Howdy! 
It's been weeks or even months since I've been encountering TalkBass.com 's board while searching for information on Google... and it's mostly been TalkBass.com results that gave me the answers. As I recently got the fever about knowing 'more' than just how using my fingers to play some notes, I thought that it would be a great idea to join a bass community from some Internet's goodness: a board! Here I come, to TalkBass!
My real name is Baptiste, I'm 25 and was born in France. I have curly hair and a beard, and love mostly all colours, but my favourite are purple and red (the deep ones). I like cereals and beers. That's it for my personality.
I started playing the bass guitar in 2012 as I got one for my 20th birthday. It is a Cort GB34A, and it was in a glossy black colour on day 1. My family and friends got that exact model because one of my sister's friend had the same and she told them to get that one because it was a great beginner deal.
It features an agathis body, with a rosewood fingerboard on a jazz style 22-frets maple neck. Pickups are a "Music Man" style humbucker on the bridge side and a jazz one on the neck side. There's a 2-band EQ active pre-amp, powered by a 9V battery, and an active/passive switch is present. The bass is rather light, thanks to its wood choice, and offers an overall good tone to my ear, whether agathis is loved or not.
I could gather some photos I took from the early days of my Cort's history, and also some portraits friends made (thanks to Max and Val), so here we go:
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And then the time passed and the passion grew inside of me. And I got crazy enough to paint my first bass, with basic tools (stay for the pictures later on the post). Of course, I later got a second bass — a Squier VM Precision 5 strings, but I sold it. And then I got another Squier VM Precision with PJ pickups in a beautiful Candy Apple Red colour, and also I bought a cheap — but great! — StingRay 34 copy for cheap that I painted as well (guess on which website..), and again I sold my 2nd Squier Precision. It was one week ago that I sold it.
Yes, we flew quickly from the beginning of my bass love story to the near end... Because if you want to know the complete story, you may get to know me after all.
Here's a photo of my loved ones from some days ago, when the Sun finally decided to say "Hello!":
But could I leave my love for basses here & stay with only TWO?? Of course not... so let's go again, and buy another one to get poor again!
This is a Cort "PJ" bass... Oh, in translucid red! <3 I haven't got much information from it, as there isn't any model name on the neck. The serial number starts with "70" so I thought the manufacture year would be 1970, according to Cort's website, but Cort didn't existed as a guitars brand before 1973. So I'd say that she's from the late 80s... All I know: it's a passive bass with a 500k Tone knob, with a very opened tone (clear and woody!). The jazz-style pickup is less powerful than the precision-style one. The fingerboard doesn't seem to be rosewood but rather 'jatoba', a tree from South America. I love its colour. 20 frets, slim C neck shape... that's it!
That lovely bass needs a proper restoration. I bought her for cheap, and it used to be sleeping in an outdoor garage...
My plans: I will install a new bridge with brass saddles, change the tone knob that remains "fully open" even though there's no sound issues, change the pickguard screws, which are all rusty from time and humidity, get her a beautiful bone nut, and to complete the Cake, she'll get fresh La Bella's black nylon tapewound strings in low tension (750N) — because I don't think the neck could support any normal or high tension set, as the neck had a banana shape when I got her in my hands about 48 hours ago... even with truss-rod adjustment.
I'll finish my presentation by saying the following: I don't just 'play' the bass guitar... in fact there's just a very few content where you can see me playing. I like to study how it's made: woods, pickups, strings, settings, taste, plucking and slapping ways... All the package of the bass guitar instrument is fun to me!
If you read everything, thanks a lot! haha — I didn't think at first, that I'd give taht much details about my basses.
I hope we can share great knowledge and fun together in here, on TalkBass's board. My best regards to all the members and thanks to the founders for offering such a great tool.
Baptiste a.k.a. Instantly Ectobassma
PS: A cover bonus?
It's been weeks or even months since I've been encountering TalkBass.com 's board while searching for information on Google... and it's mostly been TalkBass.com results that gave me the answers. As I recently got the fever about knowing 'more' than just how using my fingers to play some notes, I thought that it would be a great idea to join a bass community from some Internet's goodness: a board! Here I come, to TalkBass!
My real name is Baptiste, I'm 25 and was born in France. I have curly hair and a beard, and love mostly all colours, but my favourite are purple and red (the deep ones). I like cereals and beers. That's it for my personality.
I started playing the bass guitar in 2012 as I got one for my 20th birthday. It is a Cort GB34A, and it was in a glossy black colour on day 1. My family and friends got that exact model because one of my sister's friend had the same and she told them to get that one because it was a great beginner deal.
It features an agathis body, with a rosewood fingerboard on a jazz style 22-frets maple neck. Pickups are a "Music Man" style humbucker on the bridge side and a jazz one on the neck side. There's a 2-band EQ active pre-amp, powered by a 9V battery, and an active/passive switch is present. The bass is rather light, thanks to its wood choice, and offers an overall good tone to my ear, whether agathis is loved or not.
I could gather some photos I took from the early days of my Cort's history, and also some portraits friends made (thanks to Max and Val), so here we go:
[...]
And then the time passed and the passion grew inside of me. And I got crazy enough to paint my first bass, with basic tools (stay for the pictures later on the post). Of course, I later got a second bass — a Squier VM Precision 5 strings, but I sold it. And then I got another Squier VM Precision with PJ pickups in a beautiful Candy Apple Red colour, and also I bought a cheap — but great! — StingRay 34 copy for cheap that I painted as well (guess on which website..), and again I sold my 2nd Squier Precision. It was one week ago that I sold it.
Yes, we flew quickly from the beginning of my bass love story to the near end... Because if you want to know the complete story, you may get to know me after all.
Here's a photo of my loved ones from some days ago, when the Sun finally decided to say "Hello!":
But could I leave my love for basses here & stay with only TWO?? Of course not... so let's go again, and buy another one to get poor again!
This is a Cort "PJ" bass... Oh, in translucid red! <3 I haven't got much information from it, as there isn't any model name on the neck. The serial number starts with "70" so I thought the manufacture year would be 1970, according to Cort's website, but Cort didn't existed as a guitars brand before 1973. So I'd say that she's from the late 80s... All I know: it's a passive bass with a 500k Tone knob, with a very opened tone (clear and woody!). The jazz-style pickup is less powerful than the precision-style one. The fingerboard doesn't seem to be rosewood but rather 'jatoba', a tree from South America. I love its colour. 20 frets, slim C neck shape... that's it!
That lovely bass needs a proper restoration. I bought her for cheap, and it used to be sleeping in an outdoor garage...
My plans: I will install a new bridge with brass saddles, change the tone knob that remains "fully open" even though there's no sound issues, change the pickguard screws, which are all rusty from time and humidity, get her a beautiful bone nut, and to complete the Cake, she'll get fresh La Bella's black nylon tapewound strings in low tension (750N) — because I don't think the neck could support any normal or high tension set, as the neck had a banana shape when I got her in my hands about 48 hours ago... even with truss-rod adjustment.
I'll finish my presentation by saying the following: I don't just 'play' the bass guitar... in fact there's just a very few content where you can see me playing. I like to study how it's made: woods, pickups, strings, settings, taste, plucking and slapping ways... All the package of the bass guitar instrument is fun to me!
If you read everything, thanks a lot! haha — I didn't think at first, that I'd give taht much details about my basses.
I hope we can share great knowledge and fun together in here, on TalkBass's board. My best regards to all the members and thanks to the founders for offering such a great tool.
Baptiste a.k.a. Instantly Ectobassma
PS: A cover bonus?