SD soloist bass in japan

[rps14a]

floating around over there somewhere










chris

[Newc]

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Mmmmmm. Piezo [img]/images/graemlins/drool2.gif[/img]

[gemini8026]

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Damn, thats nice, and Im assuming a Custom Shop jobby? Id like to see some gold hardware on her!

[Jim Shine]

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They were all Custom Shop at that time. I had a black Piezo Concert Bass serial number under J1000. Sold it because the wires were literally ripped out from the saddles and I couldn't find replacements that would retrofit.

[thor]

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Nice. You found it in Japan?

[rps14a]

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i saw it on a site but it was sold so its floating around there somewhere hopefully getting taken care of and used to rock hard!


chris

[Newc]

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A friend in New Orleans had a sweet Black & Blue Bengal (original, not Lynch) piezo bass and it kicked ass. His trade-in was a Gold Sparkle Astro Star bass that was "autographed" (if you can call carving your name in something with a knife 'autographed') by Suzanna Hoffs.

[kinde69]

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coolest bass that I have ever seen!

[kinde69]

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I have also San Dimas bass which I bought from Guitarden. But it´s student bass and not so cool as your custom...

[pro-fusion]

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Is that a Dimas? It's got the large control cavity. How do piezo basses sound? My old SD Concert bass had EMGs, which I would think would be better for such a metalhead-looking bass.

[AlexL]

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As a finger-style bass player, how the hell do you anchor your thumb when playing the low E on a bass with no pickup or thumbrest?

Nice minimalist look, but I'd have a serious time trying to play that.


- E.

[Newc]

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You don't anchor your thumb, you anchor your wrist/forearm or you develop a "floating" style [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Made In USA under the 'N', gotta be a Dimas. As for how they sound - excellent. They work just fine for 80's Metal. Probably won't handle Motorhead and such.
But the transducers were very fragile and would break from the vibrations.

[thor]

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I've never played a Piezo system...but I don't think I would like it that much. [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img] I tend to favor neck pickups on all my basses, because I get more string travel there and get a meatier bass tone. Bridge pickups get favored if I have to get cutting distortion and more treble like Motorhead. Piezo just seems to go too far into the treble end.

[AlexL]

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I've never played a Piezo system...but I don't think I would like it that much. [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img] I tend to favor neck pickups on all my basses, because I get more string travel there and get a meatier bass tone. Bridge pickups get favored if I have to get cutting distortion and more treble like Motorhead. Piezo just seems to go too far into the treble end.

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I haven't played a Piezo system either, but it isn't like a traditional pickup; meaning that just because it sits in the bridge, that doesn't mean it sounds like a bridge pickup. I think they just pick up the body/string vibrations better when installed in the bridge. I know on a regualr guitar, they have a very nice acoustic-guitar quality to them.

I'd love to install one in my SLATQH.


- E.

[No Use]

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*WOW* i've never seen anything like that before! thats freakin' sweet!