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[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1423481211' post='2685178'] Do you know why EAD ceased production? [/quote] I do, but maybe better if Dave answered that. I mentioned the thread to him.

Rain Tree Crow one of my all time favourite albums so that comparison I would be more than happy with. The songs where recorded around 1987/88 so a few years before the RTC album. No I am afraid not but if you want them I can burn a CD of the various bits and pieces for the Bass Bash.

The instrumentals are all written recorded and played by me. Which accounts for the quality of the playing. The songs with lyrics where written by myself and James Wheatcroft. I played bass, keyboards, clarinet,guitar and programmed the drums. James played guitar sang and wrote the lyrics. Recorded and engineered and mixed by me all a long time ago. I used them to avoid any copy write issues on You Tube. I would be very surprised if anyone had heard any of them.

They are indeed top quality the best construction I have seen on any cab and the custom crossover really makes a huge difference to the range of sounds capable from the attenuators. And as you say hard to see the handles coming of. I will not be parting with mine.

For those up in the central belt Moffat is 2 mins of the motorway a doddle to get to.

Excellent very welcome and feel free to tell any bass playing types about it as well.

Bump to see if I can get a few more interested.

[quote name='Alun' timestamp='1422904980' post='2678208'] Will you have the new travel bass? I saw it on No Treble and it looks very interesting :-) [/quote] Assuming I don't sell the stock one before the show I will have it along with me.

I should have quite a few to choose from with a couple of new models and a new range being launched at the show. My stand is also next to a couple of your fellow countrymen.

I will be there along with John East.

And nice guy as well. I had expected more interest from my part of the world in the Bash this year but unless it arrives fairly soon we are currently down on numbers from last year.

Mr Steve Lawson will be attending this years Moffat Bass Bash. Steve is a well known 6 string bass player making extensive use of looping and effects to produce cutting edge solo performances, this is your chance to both see and hear him in action as well as ask the odd question or two. Masterclass/Demo will be taking place on the Sunday afternoon. Tickets available from: [url="http://www.moffatbassbash.co.uk"]http://www.moffatbassbash.co.uk[/url]

Hi There is no up charge for a left handed bass pricing is exactly the same as a right hand. Alan

Still weekend and Sunday tickets available.

Dam foiled again.

No I have amboyna burl which looks great. I have a stack of them arriving this week including more ART tops and finger boards. It is not the burl aspect of buckeye that is the problem it is the soft pulpy areas and the large voids.

The guy that supplies me with the acrylic has retired and now only supplies two builders me being one of them. There is a limit to what you can use I suspect buckeye might not be possible.

I will be down at the London Show and I will have the blue Recurve with me. I am not building anymore Uber basses for stock because they are very individual instruments and customers want to pick the spec themselves not have it picked by me. The Moffat Bass Bash is also an option more ACG basses there than at any other place or time. I realise it is a long way for you to go so London is probably easier.

I am pleased you liked that bass having players rate them is the name of the game that and making a living. The difference in sound would be accounted for in many things including pickups.. The construction of that bass and the materials used are completely different from any Wal and the difference you mentioned regarding cleaner and more precise will be correct. I try to build modern instruments without an over riding character of their own. But I also want to provide an instrument that is a canvas for the player to try and get the sound in their head out into the world. A Wal is a distinctive sounding instrument much like a Stingray and while character instruments are great they never really get out from under that signature sound. I read an article I think it was either John Giblin or Percy Jones many years ago and they said that they stopped using Wal because they where being associated with the Wal sound. There are constant questions regarding how to get my basses to sound like the classics and while I am told they can get in the ballpark for most of the well known bass tones that was never the idea. If they can it is a by product of wanting players to be able to produce their tone or a new tone that is what I am interested in. Filter pre-amps in my opinion make that more likely to happen. And while the MC pickups may help I have no idea the spec on the actual Wal pickups. I have been working with Aaron and John East on my own agenda. It would be more than fair to say my agenda has been influenced by Wal but coping it verbatim was never the plan. Frankly had that been the plan I would have achieved it years ago and at a lot less cost. At the end of the day if you want a Wal I would suggest you get a Wal,I did. If you want a bass that can sound like a Wal but has features both in design and materials that are not available in a Wal plus a bass that does sounds not capable on a Wal feel free to get in touch. I should also point out I don't cost as much as Wal.

I actually had a bass built by Chris Eccleshall before I had an actual Wal. It was to look like a Wal but had fairly standard pickups and electronics in it. I mentioned to Chris that ideally I wanted a Wal. So he got in touch with Pete who he knew and I got the pickups/pre-amp and bridge in the bass made by Chris. I sold it along with an Overwater Progress Elite 6 to help fund the guitar building. By that time I also had a Wal but I also sold it along with all my guitars, synths and recording gear to buy wood and tools.

I would have to disagree with it being nothing like a Wal. I played a Wal for many years and have recordings of that Wal the sound of which I have got very close to with the EQ03 and single coil pickups. This however it was a fretless so I am less familiar with what I would regard as a good fretted Wal sound. While possible to get what I would regard as a good Wal sound it does take some work since the EQ03 was never really intended to be a Wal copy so it does take some time. You turned that bass round fairly quickly and the EQ03 has a much broader range than the Wal pre-amp and did take work to refine down to what I was looking for. An example of a bass with FB Humbuckers and an EQ01 pre-amp which to me gets very close to what I define as my favourite Wal tone that of Mick Karn. [url="http://www.acguitars.co.uk/acg_admin/wordpress/joe-leitner-mick-karm-medley/"]http://www.acguitars...ck-karm-medley/[/url] The DFM with the much reduced treble does make dailing in a Wal type tone much easier. I have the prototype MC pickups in a fretted bass but I have much less of an opinion as to what constitutes a fretted Wal tone. What the MC pickups do bring is greater clarity across the whole board. Increased articulation again all over the entire range and simply makes the bass better. If it was not for the fact that they cost so much I would use nothing else. I am working on a demo with Colin Cunningham on the Uber ART Recurve 4. Generally I leave him to pick the sounds he likes as per the other vids but with this bass I may pickup out a few tones that I like. Also hope to do a guide to the DFM just working through the range of tones possible. And while I think it will get you as close to a Wal as you can without a Wal (this is my idea of how a Wal sounds and I can pretty much nail it,your idea will be different so I can't comment on that) it does so much more that a Wal can't touch. The idea is as you said to make a bass that sounds great in it's own right if it happens to sound like a Wal as well I can live with that.

I now have my own Multi Coil pickup and the new DFM dual filter pre-amp. Not really interested in a Wal clone to be honest but you can certainly get firmly into Wal territory sound wise. Should point out the DFM and the MC pickups are not for sale outwit my own instruments. [url="http://www.acguitars.co.uk/acg_admin/wordpress/basses/electronics/"]http://www.acguitars...es/electronics/[/url] [url="http://www.acguitars.co.uk/acg_admin/wordpress/basses/pickups/"]http://www.acguitars...basses/pickups/[/url] I am also on the MKII version of the EQ01 which has just been released. Difference is the reduction of the lowpass filter range to bring it into line with DFM. This brings the filter range more in line with the Wal. We went over board on the EQ03 making a pre-amp which in hind sight had to much of every thing so it was possible if used in the more extreme settings to sound pretty nasty. The reduction in the filter range took top end out of the system because it simply had way to much.

Many thanks. Hipshot are now on board as well. Even more goodies to give away. Tickets for the full weekend and the Sunday are still available. This type of Bash will be a one of so this is the chance to see a top flight player and to score some excellent prizes. [URL="http://www.hipshotproducts.com"]http://www.hipshotproducts.com[/URL]

With a bit of luck everyone should leave with a prize worth more than the entry cost.

Moffat Bass Bash News. www.moffatbassbash.co.uk This year the Moffat Bass Bash coincides with the 10 year anniversary of AC Guitars. I have been very fortunate to work with some excellent suppliers and with their help we are in a position to run a very special prize draw at this years bash. Prizes for the main draw. : 25% discount voucher for a Custom ACG Bass. : East SPM02 2 band pre-amp. : Armstrong Pickups goodie bag. Donations for the second draw. 5 iBass Magazine subscriptions. www.ibassmag.com 2 Basschat Polo Shirts. www.basschat.co.uk Dunlop merchandise from Westside Distribution. www.westsidedistribution.com SIT Strings merchandise http://www.sitstrings.com Overwater strings. http://overwaterbasses.com ACG T-Shirts I would like to thank all of my suppliers for stepping up with donations, it is very much appreciated. Equally appreciated is the participation of the exhibitors, forums and magazines for supporting this years bash. More donations to be added once confirmed.