ED Friedland's review of Streamer LX SE Rosewood

Well the pups in the SE LX are passive, so maybe that's why it has more mids. But the P pup in that edition is the sweetest P bass tone I've heard. I have never heard such an awesome tone.
 
FunkyBassist said:
Well the pups in the SE LX are passive, so maybe that's why it has
more mids. But the P pup in that edition is the sweetest P bass tone
I've heard. I have never heard such an awesome tone.
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While choice of wood is definitely a big influence, PUs are AT LEAST
equally a major influence. Certainly all the praise around here thaz
heaped on MEC PUs supports that idea.

Now .... BARTS ! If one digs the tone of a Barted ax, rest assured
that the PUs are an almost overwhelming slice of the tone pie. I've
got a wide spectrum of Bartified basses. While they are not at all
the most "musically beautiful" basses, they are HUGELY distinctive
in an animal-like aggressive manner, that serves extremely well
"in the mix" with no need to use sheer volume to hold their own.

Acoarst, one of the things we love about Wicks in general is that
same ability, to put a distinctive voice in the mix without necessarily
pushing monster wattage to hold their own. Sooooo .... what can
be more suitable than a Bartified Wick ? Iz very different than a
MEC Wick, but still equally adept at accomplishing the same goal,
of holding its own ... of an intruiging tone.

I have an old [wenge-wenge neck type of old] Vett with a Bart J-J
config, and it's waaaaay different than my MEC J-J Vett. I know
that some of it hasta come from the old style wenge neck, but it's
way too unsubtle a difference to pin on wood alone.

I've got an essentially POS parts bass, old cheapo Yamaha body,
AllParts neck, stamped metal bridge, etc with Bart P-PU and it's
got that same aggressive atteetood as the Bart Vett, despite the
toadall absence of Wick-style fancy wood [OK, not really toadall
if you include the ebony FB ... ].

Gots a Bart P-J, too, 100% maple except for the rosewood FB,
and it's voice is very much like my Bart J-J Vett, despite again
the lack of Wick wood. And without the ick wood [and with its
scrawny neck] it's waaaaay lighter than the Bubinga Bart Vett.

Sooooo .... lookit the wood in that ax Ed is playing, figger in
the Bartolini Effect, and you gotta know that an online video
is never gonna do it justice !

P.S.
ALL the basses above are FL, yet they are not sweetie pies ....
they are cool and calculating serial killers.

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I enjoyed how thorough and well done his videos were. It peeved me quite a bit when he asked people to give him money for these videos, when he was working for Guitar Magazine to do them already. Then soon after he left Guitar Mag. Kind of a douche move.

Edit: Forgot to add that in his last video, he basically mentioned he wont be doing the videos anymore, but if a manufacturer/company wants to pay him to do one, he will. Meanwhile there's hundreds of other videos out there reviewing plenty of products for free.
 
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Don't know anything about him asking money.

But I am hoping some of the sellers on ebay start lowering the prices on these because I'd love to give them a try. I have the regular LX but love to give this a try.

Either that or the SSII-4. I need a second warwick--I readlly do.
 
stinky634 said:
I enjoyed how thorough and well done his videos were. It peeved me quite a bit when he asked people to give him money for these videos, when he was working for Guitar Magazine to do them already. Then soon after he left Guitar Mag. Kind of a douche move.

Edit: Forgot to add that in his last video, he basically mentioned he wont be doing the videos anymore, but if a manufacturer/company wants to pay him to do one, he will. Meanwhile there's hundreds of other videos out there reviewing plenty of products for free.
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Well, there's pros and cons for his reasons, but the good reasons you are missing is that he wanted to write more articles and bigger articles, to which Guitar World had him only doing about to a page to sum of one bass gear for the magazine and do a short demo vid of it.

With him gone from Guitar World, Ed isn't on the high pay role to be given stuff to review or demo anymore. He's only getting paid to play for that reason, to which real writers in magazines either are paid by companies to demo for a full review or are given on loan for free to review.

Why the difference of writing it free to those getting paid to review something? Well, it's business and those who are well known will get paid to do something vs those unknown guys who have to put their foot in the door of a company to try it for free.

Well, there are those who do buy these bass products and demo them, there's a big difference from them and Mr. Friedland. Ed is more well known than Joe Schmoe. Ed most likely has the better set up to give the best clarity to his stuff than some cheap web cam. Also, he's not that bias of a guy. And for those who just speak English (Sorry, MusikSchmit), he gives info on the equipment that we can understand.

He's on Bass Guitar Magazine now, and well.. Good for him. It sucks he won't be doing regular vids anymore, but he made a choice to better himself and his career, and I do not judge him for that. He wants to write more columns and reviews with less constrictions, and I will pick up and read it.
 
I understand what you say about the last comment I made. Getting paid to do promo videos or whatever. What originally peeved me is his 10,000 video. He was initially excited for reaching 10,000 subscribers, then he ruined it all by asking that if everyone sent him $1 it would be cool. Then he went on to say that he gets paid to do the videos, but NOT to maintain the comments and emails. To me thats just part of the job description. If your gonna say, I answer all my emails, then do that. But dont try to say, I wish you would give me money, because I answer all your questions.

In the bigger picture, I think a lot of businesses will crash eventually due to the wide availability of high end equipment, and Freaking unnaturally smart kids these days. Look at the recording industry, many bands are able to put out pro level albums from home, and from budget studios. The same can be found with these type of review videos. 10 years ago I would have to rummage through magazines or whatever to find reviews of certain things, thus making the need for experienced people like Ed to be on payroll. Now (like in my search for a tuner) I can Youtube it, and there are free high quality samples and reviews of a whole collection of tuners, some with 3 at a time, side by side. It may not be professional level yet, but look around, its getting there.
 
stinky634 said:
I understand what you say about the last comment I made. Getting paid to do promo videos or whatever. What originally peeved me is his 10,000 video. He was initially excited for reaching 10,000 subscribers, then he ruined it all by asking that if everyone sent him $1 it would be cool. Then he went on to say that he gets paid to do the videos, but NOT to maintain the comments and emails. To me thats just part of the job description. If your gonna say, I answer all my emails, then do that. But dont try to say, I wish you would give me money, because I answer all your questions.

In the bigger picture, I think a lot of businesses will crash eventually due to the wide availability of high end equipment, and Freaking unnaturally smart kids these days. Look at the recording industry, many bands are able to put out pro level albums from home, and from budget studios. The same can be found with these type of review videos. 10 years ago I would have to rummage through magazines or whatever to find reviews of certain things, thus making the need for experienced people like Ed to be on payroll. Now (like in my search for a tuner) I can Youtube it, and there are free high quality samples and reviews of a whole collection of tuners, some with 3 at a time, side by side. It may not be professional level yet, but look around, its getting there.
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Well, as for asking for $1.00 donation, everyone in the Web Comic business asks for this too. That's why it's called a donation. Well, if you think about it, you are getting to see a bunch of gear you might never will see in guitar shops near you, much less try without buying. He was only asking, and some people who don't mind sending in a buck will. (I'm in no situation to be handing out money right now, but if I would)

You might think it is a part of the job description, but he doesn't have to answer every comment or email. When you are busy gigging or demo'ing or writing colums, oh god much less be recording tracks or practicing, you spent alot of free time hours lest looking at emails and comments on youtube. I bet some or most emails/comments are similar or just a question that shouldn't be asked.

It is also something I've learned when dealing with people who run webcomics, they have a donation link, a shop link, a forum (sometimes), and state that they don't respond to email questions.
 
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