Gone Fission wrote:If you want the murk, find an Epi Rivoli reissue with neck mudbucker.
This is what I have. Thing is the stock mudbucker is not a mudbucker it is a suckbucker, you HAVE to replace the pickup on those things! There is one guy that builds the real deal out there at the right Ωedge [30K] but they cost the same as getting a vintage one.. which is what I have in mine. Or.. you could put a DiMarzio model one in it, the are great pickups but they are not a mudbucker at all, they have highs and growl.. and come with a 5 conductor cable so you can do a bunch of cool wiring stuff.
Those Dimarzio Model Ones are great. I've got one in Moe Desu (thanks for naming my bass Mudbuddy) and it sounds huge!
Oh I agree they are great pickups! I have two basses with on in them, but they are not a mudbucker.. granted most people don't seem to like mudbuckers..
Nelson Instruments wrote:I say if money's no object then find a guild starfire bass. If money is an object (I think that makes sense haha) then the early 2000s Dearmond starfire bass is pretty sweet! I have always had an affinity for Guild stuff.
You have to be alb;e love that neck shape though.. I remember them being thin and deep...
yeah, if you have unlimited money to spend find a Guild or a Gibson. many of the great semi-hollow players of the late 60s/early 70s used one or the other or both...Jack Casady, Phil Lesh, Glen Cornick with Jethro Tull (a MASSIVELY underrated bassist). the Gibson necks are more round in my experience, and i like playing them more, but the old Guilds have those DeArmond PUs that inspired Wickersham and Turner to start the Alembic works so they could design more efficient PUS with that breadth of frequency response. the Gibsons i've played have a really beautiful warm rumble in the low end; the Guilds are more piano-like and crisper on top, especially with round-wounds.
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No shit! I think there were only like 100 made and Paul has 3 of em...hoarder this is THE only bass I want more than a Ric. do you know of anything that comes close?
aen wrote:Or I'll just use fuzz. Then Ill sound cool regardless.
Achtane wrote:Well, volcanoes are pretty fuckin' cool. Like I guess lava flows are doomy. Slow and still able to to melt your eardrums.
Derelict78 wrote:No shit! I think there were only like 100 made and Paul has 3 of em...hoarder this is THE only bass I want more than a Ric. do you know of anything that comes close?
That is a long scale? other then 3k-7k-ish ones by jazz box builders no..
and at that point might as well have one built for you with RIC pickups
there's a new Gretsch Electromatic coming. double cut, short AND long scale versions, around $750 street. they're supposed to be out iby July. here's the prototype, given away at a Gretsch promo event in Kansas City in May:
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
FIFTY YEARS OF SCARING THE CHILDREN 1970-2020--and i'm not done yet
