JDOD
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Can't be arsed to waste money on a new bass - I have far more pressing issues on my wallet, so I'm gonna work with what I have.
Right, these are my two shit basses: Bass 1 (red) and Bass 2 (burst)
Bass 1: Plays pretty well, feels comfortable, looks pretty cool and basic (just a plank with a pickup in it), seems to have decent tuning/neck stability and the intonation is pretty good. Its sounds dull as fuck though, has no punch to it.
Bass 2: Again it feels pretty nice and I quite like the sound of this - this is the one you'll all have heard on my recordings - its pretty prominent and briefly solo in the last thing I posted in the Tone Thread. It looks like something an old jazzer would use though, and the neck is really unstable, I've fucked about with the truss rod on this bastard loads of times. It also has shit intonation. If I'm playing a bassline with no open strings I sometimes tune it flat to compensate.
I'm restringing Bass 1 this week, so hopefully that will perk the tone up a bit, but it also doesn't have the long bridge pickup that Bass 2 has. I'm assuming that this contributes quite a lot to the punchiness of Bass 2.
Do you know of a reasonably priced pickup I could stick in Bass 1 which would make it sound better? I'm pretty handy with a router - would it be a particularly awful job to route Bass 1 and stick the bridge pickup from Bass 2 in it? Or can you think of a good bridge pickup I could just stick in Bass 1. I never use the tone controls (or even the volume on my basses) so I'm not interested in anything complicated.
At the moment I only use Bass 1 for scratch tracks during the week - would be nice to get it to a standard where I can record some keepers with it.
In case you're interested Bass 1 is a Hohner Rockwood and Bass 2 is a Jim Deacon (I think this is just mass produced, chinese stuff - I've seen Stagg and other brands that look identical - I think Minerman has one too)
Right, these are my two shit basses: Bass 1 (red) and Bass 2 (burst)
Bass 1: Plays pretty well, feels comfortable, looks pretty cool and basic (just a plank with a pickup in it), seems to have decent tuning/neck stability and the intonation is pretty good. Its sounds dull as fuck though, has no punch to it.
Bass 2: Again it feels pretty nice and I quite like the sound of this - this is the one you'll all have heard on my recordings - its pretty prominent and briefly solo in the last thing I posted in the Tone Thread. It looks like something an old jazzer would use though, and the neck is really unstable, I've fucked about with the truss rod on this bastard loads of times. It also has shit intonation. If I'm playing a bassline with no open strings I sometimes tune it flat to compensate.
I'm restringing Bass 1 this week, so hopefully that will perk the tone up a bit, but it also doesn't have the long bridge pickup that Bass 2 has. I'm assuming that this contributes quite a lot to the punchiness of Bass 2.
Do you know of a reasonably priced pickup I could stick in Bass 1 which would make it sound better? I'm pretty handy with a router - would it be a particularly awful job to route Bass 1 and stick the bridge pickup from Bass 2 in it? Or can you think of a good bridge pickup I could just stick in Bass 1. I never use the tone controls (or even the volume on my basses) so I'm not interested in anything complicated.
At the moment I only use Bass 1 for scratch tracks during the week - would be nice to get it to a standard where I can record some keepers with it.
In case you're interested Bass 1 is a Hohner Rockwood and Bass 2 is a Jim Deacon (I think this is just mass produced, chinese stuff - I've seen Stagg and other brands that look identical - I think Minerman has one too)
