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Great bass and obviously one you feel really 'at home' on because of the time you have spent working with it. It looks very tactile and funky. I would love to try one! ped

Just let me have a go on that soon!

Lovely lovely lovely lovely!

What I like is the consistency. Vigier have a very clever system where the graphite neck in half neck-thru so it stops just before the pickups. I think the key to a good graphite neck is first of all stability (not all I have tried or owned have been straight and I can't stand much neck relief) and the body wood character is even more critical than with a wooden neck, IME. Get the right wood on the right neck and the two resonate and work together beautifully. There is no single best way of doing it and there are many good and bad necks, graphite or otherwise, and I think the neck itself is merely a part of the whole picture. As a sum of its parts, a graphite neck will enhance (or spoil) a bass depending on a whole host of other factors. Cheers ped

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='542855' date='Jul 17 2009, 07:29 AM']I think the opening paragraph is missing a hyphen: Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and a band employee were attacked by three-armed people in the parking lot of Southern Tracks Recording Studio ..' Wow. I hope someone took photos... it must have been quite a sight.[/quote]

Last one looks photoshopped, somehow?

Fairly random one Dunno what I was trying to do here TBH

Oh yeah, that too!

IME you won't notice much difference in the volume between a single 8 or 4 ohm cab. I could be wrong though, but I have never noticed any difference....

Marleaux

If you call up Mr. East you could try his outboard Jretro (possibly he has the ACG too) with your very own bass. He is based near Oxford just on the M40.

I have a Marleaux 3eq pre in my bass - normally it is bypassed but what I really like about it (and the reason I got the East for my freteless) is the treble boost at 8khz which just works really well for a bit of extra cut live. ped

Here is the Basschat Youtube page which might provide some inspiration [url="http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?name=basschat"]http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?name=basschat[/url]

Yeah when I recorded my lil youtube vid we set up a camera, played the sound direct to desk which was being recorded on Digital Performer (but you could use anything) When we finished we grabbed the video and the audio as two separate streams and synced them together in iMovie (but you could just as easily do it in Windows Movie Maker). Mike's idea of a 4 bar count to aid syncing is good, wish I thought of that because it took a bit of luck getting it spot on. It worked really well and we didn't have to rely on the quality of the mic on the camera and/or acoustics etc. Let us know how you get on. I plan on doing a couple myself now that I have a new computer based recording package. Cheers ped

...And I think they may have done a 36" scale 4 string version? Try mailing Bacchus - PM me if you can't find the details as I have the blokes direct address.

Yeah that was a beaut. It's all about the neck relief in my book. Get that as flat as you can and tickle the bass! I have only found this possible on a couple of basses - The Vigier, the Marleaux and the Bacchus, because the fretwork was so good.