Rimskidog

My EB0 thread below got a good response so I thought you guys might like to meet the brothers: From left to right then: 76 precision with geddy lee neck Warwick Infinity. This is apparently the Namm show prototype '66 Gibson EB0 modified with the addition of a jazz pickup (see more here: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/178454-snagged-myself-an-old-eb0/ Bass Collection 4 string modded with a badass bridge and SD quarter pounder J and P pickups Geddy Lee signature jazz and in front Alembix Spyder number 4.

Hmm. I think the d has the better midrange but if the price was right... Drop me an email: [email protected]

Thanks guys. I know it looks way prettier but I still think I'm going with the seymour duncan smb-4d. I'm not sure anything else will give me that growl. I may even route it so I can plug each pickup into a different channel (a la Billy Sheehan)

[quote name='OliverBlackman' timestamp='1339181658' post='1685113'] Rokits are known to be bass heavy. If you want a natural sound with flat EQ you really want some Genelec's. Expect to pay £600 for a pair of good monitors. Also get at least 6" speakers, 5" don't really have the power and you can really hear it. Make sure you spend well though, my monitors are M audio AV40's and cost £80 for the pair. They were cheap and although served me ok for my music tech A levels, they really aren't much good. [/quote] Genelecs are also pretty coloured as it goes. The only decent monitors I've come across at this kind of level are the Dynaudio BM5a and the Adam A7/A7x. Most low end monitors either have hyped low end or no low end. None of them have good mids (and that of course is where most problems lie). Bottom line is if you can't afford decent monitors that is fine as long as you acknowledge that they are less that ideal. You then just have to work much harder to get a good mix: check your mixes in lots of rooms (and cars) and note the problems in the mix each time. Where the same problems pop up on a number of the systems, that's a problem that needs sorted.

[quote name='Immo' timestamp='1339168111' post='1684799'] Look beautiful. I'd replace this J with a lipstick pickup*. It'd look killer and give a hint of twang to this vintage princess. [size=2]*But you have to know I'd replace a J pickup with lipstick in every bass except from Fender Jazz Bass maybe. [/size] [/quote] Yeah I can see how that would look cool but I'm not sure it'd give me the kind of tone I want out of this (unless someone can tell me of one that has a good midrange growl?)

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1339162484' post='1684655'] I wouldn't say that J pup is all that random. A lot of effort has gone in to making the pole pieces line up perfectly. Good job I'd say. How does the G string on the J pup sound though? [/quote] The J pickup generally sounds pretty thin and reedy. It's got to go.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' timestamp='1338930732' post='1681396'] That's what I hate about bass amps- you want to show them off and put them through their paces at gigs but you always end up having to use whatever crap is at the venue lol. [/quote] I always carry my favourite DI, an A Designs Reddi, just in case...

[quote name='Stag' timestamp='1339109198' post='1684017'] Has this been defretted? Or is it my eyes? And an added J pickup, randomly [/quote] Good eyes. It has been defretted and there is a [i]very[/i] random J pickup. I'm a player rather than a collector so I dont care too much about the mods though I'm thinking of replacing the J with a seymour duncan smb-4d to add a little growl to the bottom end of the stock PU. Thoughts?

I'd previously posted this down in the recording section in my studio build thread but thought people might appreciate a look here. I was wandering along Denmark St when I saw this in the window begging to be taken home. Well, who am I to refuse... [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/16ba288a.jpg[/IMG]

We had a site meeting today and have realised that the sequencing of events becomes quite complicated now as several things need to happen in a particular order: 1. the new live room glass needs to arrive before we can brick up the back wall of the CR, the back wall needs to be bricked up before we can frame and start treating it; 2. the new external security doors need to be fitted and the alarm extended before we can breach the wall between the two buildings and trickiest of all 3. the gear ramp needs to be concreted in before the security door is fitted but after the wall has been breached (you'll have spotted the problem by now...) In positive news, we have been given a date by the glass company for delivery of the CR glass, so that window begins to close (doh!). Also, after much scratching of heads we think we have found a work around or the sequencing issue so, all in all, it's been a good day!

Thanks man. It's a 1966. It's been refinished sometime in it's life and had it's frets removed but, as I'm a player rather than a collecter, I don't care much. The jauntily angled jazz pickup has to go but as it's been routed I'm just gonna replace it with a Seymour Duncan SMB-4D.

Thanks guys. Meeting with main contractor tomorrow so maybe they will get their finger out now...! As an aside, I was strolling down Denmark Street last week and saw this in the window: I couldn't resist. It now lives in the studio :-D

So the front wall is now complete and the new live room door has been cut through. Other than that, not much happened in the last couple of weeks due to a complete disappearance of the contractor from site again. Here's a wider angle shot of the front wall: [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/f871f3bb.jpg[/IMG] and a close up of the new door from the CR soundlock into the liveroom: [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/66d601eb.jpg[/IMG] To be honest, there arent many things left to do in this phase now other than duct for cables and screed the floors in the CR alongside work in the new space building an office, wiring for clean and dirty power etc. Now, if everyone would just get their finger out we might even be open in time for the next booking at the end of July. Sadly though, this week is a public holiday in the UK so I suspect not much will happen again...

Machine room and soundlock walls now go all the way up the the steel beams. [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/DSCN7378.jpg[/IMG] We just have the live room door to cut out of the old blockwork and then it will be time to get the carpenters in.

Do it man. Just give me a shout in advance to make sure I'm not too busy!

Yeah, all basschatters welcome (though not all at once!). Work continues. You can see the machine room wall appearing to the left and the soundlock appearing to the right: [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/DSCN7375.jpg[/IMG]

Thanks guys. I appreciate your appreciation! @51mon, that's almost exactly how the conversation went... well kind of... However it was put though... it had to get sorted. Here's where we got to with the increased wall and height-gap for the glass: The sharp-eyed will notice some block along the top of the wall which are a different colour. They are 'pad-stones' cast to take the weight of the steels which are coming next...

Heheh. The idea was to make it look much more open than studios traditionally are so that there's more connected feel between the engineer and the band. Of course at the same time the front wall was going up, so was the backwall. At first it was zooming up: [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/DSCN7304.jpg[/IMG] then yesterday I appeared out of the control room only to find they had put a lintel on the gap they had left to get the control room glass in: [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/DSCN7314.jpg[/IMG] Only problem was the gap they left wasn't actually going to be tall enough to get the glass through...

Harhar. It's always funny when they forget you can hear them! Someone asked elsewhere if they could see a photo of the control room window with someone in it so they could get a better idea of scale. I took a picture today as one of the builders swept up at the end of works. Here it is: [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/DSCN7359.jpg[/IMG] And, while we're at it, here's a picture of the airgap between the live room and control room just for the hell of it: [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/DSCN7352.jpg[/IMG]

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1337117330' post='1655889'] Is the further wall double skinned and vertically staggered concrete blockwork? Its really hard to make out, but I dont think I've ever seen a wall like that before.... That is just a huge amount of mass isnt it, how big is the gap? And (more tedious questions sorry mate ) how much noise attenuation will it give ("All of it", I'm sure!), because the more I look back through the piccies the more major this build appears, its just immense! [/quote] blockwork is vertically and horizontally staggered! Airgap between CR and LR is approximately 6 inches. I'll take a pic for you tomorrow. The attenuation is limited by the doors (which are 75db I think from memory) but as we have a soundlock it *might* get us up to 90db with a following wind though its a bit difficult to say until it's finished and we can test it.

Oooh. I like that though...! A bit more work on the front wall of the control room today and lintels went in both the live room and control room: [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/DSCN7351.jpg[/IMG]

very sad. one of my favourite bass players ever. RIP bro. Here's the appropriate line from the Blues Brothers: "You were the backbone. The nerve centre of a great rhythm and blues band. You can, make that live, breath and jump again. Murph and the Magic tones? Look at you in those candy ass monkey suits. And I thought I had it bad in Joliet."

@ 51mon @ Nibody - oooh, nice idea. Wonder if I could get the rights to that... Continuing the concrete trend, you can see that the pillar between the live room window and door is going up already: [IMG]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g28/Rimskidog/DSCN7349.jpg[/IMG] (the wall to the right of the pillar will eventually make way for the door). In other news I've now found a new electrician so the first fix on the production rooms and stone room will go up tomorrow!

[quote name='Nibody' timestamp='1336812660' post='1651315'] Looks like it's steaming along now. Just the most important thing to fit.. THE FRIDGE!! LOL [/quote] I'm thinking I need this one: http://marshallfridge.com/ What do ya think?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1336761269' post='1650783'] Fixed for you: [/quote] Thanks man!