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Lately I've been into this also. The woven ones are fairly cheap and so I've been matching a few with my basses.
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Lately I've been into this also. The woven ones are fairly cheap and so I've been matching a few with my basses.
I'm really really liking the white with the red accents. Your plan to turn the VP red instead sounds perfect, maybe with some white accents.Finally managed to find time to get my new pickguard mounted properly
Ended up not using any of the existing screw-holes, made all new ones...
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...to position it where I wanted
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I'm starting to really like the white with red accents
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Maybe I'll leave it, & have the VP painted red instead.....
Sounds like you just need one of these to complete the picture...Of course!
....but also, a lot of things I own are red...
I prefer the white (with Suzanne Driving).
Don't limit yourself. Consider adding one of these when they come available too.Finally managed to find time to get my new pickguard mounted properly
Ended up not using any of the existing screw-holes, made all new ones
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...to position it where I wanted
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I'm starting to really like the white with red accents
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Maybe I'll leave it, & have the VP painted red instead.....
Look how happy you are...
I think I have it, but it’s intermittent and not nearly as bad as what some people describe.I don't know any musicians who don't have tinnitus. I personally trace mine standing next to the drummer. (cymbals) But where else is a bass player gunna' stand?
My straps don't have to color match my bass, but they do have to color coordinate with the bass and fit the general theme of the bass. Kinda like this...
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Same here. And yeah, probably cymbals. And power tools.
When I started framing/carpentry, we didn’t wear hearing protection, hard hats, steel toed boots...
Interesting. I don't think I ever played through an Acoustic FH (had a combo early on). As I recall the one's I played through were black. Cerwin Vega comes to mind, but maybe because they were a good number of them around.
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Quite different from the Birds, the body is chambered for weight - Its a little woody and snarly at the same time and high output, I have to use the -10db on the front end of the amp or it's ridiculously loud, like the Lull, Greco and Jackson.
We didn't either. That stuff was for sissies. I at least wore steel or fiberglass toe boots (depending on the weather), and safety glasses at least some times.
Thanks. My LPB2/5 came with Bart's. IDK how to describe the sound, but it's loud. I usually run the volume @ 5.
Maybe I've been looking at this a little narrow-sighted, I like the guys' accentuating/coordination ideas. Might help me find the right strap for that white Jazz, other than the burgundy one I've seen selling for 198$ CAD on Amazon. It's a strap for goodness sakes, it don't make cappucinos... The Yammy's strap is also work in progress, but that bass might be traded for something else later this spring. Or not. Other "thing": I like my straps to differ from bass to bass...
Those sunny straps are a bit of a thing for me and my daughter. I gave her one when I bought her a little Fender parlor acoustic and I still have a few others for acoustic guitars, when I need to use a strap. The best one is dedicated to the Epi ES-335.
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definitely, cut my teeth with a 2000S into a Sunn 4x12...this one’s been available for sometime now ...will literally tear your head off with the right box...one of the few manufacturers with successful tube AND ss designs imho...
Perhaps coincidentally, I got a new strap in (meaning: went to pickup from package drop
) Saturday, the first I've bought in probably at least a year. For my duplicate bolt-on 'bird:I'm thinking just re-install the factory p/g & other things on the VP.
Maybe white strings instead of red.....
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Collection magnifique! Love those old Yamahas.....saw The Smiths in the early 80’s with Rourke playing one of those and I was so taken with his tone....didn’t want the show to end....Maybe I've been looking at this a little narrow-sighted, I like the guys' accentuating/coordination ideas. Might help me find the right strap for that white Jazz, other than the burgundy one I'm seeing on Amazon, selling for 198$ CAD. It's a strap for goodness sakes, doesn't make cappucinos... The Yammy's strap is also work in progress, but that bass might be traded for something else later this spring. Or not. Other "thing": I like my straps to differ from bass to bass...
Those sunny straps are a bit of a thing for me and my daughter. I gave her one when I bought her a little Fender parlor acoustic and I still have a few others for acoustic guitars, when I need to use a strap. The best one is dedicated to the Epi ES-335.
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Merci Chucky. I dig that PJ config and the way they come out either in active or passive modes. The only reason I might trade it is because of the neck, it's a bit big for a guy used to play Birds, Rays and Jazzes.
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