Kiwi
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We have accepted an offer from The Fretboard to buy Basschat. It's not a lot of money but Chris and I both have young families and less time than ever to stay on top of stuff. My being in China doesn't help with the financial side of things, either. Not sure what they intend to do with Guitarchat or the other plans, I guess they'll reveal those at some point in the future. Stay tuned for further announcements on hand over.
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Ooh a G3! These basses are starting to grow on me after listening to a Ripper on a Pompamoose track played by the lovely Hagar. -
All the name dropping on their website makes me a bit cynical. Glad you're pleased with your purchase though - any sound clips?
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Indeed!
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You may want to have a word to him about the terminology he uses.
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Empress do a para eq pedal as well. But you can buy onboard para eq - I have two or three loaded into basses by Klaus Noll. Really good quality, if you go for one just ask him to adjust the mid frequency down to 250Hz or so. It's a little high in the standard circuits.
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1999 - Spector 5 String NS5CRFM -New Photos Added
Kiwi replied to bagsieblue's topic in Basses For Sale
These are great basses. I had two at one point and still have one. Lovely focus in the midrange. -
The Shuker is a great bass. Although after playing @Dood's 6 stringer in 2015, I actually preferred his to mine. At the time I spec'd mine, I asked Jon to use my Smith BSR6 as the template. If I were to spec the bass again I would have gone for three pieces of wenge with a few stringers of flame maple in the neck and maybe an ebony or richlite fingerboard and 15mm string spacing, with the neck profile of Dood's bass. Also my bass has needed a lot of time to bed in because of how dense the maple is in the neck. So now it sounds a little mellower sounding now than it did after it first came into my possession. Given I have had it in storage since 2015, perhaps it has mellowed further. But regardless, it has a piano like tone which I'm sure would appeal immensely to some players. It's also superbly made and I guess I've learned quite a bit about wood and construction from it. The bass I made for myself since, under Jon's expert supervision, is a load closer to what I've been looking for but even then there are things I would change. It's proving to be an expensive journey.
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thanks, I'll pm you as it could get a little long winded.
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Funnily enough, this is exactly what I've been looking for in a para eq...a notch filter with a super narrow bandwidth for boosting around 250Hz. Are you suggesting the narrow bandwidth isn't a good idea?
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Mr Blue Sky - ELO
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"McGonagall you say...?" "One mention of the Famous Tay Whale and I'll turn you into one. Somewhere high above the surface of a mythical planet."
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Yeah, the problem is he's basing musicality on popularity being an anathema to proficiency. It's a polarising position which I'm pretty confident isn't what Victor intended given his rep as a teacher. In any case a simple response to the argument would be for Alan Holdsworth to play 'Good Times' or 'Papa's Got A Brand New Bag'. Debate over. But...oh, he's dead.
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I can't see how it makes sense from a fingering point of view. Your fretting thumb is anchored, your fingers move around in an arc as they go from string to string. The idea behind a radiussed fingerboard is to make the stretch for each note relatively consistent...isn't it?
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Loved it up until the point where he compared Alan Holdsworth to BB King and then I was like...hmmm. Steve Vai talks about Alan Holdsworth as the only player he couldn't get a fix on musically. The ONLY one. So that makes him a guitarist's guitarist I guess in Victor Wooten's context. It doesn't detract from the point Victor was making but I would chosen someone who wasn't respected and revered. Yngwie for example.
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Suggested avatar? ;)
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I always tend to struggle with getting into the pocket of Let's Dance. It's a simple line but played so far behind the beat, and when you're on stage the last thing you are able to do is relax and slide into it.
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Try the status forum :) -
Update on this: Source Audio mentioned that they discussed the email over staff lunch the day after I sent it which was promising. I haven't heard anything more back from them than that. The Freeze pedal will be couriered back to Mimmo for repair very soon now that couriers are sending stuff out of China again. So hopefully it will be with him soon.
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https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/366657-bass-synth-and-the-search-for-an-accessible-arpeggiator/
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Some of them you could do on the C4. I got the C4 specifically so I could give Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer a crack, but then you'd need my pedalboard as well. It might be that more than one FI wouldn't be necessary if one of the patches is relatively simple - like a squelchy saw wave for example and even the Zoom B3 has a bass synth patch.
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I decided to teach myself guitar about 10 years ago and haven't looked back. I'm still crap though. BTW: All of you guitarists...www.guitarchat.co.uk needs your wit, talent and unique brand of BS. Don't be neglecting your sister forum now.
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Graphite necked basses sound fantastic through these.
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If it were me, I'd see what happens with the envelope depth or knock back 800-1000Hz maybe and seeing what that does. Beyond that I would need to play with the patch myself.
