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hmm are those brass adjustables available in six string versions?

I'd have a very hard time arguing with the fact! ;o)

Do you have any recordings of pre and post pup changes? I'd be interested to find out how the P style interacts with the DC coil.

Good to hear you are enjoying the sixer. I do love the ERB range.

For specific ERB stuff, I lurk here.. [url="http://forum.extendedrangebassist.com/index.php"]http://forum.extendedrangebassist.com/index.php[/url]

(sorry.. being lazy and haven't trimmed the link)

For 6er players, John Patitucci and Nathan East, Steve Lawson spring to mind as does Steve Bailey and even Mr Sheehan picked up one for a song.. You have mentioned John already. There are also those who have gone beyond 6.. but essentially, it's the same instrument.. Yves Carbonne, Bill 'The Buddha' Dickens are just 2. I have picked up loadsa 6er players on myspace.. so feel free to hunt through my friends list and see what you can find. I met quite a lot of ERBers over on TalkBass and they added me... especially a 1 John "I own nearly every Conklin made" Turner. Really nice bloke who helped me buy my own Conklin a while back.

I was playing with it again last night Ped. I wish I could figure out what has made it sound so much better than before? The only thing I can think of, is a change in signal path and the new cab.. mebbe it's just the cab!

oh, no.. the more places the merrier I guess! He'll get more exposure if he is kosha.. and..well.. more if he's not! Seems ok so far though.. not that I have looked too closely at it.

I actually wouldn't mind a 16.5mm spacing kingbass. G77 (from BassTalk has a gorgeous kingbass.

Infact I have just posted a shout on the site!

Does seem odd that a bass that is of such a high value has such a low reserve. I would however expect the auction to rocket in the last few days.


[edit] Dan.. silly boy.. it hasnt reached reserve yet! must read carefully!

I'm sure it will be discussed over on the Statii forum, probably the best resource for all Status gear! Infact, I wouldn't be surprised if they know who the owner of the bass is! ;o)

My opinion: If all users refrained from using 'colourful' language in the first place, then we wouldn't even be *trying* to test these forum tools. A little restraint never hurt anyone. If you really must swear, use a little self moderation yourselves and use *** - at least then you wont have to worry about having your words replaced with the rhyming slang. Personally, I thought it'd be more fun to replace the words with meaningless jibberish, thus rendering the posts of those who swear on the forum meaningless. I would hope that would be a deterent and those who feel they really must make profanities would at least indeed use *** instead. (The filter wouldn't pick up what you were actually saying.)

The fact that the 'tool' requires a little fettling to work properly appears to have been missed, since it was brought up earlier in the thread. I am sure that if it really doesnt work, it wont be persued. But please at least give the admins a chance to try these tools out. Such tools can only be tested online I believe, so if you guys can be a wee bit patient, then that'd be cool.

I gues the only way that it could be cost effective is if the 'input & input modules' were both on the same board and then just chain up multiples of them?

not telling you what to do! sorry! ;o)

Interestingly, if you get a BK catalogue, they sell the Soundtech stuff as well. Infact, looking at most of BK's kit, I actually wouldn't be surprised if they have a hand in the design anyway! - I'd have to find out, so don't take my word for it.
Having owned BK kit, I would say to go for the BK D class rack. Also, get in touch with BK directly. They can do a lower price than that on the website. They did for me when I bought a single D-Class module. (grab a catalogue at the same time.. they do loadsa stuff for us musicians!!

awww.. i have seen one. but for the life of me cant remember where. maybe a company like Raven labs made a rack mountable box. I have seen 1u 'mixers' too. much like the soundcraft, just in a rack as oppoed to a desktop module.

you have a mid control onboard your SC.. I cannae remember , it was the Shuker circuit right? - The plans for my headless SC are coming on nicely.. I'm still in the process of sorting bits and bobs out.. Jon has come up with a few wicked ideas too.. I think he is getting used to my tastes in instruments and is testing designs on me! Bring it on I say!

[quote name='RichBowman' post='15909' date='Jun 11 2007, 09:25 PM']Looking GOOD!

Just popped an EMG P5 in my Shuker - It thunders! Really, really growls. The 6'er equivalent and the switching on the TW should give a nice range of sounds.

Can't be too long now?

Rich[/quote]


Is that instead of the neck DC coil?

[quote name='Rich' post='15529' date='Jun 11 2007, 12:36 PM']Ohhh yes... properly cooked (or indeed raw) it's a thing of beauty. But there are few things worse than an [i]over[/i]cooked one...[/quote]


I really hated Tuna for years.. until I realised I had only ever had tinned Tuna!!! The shock came when I once had Tinned Salmon.. Euchhh.. talk about ruin a nice food!!!

New rig.. ok so I posted it in bass porn too..



Powersoft 2004
TC GForce
Trace V-Type with Harma Diamond STR premium drive tested matched [size=1][i]and generally fornicated with [/i][/size]valves.

The cab is just the website pic.. I'll get some more pics done soon!

After a bit of a mammoth search looking at endless piles of amps and cabinets I have found something that will do me just fine. I fell upon this set up by accident! I had been playing my Hifi through the bass cab (and I gotta say, it does an incredible job of sounding good in that manner!) and then switching back to playing my bass into the rig with no EQ. Gotta say, without any preamp, the 'hifi-ish' cab linked to the very hifi amp and my zingy sounding hifi pickups, with no preamp.. sounded a bit bland and uninspiring!!

I think (as I'd said elsewhere) you can have too much of what would appear to be a *good* thing. So, out came the ole V-Type, which to be honest I hadn't used for months now. Rejigged my signal path and I am truely astounded at the difference it has made. I don't often say that you know. I have owned a great deal of rigs in the past, but what ever is going on here seems to work really well. Funny, as I couldn't get it to sound nice at all with my last set up!!

Signal path is now Bass>Vtype input> loop> TC effects > VType EQ section > DI > Output> Powersoft 2004 2kw poweramp.

The effects unit runs a compressor and a smidge of chorus by default.

The bits I am suitably chuffed about at the moment include the FX loop of the pre being before the EQ section, not after like pretty much all other preamps on the market. So I can send an effected but not EQ'd signal to the desk if I want.. and really just EQ for the gig environment. Also means the EQ doesnt interfere with compression etc.

That would hold true with my most recent findings about trying too many items in the signal chain with a flat (flatter) response. Gawd, it does sound lifeless and boring!! Lacking in zing and balls!! Engineering a curve into preamps aint such a bad idea after all!

I have had a bit of an aural epiphany this weekend and have had a great idea that I'm gonna stick on another thread in one mo.

[quote name='PaulMartin' post='14971' date='Jun 10 2007, 10:41 AM']Very interesting. So that's why they sound louder than other amps?[/quote]


However, something I found interesting too, is that I found (on two different occasions) markbass heads 'missing' top end clarity. a sort of roll off from just under1 Khz up toward what would be around 10K.

To explain what I mean.. I plugged the head into different cabs and could clearly hear the hiss coming from the tweeter, so I definitely know top end was coming from the poweramp. The top end zing of the head just didnt appaear to be in the same ball park. I changed over to another head, a warwick something or other.. and although the amp had a different character, the top end 'zing' if we can call it that, was defintely there in comparison.

Mebbe it was a particular model of MB.. but that was one reason why I chose not to go with them. I should just add, that it isnt a bad trait, most bass players dont want top end zing and indeed make a point of turning off their tweeters for example. I do like a bit of top end that can slice your head off, like a 16" power crash with loose rivets bashed in! - ok.. not really that.. but I like the extra bite! ;o)

He's a nice approachable chap too! After reading his 'mini cabs shoot out, I droppped him a line to ask about them. I figure one person who has tried practically every cab on the market would have something to say about each! I think his reviews were similar to my own findings.

He had a lot of toys to play with!!!

I noticed that too. The bassline he was playing centred around notes on the second fret. Instead of stretching from those notes up to what looked like a minor third, from each chord root he used the Capo to make life easier, only having to fret the higher notes.

Absolutely nothing wrong with using a Capo. Why make life hard eh?

**oohh I've spotted an opening for a quick sunday rant! I use a hair band or sweatband round the nut of my bass that I can pull up the neck to make a handy 'mute' when I am playing up the 'dusty end' sometimes. I'm amazed at how many forum posts (mainly on guitar forums) that have said this is to make up for poor technique and is cheating! guffaw guffaw!! **

oh, I also like the idea of the pre EQ fx loop too. I like to be able to 'EQ for the room' on my 'backline' but not affect the signal going to FOH. This is an excellent way for me to be able to do that, by using a DI that can pick off the signal pre or post EQ.

[quote name='Toasted' post='14884' date='Jun 10 2007, 12:46 AM']In this case you might be better splashing the extra cash and going for an EBS micro bass. Especially if you use two instruments [/quote]


Actually.. that is a much better idea Joe. I haven't heard the MicroBass, but Having tried a whole host of other EBS gear, I just know how good it will sound. I came so very close to using the cash I had to buy a cab, on a TD650!!! (I wouldn't have actually had anything to plug it into, but hey... )

Don't forget to bring a kensington lock as well mate and don't set up near the door!!

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='15050' date='Jun 10 2007, 01:49 PM']Well, to give the desk-monkeys some credit, the bass does sound a little cleaner on the whole but lacks the enveloping, immersional experience when I break out the fretless and stereo chorus.[/quote]


Yeh, that Pentabuzz did ooze a certain 3D aural pleasure in stereo!!

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='15041' date='Jun 10 2007, 01:37 PM']I think you're preaching to some of the converted on that one, Dave. I usually get an engineer telling me that the lower frequencies are going to sound muddy if the bass is in stereo and there's no way the average desk-monkey would ever take three DI from a bass amp (stereo highs and mono lows).[/quote]


lol lol!! welcome to my world too!! I have been using a stereo DI box. I befriend the PA guy (always a good move) and tell him I'll be supplying him with a stereo signal. The looks I get back speak a thousand words!

(actually - with all this talk of stereo, I'm afraid to say that, temporarily at least I will be going 'mono' in my back line - the FOH will still get stereo where possible)