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Your prettiest bass

#281
N4860 said:
Love this. I really love the jazz bass tone but not a big fan of the body design so I really appreciate the look of this. I've often thought about modding a StingRay with some jazz pickups but it might be a little too crazy.
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N4860, if you like a Jazz bass tone, but not the body design, try an Ernie Ball Musicman Old Smoothie.
While it sounds mostly like a Stingray, it sounds almost midway between a Jazz bass and a mellow Stingray.

Mike
 
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#282
Michael Jewels said:
N4860, if you like a Jazz bass tone, but not the body design, try an Ernie Ball Musicman Old Smoothie.
While it sounds mostly like a Stingray, it sounds almost midway between a Jazz bass and a mellow Stingray.

Mike
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I did have an Old Smoothie for a little while actually. I didn't find it to sound like a jazz bass, however, I did set it up with la bella flats and used it for more of an old school mellow tone. I find I can get a better jazz bass tone with my HH StringRay in the dual coil positions.
 
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#289
dedpool1052 said:
My highly modified Fender.
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Excellent. I did similar on this one about 10 years ago:

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A friend really, really, really wanted it so I finally relented and sold it to him (cheap!) and he ended up turning it around about six months later... Which I sort of expected as he's always flipping gear (not for profit but looking for something else).

Still I have the tone and look well covered with this which is one of my other prettiest basses - 1964:

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(and I also have a pink paisley P with t-bird pickups as well - so no hard feelings on that other one.)
 
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#294
BobDeRosa said:
Sorry, but music is auditory, not visual.
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It's auditory FIRST, absolutely - but in terms of professional performance, it's both. Not a binary choice. Humans are visual creatures and plenty of audience members "hear with their eyes".
Album cover art has certainly been able to impact album success and band 'image' is clearly a thing (more in some genres than others).
 
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Dynacord said:
It's auditory FIRST, absolutely - but in terms of professional performance, it's both. Not a binary choice. Humans are visual creatures and plenty of audience members "hear with their eyes".
Album cover art has certainly been able to impact album success and band 'image' is clearly a thing (more in some genres than others).
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All I know is that I've been playing in public for more than two decades and the only comment I've ever received about the appearance of any instrument is when I played a BSX electric upright and a woman told me is was a work of art. Yes, a band's image or brand is clearly a thing. That's why I play upright in an acoustic rock group even though the music we cover was originally recorded with a P bass -- the upright has become part of our brand. But "pretty" has never ever been a factor in instrument selection.
 
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