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#220,421
JJR58 said:
Oh No!!!!
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MCF said:
That totally sucks. Firefighters saving Dead Memorabilia is a great story. Hope they can rebuild.
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indeed….."kitchen fire"….whatever…..
from about 5 years ago…


now this…..:rollno:
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bobyoung53 said:
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With that light car and massive engine, it would be interesting to know how much he needed to use the brake. Likely none. My cousin's Chrysler that had "just" a 440 in it could light up and spin both the tires at 35MPH.

A study not long ago found that the small particulate from tire wear is more of a pollutant and health concern than the engine exhaust. (Since EVs weigh about 1k more than the typical car conclusions can be drawn where the rubber hits to road.)
 
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I've been playing an Ibanez 5er recently that I got for cheep from a friend. I'm putting Nordstrand Big Singles in it. Really liking the feel, I'm finding my way with the tighter string spacing, which I like for a 5 string.

But I brought the CP to a rehearsal the other day, and every time I pick it up and get involved, I remember why I like this bass so much. I'd rather play it, esp in the rock n roll context, than the other two. The Heckinhecker (modded w/ Ric p'ups Hamer) is the only competition... Sometimes.
The 'Bird has the ergos, p'ups and neck radius. Fantastic combination of features. And then there's look and pedigree. Rock n roll baby.
 
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Count Bassie said:
I've been playing an Ibanez 5er recently that I got for cheep from a friend. I'm putting Nordstrand Big Singles in it. Really liking the feel, I'm finding my way with the tighter string spacing, which I like for a 5 string.

But I brought the CP to a rehearsal the other day, and every time I pick it up and get involved, I remember why I like this bass so much. I'd rather play it, esp in the rock n roll context, than the other two. The Heckinhecker (modded w/ Ric p'ups Hamer) is the only competition... Sometimes.
The 'Bird has the ergos, p'ups and neck radius. Fantastic combination of features. And then there's look and pedigree. Rock n roll baby.
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I also have a CP (2013) and a couple of Ibanez 5-strings (both are sr885le from the late 80s; this black one has EMG Rip Tide pickups & BTS):

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Two of my favorite basses!




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GBassNorth said:
A tone cap in a passive bass is basically a filter that passes some of the frequency to the ground. You only actually hear the signal that is not filtered to ground. So if your tone pot is turned to zero more of the signal is available to the cap where the frequencies can be filtered to ground. The higher the caps value the more high frequency signal is passed to ground. So yes the .068 cap in the Goth will send more high end content to ground where you can't hear it vs a standard Tbird cap at .047uf. As the tone knob is turned closer to 10 (or max) less high end content is sent to ground and the bass sounds brighter.

I personally like the .022 cap on the Goth because the pickups are overwound and darker sounding than most Tbirds. The .068 cap in the Goth was just too much of a good thing in my opinion. The .022 cap opens up the Goth sound quite a bit and drastically increases the range of the tone knob.

A very worthwhile experiment would be to get a half dozen different value tone caps (they are dirt cheap) and try each one (just clipped in place not soldered) until you find what you like best.


A no load tone pot should be standard on every bass. Just adds a whole new flavor to the bass.
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To make things somewhat more complicated...

Between the capacitor and the coil(s) of the pickups, you create a tank circuit which will have a resonant frequency. Changing capacitors will change the resonant frequency.

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dagrev said:
With that light car and massive engine, it would be interesting to know how much he needed to use the brake. Likely none. My cousin's Chrysler that had "just" a 440 in it could light up and spin both the tires at 35MPH.

A study not long ago found that the small particulate from tire wear is more of a pollutant and health concern than the engine exhaust. (Since EVs weigh about 1k more than the typical car conclusions can be drawn where the rubber hits to road.)
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Volvo did an interesting comparison...

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