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Old 02-15-2013, 12:56 PM
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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.
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Old 02-15-2013, 01:28 PM
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love this tone. I see the top is quilted maple, but I can't tell if the core is walnut or mahogany.
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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?
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Did you know the bass he is playing is a 6EG?
I did know its a 6EG.
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