Those P, J, ,PJ ,MM , Bird , Modern , Vintage, Overdrive, Tubey vibe ...... in one bass.
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What If they build a Shark Bass ?
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Those P, J, ,PJ ,MM , Bird , Modern , Vintage, Overdrive, Tubey vibe ...... in one bass.
The switches are neat for experimenting, but likely to set it once and keep it there forever.
Not interested in vendor lock for the effects.
And it being built in the instrument excludes it from using it on the basses I actually play.
Part of the fun of playing bass is having different instruments that all feel and play different with their different idiosyncrasies.
It is neat, though.
Not interested in vendor lock for the effects.
And it being built in the instrument excludes it from using it on the basses I actually play.
Part of the fun of playing bass is having different instruments that all feel and play different with their different idiosyncrasies.
It is neat, though.
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There was a BullShark bass some years ago. Memory is foggy on these, but I seem to remember they were extra long-scale and had an aluminum fingerboard. Wildly offset body. At least some of them had Alembic electronics. Andreas? Anybody else remember that?
*Found an old thread; https://www.talkbass.com/reviews/andreas-bull-shark.48/
*Found an old thread; https://www.talkbass.com/reviews/andreas-bull-shark.48/
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Is the short-scale version is called the Baby Shark?
I think when I was in my 20's that would seem like a brilliant idea.
I would have thought : Who wouldn't want all those tonal options built into a single instrument?
The answer is me, years later. I'm now more impressed by less options that "just work" in a broad set of situations.
I would have thought : Who wouldn't want all those tonal options built into a single instrument?
The answer is me, years later. I'm now more impressed by less options that "just work" in a broad set of situations.
If that had only two strings, it looks like something Stig Pedersen from D-A-D would play
I don't know.......something smells fishy about that.
So Anyway, I'd probably just gravitate towards the sound that I already have.
But I did consider getting a Line 6 Variax model years ago that claimed to have all sorts of bass/amp combinations built into some selector knobs. I figured that if I bought it, I wouldn't have to buy some of the basses and amps that I always wanted to have when I didn't have any discretionary music money.
And then I thought "What's the fun in that?"
But I did consider getting a Line 6 Variax model years ago that claimed to have all sorts of bass/amp combinations built into some selector knobs. I figured that if I bought it, I wouldn't have to buy some of the basses and amps that I always wanted to have when I didn't have any discretionary music money.
And then I thought "What's the fun in that?"
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Shergold in Britain also had exchangeable modular FX units in the late 1970s... didn't catch on. Could be done much better today, sure, but bass players are somewhat conservative.
In my experience, guitar players are waaaaay more conservative. But there are also a lot more of them. Which I guess explains why these "all new innovations" keep happening there. And also explains why they almost always go over like lead balloons.
