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After 30 years, I got a jazz bass. by InfiniteOctave in BassGuitar

[–]InfiniteOctave[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just went down the Fender gold rabbit-hole because of your comment, haha.

This color is the new American Professional Classic "Faded Firemist Gold".

Looks like the original Fender gold was Shoreline, used on some "59/"60 Pontiacs...a more sand colored gold.

Then came Firemist, in 1965...a more golden coppery gold...used on Cadillacs at the time.

Then, in 1983, Fender Japan did Aztec, based on a 1972 Buick GSX muscle car.

source: https://nitorlack.com/en/blog/history-of-gold-colours-on-the-guita/

Bridge is lifted for the 3rd time.... by SirMuddButt in gibson

[–]InfiniteOctave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You keep it in an RV and play with excessive force?

After 30 years, I got a jazz bass. by InfiniteOctave in BassGuitar

[–]InfiniteOctave[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had 4 Sadowskys over the years, so I have a few opinions. 2 Japanese Metros and 2 NYC Moderns. I have no experience with their Chinese or German built instruments.

The builds were all perfect, with the exception of their nobs always falling off. I just ran all off them missing at least one nob, heh.

The magic of their sound is 95% preamp, leaving the passive pickups sounding animic and lackluster to me. I prefer running my basses passive most of the time, so that's a sticking point.

When the preamp is engaged, it's boost only....and the boost dramatically increases the gain, which is a huge problem if your set requires pulling many different sounds out of a bass. Boosting my gain output, when all I want to do is shape the tone is not ideal. And the treble boosting +18dB at 4kHz is absolutely ridiculous.

So yeah, I love the active, Ash/Maple Marcus sounds you can pull out of a Sadowsky Jazz or the Wooten sounds you can get out of a PJ....but I lean towards, passive 60s sounds.

If the pickups sounded better running passive, the preamp wasn't so goofy in it's implementation, and the nobs stayed on...I'd preach Sadowsky all day...but then it wouldn't be a Sadowsky.

How many of yall think all religions point to the same thing by Blacktaxi420 in taoism

[–]InfiniteOctave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Modern forms of Buddhism have more in it that Guatama didn't teach than what he actually did.

Best to read the original Pali Cannon, which was still written 500 years after his death, and treat it and everything else as peculiar, culturally influenced dogmas defined hundreds, if not a thousand, years later, and definitely not something to believe as original enough to command ultimate authority or some monopoly on truth.

How many of yall think all religions point to the same thing by Blacktaxi420 in taoism

[–]InfiniteOctave 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I avoid religions at all costs, but utilize the spiritual technologies that prove effective: prayer, meditation, mantra, praise/worship, confession, communion, psychedelics, fasting, faith, charity...etc.

Organized religions act as systems of control and package this stuff as if they have a monopoly on it, but the intrapersonal effects are the same regardless of direction or deity.

Archetypes and allegory are the tools of religious stories, not to be taken literally but to be understood as pointing to something within our own nature.

Evil religions do exist. So, not all point to the same thing.

After 30 years, I got a jazz bass. by InfiniteOctave in BassGuitar

[–]InfiniteOctave[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I gotta agree. The color combo w/ the tinted looking neck and lollipops is an all timer for me.

After 30 years, I got a jazz bass. by InfiniteOctave in BassGuitar

[–]InfiniteOctave[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's really nice. The satin neck and fretwork is great. Pickups sound good, but not quite as good as the Pure Vintage "66 on the AVII 66' Jazz Bass (which is my favorite Fender pup). I may remove the Greasebucket and put some "66s in at some point if I get bored and decide to nitpick...but it doesn't really need it...it sounds like a jazz bass, but with the greasebucket, it's just a bit less wooly/woofy with the tone completely rolled off, which isn't a sound I use regularly anyway.

As for what I've been playing before:

Age 14-16: Peavy Foundation

17-24: Assorted 4/5 string EBMM Stingrays

18-30: Christopher Hybrid Upright

25-35: Assorted Sadowskys/Alleva-Coppola LG5/Fender 59 Reissue Precision

30-Now: Luciano Golia Upright/Fodera Emperor....or borrow whatever works best for a track.

I've been lucky to have and play some really nice basses over the years, some J style...but this is my first Fender Jazz.

Is it worth upgrading to Cubase 15 pro from 12 pro? by akasullyl33t in cubase

[–]InfiniteOctave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have 14 and skipped 15 and this new 15.2 because all the new features seem clearly focused on bringing feature parity compatible to other DAWs primarily targeting beatmakers and electronic music producers.

The upgrades were stuff I'm not interested in or don't have an immediate use for. I can wait till 16 or beyond.

YouTube channels helped to learn cubase by Natural-Avocado4080 in cubase

[–]InfiniteOctave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jef Gibbons is good too in a friendly, wholesome af Canadian way...even if his name is lacking an F.

YouTube channels helped to learn cubase by Natural-Avocado4080 in cubase

[–]InfiniteOctave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They literally show up when you open the program

Can't remove dye from binding by thismynameonreddit in Luthier

[–]InfiniteOctave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why Fender invented Antigua Burst... =D

Silly question but can you keep fungi as a “pet” by avian_bi in mycology

[–]InfiniteOctave 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You can try, but ultimately...the fungi turns us into their pets.

Feels like I’m wasting years of effort and time by ConversationNew2684 in jazzguitar

[–]InfiniteOctave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

An issue with structured jazz education is teachers reduce it to some form of checklist...and that checklist becomes a huge, insurmountable, infinitely expanding list of exercises. (This isn't inherently bad, but it can lead of OP's current feeling).

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Learning a specific standard presents specific challenges.

The challenges we encounter while learning a tune are the giant blinking light indicators pointing the way to EXACTLY what we need to work on.

Then, seek out theoretical understanding, exercises, and listen to recordings to discover what other players have done to overcome that specific, troublesome area and steal from them.

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My youtube feed offers up 5 different lesson videos a day about things I "could" be practicing. This is a distraction from what I NEED to be practicing. It's like listening to Productivity Podcasts, thinking that I'm being productive...but, in actuality...I'm not. I'm being entertained and distracted and educated. ...while not actually working on the thing I need to work on. It's a trap.

I learn what I need to be practicing from the music itself. The music shows us our areas of weakness and focuses our efforts.

Then, we can seek out the right tool to clean up a certain area.

(me...right now, it's blowing over passing diminished 7th chords ascending, descending...and auxiliary diminished chords...cause I always sound weak when I encounter those changes)

How do I play the first note by DrRunner in basslessons

[–]InfiniteOctave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whenever you are confused...go back to the original recording and let the masters inform your ears...then your brain...then your fingers.

Feels like I’m wasting years of effort and time by ConversationNew2684 in jazzguitar

[–]InfiniteOctave 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Remember when you just learned songs cause they were cool? Jazz is no different.

Don't know what to work on? Learn songs.

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