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#154,503
GBassNorth said:
It's officially a New Bass Day!
The Greco arrived a couple of days early, no complaints here. Puppy thought there might be a toy in the box for her...
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Here she is, 43 years old and still with all her case candy...
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The pots needed a good cleaning, the output jack needed to be bent a bit for more solid contact, the action needed to be dropped in half and the intonation needed to be set. All that done and plugged her in for a good flogging. She's definitely a keeper! Bold agressive loud single pup beast. Nice and light weight, comfy neck (set neck not neck through, but very well disguised). The strings are completely broken in Roto Flats, which means they sound creamy smooth. I'd keep them on but the previous owner wasn't as OCD as I am, some are wound up from the bottom, some wound down from the top, some silks nearly gone, others are complete fuzz balls, one with one wrap another with 10 wraps, go figure. They'll come off and I'll start a string journey on this bass as well (still have ongoing ones with the 2015 and the VP).

I have the action down to 2/32" clearance on the open E string at the 12th fret (was 7/32" when it arrived - yikes!). Had to slam the bridge all the way down to get it there, will probably back off a bit and bring it back up to one or two 32nds more, this bass just begs to be played hard with plenty of digging in, perfect for live stage work (which I don't do anymore). Didn't need to adjust the truss, but the neck looks good and straight.

I'm happy! Thanks to Queen Veronica for the goading, well worth the money.
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Congratulations George!

I'm glad you like it already, Greco Birds are wonderful, I treasure mine, incidentally mine got some new strings as well, I enjoyed playing mine this afternoon too.

Queen has new glasses too!
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#154,504
Nocturnal said:
I know some of you are always on the lookout for a Bach Non_Reverse. I found one for sale (with a case!!) but the people at GC listed it completely wrong. You are welcome :cool::cool:

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LOL - thx for the heads up but I ordered it about 5 minutes before I saw your post. I stumbled across it by accident while looking at Firebird NR guitars, trying to figure out what it would take to convert one to a bass. Couldn't believe they had not only the Firebird part wrong but even the BaCH brand that's plastered all over the headstock. Wasn't looking for a black one, but these things are so hard to find ya gotta take whatever comes up. Hopefully will be here late next week.
 
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Nocturnal said:
I know some of you are always on the lookout for a Bach Non_Reverse. I found one for sale (with a case!!) but the people at GC listed it completely wrong. You are welcome :cool::cool:

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Oh dude! Those cases are really rare..nice bass! Thx for posting, if I would have seen EPOCH Firebird bass I would have never clicked on the link...great find!
 
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#154,506
TBird1958 said:
Congratulations George!

I'm glad you like it already, Greco Birds are wonderful, I treasure mine, incidentally mine got some new strings as well, I enjoyed playing mine this afternoon too.

Queen has new glasses too!
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Lookin good there Veronica (both you and the Greco). Thx again for the info on the Greco, it really has all the makings of a great gigging bass. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on the new strings.
 
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GBassNorth said:
LOL - thx for the heads up but I ordered it about 5 minutes before I saw your post. I stumbled across it by accident while looking at Firebird NR guitars, trying to figure out what it would take to convert one to a bass. Couldn't believe they had not only the Firebird part wrong but even the BaCH brand that's plastered all over the headstock. Wasn't looking for a black one, but these things are so hard to find ya gotta take whatever comes up. Hopefully will be here late next week.
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Wow! That was quick! Congrats again!
 
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#154,508
Nocturnal said:
I know some of you are always on the lookout for a Bach Non_Reverse. I found one for sale (with a case!!) but the people at GC listed it completely wrong. You are welcome :cool::cool:

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Chucky Stiletti said:
Oh dude! Those cases are really rare..nice bass! Thx for posting, if I would have seen EPOCH Firebird bass I would have never clicked on the link...great find!
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Dang! You beat me to it! That's a killer bass, put a Lull pickup in it!
 
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I finally fired up the computer[1] I did some recording on ... back in 2009. It was my first attempt at recording something of mine on computer. I wanted to finally add THUNDERBIRD and percussion to the guitar and vocal, only to realize that while it was a decent first effort[6], the vocal needs to be redone by someone who can sing.

The only problem is what to record on. I don't want to depend on that poor box, although I'll likely start with it. 64studio OS has been abandoned. There are other Linux realtime kernel-based solutions, but I don't have a ton of confidence in any of them at the moment. What are y'all using for recording software? I used Audacity, Ardour, and something else. Don't really recall what. Linux and Mac are both viable options for me.

[1] A 20 year old white box based on a 400MHz AMD K6. Not sure if it was a 2 or 3. 1GB RAM, 40GB hdd. 100MHz network card. Yeehah.
[6] Take 6 was the only usable one.
 
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GonePlaid said:
Oh, crap! Time to check my balance.
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You may be a bit late.

It's weird when the listing stays on the site even after an item has been bought and paid for. It did the same thing when I purchased my 77 Bird from the same GC location. It took several days before the listing was taken down.
 
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GBassNorth said:
LOL - thx for the heads up but I ordered it about 5 minutes before I saw your post. I stumbled across it by accident while looking at Firebird NR guitars, trying to figure out what it would take to convert one to a bass. Couldn't believe they had not only the Firebird part wrong but even the BaCH brand that's plastered all over the headstock. Wasn't looking for a black one, but these things are so hard to find ya gotta take whatever comes up. Hopefully will be here late next week.
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Way to go GB!!!!!...two VERY COOL new toys!! Nice flock you got going :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
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GBassNorth said:
LOL - thx for the heads up but I ordered it about 5 minutes before I saw your post. I stumbled across it by accident while looking at Firebird NR guitars, trying to figure out what it would take to convert one to a bass. Couldn't believe they had not only the Firebird part wrong but even the BaCH brand that's plastered all over the headstock. Wasn't looking for a black one, but these things are so hard to find ya gotta take whatever comes up. Hopefully will be here late next week.
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You've wanted one so congrats. I did get to play my old, worthless, beat up, 67 tonight on our gig anyway.
Grapes are only slightly sour.;)
 
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Nocturnal said:
You may be a bit late.

It's weird when the listing stays on the site even after an item has been bought and paid for. It did the same thing when I purchased my 77 Bird from the same GC location. It took several days before the listing was taken down.
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Yeah. I’ve read stories where someone bought it online, the store had no clue, and sold it to a walk—in. Hey @Miles_ONeal, there may still be time....
 
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