Kiwi

I've been fortunate to play his bass myself. For the shot I was a bit naughty and carefully supported the bass by the massive 110-50 flatwounds he had on it, at the bridge and against my body. But the bass was light and Herbie didn't seem to mind Funny thing was that when I asked Herbie whether it really was a pre-production prototype, he wasn't so sure! It was a bit funky though - years of grime had built up around the pole pieces and pots.

bloody hell, her voice is awesome - strong and full and she holds the pitch by the scruff of the neck. She had a bit of a glitch getting over her second bridge though.

does that make us low end drivers too...?

Oh bloody hell, thats gorgeous. Well done Alan!!

Since Bernard Edwards passing in 1996, noone's cooler than Meshell Nedegeocello

don't forget Pino - great for starter lines wiht lots of feel. Plus there's always jaco I guess...

Yeah, I agree the audience usually doesn't notice. This thread is great, I make mistakes myself but rarely pick them up in other players even if I'm listening. I went to see Rich play one time with the Soul Destroyers and I thought he did a perfect gig. Then he comes off stage afterwards and said it was crap and he made some mistakes. Just goes to show. If we can get the monitoring as close to rehearsals as possible it can be the difference between a good gig and a crap one. I did a gig last night at The Hill in Muswell Hill and the acoustics were the worst I've ever encountered at a venue. The room was virtually an echo chamber with all hard surfaces and very sparse inside apart from low leather sofas down the sides. The room also had a massive peak at Ab/G# (whatever that is, 415Hz?). If the acoustics weren't enough, the guitarist (who we never played with before) turned up louder than sound check with the result that all of the mids from his amp were bouncing around the venue and drowning out the keyboards who I was standing next to. If he had been playing using clean settings then I could have at least used him for reference but it was all a load of distorted sonic mush from my side of the stage and I lost my vocals cue into the last choruses for one of the songs that we'd played loads of times perfectly in rehearsal. However the gig went better than the sound check where we never actually made it through a song let alone made it through without a mistake. I'm so glad I didn't invite anyone to see it.

[quote name='lukeward2004' post='40771' date='Aug 3 2007, 09:08 AM']And then you see Kiwi playing through it in a dress......[/quote] Does it make my bottom look big ?

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='40300' date='Aug 2 2007, 08:28 AM']Hey CW, love your collection, especially the JayDee & Alembic. It was also very interesting to read about the history of all the instruments on your site. Pardon my ignorance, but are the Smith basses UK made? Listening to the sound clips, the 5-stringer sounds very Status-esque [/quote] CW? Does that stand for Crazywiwi? The Smiths are made in the US - Perkasie, Pennsylvania and you can read more about them here: www.kensmithbasses.com The Smith does sound Status-like with some eq settings and I think this might be due to the pickup placement more than anything. I think that's probably the only thing that the two instruments otherwise have in common.

Dunno if it counts, but here's some amp porn too.

Your ID photo isn't big enough for anyone to see all the basses. Stick some photos under this forum and we can all see them in more detail: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showforum=4"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showforum=4[/url]

go talk to Chappels in Wardour Street, they are a Yamaha stockist and do have the Yamaha Silent Bass which might be of some interest.

I'm stunned that those of you with more than three pedals don't end up with masses of hiss going into the amp - they must be making pedals way better these days. Anyways, my "board" isn't that impressive. I'll probably end up putting the MPXG2 with the MIDI rig and running just the Deep Impact through a chorus and pitch shifter of some kind into the Trace head. I'm open to suggestions on what to look for if anyone has a good idea?

*ahem* On the topic of left handedness... [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6212972.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6212972.stm[/url] [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4242419.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4242419.stm[/url] [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4073775.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4073775.stm[/url] [i]"Scientists have discovered the first gene which appears to increase the odds of being left-handed. The Oxford University-led team believe carrying the gene may also slightly raise the risk of developing psychotic mental illness such as schizophrenia."[/i] So that makes us quick thinkin', rufty-tufty, crazyasses... ...y'all bin warned.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='39862' date='Aug 1 2007, 09:22 AM']I'm talking about the energy displaced from the driver.[/quote] Oh good grief, here we go again...

London's retail scene seems to wax and wain according to the shipments that come in. I reckon the Bass Gallery probably has the best selection of used basses at the moment, quite a few 70's Fenders were up for sale recently and they've had a load of other interesting stuff from UK builders like Overwater, Goodfellow and Status plus a Fodera. The Bass Centre has mostly Warwicks and Musicman basses with some Fenders, Sandbergs and Laklands left after the last shipment. Not so many second hand basses tbh. There are rumours about Soundcontrol's liquidity circulating at the moment - the London branch got off to a great start with Spectors, Schecters, Yamahas, Musicman and Fender but seem to have pruned down their stock down a bit. Have you had much contact with any japanese luthiers?

Hi dutchwife, welcome aboard - a lot of boutique basses must make their way to the japanese market. Do you get to see many?

lol I dare Dood to ask Jon Shuker about building him a bass with an H string.

[quote name='Oxblood' post='38858' date='Jul 30 2007, 11:31 AM']Stone me! That George Dennis stuff looks tasty. Thanks for the link, TPJ. [/quote] Yeah I saw the same site just before Christmas, it looked pretty good value at the time although I suspect they're not priced keenly enough to tempt people from established brands. If the 200w tube head was going for £600 it would be pretty tempting. Thing is that the louder they shout marketing bollocks, the less impressed I become. Its like if they under estimate the intelligence of their potential market in their promotional literature, what does that say about their committment to quality control? The [url="http://www.traynoramps.com/products.asp?type=5&cat=40&id=263"]Traynor stuff[/url] would spark my interest more if I was looking for a tube amp on a budget and its [url="http://www.musik-service.de/traynor-yba-200-all-tube-bass-head-prx395754545en.aspx"]available[/url] from Germany. Those 6550 tubes are probably going to have a fairly grindy character though - much like an Ampeg.

er...ding dong?

[quote name='G-bitch' post='39611' date='Jul 31 2007, 05:00 PM']one that is really designed to deliver the peaks, GK are the tits at this. A GK400rb through an Ampeg 810 is just astonishing.[/quote] My GK combos (rated at 380w into 8 ohm) absolutely wipe the floor with everything else I've played at the same power rating. The first time I played an RB400 combo it was literally love at first listen. [quote name='warwickhunt' post='29182' date='Jul 9 2007, 05:08 PM']I agree with the recommendation for Peavey's reliability, I've seen them get heaps of abuse in rehearsal rooms and just keep chugging away. Massively under-rated and cheap considering![/quote] That would explain why they're in every friggin' rehearsal studio I practice in... .. the guitarists get marshalls and what do the bassists get? Peavey and the cheaper end of Trace. Time for another thread perhaps...

[quote name='OldGit' post='39598' date='Jul 31 2007, 04:41 PM']Maybe we should call Sound Control's bosses and offer some consultancy smile.gif[/quote] LOL, we'd probably spend most of our time discussing what to agree and then we'd eventually decide that the original remit was insufficient and go back to first principles...

[quote name='Mr Cougar' post='39620' date='Jul 31 2007, 05:17 PM']Mind you didn't you once say that the neck on that Cutlass was like a bannana?[/quote] I did and it was. But one man's banana is another mans... ...umm, lets just say its a question of player preference.

[quote name='Wil' post='39587' date='Jul 31 2007, 04:26 PM']Cass Lewis nearly bought your bass?! [/quote] Yeah, he was offered the bass but turned it down because he was more interested in buying Harleys at the time apparently. He's a Cutlass collector, so the Bass Centre tell me. Dave Swift from Jools Holland's band also gave me a call about it, but he wanted to refinish it! I never ended up finding out who it eventually went to.