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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:57 pm
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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:57 pm
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chef wong wrote:
Aww if I was gonna make a bass up it would be a 62 P Bass or something. Shoot, throw an Alembic Series II in there.

Really though, that Jazz Plus is awesome.


ok that's you, start your 62 P...where's the pic of the Jazz Plus?

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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 9:36 am
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Some fine looking basses.

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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:17 pm
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Two Ibanez basses. The acoustic one is loud enough to actually be useful in outdoor get togethers. Having a bass player at acoustic gatherings was novel and welcome in the holistic community I live in for 6 months a year.

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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:59 am
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modwiz wrote:
Two Ibanez basses. The acoustic one is loud enough to actually be useful in outdoor get togethers. Having a bass player at acoustic gatherings was novel and welcome in the holistic community I live in for 6 months a year.

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I am going to add this one:
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What do you do when you need a Fender tone? Gretsch is your next bass? You need some Fenders Modwiz. LOL.


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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 2:06 pm
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brotherdave wrote:
modwiz wrote:
Two Ibanez basses. The acoustic one is loud enough to actually be useful in outdoor get togethers. Having a bass player at acoustic gatherings was novel and welcome in the holistic community I live in for 6 months a year.



I am going to add this one:
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What do you do when you need a Fender tone? Gretsch is your next bass? You need some Fenders Modwiz. LOL.


I have a thing about tuners. I like the 2x2 configuration. It is one of the reasons I bought an LP guitar first for all of my electrics. I don't like the modern configuration of tuning pegs.

If I have have the funds, I'm sure Fender would be willing to craft me a bass with a Jazz type neck and a rose wood or ebony fretboard with a 2x2 headstock. Unless they consider that design heresy. LOL. My guess is not taking people's money would be the real heresy.

Part of the Gretsch thing is to have a bass that might not sound so good. Then, what you play matters more than ever.

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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 6:19 am
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Yeah the old "It's the player not the instrument" saying is very true.

Here is one of the FENDER basses you might could use. It is the FENDER MB4 (4 string) and MB5 (5 string.) Squier also started making an MB4/MB5 model after Fender Japan stopped them, but you would want the Japanese Fender badged one. The Squiers made elsewhere in Asia are not nearly as good.

The full blown Fenders usually go for cheap compared to a Fender Mexican Standard P-Bass of the same year.

Here's the MB5:

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Here's the MB4:

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The Fender (Modern Bass) MB5 is getting harder to find as it is the scarcer of the two. Both show up on eBay now and then but the MB5 less so. Sometimes they are referred to as The Fender Showmaster. Also any of the other Heartfield project basses would have 2+2 or 2+3 or 3+3 tuning!

The MB4/MB5's were the last Fender models in production that was born from the short lived HEARTFIELD project which issued a complete line of Spanish Electric guitars and electric basses badged HEARTFIELD, sometimes badged HEARTFIELD BY FENDER and other times badged as just FENDER but they all came from the Heartfield project based at the Fujigen Gakki plants in Matsumoto Japan. Confusing no?

Here are some of the Heartfield project photos:

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Prophecy II Bass, sometimes seen badged as FENDER here it is badged HEARTFIELD:

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The Heartfield series had several levels including some custom grade neck through active EQ instruments with both standard phone jacks and an XLR out jack you could plug directly to a mixer. The goal of the Heartfield project was to blow Ibanez and Yamaha completely out of the water quality & technology wise. They certainly did that, but they cost more that initially expected for a couple of reasons and were not competitively priced versus USA made instruments so they didn't sell particularly well at the time. Heartfield basses were ahead of their time in many cases and the more deluxe Heartfield instruments remain some of the most advanced basses ever mass produced till this very day.


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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 10:19 am
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brotherdave wrote:
Yeah the old "It's the player not the instrument" saying is very true.

Here is one of the FENDER basses you might could use. It is the FENDER MB4 (4 string) and MB5 (5 string.) Squier also started making an MB4/MB5 model after Fender Japan stopped them, but you would want the Japanese Fender badged one. The Squiers made elsewhere in Asia are not nearly as good.

The full blown Fenders usually go for cheap compared to a Fender Mexican Standard P-Bass of the same year.



The Fender (Modern Bass) MB5 is getting harder to find as it is the scarcer of the two. Both show up on eBay now and then but the MB5 less so. Sometimes they are referred to as The Fender Showmaster. Also any of the other Heartfield project basses would have 2+2 or 2+3 or 3+3 tuning!

The MB4/MB5's were the last Fender models in production that was born from the short lived HEARTFIELD project which issued a complete line of Spanish Electric guitars and electric basses badged HEARTFIELD, sometimes badged HEARTFIELD BY FENDER and other times badged as just FENDER but they all came from the Heartfield project based at the Fujigen Gakki plants in Matsumoto Japan. Confusing no?

Here are some of the Heartfield project photos:

DR6 Bass

Prophecy II Bass, sometimes seen badged as FENDER here it is badged HEARTFIELD:


The Heartfield series had several levels including some custom grade neck through active EQ instruments with both standard phone jacks and an XLR out jack you could plug directly to a mixer. The goal of the Heartfield project was to blow Ibanez and Yamaha completely out of the water quality & technology wise. They certainly did that, but they cost more that initially expected for a couple of reasons and were not competitively priced versus USA made instruments so they didn't sell particularly well at the time. Heartfield basses were ahead of their time in many cases and the more deluxe Heartfield instruments remain some of the most advanced basses ever mass produced till this very day.


That was as informative as it was fun. Yes, those headstocks work for me. Now that it is in my consciousness, perhaps it will start to manifest. An affordable manifestation would be helpful. Heartfield is also a good name for me energetically.
Thank you.

A quick search yielded this to me. I like the 2x2 headstock on the upper one, but everything else about the bottom one. Color and p'ups.

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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:18 pm
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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:52 am
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chef wong wrote:
Aww if I was gonna make a bass up it would be a 62 P Bass or something. Shoot, throw an Alembic Series II in there.

Really though, that Jazz Plus is awesome.


ok that's you, start your 62 P...where's the pic of the Jazz Plus?


The Jazz Plus was a great bass. I sold it though to make a couple payments on an Alembic Distillate. There's a pic of the Distillate at their online club. Look for 'that sustain' in the Showcase section. Bad photos of a great bass...

I had been lusting over that particular bass for over 15 years. I just couldn't pass on it.

I think the wood recipe on the bass is Cocobolo over a Koa body(a rare combo). Either that...or the usual Walnut over Mahagony body...but it's too brown to be Mahagony.


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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 5:17 pm
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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
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Another new Bass??

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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:56 pm
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Another new Bass??

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Yep. The Mustang was like a short Jazz, and a total PITA. Soooooo,............... I went back to the 4003.

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Post subject: Re: What is your bass?
Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 5:49 am
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Beautiful growler you gotta have, Mr. Nylon.

This sunburst rosewood neck Jazz would form an excellent pair with the candy cola maple neck Precision, IMHO.

Alas, the candy cola P was sold.

I really like a lot your idea to put a white pearloid pickguard into that sunburst beauty.


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