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Can I get on the list too please? Interested to try it with my poweramp. I am in Oxford and probably only need it for a day or so! Cheers ped

Hi mate When i had Ableton I downloaded the Reason Demo just to try setting up VSTs in the programme. The demo limits you to 20 mins but more than enough if you know what you want and how to get it. Give it a shot! ped

Are you Mike Patton?

Makes me sweat just imagining it!

Maybe some foo' could bung the data in a spreadsheet and make all kinds of entertaining 3D charts with the data!! maybe we should each measure our highest and lowest strings to get a better overall picture? Or is that getting complicated!! ped

Yeah so was I - actually my low D string is visibly higher than the rest - if we were talking the high D and G it would be far lower (like the popping strings as low as possible) G string is a shade over 1mm at the 17th... Cheers ped

Vigier Passion series 2, active With feeler gauges 3rd 1.2mm 12th 1.5mm 17th 2mm Pickups - between 2.5 and 4mm from strings Elixir .40-.95 Tuned DADG Low

If you are ever near Oxford you are welcome to come and have ago on mine!

Just a bit of fun, probably?

Sting

Cool video, I liked the sound of the Bergs the best, at least on the video. Thanks for posting it - I hope I can try out some combinations at the October bash. ped

Cheers, yeah the bass is probably made of the same sort of firewood as the floor!

Here we are!! Three plebs and our tortured instruments!

[quote name='Captain Bassman' post='566570' date='Aug 12 2009, 10:20 AM']Me with the Big G's (my main gig) outside at The Cage in Reigate a couple of weeks ago. T'was a chilly nite... Can't remember what we were all laughing at...but usually it's because someone's just f*arted!![/quote] Is that an Arpege, sir? V nice! ped

[quote name='TATTOODEVIL' post='563304' date='Aug 8 2009, 08:55 AM']No pics of me playing bass yet as I only got it yesterday. Here's an old one of me in my kickboxing days....... I look the same now, just less teeth and more tattoos [/quote] Potential moderator material, I reckon!!

That's exactly how I plan on getting your Arpege, Nick (and not the £40,000 part) ...See you at the bash *evil laugh*

I have, at the Bass gallery in London Town. I THINK it was the carbine, not sure about the '6' bit. Unfortunately I was playing an unfamiliar bass through a Schroeder 4x10 I think so couldn't really comment - but get yourself there if you want to give it a go.

Ah you missed a white one on eBay fairly recently. I will keep my eyes peeled for you. There might be one on the Vigier forum for sale but I haven't asked weather it had sold. I also have a fretless, series III, but I am finding I hardly play it any more, despite it being probably my main recording bas for a while. Like you I think the magic lies in the full graphite necks, mainly because I like the dead straight profile. Cheers ped

Cheers Darbs!! Welcome any time ;0) Sam the Fender guitar had the stuff built in and hidden from view (actually you can still see the Roland pickup but the guitar one is smaller and they used a white one to blend in). You can also drive the Vbass unit using Piezo elements in the bridge, like on Kiwi's MIDI bass. EDIT: here's the Strat:

Ah OK thanks. The Vbass is a great piece of kit - I use it as my pre-amp and as a monitoring system for IEM. I will be doing a little demo at the Bass Bash in October apparently!! Basically the Roland pickup (thin one at the bridge) knows the height of each string and it's length from the saddle to the nut. It then processes each string individually so you can play polyphonic synths, strings, effects and so on - and do amazingly accurate impressions of 'essential' basses like a Jazz or a Stingray. You can do this by essentially moving virtual pickups around the bass. 90% of the time I am playing clean with the magnetic pickups but when you feel like a bit of Marcus Miller, it's there, on a bass I enjoy playing more than anything else I have had. Sorry, went on a bit there - but it is really hard to sum up such a comprehensive bit of kit otherwise! Since having it installed I have been completely blown away by it and have found that they actually have an impressive list of users such as Richard Bona and Leyland Sklar. Quite an undiscovered gem IMO! Cheers ped

Yeah it should be quite dark but the bass itself should be fairly clear? All that bumf is the Roland Vbass pickup. I might get it installed internally one day but quite like it how it is... it's been like this for some time so why change it now! ped