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my idea for a bass

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Billy Bob

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hi im Billy Bob i have a idea for a new bass its mostly from a combination of a few other music man basses and some things i came up with ok here it is a bass with the sterling body and neck maby a little wider maby not 2 music man humbucking pick ups with the phontom coil the one pick up in the same place as on the sterling a pick up selector to switch the pick ups from series/singal coil/parrallal and have another pick up selector next too the bridge about maby an inch or so or a little less to switch between the pick ups the back pick up to have the stlering or sting ray sound the front pick up to have something completly new and both pick ups to have something cool thats kind of like the sabre or bongo with a maple or rose wood neck and pizzio bridge and maby string through body and 3 band preamp treble mid and bass thats my idea my dream bass maby even get a pasive version that has a tone no batterie tell me what u think and if would be possible to get one made mady get a custom shop to work with music man to build one i just would love to play one of these basses
 
okay now let me see if i have this correct you have a idea for a new bass which is not a new bass exactly but sort of mishmash of parts and pieces from other basses like the neck for example just to mention one example although maybe i'll mention other examples later but let's first examine if we can the first example since it was first and the other examples came later after the first one but we'll get to those later just like the order they came in the neck you say would be what a sterling style neck like a sterling but wider like a stingray so that would be what like a stingray neck not like a sterling so now we have the neck all cleared up and it would be a stingray neck unless i'm wrong because the stingray neck is wider than the sterling neck right i mean wider than a sterling is a stingray so there we have that all finished up its a stingray neck on a sterling style body except not a sterling body cuz a sterling only has that one pickup but wait maybe what we should think about here is what musicman bass has two pickups already lemme give that some thought okay i'm done thinking now and what i'm thinking is there is a new bass called a bongo which musicman makes maybe you've seen it but it has a neck a little like a sterling a little like a stingray but sort of a combination of the two and then it has this one configuration you can get with two humbucker pickups which is what your billy bob super sterling would have but this is not a super sterling or a sabre two or whatever it's called a bongo and even though it doesn't have the phontom coil which i think was a weapon on star trek it does have the two pickups and then instead of a selector switch it has a blend knob which lets you go from one pickup to the other or even a blend of the two which is why i guess they call it a blend knob and i'm not just making that up i think that's what it's officially named but you want two pickup selector switches i think you said and that to me sounds like overkill because if you play a bongo for example you'll see i think that there are a lot of tonal variations available and the onboard eq is a four band with high and low mids so you can really tweak your sound without having eighty seven switches just the ones that are on there already but the only thing is that the bongo isn't passive you have to use two batteries which kind of sucks having to buy two nine volts at once so my idea is not for a super bass which in any case already exists and they call it a bongo but for a super battery an eighteen volt battery so i wouldn't have to worry about two batteries just the one and so if any of you guys know of a custom battery shop where i could get this made this eighteen volt battery maybe i could call it the bovinehost custom eighteen volt battery and it wouldn't have any switches or anything just a regular looking battery but the label would give it away as a super custom shop eighteen volt bovinehost battery and now i am going to go down to the store and buy some punctuation marks
 
first off the bongo is the uglyest bass iv ever seen and the 2 batteries is a pain and i really like the pick up selector on the sterling and id like to have a 2nd pick up and a way to switch to the differnt pick ups the pan countrole is cool but too complicated for me any way id prefer a switch to pick the pick ups insted of a pan controle and the neck not a sting ray neck i mean the sterling neck but just a little wider not much
 
hey Billy Bob, just buy a StingRay and drop another pick-up in it and then wire it up how ever you want. It should be easy enough to modify, just look for a local repair guy/luthier.
 
bovinehost said:
okay now let me see if i have this correct you have a idea for a new bass which is not a new bass exactly but sort of mishmash of parts and pieces from other basses like the neck for example just to mention one example although maybe i'll mention other examples later but let's first examine if we can the first example since it was first and the other examples came later after the first one but we'll get to those later just like the order they came in the neck you say would be what a sterling style neck like a sterling but wider like a stingray so that would be what like a stingray neck not like a sterling so now we have the neck all cleared up and it would be a stingray neck unless i'm wrong because the stingray neck is wider than the sterling neck right i mean wider than a sterling is a stingray so there we have that all finished up its a stingray neck on a sterling style body except not a sterling body cuz a sterling only has that one pickup but wait maybe what we should think about here is what musicman bass has two pickups already lemme give that some thought okay i'm done thinking now and what i'm thinking is there is a new bass called a bongo which musicman makes maybe you've seen it but it has a neck a little like a sterling a little like a stingray but sort of a combination of the two and then it has this one configuration you can get with two humbucker pickups which is what your billy bob super sterling would have but this is not a super sterling or a sabre two or whatever it's called a bongo and even though it doesn't have the phontom coil which i think was a weapon on star trek it does have the two pickups and then instead of a selector switch it has a blend knob which lets you go from one pickup to the other or even a blend of the two which is why i guess they call it a blend knob and i'm not just making that up i think that's what it's officially named but you want two pickup selector switches i think you said and that to me sounds like overkill because if you play a bongo for example you'll see i think that there are a lot of tonal variations available and the onboard eq is a four band with high and low mids so you can really tweak your sound without having eighty seven switches just the ones that are on there already but the only thing is that the bongo isn't passive you have to use two batteries which kind of sucks having to buy two nine volts at once so my idea is not for a super bass which in any case already exists and they call it a bongo but for a super battery an eighteen volt battery so i wouldn't have to worry about two batteries just the one and so if any of you guys know of a custom battery shop where i could get this made this eighteen volt battery maybe i could call it the bovinehost custom eighteen volt battery and it wouldn't have any switches or anything just a regular looking battery but the label would give it away as a super custom shop eighteen volt bovinehost battery and now i am going to go down to the store and buy some punctuation marks
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hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (sign of imense laughter in the place i come from)
 
Wow, a pan control too complicated? Then again, if punctuation is so much of an obstacle, you're probably right. Maybe we could take all the guts out of your billy-bob supreme, so you just have a single output jack to operate. Then we could take all the guts, and mount them in a box for a guy to run for you, like back at the sound board. You may have to train monkeys with whips, to send message to your EQ guy, but damn....pan knobs are complicated.

w00t
 
I believe that there are other bass manufacturers who make signature models that cater specifically to Billy Bob's demographic group, with either zero or maybe just one control to think about.
 
Now do you mean that one would use whips to train the monkeys? Or that the trained monkeys would themselves have whips?

Because it sounds to me like you're giving whips to monkeys, and I smell trouble.
 
Of course the whips are for the monkeys. How else are the monkeys supposed to communicate with the bass tone tech?

Duh
 
What I like about Billy Bob is that he's so much of a man's man that the tonal capabilities of an 18-volt active preamp mean nothing to him if he has to replace 2 batteries every 6 months. That's something that can't be taught... It comes natural to folk like Billy Bob and I. Passive electronics are the way to go, which explains why I'm HERE... in the EBMM bass forum.
 
Billy Bob said:
hi im Billy Bob i have a idea for a new bass its mostly from a combination of a few other music man basses and some things i came up with ok here it is a bass with the sterling body and neck maby a little wider maby not 2 music man humbucking pick ups with the phontom coil the one pick up in the same place as on the sterling a pick up selector to switch the pick ups from series/singal coil/parrallal and have another pick up selector next too the bridge about maby an inch or so or a little less to switch between the pick ups the back pick up to have the stlering or sting ray sound the front pick up to have something completly new and both pick ups to have something cool thats kind of like the sabre or bongo with a maple or rose wood neck and pizzio bridge and maby string through body and 3 band preamp treble mid and bass thats my idea my dream bass maby even get a pasive version that has a tone no batterie tell me what u think and if would be possible to get one made mady get a custom shop to work with music man to build one i just would love to play one of these basses
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Ain't gonna happen.They've(EB)somewhat been down this road before and to be honest with you I really don't think this is there focus because it's not as simple as it sounds.Remember you are talking about hours and hours of R&D not to mention materials that you would have to scrap and that is just with the body to address the electronics that a whole another issue.It is a tall order to say the least.
Now to be honest with you I was thinking the same way you were for quite sometime but when I got to see my MTD being made it just confirmed that I didn't have a clue" to what went into making an instrument.now granted we are talking about 1 person as oppose to a factory but still you still have to skecth the schzmatics and all the other s%^t that goes with it.I'm sure tha EB could do it ,I just don't think that they will.


As always I could be wrong.
 
bovinehost said:
And outfits like the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz.

Those things scare the bejeezus out of me.
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