Isn't it funny how one dude from YT can come up with a better bass concept and execution than the whole product team at the world's biggest guitar company? I find it kind of funny. :) GJ Mr.Lobster Sir!
Recruit a whole bunch of people worldwide, set up a global sales network, and pull 80 years of brand heritage out your ass, and you too can make a bass priced solely to make you coke money. I keep forgetting it's about double the price I'd ever pay for a single-coil single-pickup noise-machine Jazz Bass that doesn't even have any "vintage" features going for it, let alone anything in the way of playability or looks over a Squier or even one of the higher-end Harley Benton's.
Its actually pathetic that Fender has such poor quality control issues. And they have the nerve to charge an arm & a leg for a bass. Lobster already found out the truth of a bass by Gretsch (Fender company). What other problems will Lobster discover about Fender products???
But as he states, it just mounts right on top of there, and you cannot adjust it up and down… at least from what I’m seeing ..I can’t believe they’re not hitting the strings… so I see a problem there, other than the fact that they’re too hot
When she was a young lady, my mom worked for Rowe Industries in Toledo, Ohio, which made the classic DeArmond pickups used in Harmony guitars. I had the honor of meeting Harry DeArmond and getting a tour of his basement workshop in 1969. Mr. DeArmond had two Supro electric guitars that he played simultaneously -- one in his lap while seated and one held in the conventional manner. He hammered on both of them, playing the two hands of the piano! I remember he was playing from a Burt Bacharach songbook. Great memory. When Mr. DeArmond died, I contacted Fender (which had acquired the DeArmond brand), and Fender kindly sent some guitars and basses to Harry's church. Harry was a big band guitarist in Toledo around the WWII era and had a regular gig at a downtown Chinese restaurant called Kin Wah Lo's.
The look on your face 😮 says it all when you’re playing the fender. It’s not even a fair comparison at this point. That upgraded HB is a sound monster. Awesome!!!
This was very impressive. I'm not a Jazz bass fan (tried 3 times but never kept them) and don't prefer offset bodies. I do own the RB HB bass even though I normally only own and play short scale instruments now. I always wondered "what's the big deal with the gold foil pickups?" The ones used in this modification blow Fender's out of the water. If I was into 34" scale, I'd get those pickups for my bass (tuners too if they were needed). This was entertaining because you had such joy in 'outing' the flaws on the Fender bass then upgrading the HB to kick it's ass sonically.
I love the final outcome of that Harley Benton!! Amazing massive tone! If I didn’t already have all the jazz bass tones I have in my collection, I’d be rushing out and doing those upgrades to one of my own. Great job!! 👍🏼
I love it when your happy! Fender has become "The Man" and you put it to the "The Man! I only buy top of the line P-basses from them anymore. I still love my '78 Jazz bass, that was different time, I would not buy it today with all the great affordable J-basses that don't weigh a ton.
Sticking it to Fender for their audacity and/or their BS institutional inertia is always, always, always a great thing to observe. Popcorn grabbed. Watching.
Hello my Friend ! Je suis vraiment heureux de voir que tu as choisi le hb jb62cc pour cet upgrade fabuleux. Ce qui prouve que la jb62 est vraiment cool. Je suis sur que tu as rattrapé le déséquilibre avec les tuner gotoh et les pièces plus lourdes sur le corps, la voilà équilibré maintenant. Le son de folie des pickups ok mais aussi le ton naturel de la lutherie de cette basse qui pour moi est super. C'est clair, limpide chantant, bon avec les Curtis tu as une PB, JB et mm incroyable une vraie stingray avec que le micro chevalet. Sur la mienne j'ai changé le bridge, le sillet en os, l'électronique en 500k cts, le pickguard 4 plis, reste les micros et mécaniques à changer. Je mettrais des tonrider plus, pour les mécaniques, des immigration gotoh. Thanks a lot for everything.
For at least 20 years people have been advising to mod a bass for this very reason. The prices of production guitars are bananas and modding will literally save you so much money vs buying new.
I'm a huge Fender head (2 Precisions, 1 Jazz, 2 Jazzmaster, 1 Jaguar) and for the longest time I figured buying new from Fender was not a good idea anymore. You just convinced me to outright never do it again.
I just bought a Fender Vintage II 60 P-bass reissue. I've had hundreds of basses over my lifetime (yes, I'm a gear slut) and this bass is THE best sounding and playing Precision I've ever owned, including a couple of Fender Custom Shop Ps.
Absolutely fantastic jab and poke mod video! I'll leave it at that because I could really start going off on Fender's QC among other things. Way to show them a good, MORE AFFORDABLE gold foil jazz bass.
Oh, with a pick!! Thank you LEB! I would never turn down a set of Novak's but it might be worth mentioning Allparts sells a set for about 1/4 of the maestro's MSRP And being in lower 48 I might start with a new Tagima or an open box Squier CV from ProAudioStar
Seems like you could do a cutout in the pickguard to get the neck pickup a bit lower by mounting it underneath. It'd be a bit hinky with the pickup screw resting on the pickguard rather than the pickup but could cool down the heat a bit.
The E string on that Fender is woeful. I've got to admit, I've had a Fender USA bass that suffered from the same thing. Not good, but the HB Custom shop is a monster!
I'm trying to decide on my first bass as I come from a few months of guitar practice and I just play bass lines on my classical guitar 90% of the time anyways. I might just have decided on getting a Harley Benton (I'm from Germany, so it's super cheap with shipping) and upgrade it as I go along after seeing this project.
Great job Lobster. Very cool & lots of fun. My only concern would be just how often would you actually play that FUNDER bass with the pickups being so hot. My own experience with that situation was that the novelty wore off pretty fast and the bass collected dust, in favor of several other more friendly basses. Still have it and still play it. Just not that often. The inability to adjust pickup height would also bug me. To the point where I'd find the pickups a more suitable/adjustable home. Still, I loved how you made a really FUN bass while thumbing (clawing?) your nose at Fender.
That is awesome and I love these except for one thing. If you want to trade or sell it may work with a friend but no shop will take into account the upgrades. I`m still drooling over my CNZ JB bass. Selling a Fender to get the P-Bass model.
would the Gotoh tuners be an upgrade or over the tuners that came stock with the squire paranormal 54 jazz, in your opinion? picked it up used on sale and I'm looking to use it as a excellent mod platform inspired by your videos
Neat idea for a mod project. The Fender is a dud. And 1 GF pickup sucks (not to mention the bad worksmanship). The CN pups have a thick and clear midrange with deep bass and a tame high end. VERY NICE. Those pups are nice enough for a permanent mount in a slightly better J bass (not necessarily a Fender). I bet a Volume/Blend/Tone would work nicely. Pups are worth the $$$. Nice project.
See what you gone and made Lobster do Fender, the man just made your entire team look like fools, and schooled you all!! Take my money Lobster! I’d definitely buy one of these from ya, FUender 😅
Lobster Custom Shop Gold Foil Shell Pink Jazz with Hard case and Claw - make it happen, Fender! I would shim the neck so I could raise the strings away from the pickups because they seem way too hot but they sound like a bigger Jazz bass :)
@@boxerfencer what are you talking about? Changing the neck angle has nothing to do with fret leveling.. Shimming the neck will simply angle the strings away from the pickups for less output and then the bass can be set up normally, just like every other bass
Project Gold Foil FUnder seriously puts the Fender to shame! I bought a Fender Player Standard Jazz last November during a black Friday sale where I got $200 off the normal price. It arrived in a Fender factory sealed box and when I took it out and played around with it I realized that... 1) The action was really high, there was no setup done to it at all. 2) The plastic tone knob was broken, the plastic was really thin and brittle like they didn't pour quite enough plastic into the mold. 3) Rough fret edges. Not the worse that I've encountered (that honor goes to a low end Ibanez I pick up a couple years ago), they don't stick out the sides of the fretboard but the edges could be smoothed out some more. Even with these QC flaws I feel kinda lucky when I see the QC on that $1300 Fender gold foil bass as well as some of the other QC horror stories I've heard from other people that bought Fender and Squier basses. I do have to say though, once I did a full set up the bass sounds and plays really nice! There are no dead spots and I have the action set pretty low with no buzzing anywhere on the fret board. Once again, I feel like I got really lucky!
Mr Lobster, would the Novak pickup slot right onto the Fender.... asking for a friend that bought a Gold Foil online before your video and then had EXACTLY the same experience as you did.
I own the blue Fender and MY BRIDGE was only slightly off center and was easily fixed with a minor adjustment. My question is WHO makes a replacement pickup to replace the Gold Foil provided by Fender?
Nice work! I actually really like the looks and concept of the Fender but boy, the QC is sad. Drop that Novak pickup in the Fender and really make it roar! Not clear why those CN pups are so damn pricey though. Modeled on a very inexpensive original design. I happen have a Harmony "batwing" bass and can vouch that, that original gold foil is a beast.
This was delightful, Lobster :) I just would like to ask if the GOTOH tuners resolved the neck dive issue? I honestly have no idea why anyone would prefer the fender over, i.e., a Lakland 44-01 which is priced like $200 less..
I had a Lakland 44-01 for about two weeks. I bought it new and almost immediately traded it off. The build quality was fine. But the sound was way, way, WAY too dark for my taste. Totally buried in the band mix and no definition to the notes at all. I tried putting the brightest SS strings I could find on it... still way too dark. To be fair, that was likely the fault of the Bart pickups (I've never been a fan because they are typically very dark sounding). But I just didn't want to mess with the pickups or electronics and I ended up trading it (as a partial) towards a Spector that sounded AMAZING!
its because when you manufacture in asia they dont pay employees living wages healthcare or abide by any envirnmental regulations but you can have a huge selection of basses and other crap
I like the sound of the fender better. I know this Novax were hot and if you adjusted your interface it would have sounded better. I just like the smooth tone from the fender. As for pickup height just take a razor blade and go around the neck pickup and then remove it and finish cutting it out. This will drop it down and help a lot. Should only take a few minutes to get done. It came out nice though and love the look of gold foils.
It honestly boggles my mind how Fender released that bass in the first place. It’s a great idea don’t get me wrong, but the execution and construction was horrible. The Harley Benton blows it right out of the water. Great work as always Lobster!
Isn't it funny how one dude from YT can come up with a better bass concept and execution than the whole product team at the world's biggest guitar company? I find it kind of funny. :) GJ Mr.Lobster Sir!
Recruit a whole bunch of people worldwide, set up a global sales network, and pull 80 years of brand heritage out your ass, and you too can make a bass priced solely to make you coke money. I keep forgetting it's about double the price I'd ever pay for a single-coil single-pickup noise-machine Jazz Bass that doesn't even have any "vintage" features going for it, let alone anything in the way of playability or looks over a Squier or even one of the higher-end Harley Benton's.
@@minimaluser2132 I make ‘em
in fact he build a business because he sells some basses he does upgrade on reverb
Its actually pathetic that Fender has such poor quality control issues. And they have the nerve to charge an arm & a leg for a bass. Lobster already found out the truth of a bass by Gretsch (Fender company). What other problems will Lobster discover about Fender products???
It would help if specs weren’t lost in translation
Really cool that those gold foils drop right in without any routing.
But as he states, it just mounts right on top of there, and you cannot adjust it up and down… at least from what I’m seeing ..I can’t believe they’re not hitting the strings…
so I see a problem there, other than the fact that they’re too hot
@learnmusic488 exactly. They sell spacers and I should have used a smaller one at the bridge. Removing the pickguard may help for the neck one too
When she was a young lady, my mom worked for Rowe Industries in Toledo, Ohio, which made the classic DeArmond pickups used in Harmony guitars. I had the honor of meeting Harry DeArmond and getting a tour of his basement workshop in 1969. Mr. DeArmond had two Supro electric guitars that he played simultaneously -- one in his lap while seated and one held in the conventional manner. He hammered on both of them, playing the two hands of the piano! I remember he was playing from a Burt Bacharach songbook. Great memory. When Mr. DeArmond died, I contacted Fender (which had acquired the DeArmond brand), and Fender kindly sent some guitars and basses to Harry's church. Harry was a big band guitarist in Toledo around the WWII era and had a regular gig at a downtown Chinese restaurant called Kin Wah Lo's.
Correction: Kin Wah Low.
The FUnder brings the thunder! ⚡️
Probably the best sounding bridge pickup I've heard
I am here for it! the excitement in your pettiness is heartwarming hahahahaha well done buddy!
Those pickups sound great! Adjustability would be a big plus, though.
The look on your face 😮 says it all when you’re playing the fender. It’s not even a fair comparison at this point. That upgraded HB is a sound monster. Awesome!!!
That sounds amazing! and i am so happy you went to the Ampeg for your reviews!
Your barely-restrained joy about this whole project kept me smiling throughout. Looks like you got yourself another subscriber!
This was very impressive. I'm not a Jazz bass fan (tried 3 times but never kept them) and don't prefer offset bodies. I do own the RB HB bass even though I normally only own and play short scale instruments now. I always wondered "what's the big deal with the gold foil pickups?" The ones used in this modification blow Fender's out of the water. If I was into 34" scale, I'd get those pickups for my bass (tuners too if they were needed). This was entertaining because you had such joy in 'outing' the flaws on the Fender bass then upgrading the HB to kick it's ass sonically.
Right, I never liked J-Basses either.
Hahaha! You’re SO happy about the pickups, so funny man. Nice one!
Fun to watch video! "Was the project worth it? No" cracked me up. Fender''s gold foil work is an embarrassment and not worth fixing either.
Holy, the tone out of those O_O
Great video as usual!
Wow those are really nice sounding pickups!
I think if you paid a luthier to fix the frets on the HB you'd still be under the Fender price! Great video. Thanks.
The MIM just has the knobs going for it. Great knobs. Curtis is amazing.
I have a novak 22 in the bridge of my cv jag bass paired up with his pb90 in the neck. Absolute thunder. The h22 is my favorite pickup of all time.
Another great project bass lobster! Sounds and looks fantastic!
hey lobster did you get any of 25th Anniversary offerings from Harley Benton?
Thanks for sharing Lobster 🦞
Thanks for this one! I wondered what these pickups sounded like. 😎
I love the final outcome of that Harley Benton!! Amazing massive tone! If I didn’t already have all the jazz bass tones I have in my collection, I’d be rushing out and doing those upgrades to one of my own. Great job!! 👍🏼
Love it! Those are killer pickups! Well worth the money and you've definitely made that bass look very pretty
I love it when your happy! Fender has become "The Man" and you put it to the "The Man! I only buy top of the line P-basses from them anymore. I still love my '78 Jazz bass, that was different time, I would not buy it today with all the great affordable J-basses that don't weigh a ton.
Man, those Nokaks killed! Loved the video, thx Mr. Crustacean!
The tort guard on the HB makes all the difference....... ;-) But seriously, great mods. Versatility and looks.
I’ve got a set of Novak pickups in my Warmoth J bass. Great pickups!!!
Sticking it to Fender for their audacity and/or their BS institutional inertia is always, always, always a great thing to observe. Popcorn grabbed. Watching.
One of the few J-Basses that I liked what I've heard.
It so good when your angry at bass makers. I love that someone has the balls to tell them what’s what
Hello my Friend !
Je suis vraiment heureux de voir que tu as choisi le hb jb62cc pour cet upgrade fabuleux.
Ce qui prouve que la jb62 est vraiment cool.
Je suis sur que tu as rattrapé le déséquilibre avec les tuner gotoh et les pièces plus lourdes sur le corps, la voilà équilibré maintenant.
Le son de folie des pickups ok mais aussi le ton naturel de la lutherie de cette basse qui pour moi est super.
C'est clair, limpide chantant, bon avec les Curtis tu as une PB, JB et mm incroyable une vraie stingray avec que le micro chevalet.
Sur la mienne j'ai changé le bridge, le sillet en os, l'électronique en 500k cts, le pickguard 4 plis, reste les micros et mécaniques à changer.
Je mettrais des tonrider plus, pour les mécaniques, des immigration gotoh.
Thanks a lot for everything.
I laughed every time you laughed and rubbed your claw/hands together.
For at least 20 years people have been advising to mod a bass for this very reason. The prices of production guitars are bananas and modding will literally save you so much money vs buying new.
I love this one. The Novak pickups are totally over the top! 🤣
Thanks for the vid. That bridge pickup sounds great. Really can hear the wood of the bass.
I'm watching this in May the 4th. And I sense the dark side of the force in Mr Lobster 😮
Looks wicked, sounds even better! Love that nasty J tone....whew!
I'm a huge Fender head (2 Precisions, 1 Jazz, 2 Jazzmaster, 1 Jaguar) and for the longest time I figured buying new from Fender was not a good idea anymore. You just convinced me to outright never do it again.
I just bought a Fender Vintage II 60 P-bass reissue. I've had hundreds of basses over my lifetime (yes, I'm a gear slut) and this bass is THE best sounding and playing Precision I've ever owned, including a couple of Fender Custom Shop Ps.
Just bought a Novak gold foil to put on a Sire D5, can't wait to see how it works out.
Sounds really good! This video was so fun to watch and really makes me want to mod lol. Haha the FUnder!!
Oh man... you are Great...and what incredible great sounding pickups 💯💯💯💯💯💯...Gracias Lobster 🤗
Now hot damn this IS SO MUCH BETTER!
Absolutely fantastic jab and poke mod video! I'll leave it at that because I could really start going off on Fender's QC among other things. Way to show them a good, MORE AFFORDABLE gold foil jazz bass.
Vast improvement brother!! Sure knocked the Fender down a few pegs & then some!!
😂👍
😂 I love the G string reset on the string retainer (13:48)
Oh, with a pick!! Thank you LEB!
I would never turn down a set of Novak's but it might be worth mentioning Allparts sells a set for about 1/4 of the maestro's MSRP
And being in lower 48 I might start with a new Tagima or an open box Squier CV from ProAudioStar
Wow, no routing. They sound rich and sparkling clean.
Should have done it to a cheap fender to show them how to do it 😂 love the vids keep them coming 😍
Man..... what a great idea. And I love those curtis pickups! What a beasts!!!
Bruh. If you ever decide to unload this bass please let me be first in line! Greetings from New Orleans and great work
Those pickups sound awesome
Thank you Lobster! I enjoyed every second of this vid - just great work! And the HB looks and sounds absolutely delicious. Impressive!
Looks and sounds greatly.
Nice pickups. They sound like cross between P and J pickups.
That tone! 🤤
Seems like you could do a cutout in the pickguard to get the neck pickup a bit lower by mounting it underneath. It'd be a bit hinky with the pickup screw resting on the pickguard rather than the pickup but could cool down the heat a bit.
That is one insane j-bass growl!
Love your honesty! Keep it up!!
The E string on that Fender is woeful. I've got to admit, I've had a Fender USA bass that suffered from the same thing. Not good, but the HB Custom shop is a monster!
Hell hath no fury like a Lobster scorned
Fender should take note and hire you for design.
I'm trying to decide on my first bass as I come from a few months of guitar practice and I just play bass lines on my classical guitar 90% of the time anyways.
I might just have decided on getting a Harley Benton (I'm from Germany, so it's super cheap with shipping) and upgrade it as I go along after seeing this project.
They seem to be a solid choice for a build.
Built by slaves
Hey Lobster, would using copper shield tape on the back of the pickguard and grounding the bridge pickup reduce/remove that hum? Thanks
The Curtis Novax (?) pickups sounded great. So FU Fender.
Nicely done. Did you do anythings about sorting the fretwork on the HB?
When evaluating the playability, can you do some Tapping & Hammer Ons so we can better gauge the neck. Thx Lobster.
Project FUNder brings FUN in... well, it's fun. Yeah.
Great job Lobster. Very cool & lots of fun. My only concern would be just how often would you actually play that FUNDER bass with the pickups being so hot. My own experience with that situation was that the novelty wore off pretty fast and the bass collected dust, in favor of several other more friendly basses. Still have it and still play it. Just not that often. The inability to adjust pickup height would also bug me. To the point where I'd find the pickups a more suitable/adjustable home.
Still, I loved how you made a really FUN bass while thumbing (clawing?) your nose at Fender.
I like to see you use them pick ups with a dark glass omga pedal or a drak glass dark glass circuit pit in.
That is awesome and I love these except for one thing. If you want to trade or sell it may work with a friend but no shop will take into account the upgrades. I`m still drooling over my CNZ JB bass. Selling a Fender to get the P-Bass model.
would the Gotoh tuners be an upgrade or over the tuners that came stock with the squire paranormal 54 jazz, in your opinion? picked it up used on sale and I'm looking to use it as a excellent mod platform inspired by your videos
Neat idea for a mod project. The Fender is a dud. And 1 GF pickup sucks (not to mention the bad worksmanship). The CN pups have a thick and clear midrange with deep bass and a tame high end. VERY NICE. Those pups are nice enough for a permanent mount in a slightly better J bass (not necessarily a Fender). I bet a Volume/Blend/Tone would work nicely. Pups are worth the $$$. Nice project.
Love ya Lobster!
Cool project!
I'd be interested to hear this thing with some fuzzzz. Great experiment!
Now slap that Novak neck pickup on the Fender :)
See what you gone and made Lobster do Fender, the man just made your entire team look like fools, and schooled you all!! Take my money Lobster! I’d definitely buy one of these from ya, FUender 😅
Lobster Custom Shop Gold Foil Shell Pink Jazz with Hard case and Claw - make it happen, Fender!
I would shim the neck so I could raise the strings away from the pickups because they seem way too hot but they sound like a bigger Jazz bass :)
That might mess with the action, introducing fret buzz, which might necessitate an entire setup if not a fret leveling.
@@boxerfencer what are you talking about? Changing the neck angle has nothing to do with fret leveling.. Shimming the neck will simply angle the strings away from the pickups for less output and then the bass can be set up normally, just like every other bass
Priceless 😂
Project Gold Foil FUnder seriously puts the Fender to shame!
I bought a Fender Player Standard Jazz last November during a black Friday sale where I got $200 off the normal price. It arrived in a Fender factory sealed box and when I took it out and played around with it I realized that... 1) The action was really high, there was no setup done to it at all. 2) The plastic tone knob was broken, the plastic was really thin and brittle like they didn't pour quite enough plastic into the mold. 3) Rough fret edges. Not the worse that I've encountered (that honor goes to a low end Ibanez I pick up a couple years ago), they don't stick out the sides of the fretboard but the edges could be smoothed out some more. Even with these QC flaws I feel kinda lucky when I see the QC on that $1300 Fender gold foil bass as well as some of the other QC horror stories I've heard from other people that bought Fender and Squier basses.
I do have to say though, once I did a full set up the bass sounds and plays really nice! There are no dead spots and I have the action set pretty low with no buzzing anywhere on the fret board. Once again, I feel like I got really lucky!
Mr Lobster, would the Novak pickup slot right onto the Fender.... asking for a friend that bought a Gold Foil online before your video and then had EXACTLY the same experience as you did.
I own the blue Fender and MY BRIDGE was only slightly off center and was easily fixed with a minor adjustment. My question is WHO makes a replacement pickup to replace the Gold Foil provided by Fender?
Any recommendations for less expensive pickups To do this mod. That will drop in with no additional routing?
SEND FENDER TO BASS "SLIP AND FALL SCHOOL "
Nice work! I actually really like the looks and concept of the Fender but boy, the QC is sad. Drop that Novak pickup in the Fender and really make it roar! Not clear why those CN pups are so damn pricey though. Modeled on a very inexpensive original design. I happen have a Harmony "batwing" bass and can vouch that, that original gold foil is a beast.
This was delightful, Lobster :)
I just would like to ask if the GOTOH tuners resolved the neck dive issue?
I honestly have no idea why anyone would prefer the fender over, i.e., a Lakland 44-01 which is priced like $200 less..
I had a Lakland 44-01 for about two weeks. I bought it new and almost immediately traded it off. The build quality was fine. But the sound was way, way, WAY too dark for my taste. Totally buried in the band mix and no definition to the notes at all. I tried putting the brightest SS strings I could find on it... still way too dark. To be fair, that was likely the fault of the Bart pickups (I've never been a fan because they are typically very dark sounding). But I just didn't want to mess with the pickups or electronics and I ended up trading it (as a partial) towards a Spector that sounded AMAZING!
its because when you manufacture in asia they dont pay employees living wages healthcare or abide by any envirnmental regulations but you can have a huge selection of basses and other crap
Is there a five string equivalent to those pickups?
For an American Professional Jazz Bass, what size spacer for the bridge pickup?
WOW! NICE!!!!!
Plus you've got the HB parts for another project.
Fender project engineer : " OK, let's use this high output pickups so we don't even need to cover all the strings !! "
I like the sound of the fender better. I know this Novax were hot and if you adjusted your interface it would have sounded better. I just like the smooth tone from the fender. As for pickup height just take a razor blade and go around the neck pickup and then remove it and finish cutting it out. This will drop it down and help a lot. Should only take a few minutes to get done. It came out nice though and love the look of gold foils.
P.S. I disagree with you, this project was worth it to me!! It answers a lot of questions that I had!
There was a slight bit of distorting at 12:15. Is that due to how it was mic'd and recorded?
Recording direct, no mic. I was just hitting the limit of the interface compressor (UA Volt 276, AWESOME interface)
someone give this guy a TV Show!
Yeah, man! Stick it to Fender! 🤣🤣🤣
What's the benefit of a gold foil pickup?
It honestly boggles my mind how Fender released that bass in the first place. It’s a great idea don’t get me wrong, but the execution and construction was horrible. The Harley Benton blows it right out of the water. Great work as always Lobster!