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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?
Now that you made me look at it, it might not be as great as it looks now since many of the sr2000 tests came out well.