Vintage battery for the real vintage sound

[oli@bass]

Just found this in a slightly older EBMM bass...

This may be very well the battery that was installed in factory. Amazingly, it still worked!

Talk about real vintag sound

 

[TommyK-Stingray]

Just found this in a slightly older EBMM bass...

This may be very well the battery that was installed in factory. Amazingly, it still worked!

Talk about real vintag sound

Brilliant!
Truely "All original" condition.

Do you find it sounds "warmer" and "fuller" than these more modern, tonelacking newer batteries?

 

[fly]

awesome...........

 

[oli@bass]

Do you find it sounds "warmer" and "fuller" than these more modern, tonelacking newer batteries?

You bet! Phull'n'phat kick butt bottom, and a top end with enough sizzle to cut a frozen chicken with it. It's so alive, I had to stun it with a tazer before I was able to touch it. I tell you, t's the real deal!

 

[fly]

well,what the hell is it already?

 

[five7]

They don't make batteries like they use too.

 

[keko]

Oli, that's really cool!

Almost unbelievable!

 

[drTStingray]

Amazing it still worked! They don't make em like they used to

Batteries that is!

 

[danny-79]

Nice one ! Good job it didn't leak !

 

[FunkyPunky]

Talk about real vintag sound

...for me that just doesn't work with the SRs. Too punchy, aggressive. Too modern. Not bad at all though and THE choice to stand out in a band mix! I get my vintage sound from an EBS tube pedal in from of my GK1000RB and a niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice 7enda custom shop. Nothing else compares to that combo

 

[jlepre]

...for me that just doesn't work with the SRs. Too punchy, aggressive. Too modern. Not bad at all though and THE choice to stand out in a band mix! I get my vintage sound from an EBS tube pedal in from of my GK1000RB and a niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice 7enda custom shop. Nothing else compares to that combo

I think you've forgotten what forum you're in...

 

[zuma]

I think you've forgotten what forum you're in...

I think he forgot more than that. Like a sense of humor.

 

[Aussie Mark]

Did the battery leak? The green residue suggests that it did.

 

[bovinehost]

...for me that just doesn't work with the SRs. Too punchy, aggressive. Too modern. Not bad at all though and THE choice to stand out in a band mix! I get my vintage sound from an EBS tube pedal in from of my GK1000RB and a niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice 7enda custom shop. Nothing else compares to that combo

I would suggest that the fault, dear Punky, lies not in our basses but in ourselves.

If you want a more vintage tone, it certainly can be done. I do it all the time, and I'm no bass magician. It is about string choices, right hand placement, amplification and a bad-ass attitude.

"The bass does not tell me what to do." - Craig Young

Cheers!

And Oli, what IS that bass?

Jack

 

[FunkyPunky]

I think you've forgotten what forum you're in...

Most certainly not I have a deep, deep love for all my basses - not "only" my SRs
I was just and only referring to what works best for me concerning vintage style. Don't get me wrong: I really love all of my SRs - otherwise I wouldn't own some, right? They work best in FunkRock (Chili Peppers, e.g.) for me when bass action needs to stand out a bit more than in say Blues e.g.
Just the REAL vintage sound (Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin...) to me depends on so many hardware-related issues that I cannot name 'em all. SCs, passive electronics and tubes are most important to me. My 2cents

I would suggest that the fault, dear Punky, lies not in our basses but in ourselves.

Well, I cannot find any faultes in SRs. They're just fine, really! But you're right: sound does depend on ourselves (fingers...)

@Oli: Get us some more pics, please Can't wait to see that bass

 

[adouglas]

There's nothing quite like nicely aged electrons. And they're so hard to find these days.

 

[funkymofo]

I bet if you put that on your tongue you'd be raving all night!

 

[Caca de Kick]

Is it for sale?

 

[oli@bass]

Is it for sale?

How much you offering?

 

[oli@bass]

Did the battery leak? The green residue suggests that it did.

Mark, it didn't leak at all. Small quantities of the green residue is found on other parts of the bass as well; namle at the edges of the tuners and the frets. Maybe the alloy used has some amount of copper in it and thefore shows this green tarnish due to oxidation.

Metallurgists to help!