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    Short scale fretless options

    in Bass Guitars

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    I've spoken with Alan, and all being well he might be able to loan me at least one of these to bring to the SE Bass Bash in October!

    He's building a stock pair, fretted and fretless 4 strings with piezo pups, so at least one should be available, hopefully the fretless 😎

     

    Happy days!

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    ACG Krell 4/34

    in Build Diaries

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    10 minutes ago, Maxcat said:

    Cant wait Eude. Specs are

    Top wood Ebony

    Body Black Limba

    Accent ART Sycamore

    Board Mac Ebony alloy side dots.

    Neck 5 piece Wenge/Bloodwood

    Bridge Pu RFB with Coil switching

    Neck pu  PB

    pre amp DFM 5k/ap

     

    slightly nervous about the combinations available with the pre amp I.E. LOTS but on the other hand really looking forward to playing around with it.

     

    Man alive, that is a cool spec!
    I've desperately trying to figure out how to finance one more ACG, but it's looking like selling off some of my spare internal organs or turning to crime are the only options at the moment...

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    MM DarkRay5

    in Bass Guitars

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    1 hour ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

    I have no idea who he is and I'm not so easily impressed I'm afraid.

    Ha ha, I can appreciate it's not to everyone's taste, but I've always rated Josh, he's been a big influence on me.
    He played with Suicidal Tendencies for a while after Robert Trujillo left, and I've always loved his playing, and the energy he creates with his bassings.

     

     

    MM DarkRay5

    in Bass Guitars

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    9 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

    I don't like the MM You Tube promos for these. Just awful.

     

     

    These demos with Josh Paul are phenomenal.

    What a player!

    Short scale fretless options

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    17 minutes ago, scrumpymike said:

    Great bass, great video! You'd need a fairly light touch though!

    With those particular strings I guess.
    I think they're LaBella tapes which are pretty low tension, I'm sure you could pop some higher tension stuff on there, but the play in the strings gives a bit of a Double Bass vibe to my ears.

    As much as I'm looking forward to hearing the fretless version, my bank account is worried about how things might pan out...

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    Building a Wal....ish

    in Repairs and Technical

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    40 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

    Just a comment that in practice the ACG EQ1 is super easy to use - put the filters where you want, in practice resonance will either be off, full or the centre detent (and then tweaked from there) the set the treble frequency in such a way adding it doesn’t create a big high mids boost… 

    then live you have the blend control for front or back pickup and the treble control for top end as you need it. 
     

    It can be complex but I learned to tweak on The fly by ear and without looking at the knobs 

    My experience has been very positive too.

    Setting one pickup for the beef, the other for a bit more of an edge/punchy tone, and then the treble control for slice. In the case of the DFM, then using the passive tone to take any harshness out.

    After that, you just use the blend to taste. I think it can be as complex or as simple as you like, depends on how you approach it, but chasing a very specific tone in your head might get you in trouble rather than just finding what's in the voice of the instrument. It's an incredibly flexible preamp, but you need to approach it differently. Having said all that, to my ear, my ACG with the MC pups and DFM preamp, through a Sansamp for a little hair gets very very close to the BSSM tone. I think a big part of that is the mahogany body, hard top, and bolt-on 5 piece neck though.

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