Duarte

Regrettably I have to sell my beloved Barefaced cab. This is of the first generation of Barefaced cabs, and has been used for many gigs - so it well loved and it sounds wonderful. I'm only selling as I need to fund my masters in Australia, and I can't feasibly bring it with me.

It is a 15" and an 6.5" speaker in one box, with a sophisticated crossover, and it is damn loud and punchy. At the time of production it was the Barefaced flagship model, the predecessor to the Big Twin. I play it with a Terror Bass and it kills, but it'll perform excellently with almost any amp. It is awesome in a loud rocknroll band and a very loud ska band. As you'd expect from barefaced, it's light. It's a wonderful one cab solution for a relatively small powerful rig.

Areas that are showing wear are the handles - they are beginning to wear out, but are still functional. The cloth is also sagging just a little near the top of the cab - I have included lots of pics to illustrate this. 

It's rough and ready for rock n roll.

I'm not in the UK at the moment, so I can arrange for buyer to view / pickup at my brother's studio in Southampton. Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask and I'll reply as soon as I can.

Cheers, Zak

Sadly today Toots Hibbert passed away.

I am heartbroken.

My new COVID style video. Took months to organise!! Ska counts

36 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I think Larry McDonald did a lot of work with Lee scratch Perry , who I used to listen to a lot back in the day 🙂

He did, and still does! Toots, Gil Scott Heron, the list goes on. Such a legend. 84 years old and switched right on.

55 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Love it Duarte, mr bongo man adds a nice beat , superb 👍

From Bob Marley to Duarte. I think I know which he would describe as career defining! 

Thought you guys would appreciate this - I put together another Ska lockdown video, but recruited the GREAT Larry McDonald for Djembe duties. 

It was SO much fun to produce and play on this one, with family and friends, plus some legends. Larry McDonald (percussionist for Bob Marley, Gil Scott Heron, Toots, Lee Scratch Perry and countless others) kindly agreed to be a part of this, for the sake of making music. David Hillyard of The Slackers was also humble enough to join us again.

Ah man, I wish this band could play together in real life.

Ahhh, beautiful. I've just been catching up with everyone's lockdown videos, and I'm glad to find these.

That was superb!

13 minutes ago, songofthewind said:

Nice find! I would love to hear what it sounds like.

It sounds incredible - super growly and aggressive in tone bypassed mode, super deep and phat in tone on mode. Silent in off mode! 

Ordered a custom Jazz bass loaded control plate from KiOgon, and his work was flawless. Super accommodating and great guy to deal with. Thank you!

A 1993 MIJ I picked up in Bangkok for roughly £200. 

The pots had fallen apart, a few dings, but otherwise good. Good neck, with some really nice flame in the maple.

I spoke to basschat's KiOgon about some new electronics, and he whipped me up a 62 3-hole control plate with a pickup selector (neck, series, parallel, bridge) and tone switch (capacitor, bypass, kill) and maaaaan she is singing. Whacked on an omega bridge and some new hybrid slinkies and I have myself a solid funk machine.

Who knew that series mode on a jazz was so good? I almost didn't include it, as I was on a quest for simplicity. Also, no volume knob is fun - the bass is either on or off, fun mode or rest mode. 

My old school radio knobs ended up not quite fitting, so I'm now looking for knobs, but otherwise, I'm delighted.

What do ya reckon??

I'm loving these guys right now. Ska counts, right??

Why is a Fender P more expensive than a Squier P? 

They look the same

1 hour ago, Ashweb said:

Absolutely brilliant! Well done! A whole new career awaits, I'd say...

Thanks mate! Going to try to keep this ongoing. There's been a flood of messages from musicians wanting to get involved so I've hired a full horn section for the next one. Could get interesting.

Hope it's legal to repost my own video here. I put this together with my reggae artist friend Chris Murray. Dave Hillyard of The Slackers on sax. I'm delighted with it. If you don't know them already DEFINITELY check out Chris Murray and The Slackers!

11 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

That’s a great recording, even just on my phone everything is just in the right place in the mix.

Thanks Lozz. All recorded on phones too (apart from my DI'd bass). I'm no technician but with a bit of patience I think I actually managed to make it sound half decent

14 hours ago, meterman said:

Loved that, thank you!

Thanks for listening!  

13 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Nice tune Duarte 👍

Cheers! I somehow managed to get rocksteady royalty Dave Hillyard of The Slackers to lay down some sax on this one which was the most awesome thing. I guess I'll have to do another one

We came together for another phone-recorded ska video.

I'm absolutely loving doing this. It's a particular honour to be mixing and editing it all.

With my one, I had everyone record with just their phone microphones (basically just film themselves playing with no proper audio recording), but I decided that the bass wouldn't work well like that so I recorded with my Apogee Duet into macbook, while filming on my phone.

Audio mixed in my DAW and video synced up afterwards in final cut. It was not too labour intensive, so we're doing another.

Very nice!

I am really enjoying this trend of lockdown video. Super appealing way of consuming each other's music.

24 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

My kids turned around to listen so that’s a fairly good sign 

Hey that is a good sign! I'm working on a sequel now - it's fun to make these. We could do an album in this format!

Just now, Reggaebass said:

Great tune 👍

From a guy who's name is ReggaeBass ...how's my reggae bass?

Seems like everyone is doing these, so I put one together with some friends and family.

Producing these videos is more difficult than it seems!

Also, I think it sounds damn good for what is almost exclusively phone recordings. The only exception is the bass which is DI'd.

Feedback appreciated, as I'm working on a sequel.

Cheers!