Ok Frankie, time for some bass guitar talk...
Or anyone else who likes the boom! (or thump...)
P-J fat head Squier. I stripped it down to the bone and made my own one off fade paint job. There's actually a candy blue under the edges but the camera don't pick it up. Local shop cut out room for preamp and battery box on the rear. Relocated plug to the edge and put Fender's football on it, dressed the frets and put a new nut in. Badass Bridge, 3 Band Pre Amp, swapped to Fender Classic pickups, XL flatwounds.
That tone baby! That tone! :rock:
Well, I'm certainly impressed.
I have a couple of active basses, but lately I find myself favoring the passive sound, again. But I ave always had a weak spot for home grown Frankenstein basses, and that is certainly what you've come up with.
Starting with a Squier bass is an excellent mule, too. Squiers are actually pretty decent basses for the money, and, I have to tall you that I have a Frankensteined Squier (Cort) 5 string, that I absolutely love, and when some other bassists here it on a recording, or even live, they love it's tone. In fact I've never heard a bad word about it's tone quality. But, when I tell them it's a Squire, made by Cort, their noses go up in the air.
Isn't quality of sound and playability what make a good bass, any more?
Lately my go to bass is a Mexican Fender P/J, maple J neck, and passive P and J pickups. The only thing I did was up grade to a set of pick ups I removed from a badly damaged American P/J. It also has a BAII bridge. I love the tone and playability of it.
It's another Frankenstein, and I love the damned thing.
It sounds like your collection is growing...
WHat about the EB? Are you closing in on it, yet?