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Originally Posted by porgy
This thread was moved from "Bad Dog Cafe." Sorry, I forgot there was a Bass place here. SI8e I listened to some of your stuff, you got it down tight. Sounds good, real good. Actually I do those things your talking about, I place me thumping hand in different positions on the body of the bass, and I do get the feel I usually am looking for. I'm just kind of wanting to experiment, I am also thinking of a decent effects box, and I know some of you probably shy from this, and I understand, ts better to feel it than to copy it. Actually I am a standup bassist from the heart, I learned to play on a Bass fiddle. I use to jam with a guy in highschool, many moons ago, and he was an excellent musician, he played piano like a dream. He would play boogie woogie, rock and roll solos on the piano and I would pound away on that bass fiddle in the music room, and it was a great feeling. To me there is nothing better than playing a bass fiddle and jamming with a piano player playing the boogie woogie, man it sure was fun. And everyone loved listening to it, that was the best part, knowing that others liked it. I like electric also, but my tastes are changing. I've owned a few Basses in my life time. The one I have now is a washburn, an older model, but it has a decent sound. And it plays decent, has a nice long neck on it, and it feels like a bass. Not my best choice for a Bass. But, it gets me by. I bought it on the cheap, did some work on it. I may get me a standup bass sometime in the future. I've also considered the electric standup basses, anyone have any ideas on these, they may be just like the fretless basses only standup and not resting on your lap. I've noticed some people are going for the shorter neck basses these days, but I couldn't get use to a short neck, it just wouldn't feel right. Thanks for info. I'll check out some of the ideas you have.
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the box: digitech pb50 or 80 is good.
If you were raised on a fretless/fiddle bass you have half the battle won.
I think Guild makes a stand up electric that is reasonable. You're still going to shell out some scratch for one unless you get real lucky on craig'slist.
Get a decent neck, nip the frets out, fill them in with a good body filler.
Sand and sand some more to about 1200 grit.
make a real thin line body with just volume,tone and jack.
Make some sort of mounting bracket on the back of the body and buy a ride symbol stand. Instant upright.
I think Frankensteins are the way to go anyway. who stays with stock anyway?
It's your axe. Custom is Funk-shway. aaahh grasshopper there is hope for you yet. walk across the bug zapper and snatch the pebbles.
