BottomEndian

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1283709' date='Jun 27 2011, 09:12 AM']When the instrument is complete I will probably travel up to Moffat to pick it up (provided Alan is OK with that), particularly as it would be somewhat unfair for him to build such an unusual instrument and not see the nutter who ordered it try to play the thing. So if any of you want to come along too (whenever that may be) you are more than welcome to.[/quote] If Alan can time it to coincide with the Moffat Bass Bash 2012, you'll have quite an audience!

[quote name='silddx' post='1280701' date='Jun 24 2011, 11:09 AM']I didn't realise it could be powered from the FW port.[/quote] It certainly can (I've got one too)... but like I said before, I don't and I won't if I can avoid it.

Advice: forget about it as much as possible. Then every update is like a little blast of unexpected awesomeness.

[quote name='urb' post='1278883' date='Jun 22 2011, 06:49 PM']You know you've probably just hit the nail on the head - my Mackie audio interface was working great on Bus power then suddenly showed power surges - I wondered why it was doing it after working fine for ages - then an external hard drive is now not showing up either... I should have suspected something but it had all been working fine.[/quote] That does indeed sound suspicious. As long as you have the bus-powered device plugged in when you boot up, it should be fine, but if there's stuff being swapped in and out while the system's powered up... I've heard it said that it's equivalent (in terms of potential for power-surge mayhem) to plugging in a condenser mic with phantom power switched on.

Have you been hot-plugging bus-powered stuff? That's apparently the kiss of death for Firewire ports. It may happen first time... it may happen the one-thousandth time... but it'll probably happen eventually. ZAP. Pfff. Dead. Or so I've heard. I've heard it so many times that I [b]never[/b] hot-plug Firewire stuff, [i]or[/i] power it from the bus. But like Crez sez, get thee to an Apple store.

[quote name='Mark Latimour' post='1278606' date='Jun 22 2011, 03:12 PM']People who don't own them. People who do don't care, they just play them.[/quote] ...is the most sensible thing anyone's said so far.

[quote name='Scoop' post='1278300' date='Jun 22 2011, 11:04 AM']Just wait til I ask him to build me a 4 and 8 twin neck for my next one...[/quote] Entirely in blue gum burl.

Wow. Truly one of a kind. Really looking forward to seeing this one coming together!

[quote name='essexbasscat' post='1277824' date='Jun 21 2011, 10:11 PM']Just checked it to be sure. The lowest note of the Cello in standard tuning is C2, that is C two octaves below middle C, which is one semitone lower than the B on a 5 string bass.[/quote] The lowest note on a cello is indeed C2, but that's still an octave and a semitone higher than the low B on a 5-string bass, which is B0. The cello range (C2 to around A5, according to Wikipedia) is more comparable to a guitar (E2 to somewhere around C6, depending on number of frets).

[quote name='lanark' post='1277708' date='Jun 21 2011, 08:44 PM']But that's just nomenclature, why isn't it also an Extended Range Guitar?[/quote] Physical size and scale length, surely?

[quote name='mike_zimmerman' post='1277702' date='Jun 21 2011, 08:41 PM']Curbow Petite 5..[/quote] Aaah, lovely! Certainly don't see many of those over this side of the pond.

[quote name='mike_zimmerman' post='1277375' date='Jun 21 2011, 05:28 PM']I really need to take some better pictures of mine: [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65797029@N00/5296962445/"][/url][/quote] You certainly do... I can't even tell what it is!

Can I suggest a series of threads to keep BC alive for the next millennium or two? 5-strings: fad or future? Frets: fad or future? Fretless: fad or future? Roundwounds: fad or future? Solid-colour finishes: fad or future? Lungs: fad or future? Active basses: fad or future? 6-strings: fad or future? Personal preference: fad or future? Les Dennis: fad or future? Web forums: fad or future? Loud sighing: fad or future? 7-strings: fad or future? Moist toilet tissue: fad or future? and so on, and so on... we can even do each one repeatedly, maybe every few weeks, just to keep things fresh.

[quote name='Marvin' post='1265683' date='Jun 12 2011, 02:12 AM'] This is me! There you go I actually do play a bass occasionally and now at gigs , rather than just loaf around here talking about it EDIT: And here's another one. [/quote] You're very small... or are you just far away?

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1265067' date='Jun 11 2011, 04:16 PM'] This has gone in the Quotes thread for defamatory posterity.[/quote] I totally understand why Skank's post had to go. Still... It'll live on in my memory.

This has gone in the Quotes thread for defamatory posterity.

Yikes. The listing makes it out to be real rocking-horse-sh*t stuff, while there's actually [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/1960-Fender-P-Bass-Precision-Lefty-Left-Handed-Vintage-/160598555392"]another 1960 lefty Precision on eBay[/url] right now. Rare coincidence, or do these things crop up all the time? I know nothing of vintage Fender lefties.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1265003' date='Jun 11 2011, 03:23 PM'][url="http://wordsmith.org/anagram/"]http://wordsmith.org/anagram/[/url] Enjoy [/quote] Music Man StingRay = Gymnastic Anus Rim ... or ... C***-Rimming Assay You want either of those on your headstock, you've got problems.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1263114' date='Jun 9 2011, 07:24 PM']Jeff Berlin once said that he doesn't play fretless because everyone just ends up sounding like Jaco.[/quote] I play loads of fretless and I don't sound like Jaco. It's mainly because I'm sh*t. [quote name='Mcgiver69' post='1263894' date='Jun 10 2011, 01:28 PM']The Jaco I learned to love is Jaco the groove player, he's like a hyperactive child [b]running up and down filling every hole left by the other musicians in the band[/b].[/quote] This sums up Jaco for me, but it's the reason I struggle with him a bit. I love a bit (or maybe even a lot) of space in music. He always seemed to be treading a very fine line between supplementing the song and overpowering it. It's very easy to identify a song with Jaco playing on it, and it's often because his distinctive tone is ploughing through everything else as he fills up all the gaps.

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[quote name='deksawyer' post='1264518' date='Jun 11 2011, 12:23 AM']Almost exactly a year to the day I picked my first (so far) ACG bass... I can't help think this is the best bass ever made.[/quote] That is one gorgeous bass!

[quote name='eude' post='1264053' date='Jun 10 2011, 03:51 PM']Lovely collection there mate![/quote] Cheers! I just think it'd be nice to have the many many ACGs on Basschat in one place for... er... reference. *hides the bog-roll*

Seriously, how is there no ACG thread in the porn section? Let's get all of Alan's Scottish beauties together in one thread. I'll kick off... Recurve 5 fretless Skelf 5 fretless chambered piezo-only prototype Graft Recurve prototype satin black finish

[quote name='absolutpepper' post='1262383' date='Jun 9 2011, 10:24 AM']Perhaps a bit of an obvious one but why not just swell into the notes using a volume pedal, something like a VP-Jr is pretty responsive and would work grand.[/quote] Do keep up, dear fellow ... [quote name='RhysP' post='1259571' date='Jun 7 2011, 12:35 PM']Anyway; something similar: why not just use a volume pedal for swells? Too labour intensive for you? [/quote] [quote name='Sibob' post='1259740' date='Jun 7 2011, 02:45 PM']A bit labour intensive yeah, I have a couple if tunes in my hiphop/dubstep band that have every note swelled...I'm not riding the volume pedal for 8mins lol.[/quote]

What are the two behind the Sadowsky? I assume it's a Ray on the left, but on the right... pointy headstock suggests Alembic or Pangborn?