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    Posted: January 18 2019 at 06:15
Epiphone Thunderbird Vintage bass. 

Any musicians got an opinion on them ? Is the neck dive as bad as I imagine it might be ? ;-)

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I don't know about the Thunderbird but I have an Epiphone Viola and that does have a bit of neck dive, although not enough to be a problem. There have been some for sale in a Bass For Sale FB group that I'm in and there was no mention of neck dive, one person seemed to be very much in love with them.
Worth having a rummage on BassChat or somewhere like that to gauge opinion.
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Always cook it on the bone! Takes the flavour of the fish to the next level
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Thanks, folks. I'll give one a try later. The only practical alternative - "see if it fits". ;-)

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I have a bass thought

How to create/make the bass have more of that post-punk tone. I want to understand that. What elements is important to craft a good post-punk bass sound.
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In my personal opinion, both Gibson and Epiphone make some very high quality, amazing sounding - but unfortunately very uncomfortable to play - bass guitars.

This is just personal preference but everything outside high end Ibanez boutique basses, everything feels like a brick with strings to me lol.

Play it for yourself!

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Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

I have a bass thought

How to create/make the bass have more of that post-punk tone. I want to understand that. What elements is important to craft a good post-punk bass sound.
Chorus pedal?
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

I have a bass thought

How to create/make the bass have more of that post-punk tone. I want to understand that. What elements is important to craft a good post-punk bass sound.
Chorus pedal?

Chorus, maybe a little reverb thrown in, and play with a pick close to the bridge itself.

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Also try and unlearn all music principles you might have picked up over the years. ;-)

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Have you seen that Geddy Lee has released a Big Beautiful Book of Bass that apparently has really good pictures and info on many bass guitars and interviews with a number of bass guitar players?  I've read a couple of reviews on the book and it sounds quite heavy, but quite interesting.
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If you get a chance to watch the live Rush R-40 video - Geddy pulls out a T-Bird and you can hear it alongside his Fenders and Ricks. I was totally impressed with the T-Bird. I play both a Rickenbacker and a Jazz bass and I am finding those rounder tones like the T-Bird and Precision more and more interesting.
Geddy goes direct so the bass sounds are really the bass themselves, not as much a tone stack of amps and effects.
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Have you seen that Geddy Lee has released a Big Beautiful Book of Bass that apparently has really good pictures and info on many bass guitars and interviews with a number of bass guitar players?  I've read a couple of reviews on the book and it sounds quite heavy, but quite interesting.

Said book is a fantastic collectors item, but it's most certainly not a be-all-end-all encyclopedia on bass guitar by any means.

Great for Fender fans, not so much for anyone else.

I'd actually suggest a Google search/Quaroa/Forum questions over that book for a beginner looking to check out bass.

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Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

I have a bass thought

How to create/make the bass have more of that post-punk tone. I want to understand that. What elements is important to craft a good post-punk bass sound.


What song or what bassist embodies this tone?
I have found over the years that you can cop a lot of different tones and feel with amp setups and playing styles.
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Don't begrudge Geddy for creating that book, but from the sound of it, it's not
"The Rock Bass Manual" by Hugh Hopper.
Now there's a book that's really enjoyable from start to finish.
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