I love it as an aesthetic though, and all my basses have it. Minor detail… I just think the line on a neck thru looks weird
Blood red is a little nicer/more muted than Ferrari Red
They don’t have solid purple, and from what I’ve read a lot of times their translucent purples can be super dark. I went through that nonsense with Legator already
I’m just really hesitant on pulling the trigger on another Xcellerator because of that 34" scale. A0 is asking a lot of 34" - Kiesel multiscales are 36" on the low B string (had to dig for that…) which seems like it would be really good for A0, based on my experience with 34" and 35" basses at B0 and A0.
Tough choices. I could just keep things tuned BEADGC and use a drop pedal. The pitch shifter on my B6 is okay. I might use it for covers if I kept the tuning… but… it’s not great tbh. My Stiletto loses all its punch, clarity, sparkle, and just sounds like a bassic bass.
I might try putting the SRC6’s Tone Capsule into The Beast, but tbh with its own preamp the treble control does very little, the bass does MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF THINGS that will overpower preamps easily, the mid does a lot, too.
Bartolini “classics” are actually their “hifi” pickup weirdly enough but apparently the narrow 6 spaced P2 isn’t easy to come by (naturally). Maybe I’ll go nuts and install a pair of massive Sims in The Beast like Mark from Talking Bass
I saw one of the Taylor Mini-e Koa Basses at the store that shall not be named. 23 1/2" scale, played nicely and sounded good, easy to play, etc. $900 though
New strings (DR DDT Heavy) roused The Beast from its slumber
So once these wear out I’ll probably order a more custom set for it from Stringjoy, and… maybe… The Brute as well. More leaning more toward an offer on it… it’s had 2… probably super low balls though…
.135 is a decent A0 on a 34" and the .115 D1 is killer… the bass still doesn’t respond super well to treble boosts; it has to be the pickups, though it has more presence/punch/highs with these strings (the 1st is still a .030 Dunlop though lol…)
It still feels weird to not have one, especially with the red SBV-J2 mocking me. Three years, all but two of my instruments were red, both guitars and basses, out of 8 or so.
My first bass was a Mako J-bass copy from a pawn shop. I wish I still had that piece of crap lol… pickguard was warped plastic, pole pieces were rusting, the fretboard had come unglued near the headstock, one of the tuning keys had a piece of store-brand duct tape to keep it from vibrating because it was loose…
Welp…it looks like the last of my pedals are at my post office EXCEPT the MXR Overdrive. It was supposed to arrive today but it looks like Amazon screwed up again. I’m also waiting on some patch cords that should have been here today too but didn’t get shipped uptil last night even though I ordered them 2 days ago.
