Gear Purchases

Didn't you used to go on Gearslutz and that sort? Kinda seemed like you were remembering that. Anyways, water under the river. I'll fill you in once the parts arrive.

many, many years ago I was on gearslutz, thegearpage and moderated prosoundweb

I just picked up a 2004 Ibanez RdGr 500. I bought it on instinct. I was driving to my landlord's and without thinking about it, turned and pulled into a pawn shop at 8am. It was the first instrument I saw and thinking at first that it was an old roadster, I asked to play it. I plugged it into a massive SWR redhead amp which was a mistake because EVERYTHING sounds better through an SWR. Bought it after 30 seconds for $250.

The strings were deader than any I had ever heard. I only have spare 5 sets around the house, so I went to GC where lo and behold, Di'Addario 4 sets were only 10 bucks. Tonight I plan on stringing it up, setting it up (the person before me had the string floating in the clouds), and seeing if I can make it sound good. I like the look of the bass. Maybe I just need to drop in a different preamp.

how many basses do you have now?

I'm at 11 right now. I got done cleaning her out and stringing her up. The tone is just not for me. Maybe if I got a good preamp for it but, I don't feel like going through all that right now. I'm probably going to end up giving to the church I play for... maybe. I'm conflicted. I like the way it looks and the goofy bridge it has makes so much sense to me. Kind of looks like Ibanez's attempt at a Wal looking bass I think. The sound just doesn't compare though.

You know what... I may buy a filter preamp, put it a high end MM in the neck position, and make this thing sound like a Wal.

you have more basses than I have guitars now, well done

You probably beat me in quality. 4 of my basses I couldn't give away. 2 rogues, a first act, and an SX. 6 string guitars I don't think I'll ever buy any more. I've got my Ibanez, my Takamine, and a couple of acoustics. I'm set for life there.

I was offering to donate my lower end equipment to a church in Abilene. They were wanting to start playing more modern music and I have enough to give them a good starting point. They ended up not going anywhere with it. Had an acoustic player for a month and then he broke his wrist or something.

I dunno, my collection has a lot of oddballs in it. I will regularly sell off 'great' guitars for a profit but I get sentimental about certain pieces that aren't worth shit but are special to me. I feel like some guitars have a lot of magic in them, like there are songs and riffs they contain that are just waiting to be revealed and every time I pick one up I get some of that. A piece of music I wouldn't have written just leaps off the fretboard and I am kinda just the conduit?

so my fender collction is fulla rando mexis guitars and parts that just do it for me, but I threw over custom shop and avri instruments that are 'better' guitars for the stuff I have... my set-neck collection is fulla mutants too... I threw over a late 80s LP standard worth quite a chunka change today but am devoted to my beat up SG and silver LP studio because they are more inspiring (and lighter LOL)

I could buy a legit custom shop 335 but instead I play the shit outta my lawsuit Yamaha from the 70s (for less than the cost of said custom shop RI I bought 2 in need of repair and kept the one that delivered the most original licks after a year)... around the time I bought the Yamis I had briefly had a gretsch chet akins and coulda bought a great 2008 'fat neck' 335 '59 RI, but nether guitar delivered the inspiration and I couldn't justify the money

I had a gretsch duo jet worth 3k, gone... I tried to love it for years! I also abandoned a one-of-a-kind pinecster made by a gentleman in Atlanta because it ahd no mojo... great guitar though, great player, no soul though

My favorite go-to bass right now is the Carvin kit build I bought off of TalkBass. Dude put in maybe 1500 into it and I bought it at 1250 shipped. I wish I could get a replica built from it. Everyone loves it's sound, I love the way it feels. Perfect string spacing for me.

The sound mixer at the church I've been playing for came up and kept complementing me on it. He said it's the first bass they'v had play there that isn't muddy sounding and they get some $4000 ibanezes, fenders, and such come through.

I wish I was famous so I could get an endorsement for a signature bass. The Carvin would be my exact prototype.

You know, I just got an Audio Technica ATH-CKX9. Literally my first pair of "high-grade" earphones.

Damn, these things are much bassier than the Apple Earpods. That and the jack does this weird crackly thing when I rotate it, and it sometimes cuts the sound down... THESE ARE BRAND NEW

Oh damn, I haven't heard about the Evertune bridge since the guitarists from Rise Against did their Rig Rundown. How's it working for you?

Edit: These earphones are extremely uncomfortable... great sound quality for loud metal and such, but a bit too much bass for any clean and fun records.

I've been thinking about building a neck thru of my own devising and was looking at trying an evertune since the whole affair will be a pretty modern design, particularly by my standards. The evertune concept is fascinating and it looks very well engineered and manufactured.

"ask me the questions bridge keeper, I'm not afraid!"

I can build or install anything, it'll be fine! just time consuming, but its my hobby, so yeah! when I get around to building that one off neck thru I am thinking evertune bridge

Keep us updated. Or make a new thread or something. Take pictures!

dude, I am not getting to it for ages... sometime in the near future I'll order a 25" scale, pre built neck-thru neck and crave some wings for it, but god knows when that will be. Then once the whole thing is assembled I know I will probably leave it sitting unfinished with no hardware for another 6 months while I get in the mood to spring for electronics and that evertune bridge.... then finishing it will be a bear so I'll procrastinate that too unless my friend Zach will do it for me.

I'll create a thread when I order the neck though.... who knows when it'll be though because this has been in my head to do for like 2 or 3 years

http://i.imgur.com/TnxV3W4.jpg

THE ENCLOSURE HAS RETURNED

Lead guitarist in the band had some fun with this box, here's the result. Now I need to drill two holes, then he needs to varnish, then I get to install all these wires and such.