Scoop

[quote name='Paul_C' post='44713' date='Aug 13 2007, 09:43 AM']'lo Scoop nice to see another ukmg refugee [/quote] hello Paul, half expected some of the usual suspects might be about in here. Will I see you at Not Wigan this year? With suitable headgear? Scoop

By tomorrow this will probably be completely redundant and I'll have thought of three other blokes but, for now, it's: Norman Watt Roy dUg Pinnick Jimmy Haslip

[quote name='paul, the' post='44676' date='Aug 13 2007, 03:13 AM']I'm sure you'll get some attention with that bunch. Do you have a certain special soft spot for one of your basses? How do you rate the Bob Glaub? And welcome to Basschat[/quote] Thanks for the welcome. The Glaub is a great bit of work, it's currently the one that I tend to pick up first and if I have dep gig then that's the one that always goes with me as it sounds good in just about any situation. The Lindy Fralin pup is one of the nicest sounding split Ps I've ever heard (although a mate of mine has replaced his Fender USA P-bass pup with a Haussel and that's a cracking pick up too). Soft spots? Tricky question. Sophie's Choice, really. I love ALL my children - sometimes I just prefer to spend my time in the company of a select few of them, but that selection changes day to day.

A music teacher I once had (alright more than Once, if I'm honest) used to say that [b]"bedroom musos practice til they get it right. Professional musicians practice til they can't get it wrong"[/b] it really stuck with me and when I have the time to get new material sorted properly I work and work and work at it. I do a lot of depping gigs, often at very short notice, and I seem to have a reputation as someone who can get a lot of new material under his fingers quickly. I have a good memory and decent chops, I guess, but that practice mantra goes right out the window on a dep gig. I make as many cock ups as everyone else does; they used to really bug me but these days I just laugh them off. Life's too short.

[quote name='RichBowman' post='42914' date='Aug 8 2007, 03:09 PM']He's a legend. I'm intrigued - does anyone know if you can get a 10-stringer (as in low ? I'd love to have a go at that. Ooooh - and while I'm here, has anyone tried playing a 8 or what not finger style? I'm guessing that you might have to reverse the courses of the strings (eg, thick string on top, octave below)? Rich[/quote] The only 10 string manufacturers that I know of, although there are bound to be others, are Godlyke & Dean. From what I can gather Godlyke are a USA brandname for the Japanese company which makes Bacchus handmade guitars. A google search will provide all the details you want and I can happily verify that Bacchus are cracking basses. And then there's Dean who make a 10 string version of, erm, the Edge (I think) - the bass certainly exists I'm just not sure of the model name. I own a Dean Rhapsody 12 and, while it can be played fingerstyle (with care), there's no doubt that you get the best tone out of these things using a pick and playing mainly (though not exclusively) with downstrokes. Two things which you can do with a 12 which make all the hassle of adjusting you playing style and building up your left hand strength worth all the effort are: 1. Ultra rapid octave and fundamental playing by using a pick on the upstroke on the outer octave string, skipping the inner octave and then catching the fundamental on the downstroke. Do that as a really fast alternate picking style and you can get utterly stunning effects. 2. Tune the D and G courses to fundamental, fifth and octave instead of fundamental and unison octaves. You can't do this with the E and A courses as the neck really can't cope with the string tension. Using a signal splitter and go to both a bass amp and a guitar amp with a swell pedal in the guitar amp's chain. If you play in a three piece, in particular, this is really usefull. When your twiddler goes into another of his interminable solos, you move your bass riff onto the D and G courses and bring in the guitar amp using the swell pedal. You instantly have the effect of a bass PLUS a guitar playing powerchord fifths as rhythmn guitar. It works brilliantly and really fills out the sound of a power trio when the guitarist is on solo mode. I've got to admit that the novelty of my 12 string wore off after a while (and I only bought it because, yes, Jeremy was in the set of my rock covers band and we wanted to do some King's X too tho never got around to it before the band split). I'm glad I have one, glad I've used it and gigged it, but I'm not sure I'd buy another if this got light fingered away. Scoop

Hi chaps, new to the forum, thought I'd say hello. I'm mainly a fingerstyle classic rock player but will lend my hands to pretty much anything if you pay me. Not adverse to using a pick for driving an eighth note groove along either. I don't slap - crap at it, and if you'll forgive the pun, I'm all fingers and thumbs. I'm ancient by most standards (born May 1960) but, if nothing else, my advancing years at least allow me to have enough money to indulge myself when it comes to bass gas. The intrument inventory is: Roscoe SKB3005 (custom built 5 string) Warwick FNA (5 string) Dean Rhapsody (12 string) the rest all four strings... Ken Smith Design v60J4 (with EBS pre-amp supplied and fitted by Bernie Goodfellow) Ric 4003 Blue Boy Status Electro Mk1 Lakland Skyline Bob Glaub precision Fender CIJ '51 Precision re-issue Warwick Fortress One I have also just ordered another Roscoe, an SKB300 four string, with flamed exhibition grade redwood top, spanish cedar body, maple and purpleheart laminated neck, african tulipwood fretboard, nordstrand DC soapbars and an Audere pre-amp. Build time is 8 to 10 months. can't wait... plus Tanglewood TW45CE electro acoustic Fender MIM '72 Telecaster Custom re-issue Amp heads Trace Elliot AH-350SMX Peavey Probass 500 Hartke HA3000 Cabs Trace 2x10 Ashdown ABM1x15 (pre-blue speakers) Hartke 4x10 SWR Triad Mk1 (1x15, 1x10, horn) various pedals (plus a couple of guitar amps) Hope I'll be able to contribute to some debates and glad to be here. Scoop.