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italians up here! his name is gianni serino, and he's from genoa. not my cup of tea, as well, yet we have to give the devil's his due. astonishing technique.

if the bass is well-built, you shouldn't get any problems. as far as I'm concerned, I wouldn't choose a 33" scale lenght, but to me it's just a matter of taste. I've go very big hands. Plus, I like my strings to be a bit tighter, and, above all, I like that "bigger" voice that usually comes out of longer scales. not only allows for a more tight - and thus better sounding low b, but it also makes the higher strings of your axe sound more like a bass - especially the high C, which frequently happens to have a difficult-to-melt-with-the-other-strings sound, especially if you use light gauge strings. nevertheless, I've seen tony grey performing in Milan with Hiromi Uehara, and he was playing with his 33" fodera sixer. killer playing, and also killer sound, even on the lower register.

most of you got great looking and pretty refined ramps on your basses. I don't! I made mine out of a cd box, and glued it on the pick ups. not really great looking, but it does the job pretty well. you can see it here: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df1ljlMXpLc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df1ljlMXpLc[/url] since I've got P-style pick ups I can easily match the fingerboard radius by adjusting the pick ups. nevertheless, to prevent those reckless basschatters who are about to spoil their basses this way: keep in mind that this system only works properly if your bass has a considerably flat radiused fingerboard. I don't think i would do the same with a 7.25 fender-style radius. i also did something similar on my status S-1, but in a slightly different manner. I first fitted a small piece of wood between the pick ups in order to create an even surface. then I laid down a layer of sticker paper on the newly available surface. it works, and it definitely looks better than a sanded CD box. again, don't do this on buxom fingerboards, it won't work the way you want it to.

[quote name='molan' post='513953' date='Jun 15 2009, 11:59 AM']Look out for 'holoflash' - that's the official name of this finish from Spector [/quote] Thanks a lot! I really feel the urge to satisfy my long time hunger for a truly embarassing bass!

god, I want this bass! such a sparkling finish!

before I forget: I've also seen and played several epoxyed fingerboard. I haven't managed fo find great differences. sound-wise the superglue treatment seems to be a great and fairly cheaper alternative to the epoxy coating. the basses also feel very similar under your fingertips, as far as I can remeber: but I've never had the chance to set up an A/B test, so it's possible that I'm not considering subtle differences that may bother someone else.

a fellow memeber of an italian bass forum has written a very through tutorial on how to put a layer (actually, more than one) of superglue on a fretless board. I've seen a couple of basses that have undertaken this treatment, and I really have to say they both looked and sounded better to me. Well, it's not exactly something I would do on an ebony or wenge fingerboard (the first being hard enough, the latter to wide-grained). but it appears to work beautifully on a rosewood or maple (yummy!9) finegerboard. here's the link to the tutorial: [url="http://www.gospel.bo.it/albums/userpics/10221/finitura_tastiera_basso_fretless_con_cianoacrilato.pdf"]http://www.gospel.bo.it/albums/userpics/10...anoacrilato.pdf[/url] unfortunately, it's in italian, but I guess you could babelfish it easily. If not, I'ask the author to give me permission to translate it. But, as far as my english proficiency is concerned, I fear it wouldn't be such a great deal. babelfish is definitely more skilled than I am!

i really have to point out that, to me, a bass hanging on someone that way is one of the worst looking things ever. to say nothing of the potential neck issues!

I've tried a couple of iceman specimens in istanbul last summer, and I have to say they're great basses for the price. Let's say I've had the chance to try out some other Ibanez basses in the same occasion, eg a couple of BTB's, which in my opinion were clearly superior. as far as i can remember the pirice tag was similar, but sound-wise it wasn't really a fair comparison. If i were in your shoes I'd consider picking up a four stringer btb. It's a great looking bass, and has a great sound. Plus, the 35" scale lenght allows for higher string tension, which is a great thing if you are into picking styles and perhaps dropped tunings. then, keep in mind that we're still talking of fairly cheap korean-made basses, thus they're not exactly flawless. Though, I enjoyed the BTB's a lot. give it a try, I don't think you will be disapointed.

Well, I wouldn't go so far. It is true that many things have been introduced since Leo sold Fender to CBS - just think about the singray. But it doesn't seem to me that Fender has completely lost its talent in adopting good market strategies. Simply, Fender has better succedeed in promoting a "retro image" for today's bassist. which is kind of a challenging task. to put it straight: Fender's client base is demanding a traditional bass - which may also happen to be spiked with pots, but has to look and feel as a fender bass. obviously, this is not an absolute value, and many people can easily live without it. Yet Fender's offer is addressed to players of this kind, and it's not really big deal. You just have to know which featuresa are important for you in a bass, wheter it's a fender or not.

OMG, this bass is gorgeous. I mean, it's just a korean made bass. IF ONLY IT WAS RED, i would have bought it immediatly. let's face it, a bass must be cool looking in the first instance!

I have a number of different basses, but in the last few months I started suffering of some swap-frenzy disease. Thus, I swapped a rare graphite-necked Peavey GV bass for a fretless european spector. it was a hell of an axe, but I quickly got mad at that bass since I couldn't really get the tone i wanted out of it. I eventually sold it to buy a Status S-1, which is now serving as my main live and studio bass. however, I wouldn't define my current bass a better one. It's all about understanding what you want in an instrument. The spector I had would have been perfect for some playing style - and it actually is, since the guy I sold it to is more than happy with this bass. but it just could not deliver the sound i had in mind when i recklessy bought it.

I'm pretty curious about this bass too. But, frankly speaking, I'm not really surprised about the fact it's now discontinued. What Fender is all about is tradition, and a 24 fret jazz bass might have been too much for its client base. nonetheless the introduction of the Steve Bailey model is an interesting change.

+ 1 for the sx's. Even marloweDK used to have a short-scaled jazz bass. You can even listen to its sound in his vids - even if, as far as I can remember - he used to add plenty of FX to the original tone of that lil' bass on his videos. Which may happen, otherwise, to be kind of hard to find since YT shut down his channel.

Ok, let's start this feedback topic. I've just bought a Status S-1 five stringer from Trace_n_bass. The deal was the smoothest I ever had. As I'm typing, my brand new status is sitting on my lap. It took about a week or so to arrive since the wire transfer was arranged, which is great. Shipped with DHL, the bass was wrapped in a bulletproof packaging made of layers of thick cardboard. Stu has always been helpful and kind throughout the whole transaction - great guy to deal with. I also have to mention that the bass I've just bought is absolutely flawless, no dings or scratches whatsoever. just as described!

you're absolutely right. I didn't even consider the MME/ASIO thing. although I definitely have to say that reaper is by far the best daw software I ever tried, latency wise. I would be pretty surprised if, given that the resources are still the same, reaper eventually led to a worse performance than cooledit.

uh, before i forget: the issue you're talking about, reaper being ravaged by latency and cooledit being latency free is very strange. I wonder if you're actually using the hardware monitoring (kind of a direct monitoring without software processing) with cooledit and softare monitoring with reaper. it would be important to understand this, since it would be very strange to get a low monitoring latency with a software and a higher one with another. I have never used cooledit, therefore I'm not able to give you hints about it. However I'm becoming pretty skilled as a reaper user, and I'm pretty sure you're going through softare monitoring if you just enable the record button and the monitoring switch.

bassman2790, if you're using the internal soundcard - the one originally provided with your laptop - a latency problem just ain't that peculiar. I would certainly give the asio4all a chance, especially if your laptop is new or at least not outdated. just don't be surprised if it still doesn't fix the problem. before buying an external firewire sound card I used to record on my laptop using the original internal card. Using the asio4all drivers and tweaking the settings a bit I achieved a lower latency, but I didn't managed to eliminate the latency issue completely. I've then achieved an almost latency-free (latency lower than 5 ms, which is almost - if not totally - imperceptible) using an external soundcard. This is in my opinion the best solution you might consider. there's plenty of great deals right now, and you can get yourself a really good sounding firewire interface for less than £ 150.

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thank you so much guys. I appreciate a lot this kind of feedback. 51m0n, I think he would be really happy to know that his drumming reminds Tim Alexander. Primus is one of my band's greatest influences. anyhow, as soon as i've finished to mix the guitars and bass I will post the results, thus hoping for some more feedback thanks!

Hi guys, I've finally managed to lock my drummer inside our rehearsal room to record some drums for our new self produced EP. this is my very first attempt at recording drums, and if there's something I really want to point out is that everything I know about it I've learnt from some (excellent, in my opinion, yet - obviously - not really exhaustive) youtube tutorials. We used a 200-Euros-worth 8-microphone mic set, an Alesis IO 26 8-channel audio interface, my trusty 4-yo acer laptop and a couple of behringer studio monitors. Everything was recorded in reaper, and I managed - don't know how! - to resist the temptation of adding lots of plugins. what you're going to hear is the raw, unedited mix (I've just made some panning, and fixed a couple of phase issues). I'm pretty happy with the results, but I think there's plenty of room for some additional editing. adding gates and eq's aside, I don't really like I think I will have to face some harsh to make the toms sound clear and loud. In my opinion they're tuned too low. Plus, I'm not really digging the snare: the resonances are too loud - although this issue could be partly solved, with reasonable ease, adding a smart eq to the overheads tracks. I'll try to fix it in some way. What I really don't know how to fix is my drummer's brain. I'm still wondering where he got the idea of humming the guitar part... damn idiot! I would appreciate a lot if could take a couple of minutes and give me some feedback! The track is attached. Thanks a lot. [attachment=21049:victordrums.mp3]

unless you are using linux, I think reaper is definitely the best choice. great daw software. if your computer is running linux, anyway, you can still try ardour, which seems to work very well.