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Post by kodiakblair on Oct 2, 2018 21:31:29 GMT
Friday night ma pal Mark sends me a message saying he's selling his PB-50 and am I interested. I'd followed the mod threads,knew the parts he'd used,heard the recordings it's on. No brainer PB-50. Amber tint neck. Some vintage off-white paint job. Herrick split coil single PU. Fender chrome goodies,bridge has the grooved saddles. Strung through body with La Bella flats. Would've been wrong to say No
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Post by LeoThunder on Oct 3, 2018 3:47:00 GMT
It looks good in that colour. I prefer it to the original. This and white are the only two solid colours I have ever been tempted to have. That pick-up cover, though, is a bit of a problem, a divide. It forces one to choose which side of it to pluck and I'm sure it would make me feel like plucking right over it. I might lose sleep over that… This is why I shave. And that finger grip… What were these people thinking? We're being told that Leo thought of making the bass easy to guitar players in addition to replacing the upright double bass but using the thumb all the way up to the G string doesn't seem like something very practical to me. This thing must have proven pointless to over 90%. I'd want a thumb rest on the other side. How thick is the neck? I'm having some fun time adjusting to my new one, which is nearly as thick as that of the ST-62 (22 mm at 1st fret, 23.5 at 12th). I still haven't decided where to pluck. It's a work in progress, like a tone control. I put the roundwound back on the Jazz Bass, to see the difference. The seller told me they were from the previous owner but they're "zingy new" to me. I don't like new strings…
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Post by kodiakblair on Oct 3, 2018 6:09:06 GMT
There's a practical reason for the cover.50's type single coils have the wire exposed,anchor your thumb on the fibrework and you risk the top coming loose. You're right about the tug bar position,nobody used it except maybe Monk Montgomery (he was the poor bastard Fender used as a poster boy) The neck is thick,like a 50's P-bass is meant to have Can't tell you how happy I am hearing you're experimenting with playing position and see it acts like a tone pot. It's far more effective than any pickup swap or "tonewood" Bull**** could make
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Post by LeoThunder on Oct 3, 2018 6:34:59 GMT
Can't tell you how happy I am hearing you're experimenting with playing position and see it acts like a tone pot. It's far more effective than any pickup swap or "tonewood" Bull**** could make This is one of the first things I discovered on my guitar some 37 years ago. I often tended to play close to the neck. Decades later, I heard Keith Richards make that same statement in an interview. Picking position, angle, strength, direction are the first controls and I always make use of them to some extent. Sometime I would even use the rounded part of the pick. It's the same on bass and I'm at a loss now because I cut my nails and it changes the sound. Fresh cut, short nails make a hard, edgy sound or none at all when hitting the strings (or not). Two radically different sounds in the angle of a fingertip. I have to learn to use that.
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Post by DefJef on Oct 3, 2018 10:19:10 GMT
Can't tell you how happy I am hearing you're experimenting with playing position and see it acts like a tone pot. It's far more effective than any pickup swap or "tonewood" Bull**** could make This is one of the first things I discovered on my guitar some 37 years ago. I often tended to play close to the neck. Decades later, I heard Keith Richards make that same statement in an interview. Picking position, angle, strength, direction are the first controls and I always make use of them to some extent. Sometime I would even use the rounded part of the pick. It's the same on bass and I'm at a loss now because I cut my nails and it changes the sound. Fresh cut, short nails make a hard, edgy sound or none at all when hitting the strings (or not). Two radically different sounds in the angle of a fingertip. I have to learn to use that. I had that too. Used to play with longer nails then reduced to just long thumb nail then got rid of that too. Now I end up juggling between cupping a plectrum in my hand for occasional use and using fingers and tip and edge of thumb all over the length of the strings. And, like you, that plectrum gets used in all manner of angles. I like the round end too especially for mandolin trembles. I keep meaning to buy some felt or leather plecs too.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 16:57:46 GMT
I find it impossible to play on only one string position as the songs dynamic is changing. Isn't it normal to pluck closer to bridge when you want to cut through and closer to neck, even above the neck , over the fretboard to mellow the tone? I thought everybody is playing this way. Tone knob gives different tone variations in comparison to where on the string you pluck/strum.
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