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Thunderbird Club
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Was it the bass, or would any bass have had trouble with the conditions?
Gaolee
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Sounds like you are all OK. That's good. It also sounds like it was rough for your wife. I hope she's back to 100% now.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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Update on the Ibanez DB700, I found a original bridge pickup, it cost me almost as much as the bass! For the neck I found a inexpensive double J pickup that fits the bill nicely. I'll keep looking for a original neck pickup but for now I can put it in the rack. The bass came to me with non stock Dimarzio J pickups, nice enough but it didn't look right. It looks much better imho and it sounds great as well! Before and after pictures.
It is good. And with him and the Mrs. OK, that means there should be more coming from one of my favorite bands, Poppy!
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I love these guys.......Sometimes the spaces between the notes can say as much as the notes, love the tone Andy Fraser gets from his EB3.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
Interesting. And proof we're all different-it's a tone I avoid.
There are songs it just fits. (shrug)
That's a great bass tone. I've found I prefer to start with the tightness of solid state (GK) and then add dirt to achieve something similar.
Love this song and Andy sounds great in this setting with a gritty grinding buzz saw type bass tone. But to be honest, if I were playing this song I'd have a much smoother and deeper tone. The song would definitely sound different, for better or worse. It would be interesting to hear a deep dark JP Jones cover of this song or maybe someone like Entwistle who might actually out buzz saw Andy.
Deep and dark is just my style and my preference from a playing standpoint, and a very good reason that I've never been interested in joining a tribute band where I need to sound exactly like somebody else. I enjoy putting my signature on covers because I can, there's lots of stylistic freedom when there's no paying audience. That said, from a listening standpoint I like all types of bass sounds (well, maybe not so much slap).
I was thinking about about that when you described what you were getting from the Goth. I’m usually more on the buzz saw preference side. We’re all different.
other than slap with flatwounds (like on some early WAR stuff) can’t think of a bass tone I don’t dig....
see? and I’m a huge fan of his tone and playing...Vive la difference I guess..
Tweetchie zone.
I have a jazz gig Sat. nite at a local wine bar. I wanna use the NR Bird but there literally isn't room
. Gonna use the Epi EB-0 and a Rumble 40 amp. More than enuff wattage for this tiny joint. I could take my Bassman 25, but it weighs twice as much as the R40.
