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Just out of curiosity, can you compare the sound of the eden and the genz benz please?

have a free bump on me ;-)

p

a Tuesday pm bump... this price is a deal, come on!

p

35" is there for 2 reasons
1) the only way I ever heard a good B
2) don't want to mess with my left hand technique for intonations on the 2 fretless(es)

now 6string is there for only one reason: i am not a fusion guy (i.e. solo guitarist frustrated) but I am a bass guitarist coming from classical guitar long ago and I hate changing position! I go for the reach!

String puller and bridge separated should kill some of the resonance, flatwounds should help the thomp a little... very small frets is another hypothesis. Set neck will probably eat a little resonance too (though Pierre is very well renown for the sustain, which might be counter productive... but his intonation on the fret job is just unheard of!)

We are going for hollow body, made of curly spruce. I actually met the guy who cut the tree, it is quite impressive so much passion with so much muscles around it ;-)

Barto P4 and RMC, with a dual jack option for independant paths.

I am more than open to talk, suggestions, stuff. I can post pictures of wood, plans, as we go... the project is already 3 year old but the wood was too humid, the bridge needed to be design (and Pierre being ridiculously popular the delays are quite long!)

We are in the final stretch: the wood is dry, the neck is glued with the fingerboard (one piece sugar maple, cut 20+ years ago, dried and seasoned with love)... the plastic bridge is in the mail between England (where I live now) and Montréal (where Pierre is based) for the luthier approval...

I'll keep you guys posted if there is any more interest.

pa

and Sunday drink time bump!

Make an offer!

pa

friday night bump!

ok pictures as I get the chance to upload them:

these are the picture of the 1st CAD, Simon Fletcher (the CNC research guy) did the plans from Schaeller's tech drawing, adapting them to RMC tech drawings of the pickup and doing a 'wagon' for each piezo...

pictures of the 3D printing (a powder 3D printer like in StarTreck will follow!) and then I will post the new CAD and the new 3D printing (even more surreal: a plastic one that makes things quite solid enough to try on the bass!!!)

The second series of CAD and printing were upgrades made in the light of feedback provided by Pierre Laporte (the luthier) so before I post the comments and the drawing, I'll let you guess what they were ;-)

pa

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I think the title says it all: a big mess!

It started with a dream I had with my favourite and exclusive Montréal-based luthier Pierre Laporte, who has made my 3 other basses: a bolt-on fretted 5 strings, a neck-through fretless six string and an acoustic fretless classical six string (nilon strings!)

I wanted something like a dirty thump, and his basses have way too much sustain for that ;-) So we went along with the idea of a Gretch but 6 strings, 35" scale, and in tune! The latter is always a problem with suspended bridge but the tunomatic is the best invention on earth... but I wanted RMC piezo in there too, and six string bass tunomatic does not seem to exist...

I happen to have a CNC research department at my uni, so I contacted them and we designed something around the pickups. If it interest anyone, I can post pictures of the model as it is a build diary.

So far we have a first computer model, a 3D powder printing of it (crazy technology), a revised model and now a plastic printing of it... the next step is the actual metal CNC... we might be able to try many types of metal to see if and how it changes the sound!

Anyway, if anyone else than me is interested, I'll put the pictures as we go.

pa

rack ears are now available as the sale fell through...

double sold! (amp + bag and ears separate) pending payment.

if anyone wants the rack ears, I'm happy to split...

This is still available.

all pm'd replied to, in stand by but not sold yet ;-)

---EDITED: just the rack ears now available for £17 shipped, 3rd of the price! ---


Dear all

Here is the famous Genz Benz Shuttle 6.0. Very powerful, quite bright, great EQ. In almost perfect condition: the main pot scratches a bit (quite common on that model and easily cleanable) and the metal under is scratched (because it was on an Epifani 112 whose handle was about 1mm to high...)

It comes as it says in the title with the GigSkinz bag and the rack ears. I would like £425 for the lot. Picture below (even the scratches) I have quite a good record as seller and as buyer so please feel free to check the feedback page.

pa
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wow, impressive silence here... I presume I am too wordy in my description! They use to attract a lot of attention, are they already passé?

pa

Ok, I am not too happy with the HR450, but it is more to my taste than the Shuttle6.0, so I think I will sell the latter. What I am after is a Eden WT400 (I have 2 already) but that weights as low as the Shuttle and has the noise floor level of class A stuff... if that exist please PM me ;-)

£425 including a gigskins bag and the rack ears seem a fair price. I'm in Huddersfield. It has a fair load of cosmetic scratch on the bottom due to the fact the feet are not as high as the handle of both cabs I used it with... very cosmetic. The sound is perfect if you like what people call Hi-Fi. Being myself a studio guy, I would call that bright à la Marcus, compare to the Eden dark à la Pino.

I might hold on it to try in my next rehearsal in London next Wednesday, and do an A-B-C test with the Eden already there and the RH450... hence the feeler...

I will post picture as soon as I get a chance (and when it goes from feeler to sales ;-)

pa

bought an ebow, quick and well done transaction!

p

bought a shuttle 6 from Alan, everything was perfect, delivered as advertised and quick

thank

p

I bought a UL112 for Zapp, everything was fine and delivered as advertised...

thanks

p

I just bought a little Korg nano, but like everyone is saying: top class, delivered as expected.

thanks

+1, top quality, delivered in time and as advertised (even got a bag for free!)

p

Just to add to the raving: bought a D-tar, delivered in time, perfect, fine, as advertise, etc!

top business!

p

Indeed top class. Perfect (too perfect ;-) packaging, RH450 exactly as described.

p

out of curiousity, what is your dream combo?

p

if you could put a price shipped to a UK address that would help me (us?)

[quote name='overwater#1' post='927091' date='Aug 17 2010, 12:08 AM']Is this really true? The 400 sounds better than the 800? I'm looking at each at the mo. Thats interesting...[/quote]

not even subtle! I was under the impression but in different venues, until I was lucky enough to do the AB on the same stage... there is a strange magic dynamic warmth in the 400 that no other Eden has done to me yet!

There is a slight difference between the 2 I now own, the older one is a little funkier/to my taste... it might be a tube thing, so when I get a chance (in 2015?) I might swap the tubes to see... one amp is in London at the moment and the other one is in the North with me, so the AB is a little difficult ;-)

pa