fronobulax
Bassist, GAD and the Hot Mess Mods
- Joined
- May 3, 2007
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The folks who are not so bored with me that they don't read my posts know that I wonder how much of a the vintage Guild sound comes from the instrument and how much from the pickup. Thus I ask questions like whether a 70's JS with humbuckers would sound like the later, solid body M-85. How does a pre-70 Starfire with the bi-sonic compare to a later one with humbuckers? How do a JS and a Starfire with the same pickups differ in sound?
crimson_dynamo is selling his bass on eBay. He notes in the ad that the bass can be heard in this video. What makes it relavent to my questions is that the bass is a '67 Starfire I with the bi-sonic replaced by a humbucker. I happen to know what a '67 Starfire with bisonic sounds like and a JS with humbuckers sounds like so the sale bass "splits the difference".
So as I listen to the clip the bass sound like neither my Starfire or JS. Compared to mine it sounds muted - missing the edge and the woody tone that I hear with mine - but more like my Starfire than my JS.
Anybody else listen to the clip and have some words to describe how the sound differs from a bisonic Starfire?
crimson_dynamo is selling his bass on eBay. He notes in the ad that the bass can be heard in this video. What makes it relavent to my questions is that the bass is a '67 Starfire I with the bi-sonic replaced by a humbucker. I happen to know what a '67 Starfire with bisonic sounds like and a JS with humbuckers sounds like so the sale bass "splits the difference".
So as I listen to the clip the bass sound like neither my Starfire or JS. Compared to mine it sounds muted - missing the edge and the woody tone that I hear with mine - but more like my Starfire than my JS.
Anybody else listen to the clip and have some words to describe how the sound differs from a bisonic Starfire?