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For God's sake! Will someone just buy this, please, and get it off my radar. I've just ordered a custom built ACG and can't afford anything else for a while. I *really* want this bass. I also want my wife not to divorce me over spending too much more of our hard earned on wood and wire. call it a bump if you want - but think of my children! Buy it before they have a broken home! -
So, that's that. Specs agreed. Woods chosen and, as of today, deposit sent. Before we hit 2009 I'll have an ACG Recurve. I'll keep you posted but I have to admit the anticipation is pretty much overwhelming.
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Congratulations. Your sense of achivement must be huge. I'm really impressed with your skills and ability to take onboard Jon's tutelage. As for me, I'll just content myself with knowing it was a spoke shave Well done and, again, congratulations. It's a bloody lovely looking instrument.
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[quote name='MacDaddy' post='164781' date='Mar 27 2008, 08:53 PM']+1 [/quote] +1 million. I've [b]really[/b] enjoyed this thread and your ASAT-alike is looking very very good. I suspect you're going to have every right to feel mighty proud of yourself when this is all over. Yours, Scoop Shave.
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Got one today! Thanks for the heads up!
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The Fortress One was made with both active and passive versions. I have an active one but a mate of mine's is passive. That said, I don't know enough about his bass to be able to tell you about the control layout and so forth.
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Is there a bass line that you just couldnt do?
Scoop replied to Bass_In_Yer_Face's topic in General Discussion
I really struggle to sing and play at the same time. So I forced myself to sing and play Taxman (Beatles) thinking this would cure me once and for all of this annoying little trait. After literally weeks if constant practice I nailed it. Then someone asked me to play and sing Politician by Cream. Well, I thought, Jack Bruce can do it so mebee I can too. Wrong. Sadly, the only thing I've ever been able to sing and play is Taxman. And Politician, bassline alone, simply turns my head to turnip. I enjoy a fair bit of Frank Zappa's stuff and I've always insisted on "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" being in the setlist if I join a covers band. I love playing it but really simplify the bassline in order to sing it. Coz I enjoy singing it more, I guess... Some really simple things flummox me inexplicably: I once left a band, permanently, through the shame of not being able to nail "I Saw Her Standing There". I can play some Claypool and I've copped just about every lick that Entwhistle ever played but I have a mental block on "Standing There" and still can't get it right to this day (not that I've tried recently). Go figure. I can play Primus's "Harold on the Rocks" but can't get "I Saw Her Standing There". After 33 years of playing. Sometimes I despair of being me. -
[quote name='paul, the' post='164125' date='Mar 26 2008, 10:14 PM']He's given a contact number, price, pictures and requests pick up. I think most people have a problem with new members selling basses because of the perceived security risk. This add seems very safe to me. He wants to shift the bass, I don't think intros etc. need be a concern when you're not dealing in paypal/shipping. Clearly a misrepresenting description and controversial status provide good coverage.[/quote] I'd agree. I don't think there's any deliberate attempt to mislead although I do think he's mistaken. And I also think that we have a duty to other forum users who are less experienced and who might be prospective purchasers to point out mistakes - mistakes can bump up prices. The fact that this vendor appears to be here in good faith is to his credit but his description of the bass appears to be mistaken. Having a truss rod cover which might read Thumb BO doesn't make this bass a bolt on Thumb. Likewise on what I can see, I don't believe that this is a corvette proline, regardless of what the truss cover may or may not say [and that's not certain from the photos]. I hate it when people wade into a sale thread with "Your bass is too expensive, others have sold for £300 less". Mind your own business. If that's what the vendor wants to price his sale at then fair enough - it's his decision (and I'm not pointing a finger at you here, paul_the, I'm making a general point) but when a bass "appears to be" a mismatch to its description and may affect it's price that's a different matter. I think we have a duty to point it out to stop people being ripped off, deliberately or inadvertantly. It makes no difference if the error is deliberate or not, a purchaser may lose out and that should be prevented. If the seller has a bog standard bass and asks for custom shop money then that's his business so long as he's described it accurately and no-one is being mislead. Good for you if someone is daft enough to pay. As for complete newbies arriving just to sell their gear I'm in two minds. I'd rather they didn't, I suppose, but if they get a warm welcome and aren't harrassed then they might just stick around and contribute more generally. My problem with this guy is that I suspect his description is wrong - and I don't care if that's a deliberate attempt or a genuine error - I just want to protect the rest of the basschat community by pointing out my concerns.. -
The scraper thing - would that be a spoke shave? I'm dredging back over thirty years here to O level woodwork but "spoke shave" seems to ring a bell.
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[quote name='The Funk' post='164188' date='Mar 26 2008, 11:53 PM']It's not as hard or as niche as people can sometimes make out.[/quote] But there's the rub, innit? Your cousin came to fretless from a guitarist's perspective never having played bass before. It was a new instrument and he had no preconceptions and preset ideas. For the likes of me, age 47 wth 33 years of playing fretted bass under my belt, the fretless is a very strange animal indeed. For me, it IS as hard as as niche as people make out.
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[quote name='2wheeler' post='162318' date='Mar 23 2008, 07:22 PM']My first solid body electric bass is a single pick-up Warwick Rockbass Streamer standard. I used to think it was great and I loving tweaked the action, strung it with the finest DR strings. It has been in a cupboard for a few months now as I have been getting used to my new(er) Ibanez BTB555 (thankyou Tinman, it's a beaty!) and thought it better not to keep switching between the two until used to the new one. So far so good. I am on holiday and wanted to take something with me for practice so I packed the smaller Rockbass. Then I come to get it out and have a bit of a play. Eeek! Suddenly it has become cheap and nasty. The neck is like a baseball bat, the tone is muddy and the only really good thing about it is the strings... Does this happen to everyone? Am I just going to rachet my way up, getting a taste for more and more expensive instruments until I lust after some piece of custom-made sonic artwork (I am already thinking John Shuker )? And would avoiding the bass bash help to slow things down a bit? (Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's bad-ass.)[/quote] [Sigh] It happens to most of us 2wheeler, it happens to most of us. And it gets worse. Eventually, just one Shuker won't be enough, you'll want a Pedulla too, or a Roscoe, or a Sei. And that's just the expensive stuff. Obviously, you'll need a precision and a jazz as well, that's a given. And probably a proper warwick of some description too. Look at my sig... It may not happen to everyone but [and I hate to tell you this] from the contents of your post, you're already turning into me. I pity you.
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I also play (and gig) as a guitarist, and at one gig we needed a bass dep so we contacted a Liverpool Muso called Andy Frizzel who plays with a Frank Zappa tribute band called the Muffin Men. He's an astonishingly talented multi-instrumentalist and one of the best bassists I know. He turned up for a rock covers depping gig, having never seen us play before and knowing only half the set, with a fretless five string. His reasoning was that using a fretless on a dep gig means that if you cock up the tune you can slide up to the corect note without anyone really noticing. He was so adept at it that I reckon it's probably the best bass performance I've ever been involved with, either as a bassist myself or playing another instrument in a band with a different bass player. Astonishing. In the right hands a fretless can be a devastatingly effective tool. Sadly, they don't include my hands - I've been jonesing after a fretless for ages but the truth is that whenever I pick one up I play a bit of Mick Karn's Japan stuff and then go blank about whatever else to do with the damned thing. I play a lot of altered tunings on guitar like Open G and DADGAD - many of my guitar playing mates have reached a stage in their lives where they simply can't be bothered to learn new stuff like that. I feel pretty much the same way about the fretless. I'm too old to get that technique nailed and too set in my ways. Sad. But I'm a curmugeonly old git at the best of times.
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[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='163798' date='Mar 26 2008, 02:49 PM']Loving that Bob Glaub Scoop [/quote] Thanks NGH. I bought it about two years ago on Ebay. The vendor was a Lakland endorsee from a 2nd division signed rock band, the name of which escapes me. He had a US Glaub as his main bass and this one as his backup. The band had lost its record deal and he was paring down his gear for some extra cash. As a consequence of it being an endorsee's bass it had been tweaked slightly through the Chicago custom shop and arrived with a p/up cover and a few other extra bits and pieces, including a non standard tortie plate. It's always looked cooler with the pup cover on, tbh, and that earlier shot was taken on a night I was gigging with it off to see if it made a significant difference. It didn't so it's back on again now and looking VERY cool. [attachment=6906:myglaub_1_.jpg] That's the original EBay shot that attracted me to it. Great bass.
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I'm pretty happy with all my basses at the moment tbh and it's difficult for me to choose one above the other. I love my P basses... I'm very partial to my Roscoe - the woods, finish and build quality are just a league above anything else I own [attachment=6892:my_Roscoe_skb.jpg] I also love the sound of my Warwick Fortress One - it's got TONE with capital everything even though I recognise that it's as ugly as sin. [attachment=6890:my_stati...otel__7_.jpg] And then there's the Ric Blue Boy. Gorgeous but an acquired taste. [attachment=6891:kif_0574.jpg] You can't choose between your kids. S'not right. The one's that got away? Should never have sold my Gibson Grabber or my Ibanez Blazer.
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I've always been a fan. At the moment I have a Lakland Skyline Bob Glaub and a Fender '51 Reissue. When I was discussing the spec of my new ADC custom build with Alan after the North West Bash I had one main question: "Will I be able to make it sound like a P-Bass?" The Fender has a solo single coil p/up while the Glaub is loaded with a Lindy Fralin - an astonishingly good p/up. The split coil P-type p/up also have the added advantage of being hum cancelling. One of my gigs is to play gospel in church every Sunday morning and the church is fitted with a hearing aid induction loop. If you've ever tried playing a bass with single coil non-humbucking pickups (like a jazz for example) with an induction loop present then you'll know what I'm on about. Uncontrolable feedback no matter where you stand or what you do - they're a nightmare in that scenario. But a P-Bass? Silent, feedbackless, fullsome bass. See? Even God prefers them. here they are - God not in shot. [attachment=6883:scoop_precision.JPG] [attachment=6884:naked_scoop_4_.jpg] [attachment=6885:naked_scoop_1_.jpg]
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Babunga!! Cowabunga!! Bubinga!! And, yeah, that's Ash anyway by the look of it.
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[quote name='Sugden' post='162377' date='Mar 23 2008, 08:57 PM']O just realised Im Paul btw just incase my rambling above didnt make the link between Sugden, and paul on alans gallery [/quote] You are indeed the Paul in question. I saw your bass on Alan's site and just fell in love. I appreciate your offer to come and play but that'd feel like having an affair with my fiance's older sister. Or something. I think I'll probably avoid everything ACG until mine arrives as I don't want any preconceptions of how mine should feel and sound before I actually get my hands on it. But I genuinely appreciate the offer. Cheers. dave.
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My friendly neighbourhood instrument shop's manager informs me that as far as he is aware Tokai are now the *official* manufacturers of all Fender Japan instruments, under licence. The embargo on Fender Japan instruments being exported FROM Japan is to ensure that there is no detrimental impact on Tokai's own brand sales worldwide.
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This is going to be fascinating. I'm more than a little envious to be honest. I've got to do something like this at some stage. Can I ask how much this one to one course is costing?
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[quote name='ped' post='161073' date='Mar 20 2008, 08:41 PM']Excellent! Alan struck me as a really nice bloke and I am sure he is a pleasure to deal with. G'warn my son[/quote] The whole dealing with Alan thing has been very good indeed. Even at this very early stage I'm confident that Alan's the sort of bloke who does what he says he will do, he does it when he says he will do it, and he's also a very very bloody good luthier. I'm chuffed, me. And I still have the whole pregnancy to go. My bass isn't even a bump yet.
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After meeting Alan from ACG at the North West Bass Bash last sunday and having been very impressed by both him and the ACG bass that was in attendance I followed up on Monday and started choosing woods and body shapes almost immediately. I was very impressed with the look of a spalted beech topped, black limba bodied recurve which I saw in the ACG site gallery and which belongs to Paul. (This one: [url="http://www.acguitars.co.uk/Gallery/104/"]http://www.acguitars.co.uk/Gallery/104/[/url] ) So I ordered one; mine will be pretty much identical to Paul's except his has a macassar ebony 'board and I've gone for a highly spalted maple one. First impressions of ACG are brilliant. They haven't even got my deposit yet but already I'm getting a handful of e.mails a day with pics of wood blanks and combinations of woods to choose from. Most impressive... and compared with getting a bass custom built in the USA by the likes of Roscoe, Alan is VERY competative on price. He undercuts them by some margin. So the woods I have chosen... [attachment=6659:My_ACG.jpg] from left to right: (marked D1) spalted maple fretboard; Black Limba body blanks; spalted beech top for bookmatching. More details to follow.
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[quote name='metalicman' post='160024' date='Mar 19 2008, 12:16 AM']HELLO ALL DOES ANYONE KNOW, OR HAS ANYONE HEARD OF ZOOT BASS CABS. IF SO CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT THEY ARE LIKE. HEARD THEM MENTIONED BUT HAVE NO INFO ON THEM. ANYONE GOT ONE ? CHEERS CHRIS[/quote] Oh, by the way. THIS IS CONSIDERED TO BE SHOUTING. No need for it.
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Bassbunny brought a couple of slightly different spec Zoot cabs to the North West Bass Bash - I was well impressed with them. So much so that I asked him to PM me all the specs and supply details so that I could look into them further. Try a PM to him and have a read of the North West Bash event review here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=15431"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=15431[/url] coz I'm sure the the cabs are mentioned more than once or twice. HTH
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Hi Chris, I have an SWR Triad as one of my cabs and it works brilliantly with my Trace head and Lakland Bob Glaub Pr*cision. The Triad is a 1x15, 1x10 and attenuable horn cab, 4 ohm and about erm... no idea of its rating actually but 475watts pops into my head for some reason. There or thereabouts. Heavy though, about 75 to 80lbs, but still an utterly remarkable cab for earthy P bassisms, especially with a Trace head. HTH
