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Which Should I get?

Which should I get?

  • Rickenbacker 4003s

    Votes: 75 36.1%

  • Pedulla Pentabuzz

    Votes: 133 63.9%
  • Total voters
    208
#61
Dr. Cheese said:
It’s practical in the sense that in my experience, lots of people get a fretless, and give up quickly. I intend to make the Pedulla my main bass. I will take my lessons on it. I will give it a year, but I suspect that I will see a big in intonation in maybe two months if I only play the Pedulla.
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Yeah but I was thinking who, especially you, doesn't already know that lots of people bail on fretless?

Ultimately, only one person has the slightest clue of what you might commit to. I get the appeal of the conversation, it's just a foreign concept to me, no offense of course.
:)
 
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#63
Dr. Cheese said:
I am bit conflicted because I have good relations with the pawn shop, and from an ethical standpoint, I hate going back on my word twice. My main problem is that oldest is going to college in two years, and this will be my last window for a major bass purchase before I have to contribute to my child’s higher education. What I don’t buy now, I cannot get for maybe seven years.
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I you haven't been paying into a 529 account for the last decade plus, you're already screwed on the college fund thing so might as well splurge and buy a nice bass ;)
 
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#64
( the following post is not meant to be taken seriously )

How about a Ricken-dulla?
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Found on Reverb (no affiliation with seller)
 
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#65
Brad Johnson said:
Yeah but I was thinking who, especially you, doesn't already know that lots of people bail on fretless?

Ultimately, only one person has the slightest clue of what you might commit to. I get the appeal of the conversation, it's just a foreign concept to me, no offense of course.
:)
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You would not be Brad if you did not apply potentially uncomfortable logic.
 
#68
Dr. Cheese said:
You would not be Brad if you did not apply potentially uncomfortable logic.
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I know and trust me, my first instinct was to not even respond. But you know I like you and I appreciate your situation. So I'm sure that you'll take all opinions, including mine, with a grain of salt and do what's in your heart. Because you're the expert on you.

Sounds like a great deal on the Pedulla. Good luck.
 
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Brad Johnson said:
I know and trust me, my first instinct was to not even respond. But you know I like you and I appreciate your situation. So I'm sure that you'll take all opinions, including mine, with a grain of salt and do what's in your heart. Because you're the expert on you.

Sounds like a great deal on the Pedulla. Good luck.
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Thanks Brad. Like you said, we will never know everything. I may as well keep grinding. I was listening to the Allman Brothers Greatest Hits 1969-1979, and Berry Oakley reminded me of Verdine White in that at such a young age, everything he played was perfect. That was not me, but I love music too much to stop because I did not have the skills of a legend. I think really learning the fretless will just allow me to express myself just a little bit better.
 
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#76
Dr. Cheese said:
It’s practical in the sense that in my experience, lots of people get a fretless, and give up quickly. I intend to make the Pedulla my main bass. I will take my lessons on it. I will give it a year, but I suspect that I will see a big improvement in intonation in maybe two months if I only play the Pedulla.
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In the first year of my fretless i played it around 10% of the time. I'm not a real natural talent on the bass, or any other instrument, and needed to really keep practicing many of the 120+ songs I needed for gigs. Also, the body I had my fretless bolted to just didn't work for me soundwise.

In the last few months since getting a proper Jazz body for it, and not gigging at all, i've played the fretless 95% of the time or more and I've noticed a real marked improvement. I still find myself looking at the side dots a LOT more than on fretted, but if I continue like this I could see me doing complete gigs with just the fretless in a year or two.

And has been said many, many times in this thread....at that price if you decide you don't like fretless you should be able to get enough for that Pedulla to buy the Ric, and a Squire fretless (or even better) if you wanted to keep at it occasionally.
 
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#78
The two basses are quite different ... one is a peculiar kind of four strings bass, whilst the second is a boutique five strings ... so it’s difficult to put them in comparison ... depending on the price I’d go with the Pedulla if it was a four strings as I don’t like five stringers ... the Pedulla has got five strings so I should buy thd Ric :bawl:
 

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