iain173 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Hello all, My name's Iain (obviously!) and I play bass in a London-based band called Ubermanoeuvre. I play a beautiful Fender US P Bass in blue agave, called Brenda the Fender (but I'm still working on that). I've had her for about 6 years now. As you'll see from my photo, I got a bit bored one day and created an awesome (IMO) collage on my scratchplate and then covered it with a huge sheet of sticky plastic to preserve it. I'm now using DR Peacock Blue strings (not shown in photo - old strings), which look and sound fantastic. Just bought one of the Peterson StroboStomp tuners which seemed quite decent and now in the process of buying amps, a DI box and various other bits and bobs. Probably going to get one of the EBS MicroBass boxes and a nice Gallien-Krueger combo. [attachment=12529:Bass.jpg] I also play the six-string, the electric violin (fantastic instrument), piano and keyboard (my MicroKorg is one of my favourite toys) and "sing" when I can too. As far as the band's concerned, we're just recording an album at the minute which follows an EP we recorded just over a year ago with the relatively famous Dave Chang, [url="http://www.davechang.co.uk/"]http://www.davechang.co.uk/[/url]. The music's generally punky with other influences, such as ska, metal, dance, funk, rap etc. People often say that we sound like a heavier and happier Rage Against the Machine. If anyone is interested, the songs from the EP are available for download here: [url="http://ubermanoeuvre.wordpress.com/tunes-and-video/"]http://ubermanoeuvre.wordpress.com/tunes-and-video/[/url]. Would be great to hear any feedback! I look forward to checking out the forum over the next few weeks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Welcome aboard. Nice to see someone customising an easily replaced part rather than sticking things all over the body Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain173 Posted August 22, 2008 Author Share Posted August 22, 2008 Thanks! I probably shouldn't upload of photo of my six-string in that case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teen t-shirt Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 [quote name='iain173' post='268003' date='Aug 22 2008, 05:11 PM']I probably shouldn't upload of photo of my six-string in that case [/quote] "We don't take kindly to that sort of thing round here sir i suggest ya keep it to your sen ya hear me?" nice collage and a nice track i do like War... i see what people mean it is very rage against the machine-esque... slightly more filling how ever... vocals and bass in my oppinion are a lot clearer than rage... nice job! p.s welcome to the forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain173 Posted August 23, 2008 Author Share Posted August 23, 2008 Cheers, Yeah, War's good fun to play. There's a really cool live/practice room/animation vid that one of our friends made for War, which you can watch on youtube. Cheers for comment about the clarity of the bass. I quite like the tone, but always think my E tune sounds out of tune on the song! Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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