575 deluxe questions

[joelster69]

bought a mint 575 deluxe ,toothpaste logo , guessing 1991, not ft worth tx on the serial number
how does it compare to a 2b ?
body ? neck ?
are these equivalent ?or is the toothpaste logo 575 dlx crappy .

I swear the 2b sounds way fuller, not sure if its the strings , or the type of wood (poplar vs basswood) ,pickups, etc.

cant find any videos of anyone playing a 575 , when I see you tube vids of 2b , I can tell from the video its the sound im looking for.

thinking about buying a wrecked 2b online and transfering the deluxe neck to it.
dont see how to attach a pic

thx for any input

[kamanda]

Use a third party for posting pictures (imgur, google photos etc)

They are fairly equivalent in terms of quality imo, but yes the wood will make a difference, and slight difference in pickups as well. Can you:

- post a video of the tone your going for
- what's missing from your sound
- your full rig

[joelster69]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uXPG7E34fU ,
this guys tone for sure, my beater 2b sounds just like it , the mint 575 dlx , doesnt .
I play through a sansamp straight to Pa, or squire combo or fender rumble 500 v3 ,
trying to switch back from 5 strings (carvins lb 75,peavey dynabass with super ferrites! ) to 4 string charvels ,(classic rock band). need a decent sounding backup. thx for your help. I will post vids of my charvels later this week .

[amimbari]

oh damn I'm off the net for a couple months and so many people posted in the forum. I have to look to see if I have any using my 575. I still have one ( on the shelf neckless )...lol first thing you should do is measure the ohms on the p+j and then compare to your 2b. After having about 50 of these things I think the people who wound them just threw them in a box and the assemblers pulled them out and stuck them in using the pickups that were supposed to go into the preamp models in the passive ones ( less gain ) and unless they are closer to the strings they sound like ass. I actually found a video and at the end if you wanna hear it just skip thru his BS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycGpDAbR1YU

my first one I put a Kramer ZX70 neck on it cause I liked the maple FB better and it just bolted on without any mods. It didn't make any change to the tone, but I HATE switches cause you can't blend in a touch of the J

[tanpsi]

Hey man, here's a couple examples, might be hard to concentrate on the music because the bass players so damn handsome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBYTl0YfVgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH6BsBKQGC4

I loved my 575s had 3 and would have kept mine forever but I wanted to open up some 5 string gigs and then found I kept getting confused between 4 and 5 string necks, lol

Sorry, obviously not the highest quality recordings, but they sounded plenty full to me in person when kept on the P pickup and I used them a lot in a blues jam setting with all the p basses to compare to

[amimbari]

was the red white and blue ones that sold on ebay last week yours?

[tanpsi]

was the red white and blue ones that sold on ebay last week yours?

Me? no I sold mine a couple years ago and they were a dark green, I loved them though, but I just needed a 5 string, not just for metal but classic rock like "Another brick in the wall" uses a low D. I was actually thinking of getting a couple of the MIJ Jackson 5 strings that I had a seen on here, but they seemed pretty rare and pricy, so I got a couple MIJ Ibanez (oh crap I hope I wont get banned haha) but I started playing bass with the Charvels so will always like them!