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Desmund Nichols 02-15-2013 12:56 PM

What woods are on this bass?
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmBrX...bo_NzQ&index=7

I love this tone. I see the top is quilted maple, but I can't tell if the core is walnut or mahogany.

Ken Smith 02-15-2013 01:28 PM

look again..
 
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Originally Posted by Desmund Nichols (Post 26082)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmBrX...bo_NzQ&index=7

I love this tone. I see the top is quilted maple, but I can't tell if the core is walnut or mahogany.

In here, it looks like the Top is Avodire', not maple. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBf2M...B1p46S2wbo_NzQ

In another video I got a glimpse of the core. It looked like maybe mahogany with walnut laminates or walnut with mahogany lams, one of them.

Sound? How can you tell from a recording? It sounds like most other Smith basses to me thru that amp he is recording thru and the speakers you hear them on. What is his exact EQ on each YouTube?

I don't think you can judge just the wood from this. Each of the recordings by him is slightly different with the same bass.

Make a couple of recordings playing the exact same thing and compare. Find out exactly how he recorded and little by little, you can then compare various individual things but just a listen with only looking at the woods I think is missing a whole lotta info.

Desmund Nichols 02-15-2013 01:43 PM

Makes sense. His sound is different on other videos. But sound has a certain warm growl though, that my BSR6EG doesnt have. My 6EG has that crystal clear ping to me. But I haven't really messed with EQs enough for my 6EG to really get different sounds out of it.

Ken Smith 02-15-2013 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Desmund Nichols (Post 26084)
Makes sense. His sound is different on other videos. But sound has a certain warm growl though, that my BSR6EG doesnt have. My 6EG has that crystal clear ping to me. But I haven't really messed with EQs enough for my 6EG to really get different sounds out of it.

It can also differ in the set-up and how YOU actually play as compared to him.

Tim Bishop 02-17-2013 09:14 PM

6eg...
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Desmund Nichols (Post 26082)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmBrX...bo_NzQ&index=7

I love this tone. I see the top is quilted maple, but I can't tell if the core is walnut or mahogany.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Desmund Nichols (Post 26084)
Makes sense. His sound is different on other videos. But sound has a certain warm growl though, that my BSR6EG doesnt have. My 6EG has that crystal clear ping to me. But I haven't really messed with EQs enough for my 6EG to really get different sounds out of it.

Did you know the bass he is playing is a 6EG?

Desmund Nichols 02-17-2013 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim Bishop (Post 26097)
Did you know the bass he is playing is a 6EG?

I did know its a 6EG.


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