I'm a major fan of LaBella flatwounds, discovered them after not being happy with a set of considerably more expensive Pyramid Gold flats on my Ric 4001. You're turning that D5 into a decent axe. Thanks Lobster! 🦞

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sparks! Agreed, I love the feel of these so much more than the pyramids on my Warmoth Tele bass.

The flats are pretty bright sounding. Almost like rounds

Seem like solid upgrades. I always love modding vids.

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks James! Me too

I love these La Bella's on a P bass. It's poetry

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great sounding bass before and after. I'm going to have to find myself one of these fine basses.

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Julian!

Thanks for the video. Currently waiting the arrival of a Gunstreet wiring harness and Lindy Fralin single coil pickup for my D5.

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Enjoy :)

That smile tells me all I need; a bass to mod - exactly what I need

To me, the stock bridge may look low tech but is perfectly functional and lighter in weight. I would not have changed it. It will be fun to see what changes the Dusty Hill pickup does. Another great video, Lobster!

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks David! Indeed your points are absolutely spot on regarding the bridge. Absolutely nothing wrong with the stock unit, I just like the aesthetics and the quick release functionality. But you're right, stock bridge is absolutely fine and nothing wrong with it. It even has brass saddles!

That may be my next bass. I am looking forward to seeing the pickup and next upgrades

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Part 2 drops tomorrow, enjoy :)

i tried out labellas for the first time because i was curious about flats, safe to say i'm never going back!

@michaelblaney4461

2 жыл бұрын

I like flats too. I've never put them on a bass where I haven't liked them on it . The not to say I don't use rounds too.

My bad the D5 clocks it right at $500 tax not included. I like it, you're right a little light on the low end.

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alan!

Great sounding bass even with the stock pickup. Spacehog influenced bass line !

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Keith!

Do love those La Bella's.👌

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Phil! Me too!

Excellent Lobster 🦞🦞

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul!

I do like the flats , I really like the EB cobalt flats lately . That Seymour Duncan is a stack ( humbucker) will probably change the sound a lot . Nobody seems to have those basses yet ,probably off the coast on ships . 😞

I love the sound of the flats. I don’t know how much difference the bridge makes, apart from ease of string changes. I’ve got some halfrounds that I’m going to put on my early style P Bass when I can justify changing them (probably in a decade!!). I’m looking forward to the pickup swap.

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rev! I agree, and these are my absolute favorite flats too. Excited for the pickup swap video to drop on Friday! You won't be disappointed :)

I put a set of Flats, don't recall the brand, and a Seymour Duncan SCPB-3 (Quarter Pound) pickup in my Harley Benton PB-50.. I look forward to your part II and the Dusty pup..

Should sound nice with the Seymour Duncan 51 pickup looking forward to that mod

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Vid drops Friday :) I think you'll like what you hear

solid, fun & informative as usual. looking to upgrade an old 70s fender jazz w a musicman pickup at the bridge(was purchased modded ) and also a bridge for my Squier 5 that has the Seymour Duncan quarter pounder. Considering KSM or babicz but not %100 sure yet

Great mod, and very nice choise of pickup! Edit for spelling, ug

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ryan!

Very cool!

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sam!

Lobster. As a future mod video suggestion, could you fit a fender hole pattern bridge to a Sire where the 5 mounting holes need to be drilled. Locating the bridge properly so there is enough travel in the saddles to set the intonation is the part people need to see. Cheers!

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I did this on my V5 fretless. It's easy I'd the new bridge is string thru body too. You can pop some fat allen wrenches in the ferrule holes to keep the bridge aligned then drill the mounting holes

SCOTCHY! UR BACK! also this I just saw might be interesting - part way through it now, he's weighing the bridges lol Rickenbacker Bass vs Japanese Lawsuit Copy vs Chinese copy 1,550 views Nov 9, 2021

@russellzauner

2 жыл бұрын

nice to see flats getting some comment love - just like many people, used to hate them as a kid but as an adult they seem much more like the right thing to make bass, bass.

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Literally my experience growing up. Hated the feel of them, now I love em.

@russellzauner

2 жыл бұрын

PUDDIN'! Scotchy McPuddin, that's its name lol

@russellzauner

2 жыл бұрын

​@@LowEndLobster That's going to be a piece of trivia that I'm eventually going to have to bottom out on. I kind of need to understand at some point why my visceral preference changed, and why that seems to be a VERY common experience. I mean, it's the OPPOSITE of putting on reading glasses, some would argue if it's an age thing that we would be BOOSTING the upper fundamentals and subharmonics rather than DAMPING them. But it occurs to me it's likely more complex than that. It seems the strings need to be quality flats first off or they'll just seem dead sounding from the start. maybe I didn't have the refinement of ear to notice the things yet, the perceptions and mental muscle memories of harshness and metallic scrapy sounds... it also occurs to me that the opposite of what's traditionally noted as "aging" could occur, just like it does with ultramarathon runners, who train for DECADES at their craft and the top performers are NOT kids, that there is a honing and a consciousness of subtleties that are crashed over the top of instead of being able to be coaxed out - I think the brightness we sought was in our own backyard the whole time. :-) Maybe I hadn't learned to enjoy just chilling with an instrument deeply enough to pull the tones up out that I wanted instead of expecting string type or gauge to just *give* it to me. The reason why I have so many instruments now is that when I get done refurbing them and setting them up, I'll have touched as wide a variety in as short of time as I could have - once you have one of each you can study the thing and when you Know it well enough then you'll know which instruments you need to keep. I am intrigued by this notion of audio processing maturity that doesn't just go "well you're getting old so your upper freqs sensitivity are gonna vanish" which seems to be a LIE at this point. My hearing range is still so much better than everyone elses around me that it's gotta be something more than just "good genes, he's got a gift, lucky guy" - I think all the muscles can be trained, even ear muscles and by this braindump here I seem to have actually landed a few facts by observation, so thanks for entertaining the punishment of my stream of typingness. Since I haven't been able to play it's been killing me that I know the music I want to play way better than I can perform it now because I've been listening to it for three years without getting to play hardly at all. I was listening for a year or so before then, but I hadn't realized that 99% of what comes out your speaker originates in your mind, so I tried to start visualizing songs I was hearing on the fingerboard, at least patterns. Before it was like okay I can definitely physically play that so I should be able to learn it easily ... ... ... LOL Yeah, so now I'm not as worried about my chops - the more I am able to physically practice without causing downtime, the improvements will be non-linear and quick, and I'll be progressing as fast as my body will let me instead of continually trying to push it and reharming stuff or breaking new things. It's just frustrating to finally hear into a song where I had much trouble before but now I lack the physicality to perform what I can now hear and process way more of than I used to be able to. Anyhow, some point I'll start taking more serious notes and researching other anecdotes to see if I can find a model or pattern in there somewhere, about the kid/rounds vs adult/flats preferences that seem to a common theme among enough bassists to give it a think. It's an interesting phenomena to me.

I use to like those LaBella strings......that is until I tried the Rotosound's Jazz 77 Monel Flats. These strings just blew me away. They have just enough highs in them so every note is very clear and punchy, yet still retaining an old school thumpy tone. I have been using the SM77 which are 40-100. In any case, you can't go wrong with flats on a P-Bass!

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ken! I should give those Rotos a try. I tried some other Roto flats early on in the channel (don't remember the model), and was not impressed.

@russellzauner

2 жыл бұрын

the color on this one is like pudding though, I love the deeper butterscotch tone...I just realized it's EXACTLY the color of butterscotch pudding lol like literally this second. :-) Totally. I would end up callin that one "Puddin'" now for sure, were that pony in my stable. I'm hit/miss naming my instruments. Some of the them get names, some don't, no reasons why, just is. But if I owned that bass and made that realization I would not be able to keep myself from callin it Puddin'. lol

Great video! I need to try the La Bella flats, do far GHS were great and Thomastik-infeld even better. I wonder what impact on tone/sustain the bridge brought. Looking forward to the great shielding followup!

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Erez! Definitely try a set, you will not be disappointed. 760FS model for these.

Lobster, love the cat T. A few more vids for us poor newbies.

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Alan!

Dude, I was literally looking up affordable ‘51 style P-basses the other day, plus pickups I would use to upgrade one, and the Seymour Duncan ‘51 Stack was one of the pickups that caught my eye. Can’t wait to hear how this turns out. Side note- what’s the neck profile on this like? Is it comparable to a P-bass neck or is it more like a Jazz bass?

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rob! You will not be disappointed with the '51 Stack - it's fat and mean. That video drops Friday :)! Neck profile is a little thinner than a traditional P, but fatter than a J. Nut width is about 41.3mm, so similar to a Stingray almost.

Lobster has Sire addressed the shielding on this bass since last year? I like the bridge it comes with, my concern before buying would be the shielding and the pick -up. Thanks

A bridge and a set of strings and voila'. New bass. By the way, that headstock looks awesome and I think better than the normal design. Sire? Listening?

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks David!

I highly recommend trying out a .033uf tone cap. It does something magic in the midrange that I feel brings out the best in a 51p with flats

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

I've never tried one. Thanks for the suggestion!

great video! Quick question, which were the original strings? I can't seem to be able to find the info anywhere. Thanks!

Allways like your videos! Dont know you about the bridge upgrade though, arent those sire bridge pretty good?

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Heyo! The bridge sire uses on the D5 is quite solid. I just like to upgrade things for fun. I don't think there was much of a functional improvement with the bridge swap other than gaining quick release functionality.

@Oscaraha

2 жыл бұрын

@@LowEndLobster thanks for doing it anyway:)

These upgrades were definitely needed. There are many companies, including my own, that put quality bridges and strings on their base models. It’s a shame Sire doesn’t do this.

@GooseMan-64

2 жыл бұрын

Do you have any base model at 499,00$ ? A quick look at your website, everything starts from 1800.00.

@roopekanerva5606

2 жыл бұрын

@@GooseMan-64 Lmao, great answer.

Quick question for anyone here who may know: I was thinking of putting a bridge cover on my D5 to hide my foam mute and get some cool vintage looks. Does anyone know if the fender made ones fit? Thanks!

I just put some LA Bella flats on my P5. I got some other little knick knacks like knobs and a pickguard. I wanna put a les claypool pick up and an audere preamp, but I kinda wanna keep it passive though. Not sure what kinda pick ups to get though or what's a good passive electronics upgrade?

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

DiMarzio!

Been a fan for a long time, I’m sure you have seen me comment before. What is the best way to get ahold of you? I have to ask you a quick question.

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Heyo! Of course. Easiest way is the Discord channel (linked in the description). Facebook and Instagram also work though I check those less regularly

Thanks for your videos, Best bass reviews on KZread. Do you prefer the d5 or the squier paranormal?

@cedricleborgne8229

2 жыл бұрын

Or the tribe Spike?

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Great question! I like the Paranormal but it's a very different bass compared to this D5. Never played a Spike, but I have some qualms with Tribe's lack of being up front about where their instruments are being produced.

@cedcobasse

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. I think tribe are produced in indonesia, perhaps at the same factory of cort or sire 🤔

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

@@cedcobasse Tribe's are made in Korea from what I understand, not sure out of which factory. They don't mention ANYTHING about being MIK on their site and many of their instruments don't mention it at all... Plus they make it seem like they're made in Switzerland or something. Feels disingenuous to me.

@cedcobasse

2 жыл бұрын

Or may be a fender mex p bass ?

Does that sunburst Sting Ray only have ONE string? And, if so, WHY?

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Ahaha, no I think that's just an optical illusion with the lighting. Four ferocious flatwounds facing front

What was wrong with the original bridge?

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Great question! Absolutely nothing. I like the added functionality of the quick release as well as the aesthetic upgrade. Nothing wrong with the stock unit though, it works without issue

why they dont make it fretless

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

They'll do fretless for all their models. Usually special order and 100 dollar premium

No string height adjustment? No intonation adjustment? No way that bridge dropped in perfect in those aspects

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

I usually do a quick setup before I go back to the wall.

I have a sire v9 for you to mod

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rick! I appreciate the thought, but I generally don't do mods for other people

Dude if you go to pee with this hand ....

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

It's.... inconvenient at times XD

I.e. Basses sub $500 I am poor, retired and disabled crazy cash not on my horizon. I need zero intrest 12 months and no in the sky price tag.

@LowEndLobster

2 жыл бұрын

I got you covered.... but next week is not your week... the week after though I'll be sure to do some more budget focused stuff.