Way too big for me for the foreseeable future. Actually seems to be a few bassists from Ballarat posting on ozbass these days. Just a tourist trip to Eureka for me, will go back sometime I think. Ballarat seems a lovely town.
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True, but to me & the tone i want to achieve, they sound too thin, if not equipped with a tone control or EQ system. Hence why i'm not such a fan of EMGs
but i do appreciate the suggestion: What suits one person, might not fit all
So i've just decided which pickups to install in the MK II bird: Neck pickup is Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder Precision bass split, & my bridge pickup will be Seymour Duncan's Classic Stack Jazz bass Set (neck & bridge) in which i'll cut opposite screw adjustment on each pup cover & glue them together to make it look like a humbucker. All this wired to a killswitch with a .047 uf capacitor value for added bite.
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And that's why there's variety. I don't have a lot of use for passive basses. The sound in my head (not the voices, the sound) is the high output, quiet operation, wide tonal flexibility of active electronics. that's not right or wrong, better or worse. Just different, and that's why there's variety.
Hi David, that's a pretty great review. It's always awesome when you find an instrument that works for you. I play my 'Birds all the way down on my right thigh and I think we have one song where I even need to access the D an G strings, so I had a good laugh at the "rockers slung low" section!
Medic, my 2004 white bird has that same cap in it, but my 2012 burst has very small blue cap in it. They both have the same 500k pots in them. Tone, if I recall correctly, effectively rolls the highs "on" when you turn it up and earths them when you roll the dial back. As Gaolee said, the caps are basically a dampener for the electrical energy. A cap is a cap is a cap, but some have nostalgic value and I wonder if you can really hear a difference in them. The orange drops are a ceramic disk capacitor. I have a Paper-In-Oil cap in the p-bass I built. If I believed the hype, I'd say the p-bass has a "smoother" tone control than my 'Birds. But that could be any combination of things - humbuckers vs. single coil, wood types, wire lengths, my dumb ears and beliefs.
Not sure this helps, but this has been my experience with guitar electronics.
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I love my passive basses and they're what I usually want to play..............Every now then I pick up that Jackson, it F&$%(*@ snarls, maybe not everyone's cup of tea (not always mine!) but it really rides in mix well, very authoritative!
Me too. I started with it hung over my baby maker...partly because that was as low as my strap would go. But when I picked up pick playing and needing to play 32nd notes at a gallop, that position wasn't cutting it. Once I scored an XL strap and dropped it to my thigh it was like a revelation.
Wow, this place moves!
Getting towards a hundred new members since I was accepted into the Order about 16 months ago.
Getting towards a hundred new members since I was accepted into the Order about 16 months ago.
Which reminds me... How do I join? Is it blood in blood out? I'm ok with that.
No not quite, although that sounds appealing.
Post pics of your TBird/ TBirds, you may wish to seek admission at that point, if not, the Queen will then usually invite you. She will issue you with your number and you're in.
So after reading that T-Bird review a page back I tried slinging my bass down below the belt... I'd tried it years ago and it didn't stick, but along with more years of playing and the more casual, relaxed attitude that goes with them, I found it's actually not only comfy but lent me a new inspiration to just let fly and have fun with this rock n roll thing. Nobody notices all those notes I'm always trying to nail down anyway!
Fun is good.
Fun is good.
Gaolee
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It's tough to find a strap long enough at times. Every strap I have is adjusted as far out as it will go. The body hangs down and the neck is up high, which is what works for me. I don't generally use a pick, and a low slung 'Bird still works!
I find mine is comfortable up high, but that's how i have always played my basses.
Levy's makes an XL strap that goes to 72" and I have an Overdrive strap that goes to 78". Plenty long enough. The Levy's are maxxed out on my 'Birds.
Gaolee
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Funny thing about straps - the EB-2 is short scale, but I use a long strap on that one, too. The Precision takes a short strap. The Ric did, too. Over time, I kept putting a longer and longer strap on the EB while I had it. Something about Gibson body shapes makes them work better lower. For me anyway.
Doesn't matter what i've got, i play everything low, even my rick copy. It's not slung as low as the others, but close enough to have the illusion it is 
Only my pbasses & birds have homemade leather belt straps, along with my Dearmond starfire special which is a belt & a dog collar. The rest is store bought. some are maxed out & work, others are maxed but have thick shoelace at the end to attach to the strap pin to make it as low as the others.
Only my pbasses & birds have homemade leather belt straps, along with my Dearmond starfire special which is a belt & a dog collar. The rest is store bought. some are maxed out & work, others are maxed but have thick shoelace at the end to attach to the strap pin to make it as low as the others.
