Thanks Mark very much for taking the time to coach me.
It's amazing how fast it comes. It's not at all as confusing as I thought it was going to be. Within a half hour I already have the knob pattern down pat. You just get use to which knobs do what. I know alot of people look at all those knobs on a Series II and think geeze how are going to remember what the heck is going on. But it's nothing like that. Basically you just isolate a section which is each pick-up and then you know exactly which ones to touch to dial in a tone. The thing is that there is so much possiblities of tones that it's endless. It's so so so amazing.
The body is so firm. It's just so beautiful.
I have to admit, at first I was really kind of bumbed because I didn't have much time when I recieved it and it's been raining here solid for weeks and my amps are out in my kind of simi open carport so I didn't want to bring it out in all of this humidity. Then I got a horrible cold on Christmas Eve/morning and have been sick ever since so I just didn't have the adrineline to play.
Plus what I started to mention is that I requested the action be set low and by the time it got here the strings were almost touching the frets. The were banging on them when I played and I didn't want to attempt to adjust it without get talked through with Base. But tonite I am feeling better and I just looked at it for a while and a great kit comes with it with all the tools so I took a chance at just raising the bridge since the neck is PERFECT. It has that (and I mean just a hair of a little bend where it's supposed to) and so I knew I didn't want to go to the truss rods. So I got the little allen wrench that is for the bridge and that's all it took. MAN, I mean I am so happy just to have the option of that adjustment. And I mean this bass is so solid that when you turn those allens to raise/lower the bridge it works perfect. It's not like some cheaper basses where you turn those and there is a whole bunch of stress and the thing bends. This thing is unbeleivable. You just turn the allens and that bridge just goes up and down ever so smmoooootth with no tension. Is all I had to do each time is retune whenever I change it a little.
Oh Mark, not to be insensitive but honestly with these Series there is absolutely NO NEED for tone controls because you literally have total tonal control with these adjustments. As somebody said is what you do is just set your amps (plural because I am running two amps for the stereo effect) to the basic sound range that you want and then you do all the adjustments on your bass. These controls go from fat lows (neck Pick-up)and then you can turn the filter and all of a sudden you are having these metallic crisp highs out of that pick-up or you blend to your bridge pick-up and find your crisp high's in there or bring it down and blend. It's just ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES!!! Who was it that talked about how I would soon be experiencing those Wah effects. Ya those come with the variable CVQ's. They are kind of like little wah wah knobs. Especially the bridge pick-up q (CVQ). Amazing!!!
Hey Mica and family, thanks for the Christmas Card in my Owners package. I just found that tonite but really the late-night (I mean literally 11:30 or so pm) call from your whole family the night that it arrived Christmas Eve was WAY over the top with LOVE. You guys are GREAT!
I'll throw one thing in here just so that people that are just tuning in to this site don't think that maybe I work for the company as a sales person. My little switch for my seperation of lasers/side lites doesn't work. I know that this is appropriate to say here because it's something that later on I can open up the back, trace out the wires and have you folks or Ron walk me through on the phone to rectify so NO WORRIES! I mean you guys were pumping out product to make Christmas good for many customers that I am not worried about such a little thing.
You can tell this thing has pumped up the Love that was missing in me for a while now so I'll cutt'er short so that you can get a chance to read this. LOL.
Happy Holidays to all, and those of you waiting, don't give up now. IT'S WORTH THE WAIT!!!
Many Aloha's to all, Goodnite, Love Pauly
