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A Fret King Black Label Esprit Bass!
I wanted a bass and spent a few hours at the end of November going round a few guitar shops trying them out. I tries bases from £79 (a second hand Yamaha) up to £1500 (a Stingray) and thinking I can't tell any difference between these. The only one that stood out for me was the Fret King. It felt right and sounded great. But it was dearer than I wanted to spend on a first bass.
Anyway, my lovely, sneaky, wonderful, crafty wife only went and bought it for me. And kept it well hidden until Christmas morning!
So now I have a guitar that is too big and missing a couple of strings! How the hell do I play this thing?
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I'm a lazy bass player, just give me the root notes and I'll play around that. I actually recommend that as a starting point, find a chord sheet to a song, load song on YouTube and play along with root notes
I have a book of bass tabs and a lot of it seems to be 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 etc
I can read music score, but not on the fly with sight reading.
How well does the Fret-King balance on a strap? I suspect that a chunkier bridge might bring some improvement.
It is a little neck heavy. However I have only sat down with it and my arm seems to sit quite naturally in the vee-shape of the upper bout, with my thumb resting on top of the pickup. That seems to keep in balanced quite well.
The pickup is wired with something called a vari-coil control, which winds it from full humbucker to a single coil (the one with the double row of pole-pieces).
I love it. At the moment I'm just doing some home recording with it, and getting to know it.
The Musicman Stingray pickup and the Delano on which the Fret-King pickup is based normally have their coils interconnected in parallel. Series mode tends to be loud and overbearing.
If your pickup has four conductor + shield output cable, it could be wired to a DP3T on/on/on switch to offer Jazz/Both/‘Ray