I wasn't sure if this was a j-bass, p-bass or if it should go in misc, so I figured I would post it here and a mod could move it where they saw fit.
The bass has been finished since Wednesday, but I didn't have a camera so I have been waiting to post about it, but I just went and borrowed my neighbors camera, so here it is.
Neck is a j-bass neck, made from macassar ebony on canary wood, with a bone nut and Schaller tuners.
The body is jazz style as well, with a spalt maple top on alder.
The pickups are one custom made Lindy Fralin single coil p-bass pickup and a Duncan alnico Musicman pickup.
The control system right now is volume, volume, tone, tone, then a 3 way selector for the MM pickup (humbucking, single coil and out of phase) but I will soon be changing it to volume blend tone tone.
As to the sound, this bass kicks hard. It is very, very beefy sounding, perfect for about any style, but it has a fantastic funk tone, better then I have ever played. Until now I have been mainly playing rock stuff, but after having this bass for a few days I have a massive blister on my middle finger from popping too much.
I don't like talking too much about tone because I am terrible at describing it, so I will just say that this bass is fantastic sounding and hopefully soon I can get up a sound clip or two.
The last thing I will say, is that if you haven't been playing your instrument as much as you would like to in the past while, get a new one that you love. I have not been able to put this bass down since I got it, and have probably played it more in the last couple days then I have played in the last few weeks on my old bass.
The bass has been finished since Wednesday, but I didn't have a camera so I have been waiting to post about it, but I just went and borrowed my neighbors camera, so here it is.
Neck is a j-bass neck, made from macassar ebony on canary wood, with a bone nut and Schaller tuners.
The body is jazz style as well, with a spalt maple top on alder.
The pickups are one custom made Lindy Fralin single coil p-bass pickup and a Duncan alnico Musicman pickup.
The control system right now is volume, volume, tone, tone, then a 3 way selector for the MM pickup (humbucking, single coil and out of phase) but I will soon be changing it to volume blend tone tone.
As to the sound, this bass kicks hard. It is very, very beefy sounding, perfect for about any style, but it has a fantastic funk tone, better then I have ever played. Until now I have been mainly playing rock stuff, but after having this bass for a few days I have a massive blister on my middle finger from popping too much.
I don't like talking too much about tone because I am terrible at describing it, so I will just say that this bass is fantastic sounding and hopefully soon I can get up a sound clip or two.
The last thing I will say, is that if you haven't been playing your instrument as much as you would like to in the past while, get a new one that you love. I have not been able to put this bass down since I got it, and have probably played it more in the last couple days then I have played in the last few weeks on my old bass.