althebassman

20 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

As I wrote a lot of times, it's simply a flat sitar bridge conception. It works best with bone flat saddles. John McLaughlin played a guitar like this. Eyb in Germany is selling the exact same bridges as Mike Sabre and an ETS dedicated bridge.

Looking at the video though, this seems different, in that he's modified the existing metal bridge rather than fitting one of the above?

19 minutes ago, HazBeen said:

The website shows the concept, wooden saddles, where the string runs over de full length of the saddle to get a fretless-ish tone.

This seems to be different though? Using brass inserts on a metal bridge rather the specifically purchased signature bridge?

14 minutes ago, HazBeen said:

http://www.mike-sabre.com/DDPFretlessBridge/ddpfretlessbridge.html
 

Mike Sabre designed the bridge and sell them. Some pics/clarification above.

Yeah I like the looks of those bridges, but the video suggested that the guy had done the mod himself with £10 worth of parts to the existing bass bridge, rather than buying one of these bridges 

I'm currently on a massive Dominique Di Piazza hype and I came across this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsPKHXTi5UI

After some quality translating via google he says that he's put brass inserts at the bridge (which are kind of visible) but I wondered if anyone had any idea on how to give this a go - what sorts of inserts (what sort of size required), whether they need to be fixed/wedged etc.

Should probably have mentioned, I'm not after it for distorting normal bass playing, more for lead guitar type sounds that matt uses his for

I'm on a bit of a Matthew Garrison hype and read that that he uses a 20 year old (probably closer to thirty years now) Rat pedal. Would a Rat 2 get me the same sort of distortion tone as heard on Essaquira at 6:45, I Told Ya So (1:13) or the beginning of I Can See You Now?

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After searching both threads and shops I've narrowed my two choices to Dunlop Super Bright Nickels and Rotosound Swing Bass 66 Nickels in 40-120 gauges.

I'm currently on a bit of a Matthew Garrison hype while also being on a sub £30 budget and was wondering which string would be best to help me get that more growly tone without dying too quickly since I've managed to find pros for both e.g. read that the rotos are quite aggressive sounding but also warm while a bunch of the modern jazz guys use the super brights

I was wondering if anyone could possibly help me identify the wood used in the top of the Smith that Hadrien is seen playing most?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yikXIDqPZb8
the wood can be seen really clearly a the 13:57-14:02
Thanks again in advance

Thanks for the help guys Completely forgot about this video from BassTheWorld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQIynx39Ll0 demoing it

So I didn't end up watching Eurovision, however a couple of friends notified me about a rather interesting bass that was played in the "Planet Percussion"(?) ensemble, and I was wondering if anyone had any info on the beauty.[attachment=192816:Screen Shot 2015-05-24 at 09.42.47.png]

I found that the ramp got me developing a floating thumb technique as well as playing with a lighter touch

resurrecting the thread sorta, would this technique be any good for fast playing?