| Author | Message | ||
| pace
Senior Member Username: pace Post Number: 706 Registered: 4-2004 |
PUT THEM IN A BASS..... LOL......  I couldn't have picked a better transplant recipient for you JOEY!!!  | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1668 Registered: 9-2002 |
OK, I fell off the wrong side of the bed today, Mike, what am I missing here . . . . ? J o e y | ||
| rustyg61
Intermediate Member Username: rustyg61 Post Number: 107 Registered: 2-2011 |
Something to do with a "Big Red Bass?" | ||
| pace
Senior Member Username: pace Post Number: 708 Registered: 4-2004 |
and your LOVE for Gibsons!!!! | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 1768 Registered: 5-2009 |
LOL , Well at least you guys picked out a" Want To Be Alembic"Bass and not one of those Gibson Bass's with those strange 3 post tilt bridges. LOL_______ | ||
| tbrannon
Senior Member Username: tbrannon Post Number: 1336 Registered: 11-2004 |
Is that a Warwick bridge and tailpiece? | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 1769 Registered: 5-2009 |
This bridge & tailpiece were offered by Gibson on some Les Paul Bass issues at some point . I played one at the Guitar show in Marin Co, Ca, last year. Warwick has had a similar looking one. | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 1927 Registered: 10-2003 |
I bet that thing sounds... HEAVY! ;) | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 1773 Registered: 5-2009 |
JA !___ Bend those Minor Thirds___1,3,1.3,1,3,1_______ (Spoonful) | ||
| pace
Senior Member Username: pace Post Number: 710 Registered: 4-2004 |
This is a '96 LPB3 Les Paul Standard bass. This is one of the last ones before the three point bridge, chambered body, and toggle switch were introduced. I'm pretty sure that this bridge is licensed thru Warwick. I've had this bass for a long time, but have always been turned off by how the original Bart electronics represented this bass's acoustic attributes. The Alembic HG Activators are a perfect swap for the original "TB+" ceramic pickups, and the Bart TCT preamp has been replaced with Alembic Vol, Vol, Bass+/-, Treble+/-. At first I was hesitant of not having a low pass filter on this bass, because that IS the Alembic sound... BUT.... This is my first set of Activators with two volumes, and because of the pickup placement I'm able to get similar EQ curves by slightly rolling back one pickup or the other! Once "Activated" I have to admit that this isn't anything like my EBO (alas, no "Spoonful").... But it does have some of that early Phil vibe, along with all the "clank" that the older Gibsons were known for!!!! | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 1774 Registered: 5-2009 |
LOL. I was joking with the "spoonful" in response to 811952. Honestly , when I checked out a similar Bass @ the Guitar show I was thinking the same as you did and to put Alembic Activators in it. Early Phil vibe is WAY COOL, his ALembic modified EB-3 had some cool visceral growl ______ | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1671 Registered: 9-2002 |
OK, NOW I get it. That is certainly an upgrade and I would bet my next paycheck that indeed, it does not sound like an EB-O. NICE COLOR. Really nice axe, Mike, deinitely cool dropping a 'crate motor' into this bass. (BTW, HipShot is making a very nice replacement for that 3-point abomination of a bridge: The technically astute who are not stuck to that vintage look might want to consider it. Uses the same three studs, nice piece.) So I feel like I've paid appropriate appreciation to this newly upgraded axe, and Mike, I really appreciate you thinking of me, nice to not see one more wood-toned bass. Thanks a lot. And in an attempt to acknowledge my part in this conversation, I did, back in the day, buy a brand new Ripper in natural, followed by a sunburst RD Artist, surely the heaviest bass ever manufactured upon the North American continent. So I'm certainly an accessory and culpable for that time period. But that was then . . . . and this is now. So . . . . Gibson makes basses ? ? ? J o e y | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1672 Registered: 9-2002 |
. . . . I'll even go as far as to admit a certain (surely perverse, or some as-yet undiagnosed problem between-the-ears) desire for an LP Bass, preferably not from 'Good is Only Gibson Enough' (my favorite scrambled re-write of that slogan). Sure enough I found this, and thankfully I've not bugged Susan to ask who to talk to a IKEBE to round me one up: http://www.espguitars.co.jp/edwards/original/E-LB-135CD.html From ESP's affordable line, only available in the Far East, luckily for me. Trade out the Seymours for those EMG's from the Steinberger XL's, add a BTS Circuit, and rewire the selector for a standby and I'd be off to the races. Plus, it would be a hoot to run around NashVegas with a lawsuit bass ! Or it might be more fun to get one of those EBay Chinese Gilsons . . . . I was told nobody my age was innocent anymore, but THIS wasn't the kind of thing I though I'd get caught out on. Geez . . . . . J o e y | ||
| hieronymous
Senior Member Username: hieronymous Post Number: 915 Registered: 1-2005 |
I'm a fan of both Alembic and Gibson (and Rickenbacker and Guild and Fender too) - I'm diggin' the Les Paul! Question for you - do the "guitar" pickups perform in the "bass" department? The reason I ask is, I have a Fender Japan Bass VI reissue, but don't like the pickups. Have thought of putting Strat-Activators in it - think it would work? | ||
| pace
Senior Member Username: pace Post Number: 711 Registered: 4-2004 |
Harry, the Orion Baritone that I owned had these same pups in it.... Back then I was going A-A, so I knew that the HG's would respond to the low E fine.... Same Bass & Treb +/- as the Orion too! I think that the Strat style activators would work in a Bass VI, but are the ears set at the same length?? | ||
| tbrannon
Senior Member Username: tbrannon Post Number: 1337 Registered: 11-2004 |
Joey said, "a sunburst RD Artist, surely the heaviest bass ever manufactured upon the North American continent." I'm guessing you've never hoisted a Peavey T-40? ;) Truth be told, I'm sure you have played T-40's before, but they are notoriously heavy and thought they at least deserved honorable mention when discussing boat anchors. | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1673 Registered: 9-2002 |
Toby, I bought the first T40 that came into our store ($349.50, case included). Hartley certainly built them to last, but I thought it would make a great 'room clearer' (this tells the experienced just what kind of places I was playing in . . . ). Even though, the RD (I owned both of these at the same time) was NOTICEABLY heavier. I think mine was 'one of those basses', an exceptionally heavy one out of a line that was generally heavier than most. I often wondered if mine was made from railroad ties, then bleached to look like maple. J o e y | ||
| benson_murrensun
Senior Member Username: benson_murrensun Post Number: 439 Registered: 5-2007 |
I always thought the "T" in T-40 stood for "tree". |
