Lowend lobster put Rickenbacker pickups in a Harley Benton bass. It did not sound like a ric. So I guess the wood, the scale length and type of materials clearly make a difference
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Yet another tonewood post
- Thread starter GodPlayedBass
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One day, the Talkbass collective may finally understand that an instrument’s tone is a mixture of all its characteristics. It’s not about pickups. It’s not about wood. It’s not even about technique. It’s about all of those things and many other factors.
I think the HB with Ric pickups sounds more like a classic Ric than his other one with the other brand of pickups.
I hope you don't do any engineering comparison work for a living, as here are way too many variables unaccounted for there, let alone how it was recorded and listened to.
No I'm not an engineer and never claimed to be. Even the guy who made this video said it doesn't sound like the rics he owns
Yes my personal belief is that everything plays a part. Like a jigsaw puzzle. Ever piece is important
If you read the notes, they discovered the pickups were wire out of phase. This is why it sounds so thin dimed. So the "comparision" was kinda screwed from the get go.
Missed my point. You happily jumped to a conclusion you already believed.
Thanks.
I’m just going to keep sharing this on any tone-wood threads:
Nah... Pretty sure it's just that those pickups are confused; homesick; and very,very PO'd. And, if he leaves them in that Harley Benton too long? They just might be so PO'd, that they won't sound like Rick pickups when he puts them back where they belong, either. And, honestly; I wouldn't blame them a bit...
They don't sprinkle Ric-O-Dust on Harley B's. That must be it . . . .
Yeah, PO'd cos they were wired out of phase.
I wonder if electric guitars got their start in Pennsylvania, if necks would be made out of birch as often as maple and bodies as often out of walnut as alder, ash, or mahogany. Osage orange is a fantastic hard wood. Locus and oak are heavy but very hard. Spruce is cool but pine isn’t, for some reason. Maybe we could get Flea or some other famous bassist to play a fir bass for an album to make it an acceptable tonewood.
Dusty Hill had a fir bass.
Sorry, that was fur.
Leo's wood choices are well documented and they centred on cheap.
If you guys don't believe in wood making a difference then WHY comment on the topic. All you gotta do is say tonewood around here and everybody gets upset like 4th graders who hate a pop quiz
So, in your world the only people allowed to converse with you are those who agree with you? Right?
You tried to make a point about tonewood when it turns out there was a wiring error that would, and did, have major effects on the audible output of the bass, so it turns out the entire basis for your argument is wrong.
And to further make my point, rather than making your case, you go for the ad hom, this is Godwin level argument.
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No, j
No in "my world"
I don't have to be patronizing and post funny pictures just because I disagree with someones opinion
No in "my world"
I don't have to be patronizing and post funny pictures just because I disagree with someones opinion
