Scoop

[quote name='devinebass' post='133468' date='Feb 4 2008, 10:27 AM']Hellooo guys,
Just got back yesterday so i'll have some pics up asap.
Cheers.
Scott.[/quote]

Hi Scott,

Are these still available? Are there pics? Are you still after a grand a piece? So many questions, so few sheckels.

sadly, healey passed away withi the last 24 hours from cancer. He was only 41 years old.

[url="http://www.canada.com/globaltv/globalshows/et_story.html?id=96dd979b-604d-4b10-bffb-ad126fed902c"]http://www.canada.com/globaltv/globalshows...fb-ad126fed902c[/url]

Bloody shame.

There's a fair chance I may show my extremely ugly mug at this wee bash.

If anyone would like to try out any of my gear [the 12string perhaps?] then just gimme a whistle and I'll load it up.

[quote name='Hit&Run' post='143960' date='Feb 20 2008, 08:18 PM']Passive version? I thought they were all active.[/quote]

Nope, I have an active and a close mate of mine has a passive version. Tonally streets apart and while I'm partial to my active one, I actually prefer my mates passive if I'm honest.

I've got the KSD '60s style 4 string, bought direct from Bernie Goodfellow and with the EBS pre-amp (which he also imports) fitted by Bernie's shop. With a decent set up and with my preferred DR Black Beauty 45-105s I don't think I could ask for anything more from a Jazz style bass. The KSDs seem to suffer from a degree of snobbery - no; they're not actually made by Ken Smith. Are they good basses? Hell yes.

Are they better than the equivalent Fenders in their price bracket?

Tough call. In standard spec I'd say maybe.

Are they better than Fenders which cost a similar inflated price as a KSD with the EBS fitted? Absolutely! The KSD / EBS set up is the best Jazz I've heard. And I've owned Sadowsky and Celinder in the past. Build quality is lower than the more esoteric brands obviously (tho not by a huge amount), but value for money is outstanding - and the EBS pre-amp is a real winner.

The truth is - paying £3000 for a Citron or Celinder or £650 for a Goodfellow / EBS modded KSD is a no brainer. The KSD, in strenuous lab conditions, will sound worse, in gig conditons no one will be able to tell where the £2400 difference is justified.

[quote name='Scoop' post='123155' date='Jan 18 2008, 10:05 PM']Curse you and your photo archives. Where's the cheque book...[/quote]

PM sent

[quote name='Mike' post='122505' date='Jan 17 2008, 10:45 PM']The Benevente:

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Curse you and your photo archives. Where's the cheque book...

Bump for a great bass.

I've got one in my arsenal (although tbh I neglect it dreadfully - it must be three months since I even took it out of its case) and seeing this ad has made me resolve to get a bit more use out of it.

Now... how DO I get that King's X tribute band off the ground...?

PM'd. Me want.

In decades past I was employed by their label to be their freelance marketing consultant - this may explain why they never made it huge - stunning band. Always have been, always will be.

Sigh. And they're not even paying me to say it anymore.

[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='58297' date='Sep 10 2007, 04:57 PM']I tihnk you'll find that was 'Music For Chameleons' by Gary Numan....Pino Palladino was playing with him about that time, not sure if it was him playing[/quote]

nah, wasn't Music for Chameleons, was it? I thought it was Mick Karn & Japan. Well whaddya know!

learn summat new every day.

[quote name='Paul_C' post='49990' date='Aug 24 2007, 10:27 AM']Used to ?
I still do [/quote]

Hargh!

I thought you'd given it up in order to pursue your long term ambition to work as a speech therapist for Burundi Spider Monkeys. Or was that someone else..?

Okay: Paul IS STILL running Arrowhead Guitars, bespoke guitars builders and repair shop, and IS STILL going to have completed any work on his basses to the highest possible quality. Phew!

Am I still only getting one pint for doing this..?

Interesting bass, paul. Good luck with the sale.

Anyone who has any concerns about paul saying that he did the refret and set-up himself needs to be aware that Paul used to run Arrowhead guitars, a custom build shop, and paul's one of the very best repair men and luthiers around. You need have no concerns about anything that paul's worked on and says is fit for purpose.

[quote name='Matte_black' post='49796' date='Aug 23 2007, 08:37 PM']I always wanted to try an Electro... it's a shame I'll probably never see one around if I don't buy it. Oh well, it's pretty much what happens with every decent axe available on the market.
Steve, waiting for a shipping quote! [/quote]

I have an electro which I like hugely but which I may need to sell on to part finance a new custom built Roscoe four string I've got in the pipeline. I have a few theatre type "production" shows coming up in late September and I think my Electro will be perfect for a few of those numbers so I plan on keeping it until afterwards but keep in touch coz it's almost certain that I'll want to let it go after that.

Edit: Just read your post in context of whole thread - hope that you manage to arrange to get Steve's. Not trying to gazump him or highjack his thread. Apologies if I gave that impression.

cheers
scoop.

Played one of these a while back. Stunning.

I have a custom build Roscoe on order and which I'm saving for otherwise I would be all over this like a rash.

can't believe there isn't more interest and highly worthy of a...

::BUMP::

DR Black Beauties on the Roscoe, Lakland, Fender and Ken Smith.

DR Sunbeams on the Ric4003 and the Status

SIT's on the Dean 12 String - the first ready made sets for a 12 string bass that I found and they do the job great.

Warwick Black label on the two Warwicks, an FNA five string and a Fortress One four string.

I used d'Addario for years and tried out the DRs on a whim - I was so impressed with them that the d'Addario's went out the window completely and i decided to try out warwick's own on my two warwicks. Got to be honest and say that i don't like them too much. On the FNA, in particular, the string tension they appear to have actualy gives you joint pain in your picking fingers. I'll shift both Warwicks onto DR Black Beauties very very shortly.

I'm using Sunbeams on the Ric (and I should really use them on the CIJ '51 Precision too) because they've very easy going re: fretwear and the Ric and the '51 have lacquered fretboards which makes refrets just that little bit harder, more time consuming (and more expensive) to do. Makes sense to me, therefore, to use a string that helps put that process off as long as possible. The Sunbeams also just sound brilliant on my Status semi-acoustic, warm and round and beefy through the piezo pickup.

[quote name='kjb' post='43449' date='Aug 9 2007, 07:10 PM']Try these, just as cheap as America, less hassle, and no import duty.

[url="http://saitenkatalog.de/shop1/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/51/products_id/3285?osCsid=52557f64e37374066de9fda121756b18"]http://saitenkatalog.de/shop1/product_info...de9fda121756b18[/url][/quote]

Just had a good browse around this site - good find.

Thanks kjb

I used an HA3000 for well over a hundred gigs linked up to an SWR Triad with a rock covers band. It will clip out if you drive it too hard, no question, but I *always* managed to get a really great sound out of it with minimal tweaking. The four EQ knobs would be set at 2pm, 10pm, 10pm, midnight and I'd use the frequency shift to tailor for the room acoustics and attenuate the cab's horn to a little below halfway.

I use my Trace AH350SMX or the Peavey PROBass 500 usually these days because of the extra power available but, having chosen which of those two is going to be the amp for the night (one is in a 6 unit rack, the other in a four unit rack) then my two unit cased Hartke gets thrown in the boot too as a spare in case the other head goes down.

I really rate the HA3000 as a fine little amp but to get the most out of it you need cabs that will shift air very efficiently as the Hartke head WILL run out of puff and start clipping at rock pub gig volumes if you're running it into cabs that aren't themselves naturally quite efficient and loud.

HTH

Scoop

EDIT: btw, the price you're being quoted is a nonsense you need to be paying a LOT less than that.

Micro Music in Liverpool have a white one in stock (0151 733 1101 - I have no financial interest in the shop or business although the staff are friends). I love the pickups and the double selector switches. Huge range of really great tones available - it sounds brilliant and it plays really well with a lovely neck and 'board. I have never been tempted to buy it however as I utterly loathe the shape.

I've commented a few times to the staff there that if I could get hold of those pickups and the circuitry and throw them into something that wasn't so fugly and garish then I'd do so in an instant.

White with gold hardware just isn't me...

Sound Limiters (shudder)

Thanks. I won't sleep tonight coz of that.

Nightmare gig by the sound of it but sh*t like that happens from time to time and it at least gives you something to reminisce about. I once played at a place called the Commodore in Birkenhead (now, happily, demolished) and mid way through the 2nd set the drummer disappeared into the beer cellar when the floorboards gave way underneath him.

Or the Black Horse in Wallasey Village when we did a Sunday afternoon to one man and a dog. Usually you get two men at the very least. But no... we had one man and a dog. And both of them actually lived at the pub. There wasn't a single solitary customer for the entire time we were on stage.

We used it as a paid rehearsal and did a load of new material we hadn't gigged before. Some songs were made up right there and then on the spot.

As you may have gathered, I had my fair share of run ins with sound limiters over the years too. Hateful bloody things.

Take up golf anyway, its a good way of getting gig stress out of the system

[quote name='Paul_C' post='44713' date='Aug 13 2007, 09:43 AM']'lo Scoop

nice to see another ukmg refugee [/quote]

hello Paul,

half expected some of the usual suspects might be about in here. Will I see you at Not Wigan this year? With suitable headgear?

Scoop

By tomorrow this will probably be completely redundant and I'll have thought of three other blokes but, for now, it's:

Norman Watt Roy
dUg Pinnick
Jimmy Haslip

[quote name='paul, the' post='44676' date='Aug 13 2007, 03:13 AM']I'm sure you'll get some attention with that bunch.
Do you have a certain special soft spot for one of your basses?
How do you rate the Bob Glaub?
And welcome to Basschat[/quote]

Thanks for the welcome.

The Glaub is a great bit of work, it's currently the one that I tend to pick up first and if I have dep gig then that's the one that always goes with me as it sounds good in just about any situation. The Lindy Fralin pup is one of the nicest sounding split Ps I've ever heard (although a mate of mine has replaced his Fender USA P-bass pup with a Haussel and that's a cracking pick up too).

Soft spots? Tricky question. Sophie's Choice, really. I love ALL my children - sometimes I just prefer to spend my time in the company of a select few of them, but that selection changes day to day.

A music teacher I once had (alright more than Once, if I'm honest) used to say that [b]"bedroom musos practice til they get it right. Professional musicians practice til they can't get it wrong"[/b] it really stuck with me and when I have the time to get new material sorted properly I work and work and work at it.

I do a lot of depping gigs, often at very short notice, and I seem to have a reputation as someone who can get a lot of new material under his fingers quickly. I have a good memory and decent chops, I guess, but that practice mantra goes right out the window on a dep gig.

I make as many cock ups as everyone else does; they used to really bug me but these days I just laugh them off. Life's too short.

[quote name='RichBowman' post='42914' date='Aug 8 2007, 03:09 PM']He's a legend.

I'm intrigued - does anyone know if you can get a 10-stringer (as in low ? I'd love to have a go at that.

Ooooh - and while I'm here, has anyone tried playing a 8 or what not finger style? I'm guessing that you might have to reverse the courses of the strings (eg, thick string on top, octave below)?

Rich[/quote]

The only 10 string manufacturers that I know of, although there are bound to be others, are Godlyke & Dean. From what I can gather Godlyke are a USA brandname for the Japanese company which makes Bacchus handmade guitars. A google search will provide all the details you want and I can happily verify that Bacchus are cracking basses. And then there's Dean who make a 10 string version of, erm, the Edge (I think) - the bass certainly exists I'm just not sure of the model name.

I own a Dean Rhapsody 12 and, while it can be played fingerstyle (with care), there's no doubt that you get the best tone out of these things using a pick and playing mainly (though not exclusively) with downstrokes.

Two things which you can do with a 12 which make all the hassle of adjusting you playing style and building up your left hand strength worth all the effort are:

1. Ultra rapid octave and fundamental playing by using a pick on the upstroke on the outer octave string, skipping the inner octave and then catching the fundamental on the downstroke. Do that as a really fast alternate picking style and you can get utterly stunning effects.

2. Tune the D and G courses to fundamental, fifth and octave instead of fundamental and unison octaves. You can't do this with the E and A courses as the neck really can't cope with the string tension. Using a signal splitter and go to both a bass amp and a guitar amp with a swell pedal in the guitar amp's chain. If you play in a three piece, in particular, this is really usefull. When your twiddler goes into another of his interminable solos, you move your bass riff onto the D and G courses and bring in the guitar amp using the swell pedal. You instantly have the effect of a bass PLUS a guitar playing powerchord fifths as rhythmn guitar. It works brilliantly and really fills out the sound of a power trio when the guitarist is on solo mode.

I've got to admit that the novelty of my 12 string wore off after a while (and I only bought it because, yes, Jeremy was in the set of my rock covers band and we wanted to do some King's X too tho never got around to it before the band split). I'm glad I have one, glad I've used it and gigged it, but I'm not sure I'd buy another if this got light fingered away.

Scoop