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  1. Owen
    [quote name='dood' timestamp='1492790310' post='3283285'] Awwww! Shame it didn't work out for you personally, I know that you'd put a lot of effort in to going for the F#. I'd been following your thread with interest. Great bass and I am sure it will be snapped up quickly! [/quote] It was fun while it lasted, but I know my limits!
  2. Owen
    The colour is best represented by the headstock photo.
  3. Owen
    As per usual, it looks like the market does not agree with my pricing structure, £1200 delivered. I have always wanted to try bottom F#. Because lower it better, obv. I bought this bass on here and it needed a lot of love. I sent it up to Overwater for special Overwater love. It is a 25 year old bass so it has it's share of knocks, but because it is a light finish they are really not visible until you look very closely. I will not pretend that it is light. It is 12lbs 4 ozs and it is a big instrument. But the sound! Chris put a new 2 band Overwater/East pre into it, dressed the frets and built a new bridge because they do not use that bridge any more. I thought that I had settled on my 33" scale Shukers, but the focus of 36" is quite something. I have no idea what the wood is I am afraid. The pickups are the original Overwater ones and the there is a series parallel pull function on the volume knob. In the pics there is a D tuner on the F# which I will replace with a normal machine head before I sell it. I have owned Ritter, Sei, MTD USA, Lakland USA, Shuker, Status etc and I feel that this is very easily the equal if not better than them all. It is an absolute monster, I just cannot handle a 6th string. I am clearly a lightweight I played it last night and spent the whole set thinking instead of playing. I think that it is priced fairly for what it is. I still would love to have F# but my head will not deal with an extra string. Ho hum.
  4. Owen
    F# cos more lower is more better! The muting thing is one issue but the string cohordination is more of an issue really. I tried it and now I know.
  5. Owen
    Thanks (and diolch) for the suggestions. I am just too old and tired to change. I have used it on two gigs now and have come to the conclusion that it is not going to happen for me. There are only so many times you can be plucking one string and fretting another on a gig before the novelty wears off.
  6. Owen
    BACK OFF EVERYONE, I AM HAVING THESE! Drop me your PP address and I will get onto it. Ta.
  7. Owen
    [quote name='ambient' timestamp='1492465768' post='3280553'] I use a mix of left and right hand muting. It's a little awkward to describe, but essentially I use a version of floating thumb with my right hand, my thumb moving down across the strings, and the fingers on my left hand that aren't fretting are muting. [/quote] Ugh, changing right hand technique. I would have to practice and stuff. I am quite old to be doing new things. But thanks. [quote name='ambient' timestamp='1492465795' post='3280554'] Beautiful bass but the way, I love Overwaters. [/quote] It is a monster instrument in more ways than one. But very fine indeed.
  8. Owen
    So, how do you mute a 6 string? This thing speaks with the voice of thunder, but I am struggling to tame it with my puny 5 string technique
  9. Owen
    Would anyone have any suggestions if he does not come through?
  10. Owen
    I dropped him a message about plumbing an fdeck I have into a tiny pedal with a passive roll off, a DI out on stereo Jack and a mute/tuner out switch.
  11. Owen
    Thanks Maude.
  12. Owen
    I use an M audio one and it works just fine. Someone you know has an audio interface with built in midi. Ask if you can borrow it.
  13. Owen
    Tell us who the builder is?
  14. Owen
    Well, I have used it twice in anger now. Overwater make a lovely instrument, but I cannot deny that the F# is freaking me out. I am actually having to think while I play, and I do not like that one bit. It is like having to jump through a hoop everytime I want to do anything. I find myself with my fretting and plucking hands on different strings and my confidence on the instrument is suffering. More worryingly I did a long classical gig on the DB last Friday and was second guessing myself in pressure situations about what note I was actually playing. This does not work well in chamber music. My gut reaction is that I might shift it on, but I will give it a couple more gigs just to see. It does sound splendid though!
  15. Owen
    It is a superb resource. Sadly, I thought that it had helped me decide on my next strings until I realised that Velvet Garbos do not bow so well
  16. Owen
    This guy has recorded 17 different DB strings on the same bass http://www.hervejeanne.de/saitenmatrix.php The internet is fabulous! I am aware that there are all sorts of variables, but it really does bring things into focus.
  17. Owen
    I am yet to run into nearly anything which buffers a piezo pickup as well as an fdeck - and believe me I have tried. The only thing I have found cost 12.5 times as much. The fdeck is a wonderous little box.
  18. Owen
    [quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1492242602' post='3278855'] I believe that trumps Blue's four hour bookings if you add it up. Controversial. How was it apart from the hard work? I'm thinking you had a church venue or at least a venue that allowed the sound to breathe freely. [/quote] Yep, in a church so the work was being done in the space it was written for. Lots of good stuff, but some of the recitative passages where not hanging together well. I did have to discipline myself to not start swinging some of the basslines.
  19. Owen
    [quote name='owen' timestamp='1492029233' post='3277380'] I am playing the St Matthew Passion on Friday. I have not done this kind of stuff for a VERY long time. I will be very tired on Saturday. Cracking bass lines though. He was The Don. [/quote] Got in an hour ago. 2.5 hours of playing after a 3.5 hour rehearsal this afternoon. That was HARD work. I remember why I stopped doing it now. It was interesting to go back to it after a long break and realise that his basslines are a huge part of my creative DNA.
  20. Owen
    I have no need of this guitar. I am writing that just so that I can read when I come to look at it.
  21. Owen
    I am playing the St Matthew Passion on Friday. I have not done this kind of stuff for a VERY long time. I will be very tired on Saturday. Cracking bass lines though. He was The Don.
  22. Owen
    Phew!
  23. Owen

    Dingwalls

    Owen replied to CPBass's topic in Bass Guitars

    Could someone who has actual experience of them run me through the different models? I know how the Fender range stacks up from top to bottom and what I should expect, but I have never got a handle on Dingwals.
  24. Owen
    [quote name='dood' timestamp='1491751826' post='3275154'] I really like the feel especially on a wider neck. It suits really fast playing or when I switch to a pick. [/quote] The neck is so wide that there is talk of it being the next Heathrow runway. I cannot comment on the speed thing because I have no experience of it.
  25. Owen
    I started using an Overwater yesterday. It is quite the sound and quiet as a mouse. I am very impressed.
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