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xjbebop
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Back in my bass playing days, I could get a close-enough doghouse sound just with proper right hand technique...heavy palm muting and fat thumb plucking up near the neck.
Absolutely best approach. One can approach even closer by playing
TI Jazz Flats. TIJFs or not, at best a solid body mag PU bass guitar
can approach only one, maybe two, of the many, many voices that
an URB can sing. So it's a very limited substitute. The tone you are
describing is one of the less "musical" and more thumpy percussive
voices of the URB, and therefor you can come pretty damnt close.
I also play an Eminence "Baby URB". It's got the violin family build,
full size URB neck, real URB strings, the piezo under the foot of the
bridge, sound post, and everything ... except for that fulsome size.
It can manage many URB voices, but the more "musical" any one of
those voices is expected to be, the more you can hear how it's not a
big fat authentic doghouse. Thaz why I'm content to let my FL bass
guitars be bass guitars, and not be questing after some holy grail.
I even have a Takamine B-10. It's essentially a one-four sized URB
disguised as a giant archtop bass guitar. Fantastic ax, but only a big
doggy is a big doggy. [The B-10 is so big I hadda do a tiny mod on
it to fit it into a cello case.]
I loooove my several MM FL basses ... for what they innately are.
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