Re: Gear: TALK ME OUT OF IT or JUSTIFY MY PURCHASE?

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jirbling rake wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:09 pm Expedition Electronics 60 Second Deluxe

https://www.expeditionelectronics.com/p ... ond-deluxe

No need for this thing, but every time it shows up somewhere I'm fascinated in its potential. Do I really need a ridiculous giant delay?
I’ve been very interested but have about a million other things the money would be better spent on.

If you got it and reported back I wouldn’t be sad!

Re: Gear: TALK ME OUT OF IT or JUSTIFY MY PURCHASE?

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ErikG wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2024 4:50 am You know how many pickups a bass needs? One. Just one pickup. More is NOT econo. Maybe they're trying to compensate for the short scale which is a total deal breaker as well.

That cable jack. Could it be closer to the bridge? I could see smacking the cable from time to time.

If you play that you do not play bass. You play "thud stick." And you have to name drop D. Boon every. Fucking. Time.

That anchor inlay. AHOY ME HARDIES!!!

Just get a decent P-bass. That's the answer 95% of the time.

(Hope that helps.)
Since people have been suggesting getting alternative basses, I've already have a bass, so the Wattplower bass in particular would be an extra fun bass guitar for alternate tuning. The bass that I have - Gibson SB-450 - has two humbucker pickups and being able to turn on-or-off (namely, the neck) pickups suits my effects/playing. My roommate has a one split coil pickup Squier P-bass, but I wasn't a fan. Probably a build quality or feel thing since it's a Squier, which is strange because I really loved my Fender MIM Jazz Bass (which I sadly had to sell 10 years ago when I was going broke) and even with my >50 year old beaten-to-hell SB-450.

The goofiness of the Wattplower is what I really like (including the "ALL I EAT IS SQUID yaaaaaaarrrrr" anchor), but the possible deal breakers are the short scale and if those pickups are too dark. (And the price, though I'd scour listings for used. But especially the short scale.)

Well, those, and:
twelvepoint wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 9:32 pm The split pickup arrangement is almost the shape of the black flag bars, but frustratingly, not quite
Salut

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