maddrakkett
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"It's beginning to look a lot like Warwick..." or "Walking in a Warwick Wonderland..."
Woohoo! I got off work really early today, so I went ahead and picked up the Dirty Blonde today instead of waiting until after Christmas. I didn't want to have it in my truck while running my route all day, and I had the day after Christmas off, so I was going to wait until then, but when I finished my route early and found out I didn't have to help anyone else with their routes, I rushed right over to The Bass Place on my way back in.
I then rushed home and hooked this baby up to my SWR Mo' rig. Jingle Bells never sounded so good! :lol: No, it really does sound incredible. My goal for this particular bass in my arsenal is to get a funky "slap and slide" like Bathiki Kumalo gets with his fretless Paul Simon's Graceland album. Since the Dirty Blonde has the right combo of woods and is known to be a slap monster when it has frets, my technique, not the instrument, will be the biggest challenge to achieving my goal. But when I have it on the P pickup and "pop" on the D string, all the fat glorious sound of funk is right there! I do seem to get flatter muffled wooden tone when popping on the G string however. Perhaps just a simple setup adjustment perhaps?
Here's the beautiful wood grained arsenal:
Woohoo! I got off work really early today, so I went ahead and picked up the Dirty Blonde today instead of waiting until after Christmas. I didn't want to have it in my truck while running my route all day, and I had the day after Christmas off, so I was going to wait until then, but when I finished my route early and found out I didn't have to help anyone else with their routes, I rushed right over to The Bass Place on my way back in.
I then rushed home and hooked this baby up to my SWR Mo' rig. Jingle Bells never sounded so good! :lol: No, it really does sound incredible. My goal for this particular bass in my arsenal is to get a funky "slap and slide" like Bathiki Kumalo gets with his fretless Paul Simon's Graceland album. Since the Dirty Blonde has the right combo of woods and is known to be a slap monster when it has frets, my technique, not the instrument, will be the biggest challenge to achieving my goal. But when I have it on the P pickup and "pop" on the D string, all the fat glorious sound of funk is right there! I do seem to get flatter muffled wooden tone when popping on the G string however. Perhaps just a simple setup adjustment perhaps?
Here's the beautiful wood grained arsenal:
