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#313,381
Stealth57 said:
Help you spend money? :)
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Yeah, he's a sweetie - He was responsible for the EB-3, once he gets going on something, he doesn't stop, last night at dinner we were browsing Lawsuit Ricks, I have the feeling one is going to show up here 🙀
 
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#313,383
MCF said:
Well, I’ll be the heretic here. I tried EBCFs on it and didn’t care for them.
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It's not just you, I don't use them either, but it doesn't really matter, play what you love!
 
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#313,388
Engle said:
My thoughts:
1) install veneers first
2) Titebond is easier to work with. No chance of gluing your fingers together...
3) Oil, unless you are going to play aggressively with stainless rounds
4) That's what I do
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Glue dam arrived.
Luthitec black fibreboard headstock veneer arrived from the UK. Wont need that for a while yet.

Slot cleaning saw not due for a few days yet... schedule logjam unless I decide on alternate method. I have to get the goo they used to fill the slot ends out.

If I glue the veneers in (with Titebond) before I sand, I may not need to CYA the chips... but that'll be ticklish work gluing the veneers without displacing the tiny chips, esp. with Titebond. So think I'll still get them pinned down first.

Robin, to the BatBench!

In other non TBird news... I hit a personal playing milestone last night.

First complete song transposed from 4-string Eb to my 5-string, mentally, on the fly, with minimal goofs.

Little victories.
 
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#313,390
MCF said:
Well, I’ll be the heretic here. I tried EBCFs on it and didn’t care for them.
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They do cop an old school sound. Attack them and they can get some attitude. Funny thing, I took my '17VP wearing them to practice Thursday, and we broke into some Cult so I grabbed a pick to get that gnarly tone, my guitarist stopped, looked at me and said "Don't do that"! I said what? He said play with a pick. I said why? He said you don't sound like you! He meant it as a compliment.
 
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Bighouse said:
Based on the recommendations of many in this club, I’ve ordered some EBCF and they should arrive tomorrow. However, in the meanwhile I decided to adjust the intonation on the factory strings. I noticed something when working on them that I hadn’t really seen during playing the bass and checking it out in the store. The D string makes a kind of dobro rattling sound, like a high pitched resonator. Doesn’t matter which fret I use from 1 to the end or even open, that tinny buzzing sound is present. I’ve the volumes up/down on each pickup and it’s still present. I’ve played with the tone adjustments, and it’s still present. I can’t really hear it on the instrument, but I hear it through my Mesa Boogie D-800+ and 115 cab. None of the other strings exhibit this issue. Is this the sound of a broken or cracked string maybe??? Could it be a pickup problem, even though it seems to happen with either pickup?
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Check that you don't have a loose or rattling saddle, I had a similar issue on one of mine and it was fixed by tugging a saddle towards the neck such that it took up the play in the part.
 
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Thumper said:
They do cop an old school sound. Attack them and they can get some attitude. Funny thing, I took my '17VP wearing them to practice Thursday, and we broke into some Cult so I grabbed a pick to get that gnarly tone, my guitarist stopped, looked at me and said "Don't do that"! I said what? He said play with a pick. I said why? He said you don't sound like you! He meant it as a compliment.
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“I wasn’t going for me on this one.”
 
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#313,394
GBassNorth said:
One of the best small combos I’ve ever played through was a compact Markbass 12”. I think it had cab extension capability, so adding an additional 112 or even a 212 Markbass cab would probably sound killer.
https://reverb.com/item/87442595-markbass-mini-cmd-121p-iv-bass-combo
You’d need to confirm it’ll take an extension cabinet if that’s the direction you want to go.
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GBassNorth said:
That Markbass combo I mentioned does just that and would do it in spades with a 212 extension cabinet. Alternatively, I have a Mesa Walkabout head in mint condition (gobs of bottom end, punch and clarity at all volumes) I’m not using it anymore, if interested make me an offer I can’t refuse and it’s yours. Paired with a Bergantino 212 cab this thing would be the bomb!
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Thanks for that offer, I'll look into it, thank you!
 
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MCF said:
Well, I’ll be the heretic here. I tried EBCFs on it and didn’t care for them.
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Well you have said numerous times you can't hear! :smug:
Seriously though, we all want to hear different things, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. Not to mention what we play through is part of that. Shoot, where we play makes a big difference. Me playing at home is seriously different from what I hear with the same bass and rig in a huge room. Some basses have sounded good at home and sucked live in a mix. I've got that sorted out now thanks to the Ashdown. Now my '06 and '21 sound fantastic live. Always sounded great at home.
 
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Bighouse said:
Based on the recommendations of many in this club, I’ve ordered some EBCF and they should arrive tomorrow. However, in the meanwhile I decided to adjust the intonation on the factory strings. I noticed something when working on them that I hadn’t really seen during playing the bass and checking it out in the store. The D string makes a kind of dobro rattling sound, like a high pitched resonator. Doesn’t matter which fret I use from 1 to the end or even open, that tinny buzzing sound is present. I’ve the volumes up/down on each pickup and it’s still present. I’ve played with the tone adjustments, and it’s still present. I can’t really hear it on the instrument, but I hear it through my Mesa Boogie D-800+ and 115 cab. None of the other strings exhibit this issue. Is this the sound of a broken or cracked string maybe??? Could it be a pickup problem, even though it seems to happen with either pickup?
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Anyone who mentions a dobro and a resonator is my kind of guy.

As to the weird noise, I have never encountered anything like that before, so I'm puzzled and curious.
Can you take another string and put in the D position and see if it does it?
 
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TBird1958 said:
It's not just you, I don't use them either, but it doesn't really matter, play what you love!
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Yeah, I don't use them either. Bright sounding flats don't work all that well with most of what I play, on the 24 basses I own that wear flats. The brightest ones I have? The TI Jazz Flats on my Alembic - that I only use for Jazz. There are a couple that wear Fender 9050Ls; the 39-96 La Bella 760FX's on a couple of Danos are... well, pretty un-La Bella like, if you're expecting a lot of thump. All the rest? Pretty thumpy, with varying amounts of low-mids and mids - and in a couple of cases? Even some high end, too. The flats on my 2 Thunderbirds? The Tokai TB48 wears Optima 4099 "Chromes" (which sound nothing like D'Addario Chromes); The Gibson? Dogal R44 "Traditional" flats... How do the Italian Dogals sound? Bellissimo! :whistle:
 
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