Blind tests. Find out how much you were fooling yourself. Did the
first big one for my recordings of basses.
The most important one first: stings matter so much for basses. You
need quality strings, you need to be lucky that you don't get a dud in
there and hey you need to match it to the bass - more on that later in
this rambling.
Bridges matter. I am really not a friend of high mass bridges but I
knew that before.
Fender AVRIs really rock. My sunburst '62 Precision which I thought
is the coolest one ever didn't make it very high in blind selection
but it had the least time with stringslutting. The stainless steel
lo-riders aren't a good match.
The Dean Markley SR2000 strings which I hate like the plaque when I
know that they are there score very high in sound selection in blind
tests.
The winner in the whole set is my German made Warwick Corvette which
is a bit surprising since I payed -what- $430 for it? People don't
know what's good. The thing cheats a bit because it currently hogs
the Dean Markleys.
Honorable mention goes to the Thunderbird and the blind test reveals
that the hard-hitting dark Gibson pickups when combined with SS
strings beat some vintage wind pickups with mellower strings.
Overall there are no action items here yet. I underestimated the
importance of strings and some basses need to be re-tested with more
fitting strings. For this brutal linear no-effects blind test I also
need higher action on some since fret snarls is really disturbing.
Anyone got a AVRI Jazz in black for trade?
first big one for my recordings of basses.
The most important one first: stings matter so much for basses. You
need quality strings, you need to be lucky that you don't get a dud in
there and hey you need to match it to the bass - more on that later in
this rambling.
Bridges matter. I am really not a friend of high mass bridges but I
knew that before.
Fender AVRIs really rock. My sunburst '62 Precision which I thought
is the coolest one ever didn't make it very high in blind selection
but it had the least time with stringslutting. The stainless steel
lo-riders aren't a good match.
The Dean Markley SR2000 strings which I hate like the plaque when I
know that they are there score very high in sound selection in blind
tests.
The winner in the whole set is my German made Warwick Corvette which
is a bit surprising since I payed -what- $430 for it? People don't
know what's good. The thing cheats a bit because it currently hogs
the Dean Markleys.
Honorable mention goes to the Thunderbird and the blind test reveals
that the hard-hitting dark Gibson pickups when combined with SS
strings beat some vintage wind pickups with mellower strings.
Overall there are no action items here yet. I underestimated the
importance of strings and some basses need to be re-tested with more
fitting strings. For this brutal linear no-effects blind test I also
need higher action on some since fret snarls is really disturbing.
Anyone got a AVRI Jazz in black for trade?
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