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A P bass is just an incredibly simple thing at heart, it works as just two pieces of wood (or three I guess) and a simple pickup that can just be wound coils and magnets. The traditional reason USA instruments were better was that the luthiers were actually skilled, but with modern cutting technology, that's largely irrelevant (and also less true because of Society). This means that your cheap Chinese model is likely to be absolutely top shape. The main thing you're not getting is tone wood and fancy hardware, and those are hardly necessary for a good instrument. Oh, and quality control, so you're more likely to get a dud Chinese model, but that's solved by trying before buying.
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BonHair posted:The main thing you're not getting is tone wood and fancy hardware, and those are hardly necessary for a good instrument. Oh, and quality control, so you're more likely to get a dud Chinese model, but that's solved by trying before buying. I didn't get fancy hardware for sure (apart from the solid brass saddles and control knob, but I sure as poo poo got the tone wood. Swamp ash body that's really resonant and the maple neck is fantastic. And although I didn't get to try before buying I definitely didn't get a dud. Then again I'm also willing to take a risk that way because I know how to do fretwork and rewiring and basic repair. I'm the band's defacto guitar tech in addition to being the bassist, and I mod poo poo and void warrantees by my nature. I know how to fix up a piece of dogshit to play like butter. Still, I had to do a lot less work on it than I expected. No super high polish rounding on the fret ends (which you wouldn't expect at that price anyway) but no complaints about the fret work beyond that. It arrived with the action really loving high, but I dropped it way down, reintonated, and absolutely no dead spots on the fretboard. Electronics are great, pickup sounds great, fully shielded cavity... It's just bonkers. It played better out of the box and was better put together than my made in Korea Eastwood tenor guitar, and that was a $600 instrument. This was $270. All I've done to really change it is roll down the fretboard edges, round and polish the fret ends, and install a thumb rest and strap locks. I have zero plans to ever gently caress with the electronics because they're perfect for what I'm doing. I've PLAYED a lot of basses but never been in a position of having to OWN one, and when the time came I cheaped out and accidentally wound up with the best-playing bass I've ever even HELD. It's kind of obscene.
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Tonewood doesn't even matter unless you are talking an acoustic.
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All (bass)guitars should be Masonite, lightweight, sounds good cause chambered, cheap
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Oct 22, 2023 17:32
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Wowporn posted:All (bass)guitars should be Masonite, lightweight, sounds good cause chambered, cheap All right, get back in your grave, Nathan Daniel.
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Oct 22, 2023 18:07
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Tone wood is a scam though. Just notice how it's always the exotic expensive wood that's supposedly best.
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Oct 22, 2023 18:47
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Toan is stored in the pickup wiring, per the Facebook boomers
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Oct 22, 2023 19:41
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Wowporn posted:All (bass)guitars should be Masonite, lightweight, sounds good cause chambered, cheap I don't want to learn any secret handshakes
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BonHair posted:Tone wood is a scam though. Just notice how it's always the exotic expensive wood that's supposedly best. So silly. It's obviously the shape of the wood thats important. Which is why strats and telessound different to LPs and SGs cos the tone particles bounce around in different patterns.
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Speaking of toan... I'm going to throw a set of Lollar HSP90s into my PRS Hollowbody because I don't have P90s. These HSP90s have a bit of a unique look, ergo I need to know the most important question. I have expertly used photoshop to demonstrate the difference between the two for maximum toanage. Which colour pickup would generate the best toan? Gold:  vs. Silver:  Please note that I put gold speed knobs on the guitar to replace the red ones. It noticeably improved sustain, warmth, bite, tone, timbre, timber, attack, and sprongle by 17%. My personal opinion is that I think the gold suits the guitar better. Which surprises me because I normally hate Gold pickups, but this might be the one time where it works H13 fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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I'd say gold. I feel it works better with the warm color tone on the body.
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I'd say gold too. Also, you may need to cover the holes in your guitar lest all the lumniferous tone leaks out.
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Elissimpark posted:I'd say gold too. This is a common misconception. Due to the rosewood neck, that tonewood actually has a tonal vacuum effect whereby extra tone from the universe is sucked in from those tone ports. Tone.
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Tone wise, definitely the gold. Just be sure to get actual gold, not gold plated or whatever.
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Since I commented on tonewood in regards to my bass, here's how I define it when it comes to an electric bass; If it resonates loudly enough unplugged that I can practice basslines without an amp, it's tonewood. If unplugged notes are nearly inaudible, it isn't. That goes for pretty much any solid body instrument. Doesn't matter a hill of beans once it's plugged in, but being able to practice without plugging in is a nice feature.
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Hah that reminds me, my guitar with the most sustain plugged in sounds like a wet fart acoustically, and the one that projects/sustains the most unplugged is solidly mid when amplified. Interestingly enough, it’s opposite of weight; the bad acoustic one is a 10.5lbs solid mahogany LP style, while the good acoustic one is a 7.2lbs PRS SE.
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After 2 weeks in Fedex limbo, and an open insurance claim and two open traces, this showed up today, dropped off without the required signature and literally left in the rain  . never fedex ground, never againYamaha YTS-62II    
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Cabbages and Kings posted:After 2 weeks in Fedex limbo, and an open insurance claim and two open traces, this showed up today, dropped off without the required signature and literally left in the rain Just lmao if you use anything but USPS.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Just lmao if you use anything but USPS. Some vendors do not provide this option, and some only use Fedex, because it's the cheapest way to ship insured afaict. Fedex Express and 2-day are also generally as good as UPS which is, around here, close to as good as USPS.
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Couple boring ones Hondo H-7600MR(Metallic Red), late 80s, made in Korea by Samick. Joins the black and "Golden Sunburst" ones I have.  Mako Strat copy, I have three of these right now and the go pretty cheap for how nice they can be after a setup. Late 80s, made in Korea by Samick or Cort. One of them gave up it's neck for another Mako, then it's bridge for the Hondo above. Turns out the Hondo H-7600s and this version of the Mako use the same 50mm string spacing bridge with 10mm saddles, so when those saddles are shot you are SOL and you can't even replace the bridge without some work because the screw holes are also 10mm centers. So this new Mako gets to live for now, until I run into another Hondo H-7600 with rusted out saddles.
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And the awesome one  Hondo H940B, although this one should be an HD940B and has extra parts of a label stuck on the neckplate to make it an H9440B.  Also someone's name and Social Security number engraved on the neckplate like an rear end in a top hat would do. To back up a little, it should be marked HD940B because it has the Dimarzio K-10s. AND besides it being truly awesome, it's an early one. See the lower horn and headstock shapes.   Most of them look like this to not get sued by Ibanez  
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Completed my volca collection (except the mix which i do not want) and put thonk trimmer toppers on everything. i really love thonk bonus thonk'd up rolcas 
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Weird alignment chart
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Pretty sick Hondo! It also amuses me to think of Ibanez suing another company for copying their design. I get that they moved on from that, but it was fairly recently at that point.
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CatBlack posted:Completed my volca collection (except the mix which i do not want) and put thonk trimmer toppers on everything. i really love thonk Have you looked at the Korg Sequenz racks? - https://reverb.com/uk/item/42787693-korg-sequenz-volca-rack-3x3 I picked up the 2x2 one on sale and was impressed with the quality. The only downside is the fit is so snug you can't use a decksaver.
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wow didnt know they made a 3x3 version. looks awesome but i have no where to put it. i am keeping my volcas in cases put away and I pull a few out at a time. usually record them on a wooden tray on my lap. those racks look awesome though
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Oof, the shipping to Canada on that rack is 80% of the list price.
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Yeah I can’t be arsed to pay that much for stands. My volcas live in a 3D printed 1x2 rack that I got through work access to a printer, nice and cheap. Also complete poo poo, but whatever it works.
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Korg is blowing out vox Bobcats on reverb. $550 shipped with a hardcase.  Too good a deal to pass up so I got one. https://reverb.com/item/58528343-vox-bobcat-v90-sunburst
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Wow that is a great deal
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Oh poo poo, with a hard case? That's really tempting. If I didn't already have an arch top with p90s
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I’ve been eyeing those or the 3 single coil ones, but I can’t quite justify it. They’ve been dropping the price for a while now, and I can’t imagine them going lower. There’s speculation that they’re coming from the same factory as the Guild Newark St series, if that gives an indication of quality.
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Snap! Crackle! ROCK!!!!   Cruise - Created For VMI. Late 80s or early 90s, made in Korea by Samick. Weighs way too much, missing the locking nut to go with the truly lovely bridge, but that paint job is original and not a silk screen. $102.04 at the pawn shop I seem to get the best deals at. They even threw in a Fender gig bag.
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I always get excited when I see this thread pop up in the bookmarks and your name is last poster. I just know it’s going to be some obscure 70-90s import and I’m just like
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Sockington posted:I always get excited when I see this thread pop up in the bookmarks and your name is last poster. I just know it’s going to be some obscure 70-90s import and I’m just like widefault's post history in this thread is way too distracting for work on a Friday.
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I love widefault’s old obscure guitar treasure posts.
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 4vox, and traded up Dice for a real Marbles. 4vox was impulse buy because Control Voltage had one pretty cheap. 4vox got me on a kick reading up on Flame which led me to find a Voco[R]der for well under any of the other (three, total) listings, so I snapped it up because voders are cool. The looper on this is something else and I'm still wrapping my brain around all the things it can do; it's a loop of the analyzed band data, so the analysis input is dead but everything else works as usual and the loop itself (max length 3.5 minutes) can be scrubbed through, reversed, sped up and down. I fed some Reagan speech into it, so that's what's on there now. I reversed it, no demons summoned yet.  The dual APC was cheap because APC is a cheap circuit and it's wonderfully squelchy. Flame seems cool, I'm just going to keep an eye out and snap up any of their poo poo if and only if it's cheaper than expected. I don't know if they are still manufacturing; 4vox was only made from 2014-2016 or something and it's certainly not the worlds most advanced wavetable synth but it is 4x4voice synths in 29hp, and among other things it really shines with some electric piano and organ oriented waves. Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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Did yah find that apc on etsy? Tear Apart Tapes?
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B33rChiller posted:Did yah find that apc on etsy? Tear Apart Tapes? you got it! I may buy another to jam in a rack I am gifting someone for christmas because they are cheap and fun.
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Got this a couple of weeks ago. Someone said "you can't put it down" and indeed you can't since no stand or hanger I have works with it. Ordered a String Swing ukulele hanger which _allegedly_ works if you flip it upside down so maybe that'll take care of things. Great guitar otherwise, super comfortable and the neck really works as advertised. Very subtle but I feel like I end up with a better grip in most positions.
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