wombatboter

Fresh ideas, good groove... liked this a lot. First one sounded a bit too trebly for me but on the whole there are plenty of things I can steal to use them myself ...

Welcome...nice to see there are other people from Belgium. I'm from Vilvoorde which is Vlaams Brabant also..Het is een kleine wereld.

I'll just use this topic by the way to say thanks for the way you handled our transaction with the Celinder Update J4, I bought from you. Nice to know that there are still honest people around and let me have the refund from fedex, which they gave because the shipment was too late. You could have kept the refund (I had forgotten all about it) but you were honest enough to let me know they owed me money..Thanks a lot, Steve ! Great to do business this way and still enjoying the Celinder. cheers Geert

I bought a Sadowsky MV24 5 string two years ago for a really good price (around 1100 euros) but I wasn't pleased with it. I sold it after two months. The neck just felt "stiff", I couldn't bend the strings easily and how hard I worked with the controls, the sound remained boomy and artificial. I found it to be a rock-bass instead of a funkybass. I understand why Metallica's Newstedt uses it. I have tried out three Sadowsky basses so far but I think my Celinder J4 is a lot better in every way. Every bassplayer who has tried it out so far is floored by it and can't believe how easy it plays. It's like you don't have to put pressure on your fingers to achieve a great sound. It's the most reponsive bass I have ever played. It was a great day when I decided to buy it from CrazyKiwi. Enjoy your basses !

I sold my midi Wal for 3000 euros... took a really long time before someone reacted. I thought it would be picked up easily but it didn't.. "problem" with these midi Wals is that it is a bit harder to bend the strings because of the frets which are all connected to the midi system. It is a bit harder to play than a normal Wal. Tracking still isn't solved either... it's ok but you have to obtain absolute control over your own style of playing. Each muted note just makes the system choke..

Since last week I own a Puma Tecamp 1000 (2x500w) which I run through an Epifani UL4X10 and a 2x12 (both 4ohm). I'm really very enthousiastic about the sound and the power. Every bass I have run through it (from a Wal to a Celinder, etc.) sounds great. No colouration, no dirty mids, no boomy lows. Just a great basssound respecting the sound of each bass and not sounding too hifi. I have used the Epifani UL502 during a couple of years. Great amp too but the Puma is more powerful, easy to use and it weighs less than 3 kilograms. Excellent stuff ...

A couple of weeks ago I had a gig...some singer had his cd presentation and a whole band of free-lance musicians were hired to do the rehearsal in the afternoon (seven songs) and the gig in the evening (with a tv-station filming). I did the rehearsal with a fretted Peavey Cirrus USA 5 string..I gave my music stand to the backing vocalists since they nothing to put their lyrics-sheets on and I put my chord charts on the floor (badly lit behind a monitor). Rehearsal went smoothly and we played every song twice and we were prepared for the gig. Just before the gig started, I suddenly decided to make it a bit harder on myself (why I don't know, I'm a bit impulsive) and I didn't take the Peavey but a fretless unlined Lefay 5 and went on stage. While I plugged my bass in I noticed a bassplayer in front of me who does 70 % of all the studio-sessions in Belgium. I asked the drummer what that bassplayer was doing here and he said that he had played bass on the album ànd had produced the cd....Hmmmm. The drummer counted off and we started playing the songs, me trying to intonate correctly while reading chord charts on a dark floor...Not the easiest thing there was (but I only made one mistake) I saw the gig on tv and it sounded ok..Although I cursed myself for my decision the moment itself, I felt ok that I did it and it got the adrenaline going. Live fretless bass keeps you on your toes during otherwise sometimes boring gigs..

I saw the Spandau-Ross clip on Youtube ... In "Chant" the drums are really not swinging at all...I don't know if he's the original drummer but his playing really isn't ok to me...Very annoying and holding the band down. When they switched to "Gold" he played better..Hadley still sounds ok to me. I wasn't a Spandau-fan when they were succesfull (also here in Belgium) but now I find myself turning up the volume everytime they are on the radio..Power of nostalgia but they do have a couple of great songs (I even like "Through the barricades")

The intonation of Steve is just terrible...It just hurts my ears when I hear him play. Isn't he the one that said that you had to practice intonation on fretless by playing in a dark room ? He's got the lights on here but it still sounds out of tune. That eary reverb-sound doesn't make it better, like a sound of dolphins shitting.