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Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:10 pm
by Mudfuzz
spacelordmother wrote:Mudfuzz wrote: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..

Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:11 pm
by Mudfuzz
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...
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:37 pm
by dubkitty
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.
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:45 am
by Derelict78
go full hollow

Gibson EB-750
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:11 pm
by Mudfuzz
Derelict78 wrote:go full hollow

Gibson EB-750
Some one so needs to make more of den things!
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:06 am
by Derelict78
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?
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:02 am
by Mudfuzz
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

Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:50 pm
by Derelict78
yeah that would be my dream bass. rick pickups in ric positions and ric-o-sound in a big fucking hollow body bass
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:37 am
by dubkitty
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:

Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:58 am
by Derelict78
Holy shit
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:17 pm
by Mudfuzz
that plus dremel plus rickups = da shit!
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:53 pm
by kbit
Derelict78 wrote:if you can find one Ibanez AEG140 Artcore Bass fucking rocks

Oooffff. Would rock that hard.
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:47 pm
by Derelict78
yeah I miss it
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:12 pm
by D.o.S.
Don't like the silver on red, but spraypaint can fix that.
Re: Semi-hollow bass recommendations?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:04 pm
by Mudfuzz
D.o.S. wrote:Don't like the silver on red, but spraypaint can fix that.
I'd like to see that in orange
