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Most Fenders have 20 frets. The Deluxe/active model has 22 frets, but I'd bet 99 out of 100 Fenders you see have 20 frets. It would probably be next to impossible to find a 24-fret neck to fit a Fender. I don't know what Flea is playing in that particular video, but I've seen him playing both Fender...

I've found the whole song sounds different when played tuned a half-step down versus standard tuning played a fret lower, even though no open strings are used through the main part of the song. Must be the difference in harmonics from playing a fret higher.

Look into the MTD Kingston or Heir. I had one a couple years ago-- the new models have active electronics and you can get a nice wood top. Very good build quality, especially for the price, which should be well under $1000. I ordered mine through Bass Central-- their website is http://www.basscentra...

[quote="street fish"] 3 weeks, heh. Really? I'm assuming it was already in production or finished? [/quote] It was just "almost finished" and nobody had boughten it, so I said I can screw the black pearloid pickguard and the long wait and just get the white anyway, which i think is a bit more good ...

i like tictacs wrote:3 weeks, heh.

Really? I'm assuming it was already in production or finished?

I opted out of the bartolini actually. I got the Aggie OBP-1 instead. I should have edited. But hey...I'm lazy. So did you order one brand new from Modulus? How long before it arrives? I know about a year ago a new order from Modulus was sitting at about 6 months, but that could have dropped due to...

i like tictacs wrote:Byebye warwick, and byebye numerous rack equipment. That's alright though, because I just ordered a Modulus Flea 4. Black with white pickguard, standard pickup etc etc.


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I recommend the Aguilar OBP-1 preamp instead of the standard Bartolini.

No, it isn't a requisite phrase in the music. But to play a lot of DMB's music you must have a 5 string bass, so when I charted this I thought that walking it an octave down would give the song more dynamics. In reality the bassline for crush is little more than a handful of powerchord arpeggios. t...

[code] G--------------------------------------------------- D---------8-----8-----------------10---------------- A-----------7-----7-------------10--10\----6--7--8-- E----6-------6-----6---6--7--8------------------------ B--------------------------------------------------- He actually plays the ext...

You can tune it however you want, but the standard tuning is BEADGC. Fourths all the way, nothing funky like a guitar.

[quote="Xiablo"]flea tends to annoy me...."WHOA! he pops octaves fast! yeeeeeeeyyy!" I dont find his work to be that creative flea does more than that true, aeroplane is mostly octave stuff, but check out, under the bridge, californiacation, around the world, naked in the rain(check out the solo th...

yeah, but what i mean is bass players that don't create a groove. 555555555577777777773333333333 as fast as you can doesn't seem like a groove to me. Some songs don't call for a groove. Sounds like you're describing a punk or a metal line-- not the most groove-oriented music. Trying to play a Motow...

rappers that claim to be musicians. and bass players whos line consists of 555555555555555555 777777777777777777 33333333333333333333 33333333333333333333333333 Sometimes I'm more annoyed by bass players whose lines consist of 1728903485 12980347126798 239407 1672894671 -- I saw this jazz group per...

Any bass can be good for funk if you use your fingers right Yep. . . Flea plays funk on his Flea bass live, he's used Stingrays in the past, he uses Alembics and Wals among other things in the studio. James Jamerson, who played on about every Motown hit, used an early 60s P-bass. I believe Victor u...

i like tictacs wrote:The thing I like about the wood is that you can iron out all the dents and thus, it is always in good condition minus the oil rubbing off.

I got a ding on the body of my P-bass, and there are some scratches starting to form, and I kind of like it . . . . .