Let's see your BASS!

[coldbrightsunlight]

Really glad it's worked out well for you!

[Blackened Soul]

Here is the updated picture of my Eastwood Hooky 6 Pro

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New black pick guard
Seymour Duncan Invader pickup [the FUCKER that I got it from drilled out the height adjustment holes so I had to.. use p90 wood screws to get it to work...]
Made a new control plate with a bit more pleasing shape without messing the Shergold ascetic
New wiring/pots/cap/
new knobs
Flats

Here is also a shot with all my other working bass 6s

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[coldbrightsunlight]

You sure you have enough????!?!?

New pickguard looks great

[Disarm D'arcy]

I do not see a Yamaha BB on this page @coldbrightsunlight

[coldbrightsunlight]

haha ohh yeah. Soon

[dubkitty]

i just realized i completely forgot to post the Mustang Bass. if it was ever used, i can't see it. it even still had the blurb sticker on the pickguard and the plastic on the pickup covers. this is right after i got it. obviously i cleaned and set it up since then, and i got a "hard" case off the Rondo Music site. they aren't anything i'd fly with, but they're adequate for riding around in the back of a car. i went for this rather than the version with the Jazz Bass pickup in the bridge position because i always dial that pickup most of the way out on my actual Jazz Bass. i'm pleased, but i really need to put flats on it. makes me feel like Tina Weymouth, but with worse hips.

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[behndy]

i've been playing bass again, doing a From Never Having Touched The Instrument lesson series (i suck at a lot of fundamentals, trying to catch what i don't know), and as much as i adore my Dinger AB1 6 (only bass i have), i kinda want a 4 string normal bass? don't really know why i need a second bass for at home noodlings but. want?

if i stay with the lessons through the end of the month, going to look for a 4'er around five hundy or so. of course will hit local shops to get hands on before buying, but this speaks to me? for some reason?

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... n-metallic

[Blackened Soul]

i've been playing bass again, doing a From Never Having Touched The Instrument lesson series (i suck at a lot of fundamentals, trying to catch what i don't know), and as much as i adore my Dinger AB1 6 (only bass i have), i kinda want a 4 string normal bass? don't really know why i need a second bass for at home noodlings but. want?

if i stay with the lessons through the end of the month, going to look for a 4'er around five hundy or so. of course will hit local shops to get hands on before buying, but this speaks to me? for some reason?

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... n-metallic

Speaking as someone that is not actual sure how many basses they have without a bit of a think.. I think it’s a great idea

[behndy]

lol. so.... solid advice NOT to grab another bass?

i love my Dinger, just sometimes when i'm doing practice stuff it's usually geared towards 4's instead of 6's and just... i dunno. just kinda want another bass?

moof. i get that most people that play 6 basses are very technically proficient. i am NOT. i just enjoy the range. hard to find lesson stuffed geared to someone that knows how to do SOME stuff, reallllllly doesn't know how to do a LOT of stuff.

[Blackened Soul]

My advise is do what you feel will help your creative journey, play what you want to

I've been going through a bit of a self rediscovering the past few years in terms of what I want play and trying a bunch of different bass types, 12s and 7s and 6s, 4s and bassvis plus odd tuings, open tunings, tenor tunings, getting back into slide bass, cello.. I enjoy that it takes me out of my comfort zone and helps me come up ideas.. sometimes going to less helps you rethink how you go about things.. I’m most at home on a 5 string and I’m now putting together (yet another) parts bass that is a 5 with a high C for jamming and overdubbing so I don’t have to think about where my hands are.. so you never know… at the very least try your 4 idea out even at a store or something and see if it sparks anything

[behndy]

went to the local Guitar Center, played a bunch of 4 stringers. iiiiiii do NOT like active basses. too many knob options with an onboard preamp/eq. i have never had a P or J bass, but ended up grabbing the one i kinda adored playing -



i dig it a lot. i keep expecting two more strings, but the it's much quicker and easier to follow the teacher in the online bass course i'm going through. WOOT.

it's odd. i don't like red that much, i do NOT like gold. at ALL. but... i really like how this little blooper looks?

[dubkitty]

i'm exactly the same. the only red Fender color i like is Dakota Red and i hate anodized pickguards. but that looks good to me.

[behndy]

jia. lol. the whole pick guard thing is kinda interesting to me. i suuuuuck at using a pick, and have so much i need to learn with fingers it's not a priority. so... have zero use for a guard. but they DO look pretty.

i spent a few hours with it last night, was a blast. i know, honeymoon phase on new loot, but really enjoying it. it's so TINY!

that's a Squier 40th Anniversary Vintage i think? the P/J's with a thumb rest under the strings, what is that about? i am IGNORANT about bass history, but keep seeing those.

[Chankgeez]

went to the local Guitar Center, played a bunch of 4 stringers. iiiiiii do NOT like active basses. too many knob options with an onboard preamp/eq. i have never had a P or J bass, but ended up grabbing the one i kinda adored playing -



i dig it a lot. i keep expecting two more strings, but the it's much quicker and easier to follow the teacher in the online bass course i'm going through. WOOT.

it's odd. i don't like red that much, i do NOT like gold. at ALL. but... i really like how this little blooper looks?

[dubkitty]

the rest on the treble side was intended to facilitate playing with the thumb only, which Leo apparently thought was a thing. i put a sensible rest on the bass side when i upgraded the hardware on my MIM fretless Jazz Bass where it's useful. i also added the bridge and pickup covers. the covers really do cut the EMF, but i put that stuff on so it would be as close as possible to the vintage JB i learned on in the Jazz Improvisation workshop at City College of SF. the school owned it and a contemporaneous Bassman with the refrigerator-sized cab. my god, did it sound good. anyway, i have to get my JB's neck straightened because it's at the end of the truss rod range...it's barely playable with super light strings which aren't optimal. it probably won't get used much, though, because it's almost too far for me to reach the low F with my small frame.

now that i have a bass amp i'm really getting into the Squier CV Mustang Bass. between the tone control and the amp i can get a balanced enough sound that roundwounds are OK, which is nice. it still gets amply thumpy with the bass's tone control rolled off and i've hardly used the B2R's graphic EQ at all, just a treble cut so i don't sound like Les Claypool. i could probably make it sound like one of those Ampeg fretless basses with the f-hole that went all the way through like Rick Danko played in The Band. i'm dreaming of how huge the JB will sound with the amp. you could say i'm pleased with the amp. i appreciate that it has two speaker outputs because i'll certainly end up adding a second 15" or something. the one that's coming in is a vintage JBL D140F, which i've always loved in the bass application, and i almost have to add a second cab because it's 8 ohms and the amp wants to see 2 to 4 for best results. i think the folks in the apartment downstairs might kill me, though.