySte_2000]

Yup- a GTG from a few years ago had another handful of them including the original Geddy Vee (along with some Sadowskys)

I owned 2 of the basses in that rack, the Green P5 (Roscoe Beck Clone) and the Blue P Bass, both were awesome, I really miss the P now

 

[Nino Valenti]

And she's done. Will ship to Australia on Monday.

Nino, that is gorgeous! Take off the low B, remove the bridge pickup and it's just riiiight!

What are the woods?

Swamp Ash body, maple neck with Ebony board.

 

[bassplayer7770]

This thread needs a bump!

Big Singles, Nord 3 band pre, HiBeams...it kills.

I'm planning to get some Big Singles installed in my Hanewinckel along with a Nord 3-band pre, so that's good to hear!