Let's see how good your ear is

klaymaster

klaymaster

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I saw a thread where somebody did this one time. It was something about "find the P bass"
Well this isn't that exactly. You hear the tone of 4 basses - none of which are actually pictured in the background. That's just random stuff. I would like to hear your thoughts on the tone of the 4 basses.
What type of bass do you think they are?
What type of pickups?
Active/passive?
type of strings?
Which one sounds best/most expensive?
any other thoughts are welcome

I'll reveal later after some good feedback
 
#4
TrustRod said:
I love the random pictures. I hear roundwounds, 1 is a bridge pickup. 2 sounds like a really bright P.

Do I hear a pick?

This is really hard if you don't tell me first.
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3 have roundwounds - all D'addario Nickel Wound XL
1 has Chromes

You're pretty close on 1 and 2. I just want to see if this thread gets any more attention and I'll give away some more details.
 
#8
No pick used. Number 2 is the bass in my picture. It's a Schecter P Custom 5 string. The "brightness" of it is because it's got a Nordstrand Power Blade pickup. It's actually pretty heavy in mids and rolled off in the treble a good bit.
 
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kodiakblair said:
If it's anything like the "Which clip is the £8 Chinese single coil?" I did years back, prepare for a long wait :D

Blind tests are almost always a guessing game exercise, 'experts' will hang back until the end before replying :roflmao:

My 'expert' opinion, same player did all 4 clips :thumbsup:
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Safe guess and correct! 50 imaginary points
 
#11
#3 is my Rick 4001 from 1977. You dropped it at some point, denting the headstock a bit on the upper curly part. And you changed strings - 3 times since then. There's some funk in the strings - you had fried chicken a week back, and should have washed your hands before playing. Shame on you.
 
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I learned years ago that I could make most basses sound like each other thru effects, equalizing, and playing technique. But in that same experiment 2 basses sounded different than the rest. A Rickenbacker 4001/4003 and a Thunderbird both had a sound that was different than the rest, and that sound was evident through the effect, and EQ, and playing techniques.
 
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Ric5 said:
I learned years ago that I could make most basses sound like each other thru effects, equalizing, and playing technique. But in that same experiment 2 basses sounded different than the rest. A Rickenbacker 4001/4003 and a Thunderbird both had a sound that was different than the rest, and that sound was evident through the effect, and EQ, and playing techniques.
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Pickup placement gives you a comb filter that is different on every string - you can (in theory) EQ a Rick to sound like a P on ONE string, but it would be one heck of a filter, and doing that makes the other strings worse - you literally cannot eq the differences from different pickup placements out.

My first bass was a Ric 4001. I liked the sound from the bridge pickup, I liked the Bubinga fretboard, and...not much else. Recently I built myself a bass that has one pickup in the location of the Ric bridge pickup, a Bubinga fretboard, and....nothing else is like a Ric. Does it sound exactly like my Ric? As I sold my Ric over 40 years ago. I really have no idea, but it sounds good to me.
 
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This was really boring. I didn't have fun at all lol.

Ok well every bass has split coil pickups although very different. check my next post.

My wife gave me better feedback on the audio
 
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