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Traben Club
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#20 to you, and Betty, that beautiful Array Premium.
Edit, Off topic, but I also have a bass named Betty, but its a Jazz, and I call her Black Betty.
Well I figured what the hell and I decided to post my first Traben Array 4-String on here and keep you all waiting like me on pics of my new Chaos Obsession 5-String that barring any issues will be here next week.
Anyway here it is. If ya want hear how it sounds recorded check out my bands myspace at Link Removed and you can hear it thump on our songs.
Mooch
Anyway here it is. If ya want hear how it sounds recorded check out my bands myspace at Link Removed and you can hear it thump on our songs.
Mooch
wow, im kinda ashamed to admit i havent visited this thread in some time. thats a nice limited you got there snakeman. i usually dont think they look all that good w/o the red, but yours is definitely the exception.
btw, what exactly do you mean by the stock pups being "darker"?
btw, what exactly do you mean by the stock pups being "darker"?
By stock pickups, he means the "Traben Custom Combos" that come on most Trabens(the unmarked, covered ones), they seemingly aren't as bright as the Rockfields that come on some new models.
I really, really like the stock pups. They offer a lot of tonal variation that I'm afraid I might not get with the Rockfields. I do still wish to try a newer model with the Rockfield pups. Has anybody tried them? I believe they had them on the Bootsy bass before it was discontinued. That's a bass I would've really liked to try...
I'll let ya know how the rockfields sound on my chaos obsession when I get it. I hear that the Array's with the regular traben stock pickups have a more "rock" sound so probably better for heavier stuff and I hear the Obsession's have a smoother sound with the rockfields but Im sure the Obsession will still sound pretty tough and 100 times better than my array. I hope anyways.
Mooch
Mooch
I got a question for all you guys. I was thinking of getting my basses Intonated. Anyone had this done on their Traben's? We play in a really low B Flat tuning and just wondering if the intonating would help out at all.
I have never had this done to any of my basses but just curious if there are any benefits or non-benefits to doing it. And with the Neck-Thru im getting just wondering if its not a good thing to do to a neck thru.
Any info would help.
Mooch
I have never had this done to any of my basses but just curious if there are any benefits or non-benefits to doing it. And with the Neck-Thru im getting just wondering if its not a good thing to do to a neck thru.
Any info would help.
Mooch
The rockfields sound great, you can get pretty much any sound out of them that you could possibly want. I'm definitely a fan of em 
Edit: The bass should be fine tuning down there, it just might take a little tweaking of the action/truss rod. I can tune my obsession down to drop C and not have to touch the action or anything and it plays fine. At the moment, my cheapo Ibanez is tuned to drop A# and even it handles it just fine.
Edit: The bass should be fine tuning down there, it just might take a little tweaking of the action/truss rod. I can tune my obsession down to drop C and not have to touch the action or anything and it plays fine. At the moment, my cheapo Ibanez is tuned to drop A# and even it handles it just fine.
Thanks dude, IIRC, they have soapbars?
Well, a bass should always be intonated, are you going to stay in this tuning? If so definatly do it, or get it done.
I've not heard of anyone unhappy with 'em yet!The rockfields sound great, you can get pretty much any sound out of them that you could possibly want. I'm definitely a fan of em
The rockfields sound great, you can get pretty much any sound out of them that you could possibly want. I'm definitely a fan of em
I'll be sure to check them out then. Thanks. For some reason I had a feeling they'd be a little one-dimensional.
Well I figured what the hell and I decided to post my first Traben Array 4-String on here and keep you all waiting like me on pics of my new Chaos Obsession 5-String that barring any issues will be here next week.
Anyway here it is. If ya want hear how it sounds recorded check out my bands myspace at Link Removed and you can hear it thump on our songs.
Mooch
Sweet! I really like that red on the Trabens.
Ya Dark the obsession's have basically the same setups as the regular chaos from what I understand except I think the difference is the Obsession's use the regular Traben Pre-Amp with the Rockfield soapbars and the spendier chaos' use the agulair(not sure on spelling) pre-amps.
And the tuning ya we use that low B-Flat tuning for our standard tuning. We go a step lower for a few thing's but for the most part we are in B-Flat.
So here is another question then since it sounds like something I should do. When I take it to a shop to get the intonating done. If I tell the guy that would be doing it to intonate in to B-Flat he would know what I'm talking about Im guessing then right? Just wanna make sure whenever I get around to doing this Its done right ya know what I'm saying.
Mooch
He should. Is it the five string your tuning to B flat, if so you can tell him you want it set up and intonated for a half step flat, he'll know what to do.
Or you can check the setup area of the forum, its a pretty easy job ot do yourself if you have a decent tuner.
I think he's actually tuning a 4 string to drop B flat, which is also do-able, but will definitely take some setup
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