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Warrior Club Part 2

#521
^^^ We'll have to schedule a GTG after you get the Warrior. It's been a while since we've gotten together.
I'd love to check out your studio too so maybe we can do it in your neck of the woods this time.

.....and that's just a few miles from JD and Warrior's factory! :hmm:
 
#522
JOME77 said:
^^^ We'll have to schedule a GTG after you get the Warrior. It's been a while since we've gotten together.
I'd love to check out your studio too so maybe we can do it in your neck of the woods this time.

.....and that's just a few miles from JD and Warrior's factory! :hmm:
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Yes sir looking forward to it! How did the warrior hold up at church today? I do agree with you on the set up of warrior basses I've been fortunate enough to have owned most boutique bass from Smiths to Foderas and on and on and nothing has played like the action on a warrior! They are absolutely the best! Those basses just about play themselves.:bassist:
 
#524
JOME77 said:
That's going to be a nice looking bass Deon! I love the wood choices. IMO Bart p/u's pair very well with the Demeter preamp. Of course I'm one of the ones that still feels that it really opened up the sound of the Roscoe Barts. It's still my favorite Preamp (with Roscoe Bart's or Bart CB's) on a Roscoe. I'd love to hear a Demeter paired with the Bart's in a Warrior.

With that being said I just picked up Jason's new DM 5 (great TB'er to deal with!) and the Bart/Bart combo in this bass is perfect to my ears. Just the right amount of phatness and sizzle. This bass has all kinds of usable sounds IMO. I think that the wenge/PH/wenge neck w/ebony FB paired with the ash body is the perfect wood combo on a Warrior (for me). This bass is much phatter sounding than my previous Warrior 5 (maple/bubinga/wenge/PH w/maple FB). Much thicker sounding tone.

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Here's a recording that I made of the bass yesterday. It's really just a jam on a riff but I made a deliberate attempt to recorded the bass with the p/u's in bridge/both/neck pan positions and also added a sample of the slap tone toward the end of the tune. It's a "Bass Orchestra" tune with some drums and light strings. The name of the tune is inspired by my 2 year old grandson, who just got an entire wardrobe of Polo outfits.

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I looove your warrior
 
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#525
^^^ Thanks Trujo. JD did a great job on this one. Workmanship and playability are both excellent.

SHA975 said:
Joe,

Do you have a stand up bass now? I see one in your avatar.
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Yeah, Deon. It's an inexpensive Cremona model. I set it up with some nice strings and a K-Max p/u and it actuallY records nicely. Plus it looks real nice in my music room! :)
 
#526
Anybody found any nice nickel RW strings that have B & E strings long enough to string through the body on the Warrior's?

I have set's of the D'Addario Super Long and they aren't long enough. Are the Warrior strings D'Addario?

Thanks for any suggestions!
 
#527
JOME77 said:
Anybody found any nice nickel RW strings that have B & E strings long enough to string through the body on the Warrior's?

I have set's of the D'Addario Super Long and they aren't long enough. Are the Warrior strings D'Addario?

Thanks for any suggestions!
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FWIW, I've not found stringing through the body to have any real noticeable benefit. can't remember the last time I did it, and my B and E ROCK.

Probably my fave strings right now are the Dean Markley SR2000 tapered set. Two reasons... my neck is set deep enough that it's hard to get the action down as low as I'd like it without a tapered set, and two, because I do like how they sound, and they seem to last a long time, too.

IMHO anyway. :)
 
#528
Vic said:
FWIW, I've not found stringing through the body to have any real noticeable benefit. can't remember the last time I did it, and my B and E ROCK.
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Yeah, I question whether there's any real benefit or not (stringing through the body). Actually the main reason that I was going to restring the bass utilizing the "thru body" method was because on my last Warrior when I didn't string it though the sleeves & one of the metal sleeves fell out and I almost lost it. Maybe I'll just remove the B & E string and see how snug the sleeves are in this one. I guess worse case scenario would be to remove them & add a touch of elmer's glue to hold them into place.

Thanks Vic!
 
#529
JOME77 said:
Yeah, I question whether there's any real benefit or not (stringing through the body). Actually the main reason that I was going to restring the bass utilizing the "thru body" method was because on my last Warrior when I didn't string it though the sleeves & one of the metal sleeves fell out and I almost lost it. Maybe I'll just remove the B & E string and see how snug the sleeves are in this one. I guess worse case scenario would be to remove them & add a touch of elmer's glue to hold them into place.

Thanks Vic!
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Yeah, I'd just glue them in place, or maybe even pop them out permanently and save in ziplok or something. I really don't think I'll ever use that feature.
 
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sha975 said:
Yes sir looking forward to it! How did the warrior hold up at church today?
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.... I somehow missed this post Deon.

The Warrior did great at church this past weekend. It's got a very nice cutting tone and sat very well in the mix. Very focused sounding.

This has also got to be the lightest bass that I've owned too. I haven't weighed it but I suspect that it's under 8 lbs.
 
#534
brotherbassj said:
Vic

My bad there....i will have to look at a set upstairs to refresh my memory! So daddario long scale doesn't work???
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never tried a set... in theory they should I think, since it's a 34" scale.

Main thing is, if you're gonna' use tapered strings, you have to be careful to use a set where the taper ends BEFORE the string crosses over the bridge pickup... kinda' limits choices. If your bridge/neck set levels allow, I typically just recommend traditional strings, and keeping it simple, string them all right at the bridge. Never had a problem with that, and doesn't limit options so much.

FWIW.
 
#537
Here's a few more pictures of the body being glued onto the very first 19mm string spacing Isabella. I'm getting excited!
 

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#539
Okay guys I've been fooling around with some knob layouts for the new flexcore preamp. I believe I'm going to go with Nordstrand dual coil pups. The knob layout will consist of 2 stacked knobs and 3 regular with 4 switches. Vol, pickup blend, passive tone, treb/bass stack, hi mid/lo mid stack. off/on switch, active/passive, mid frequency, coil tap. If theres anybody in the forum that thinks my knob lay out sucks then by all means let me see what you can come up with. If its better I'll use that lay out. Also please tell me which layout you think is best.
 

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