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It's not for the jokes up here but I've decided that it's too early for the posting. Maybe when the body will be ready I'll refresh the discussion. Thanks!

The bass model is named "Grizzly" that's why I've that little Yoghi there!!

Hi to every one. This is the presentation of my new Custom bass. The bass will be a [url="http://sic-instruments.webnode.it/bassi/grizzly/"]Grizzly[/url], original model of SiC Instruments, with my own specifics. For the magnets I've choosen I-SPIRA Pick-Ups (Already present on my Thumb bass...awesome). I will be part of the Artist page of SiC Instruments...an "artist collaboration!" I'm honoured to help, with my little contribution, an Italian craftsman!! And their basses are something.....well...divine!!! Let's make a little suspance!! I'll give to you some details in a row!!! Thanks for reading!!

Thanks!! I hope it too!!

Holy S**t!!!! What a Piece of wood!! I'm thinking about the possible structural problems in these early basses. 6 Strings and more-stringed basses are quite difficult to build! Anyway...I love bubigna!!!

Thanks a lot but I don't seek exactly the sound of JPT. He uses warwick Balck strings which aren't at all my strings! I've tried Ampeg many times...is a tone that I can't ear...don't like it at all! Thanks anyway. I know sfx and some month ago I were close to buy a M:D4 but there was a too dark jump...Maybe in the future, when I'll get the degree in chemistry...and a work...and some money!!

ATS changed my musical life. Only with a cab I've totally improved my sound under every aspect. It's a small brand in the south Italy which is little known. Actually I can't afford to buy their hybrid valve/transistor amp head (The BP1000) 'cause it costs too much for me but one day I want it! Sounds better than an Aguilar DB751 (Which is a very good amp!). Their "little" mosfet amp, called LBA-5, is a mosfet head wich is the same category of LM and it's so much better, obviously in my opinion, as the same! I'd like that you can try their products....and you would ear by yourselves what I mean! Well, if GenzBenz doesn't fit for Rock sound I don't kown what sound you mean for Rock (I'm not aggressive or ironic!!!) maybe we've different ideas about it. There’s nowt so queer as folk. If you nerver tried valve pre, if I can make a suggestion, try it!! I did love my LittleMark, true story, and I've loved it so much...when I've tried Streamliner... but I've realized the limits of the LittleMark only after playing with the same conditions (Bass, strings, cab, cables, band, room...etc..etc..) with an A/B test with the two head. It's not plug&play as MarkBass but, at the cost of resulting boring, in my opinion, it's SO MUCH better!

I don't know Warchild, I'm sorry! I think that the MarkBass sound is plug&play, and this is a good thing but, to my ears, with 4Ohm cabs, my LM 800 (A III with a more powerful power amp) was too compressed with a gain setted on 11o'clock, at the limit of peaking as the instructions say. New MarkBass head with 4x10" 104HF before and A.T.S. BB410EG after... I'm not stating MarkBass's only s**t, of course! And I'm a great supporter of Italian brands indeed I think that with a little extra money it's possible to buy an A.T.S. (Italian brand) or a GenzBenz (Streamliner is a fantastic amp, which I use with much satisfaction) or an Aguilar ToneHammer....and those amp (A.T.S. particulary) are so much more dynamic and warm..they sound "real".. And if you want to hear something REALLY neutral you've to try TecAmp Puma! When you can try this two amps in a A/B test...no way..LM loses immediatly..... MarkBass stay were you put it but, in my humble opinion and in my experience, there's so much better with the same budget and, for Rock or other genres were bass have to be rich and warm MarkBass is very limited.

Yep, I think tha it has a very plastic sound...even with really good cab MarkBass heads (I can talk about LM and SD) are still compressed and absolutely without dynamic. I know that many great artists use MarkBass in many different kind of music (From Caròn til Orion) but these bad features make, in my opinion obviously, the sound of these amp's only suitable for Pop Music.

In my humble opinion...absolutely no! MarkBass is appropriate only for pop....

Thanks!!

Very interesting description...is this album avaible?

Obviously I don't think that a faboulus gear made me a faboulous bass player...It would help me only to bring out every mistake I do!! but when you can ear, you can correct! Thanks again for the answers! Now I know something new!

Thanks for the answers guys! Well, I don't follow the sound of someone! Belive or not, I've bought a Warwick Thumb before I knew that JPT uses these basses exlusively. I don't want THAT sound, when I think about "The Sound" I think about a sound like JPT (Or Alain Caròn, or many many Flamenco bass players) but I play in a context very similar to JPT, so that's "my sound" in "my genre". Only a concrete reference: speak about a sound it's quite difficult in Italian..in English, for me, it borders on the impossible!! So, knowing that in studio it's possible to reach almost every sound with more or less precision, I'd like to arrive in the vicinity of that sound..but in live situation, with my gear and Amp. I know that it's quite impossibile to get the same result, but I know that there are many amp with great Hi-Fi response but also warmness and "fusion" sound... But I don't know what exactly I've to try! I'm torn between two types of amp: Hi-Fi and Valve! Before my genzbenz I've had a MarkBass LittleMark 800...I think that it's sound is hawful! You can hear the absolute lack of "fluency" of the audio spectrum, on the other hand StreamLiner 900, wich has a GREAT punchy and warm sound and a nice fluency in all the frequencies, has a lack of responce for the Hi-Fi thing! I absolutely consider GenzBenz a right step for the reach of my ideal sound, as was the A.T.S. Cab and I truly believe that will be soon the SiC Bass that is actually in construction...but I'm planning to do the next one!! Neve is something I cannot even image!! Maybe in the future, when I will be a professional musicisan ( ) I'd try to work with this mechanical miracle! Obviously in a studio...not mine!!

I use this strings on my 4 strings basses and I've used them for a little bit of time on my Fretless warwick. Very smooth and warm, they bring out low-mid and bass frequencies heavily. Not so muddy as you can expect but absolutely without high-mid frequencies. They've a really strong tension, in my opinion they're the best strings of ever, considering only this feature. I don't advice them for fretless because they hide most of the meowing! After 4 years of activity on a JB Special...they're still perfect.

Another Day, another topic I've always dreamt about a sound in particular....warm (Absolutely NOT overdriven), like the valve sound but also really definite. Deep, not dry...quite Hi-Fi. I like a good presence in the low mids and treeble. As you can read, this is a kind of antithesis, but I've hear something real, real close to this idea: when I think about the "perfect" sound, Jeroen Paul Thesseling on Omnivium Album is what I get. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ypNM7zfykI (Here you can hear at 1:39 but It's very interesting also in the other part of the song...most of all in the "Death ones"... I'm interested in this sound...I know that for having this result you MUST have a producer with the balls!!!) I know that JPT uses an Hellborg bass Preamp and I've heard tons of samples on youtube but, what I hear, is a very dry and "empty" sound. I know that, in studio, you can obtain everything you want but, theoretically, can this Preamp (With a real powerfull and Hi-Fi amp like Crown, I've thougt about 1200W power, bridged I suppose...) return a sound like the one I like? Even in live situations without loosing the "punch" and "headroom" tipical of a pre-valve amp but maintaining the Hi-Fi spirit of this sound. Obviously we start from a fretless bass, with same PU position and sound and a (very!) good 4x10" cab!! Sorry if I was unclear!!! Can someone answer my questions? Someone who has the Hellborg, for example! Thank you a lot!!!

Hear this, by Jeroen Paul Thesseling, on 3:08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=snDfSqcPHWk I know that this solo hasn't so much technical stuff or particularity...but it communicates me a lot!!

I think that that fridge is impossible to set ona stage...maybe for a real professional musician..in a stadium....with the mission to kill someone with your own volume!!! Seriously...If I had a really powerful amp...a cab like this would give a tremendous senso of power, but it's impossible to put into a common car!! The weight isn't so heavy...my 4x10" is 50Kg... If there would be a system to disassemble in 2 or 3 pieces, something like this cab could be something REEEEAALLY interesting!

Oh... my... GOD!!!! You don't image what I'd give for this...[url="http://www.tecamp.de/en/products/cabinets/41-bad-cab.html#specifications"]BEAST!!!![/url] [size=1]And for the car which can transport it!!![/size] Someone has tried this monstruosity?!?!? (If It would exist in A.T.S. catalogue... )

I've an "all ovangkol" bolt-on 6 Fretless Thumb bass. Up to now it's the best factory bass I've ever tried but, for the 6 strings, Warwick puts a couple of Spil-Coil Pick-Ups and they're very muddy and poor of dynamics...so I've replace them with Neodimium Humbuckers and the bass is just reborn!! Now I'm going to get a custom instrument with some features taken from the Thumb project! Symply great! I've heard that NT models have much more "growl" and a better response on the low-mid frequencies...don't know if it's true...but I'd like this very much....but NT was too much expensive for me!

I've two 7strings balanced sets in my closet...my bass will be ready after summer. I've bought balanced set because my lutist advise me higly on that! I will post my considerations ..... in October! CircleK for life!! Only for their incredible proposal and innovation!!!! If they're long lasting strings and sound as I read over the web.....they're the absoluteley best strings on market!!! Proportionally cheapest than Elixir!

[b]Chris2112: [/b]I didn't say cheap, they'r not cheap at all! When EMG fished the collaboration with Warwick MEC was born and it's the Warwick itself. MEC ar close to EMG but, for my ear, very different. Once I've tried a Thumb 6 BO with EMG 45DC....another world! But I don't like so much EMG sound...I heard a bunch of Warwick with Bartolini, Seymour Duncan and Norstrand....and each time, the bass it seemed to be more "open". Low-mid very punchy and high-mids not mudded at all! I've made a change with a "botique pickup" so I know that it's quite different between an industrial one, but I can affirm that my Thumb is reborn! Before the change the potential of this instrument was at 60%. And it's a real pity! But, obviously, we're talking about feelings and likings...and [i]De gustibus non desputandumm est [/i][i] [/i]