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« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2010, 09:52:12 PM » |
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Very nice looking  I probably would not like my controls so straight, but this looks very nice!! Good job.  |
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« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2010, 04:15:54 AM » |
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Well... thanx for your words All of my instruments are passive... and most of them have a single pickup. This one already has more than what's necessary IMHO  A sensitive pickup on a good sounding instrument can be enough as the plucking hand can widely affect the final sound. But with slap and tapping the double pickup can be useful as you can't strike the string in a different place but the fret itself, so the harmonic content of the notes is heavily influenced by the position of the magnet. |
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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2010, 12:30:56 PM » |
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Really gorgeous! Sapele is really great looking stuff and I think it is a wonderful tone wood. The bass I have with a sapele body has a wenge/padauk neck so the light sapele is offset by the heavy wenge, but it sounds SO GOOD!! Great work, man!! |
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« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2010, 12:35:07 PM » |
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I wasn't passionate about Sapele but both the instruments I've built using it for the body look and sound nice... I guess I'll keep using it from time to time |
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2010, 10:28:00 AM » |
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I think most builders have strong opinions about wood from the mahogany family. Because sapele is more dense (this is only my opinion) it is not so open sounding as some of the other species, but it has some characteristics I really enjoy. It is still very lively and punchy sounding. And I think it is really lovely to look at. |
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« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2010, 11:04:26 AM » |
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Well, in theory a more dense wood delivers faster transients and an open sound  |
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« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2010, 07:27:12 PM » |
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Interesting. Maybe it is the construction methods and the wood combinations on my 2 current basses with mahoganies. My fretless has a 2 piece african mahogany body and is a bolt-on neck. That neck is maple with a cocobolo finger boards. The fretted is neck-through in construcion and there are lacewood top and back woods. The neck, as I mentioned before, is wenge with padauk stringers and the fretboard is pau ferro. Very different sounding instruments even acoustically!! |
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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2010, 11:28:01 AM » |
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Well... pickups (type and position), neck (joint type, wood, construction type), body (wood, weight, number of joints), scale, number of frets... all of these features affect the final sound. When I build two basses with the same woods I can hear a difference 'cause the wood blanks are all different... so it's clear that on such different basses you hear a big difference in tone. Anyway, Mahogany isn't dark sounding... it's not ultra-bright if used for a neck, no. The problem is that commercial instrument have crappy pickups, bad glue and woods chosen bad and put together worse.  |
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« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2010, 07:17:22 PM » |
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True, true, true! I am very fond of mahogany on a fretless instrument as I think it is very lively with great midrange response. My current primary fretless sounds FANTASTIC!! |
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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2010, 07:27:07 PM » |
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I agree Stew mahogany has a great range of tone and its easy to work with.
I'm diggin the Mahogany, Maple combo
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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2010, 11:06:02 PM » |
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Maple is a classic wood for so many reasons, Rick. Easy to work, reliable tone results, aesthetics... And it deserves its reputation! |
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« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2010, 04:04:54 AM » |
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I NEVER use it!  |
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« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2010, 11:15:05 AM » |
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Very, nice!! Love the body design & the choice of woods!! Put up a vid and lets hear what it sounds like!
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« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2010, 12:17:18 PM » |
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