Let's see your BASS!

[behndy]

You can't bump up the neck volume so that its as loud as the pickups in series...kind of against physics. You could have a resistor or something switched in when series is selected to lower the series options volume to match the neck though.

Also, I met Sheldon Dingwall today...that was cool. And I gave JoshB the patchbay as I've been a bad person...he said he'll get it to you either tomorrow or Sunday.

yah. thought it'd go that direction, lowering the series to match, but i'm a git about pups and bass guts. hence my having a (wonderful) dooder that does manipulatory stuff on my..... stuff.

fuck. JEALOUS. i got to go to NAMM last year, not near long enough, and Sheldon was the person i really wanted to meet. but he was doing a thing in China. damn it.

yahp! got the text from Josh-a-licious! hellza excited to see him again. no worries homie. you are BUSY.

[behndy]

Listening? to the steady squick squick squick sound of chocolatey bass love goodness?

gawd DAMNIT Kell-ville. with my grrL out of country so much i'm on a freaking hair trigger all the time. IN MY PANTS.

and you just.... just.... you know what? not cool.

fucking extra clean up time and shit. just wanted to go get some pasta and now there's a mess....

grumble grumble mutter.

[McSpunckle]

OMG i want that bass. I want to do sinful, dirty, animalistic things to it.

While covered in chocolate syrup.

THERE I SAID IT!

Also, RATs rock.

Rats do rock. Rat stickers on guitars? Not quite as much. I need to build me a Rat...

If only I had dated fuzz-loving bassists a few years back this thing might have gotten me mad chocho-laid. Alas, all it got me was some soldering iron burns. (... that may or may not have been what I learned to solder on)

YOU ARE QUITE RIGHT, GOOD SIR.
I gotta ask though...is that a string tree at the first string?
And also...'sup with that fretboard near the higher frets?

Yeah. I replaced the string tree with a nicer one, but the original came in handy for keeping the low string in place when doing bass dive bombs... sometimes it would pop out, and the locking tuners didn't keep the strings as far down as normal tuners.

Annnd... I may have have scalloped them with a dremel.

[behndy]

If only I had dated fuzz-loving bassists a few years back this thing might have gotten me mad chocho-laid. Alas, all it got me was some soldering iron burns. (... that may or may not have been what I learned to solder on)

so..... until the parenthesis i totally read that as, "i COULD have had all the sweet chocolately loving, but unfortunately i rokked the Big Metalz Bass. which led me to lovers that liked Solder-Play.".

and that made me happy. fucking parenthetical supplements. always ruining something AWESOME.

i HATE you Phantom Parenthesis.

[cheesecats]

cheesecats, is that a Tacoma mandocello or an 8 string bass?

sorry i missed this--it's a mandocello. it's wild and wooly.

[SmallEQ]

I fucking love all of this...
So looking forward to my gig tomorrow night

[Deltaphoenix]

Goddamn, I really like Laklands now....

[Grrface]

I have lusted over a Lakland Duck Dunn since I knew they existed. Someday...

[The4455]

I have lusted over a Lakland Duck Dunn since I knew they existed. Someday...

You can get one, but they aren't duck dunn signatures anymore, he moved to a different company, also the darkstar pickups, which were the original pu's in his signature bass aren't available.

Sidenote: I've been to the Lakland "factory" and got to try all of the basses, saw some secret stuff, and picked out my bass. Super cool guys, also there is a factory cat.

[Jero]

wait, you can't get darkstar pups anymore?!

[DuoSonicII]

Finally got a chance to throw together a group pic of most of the rest of my basses:





L to R:

Electra MPC Outlaw w/ 70s DiMarzio in the neck (came to me with no neck pickup)
Edwards RD copy (sig model of the guy from Dir en Grey, who I know nothing about)
'87 Gibson IV
Peavey T-45 with DarkStar
Parts P with a '72 neck, MIJ '70 RI body, Fralin pickup
Washburn B-5, MIJ
70's Electra EB-3L copy, pickups rewound uber-hot by Kent Armstrong
80's Greco EB-3L copy

[Deltaphoenix]

wait, you can't get darkstar pups anymore?!

That guy is of the map who made them. I am in contact with a French Luthier who is making a pickup essentially the same ( beefed up Bi-Sonic) and supposedly some other pick-up builder on TB is working on one.

they are still going to be EXPENSIVE

I have a geddy lee jazz bass body that is routed for one at the neck and already has a soapbar in the bridge. I am trying to get that Franken Fender together within the next few months.

[jrmy]

It's sort of like a Ric, P bass, and Thunderbird had a 3 way. Lots of snarl, but lots of depth too. I've played some acoustic basses that aren't as loud as it is unplugged, too. And it's not quite as big as it looks...

I've been trying to think of ways to de-metal it, though. Gay pride stickers would probably do the trick.

While we're here, this might be more ILF's thing (except maybe the Rat sticker-- it came with the pedal)



I keep it hung on a wall, and it still works, sorta...

Have I told you that I love you? I mean, like, recently?

Goddamn, I love you Spunkiez.

[alexa.]

I need to build me a Rat...

yes, yes you do.
and holy fuck dat bass!

[Kellanium]

This thread is still full of sex.