Digital Larry
Friend of Leo's
It's starting to look like I deal with Wintertime seasonal gloominess by freshening that outlook by purchasing music gear! In California it's routinely 80F in November, but the sun is still low and sometimes you need to close the windows at night.
I got a new used keyboard controller and electric guitar. I was at Guitar Center (where I bought both) and decided that the time to wait for a nice bass is over. I have a Carvin fretless and an Ibanez TMB30 short scale with flatwounds on both. So I don't have a bright twangy bass. Part of that was on purpose, but FOMO combined with GAS results in FOMOGAS, even more impossible to resist.
I'm checking out the bass room at Santa Clara GC. I did something I never do - picked up a Precision. Long ago I convinced myself that I didn't like the wide neck. My main bass was a Peavey Foundation (modeled after the Jazz bass IIRC) for a very long time, after a borrowed Ric 4001 got repossessed by its rightful owner. But somehow, this Precision wasn't so bad. I see also that GC has a special Precision model with a Jazz bass neck! Whoa, I may have to go back.
I already know that I don't like active guitars, and active basses are much more common. I also tried an Ibanez TMB-100, which has the volume, front/rear split, and high and low tone controls. Yow. I also have learned I don't like 2V/2T on guitars and 5-ways on a 3-pickup guitar, even though that's the thing, is just too much for me. All of a sudden the simplicity of 1 pickup, 1 volume, 1 tone seems really nice. Yeah I cranked the Ibanez' tone controls this way and that, easy to get way too much of everything, Probably easy to get an OK tone too. That said, the TMB-100 is a $200 bass, fine for the price, but the search is on.
I watched a YouTube video last night comparing the sound of the P-bass vs. the J-bass. I don't know why this never hit me before, but the P-Bass IS THE SOUND OF ROCK AND ROLL. Especially played with a pick, man those skinny pants and sneakers practically fly out of the back of your closet and... uh... well you know what I mean.
Long story short, is there any reason I should look for anything beyond a P-bass? I've got two other basses and have them going on that dead thumpy sound already. Don't really need more of that (even though I like it just fine).
PS yes yes I know this is a decision that only I can make. But I know how to trigger people into gushing about their favorite instruments.
I got a new used keyboard controller and electric guitar. I was at Guitar Center (where I bought both) and decided that the time to wait for a nice bass is over. I have a Carvin fretless and an Ibanez TMB30 short scale with flatwounds on both. So I don't have a bright twangy bass. Part of that was on purpose, but FOMO combined with GAS results in FOMOGAS, even more impossible to resist.
I'm checking out the bass room at Santa Clara GC. I did something I never do - picked up a Precision. Long ago I convinced myself that I didn't like the wide neck. My main bass was a Peavey Foundation (modeled after the Jazz bass IIRC) for a very long time, after a borrowed Ric 4001 got repossessed by its rightful owner. But somehow, this Precision wasn't so bad. I see also that GC has a special Precision model with a Jazz bass neck! Whoa, I may have to go back.
I already know that I don't like active guitars, and active basses are much more common. I also tried an Ibanez TMB-100, which has the volume, front/rear split, and high and low tone controls. Yow. I also have learned I don't like 2V/2T on guitars and 5-ways on a 3-pickup guitar, even though that's the thing, is just too much for me. All of a sudden the simplicity of 1 pickup, 1 volume, 1 tone seems really nice. Yeah I cranked the Ibanez' tone controls this way and that, easy to get way too much of everything, Probably easy to get an OK tone too. That said, the TMB-100 is a $200 bass, fine for the price, but the search is on.
I watched a YouTube video last night comparing the sound of the P-bass vs. the J-bass. I don't know why this never hit me before, but the P-Bass IS THE SOUND OF ROCK AND ROLL. Especially played with a pick, man those skinny pants and sneakers practically fly out of the back of your closet and... uh... well you know what I mean.
Long story short, is there any reason I should look for anything beyond a P-bass? I've got two other basses and have them going on that dead thumpy sound already. Don't really need more of that (even though I like it just fine).
PS yes yes I know this is a decision that only I can make. But I know how to trigger people into gushing about their favorite instruments.
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