Matt Golgotha

[quote name='bartelby' post='1026133' date='Nov 16 2010, 05:57 PM']Talking of this kind of thing, who else out there does this?

I'm looking for someone to coat the board of the Warwick neck I defretted. I've been in touch with Sims and was looking for others to get quotes from...[/quote]

there were a couple of guys mentioned in this thread that may still do it:

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9776&st=0"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9776&st=0[/url]

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='1025930' date='Nov 16 2010, 02:54 PM']Whats the waiting time like on the Thor necks now?[/quote]

I joined the waiting list in July 08, so just a touch over 2 years. H G reckons he does about 25 a year. I think i'll put myself back on the list once this one is done.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='995335' date='Oct 20 2010, 08:34 PM']yum. I've looked at those necks for a couple of years now... they certainly look the business![/quote]

You can come round and give it a try when it's done.

you've gotta love a 2 tone burst!

I had Warmoth make the wenge neck on my Jazz bass. Their attention to detail is amazing.

[quote name='silddx' post='1002546' date='Oct 27 2010, 01:55 PM']They are very easy to apply, so don't listen to the hamfisted

Email this guy and ask for what you need. I have used his decals and they are excellent!

[url="http://thedecalshop.co.uk/"]http://thedecalshop.co.uk/[/url]

Cheers.[/quote]

+1

just got a '66 fender Jazz decal from these guys, and the work is awesome.

[attachment=63807:Jazz_Bas...1st_coat.jpg] 1st coat of epoxy is on...

[quote name='AndyTravis' post='1002553' date='Oct 27 2010, 02:58 PM']The lower horn was reshaped when they started producing some 'vintage reissue type' basses and guitars for a major company , and to be fair, it reminds me of the Jaguar basses and looks a little bit like a Lakland DJ.

I think with no pickguard it looks ace. The clear pickguard would be a nice touch though.

More detail as I have it. May be early 2011.[/quote]

I'm loving the flame on that body.

My Jazz has a clear pickguard over a 3ts and it looks awesome.

I've sent off the Bass neck to H G Thor Labs this morning to get the epoxy finish done (classic thick coat) on the finger board, and a hard oil finish put on it


Still not sure whether to put a logo on it or leave it plain.

[quote name='LeftyMustangBass' post='981293' date='Oct 8 2010, 09:50 AM']Thank you! If you could post new pics of the tuners, that would be great. Also, how much would shipping be to Rhode Island, US?[/quote]

Hi there

I think packaged the weight will be around 500g - pm me your address and I can get something a bit more specific.

[quote name='LeftyMustangBass' post='980157' date='Oct 7 2010, 07:26 AM']This is kinda old now, but I was wondering if you still had the lefty Mustang tuners & if so, do you know the gear ratio? Is it 20:1? I am very interested. Thank you![/quote]

Hi

Both the tuners and the piezo's are still for sale. I can post better pictures if required. The tuners are 20:1.

Thanks

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='937197' date='Aug 26 2010, 02:47 PM']Nice build.

I noticed that when you bought the body it was front routed. What did you do with this route when you had the bass rear routed? Was it left open so there is effectively a big hole in the bass...? Or did you have the front route filled and redrilled? I can't quite make out from the pics?[/quote]

I left it open, and in fact had to cut some notches in it to widen it a bit to get the mini switches to sit correctly as you can see in this picture (the shielding you can see is the rear cavity plate). It gives me some options should I want to swap out the preamp at some point.

I've been gigging this bass for about a year now and thought i'd update a few pictures as I have made a few changes.

The allparts knobs I swapped out on the J-retro were a great upgrade both aesthetically and in use, despite adding a lot to the overall weight of the bass.

I swapped out the Fender "Roadworn" pickguard for a transparent one.

It is now strung with Nexus strings which seem to give a good sound on the fretless neck, and last well.

The S-1 switching system has worked superbly with the J-retro and Q-tuners, and is one of my preferred sounds on this bass.

Also installed is the bassmute, which I highly recommend!

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='801302' date='Apr 9 2010, 09:57 PM']I got mine from joshmsr on ebay. He's a good chap to deal. Looks like he still has some:
[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290395854410&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT[/url]
Blummin' good price even with the delivery charge added on.[/quote]

Damn, I'm gonna have to pick one of them up now :-)

I love my Oval tuner's.

Here's a pic of the hipshots on my self built Jazz next to my '66 Jazz.

I'm just getting into IEM myself. I found the following link useful, which convinced me to get both the Samson S-monitor and also the Sennheiser CX 300 II Headphones, so I could test out IEM live without dropping too much money into it. Still waiting for them to turn up (via ebay).

[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=286131&page=4"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.p...6131&page=4[/url]


I have been looking at getting the following triple driver molded In-ears if all goes well, as the exchange rate makes these a bit of a bargain.

[url="http://www.inearsystems.com/"]http://www.inearsystems.com/[/url]

Hope it helps and good luck with it!

Hey Chris

How did the epoxy conversion go? I may get Simms to do one of my basses whilst i'm waiting on the Thor conversion.

[quote name='jamesbass116' post='699012' date='Jan 2 2010, 07:39 PM']hey guys,

sorry if this is in the wrong place!!
after recieving some interest in my amp i was wondering..

if i use interparcel premium specifially, how does the transit cover work? and also how is the price affected if i want the cover increased? would the extra insurance get added onto the £41.99+VAT?


thanks i really appreciate it.

James[/quote]

Hey James

If you've got the exact dimensions and weight of the item have a look at -

[url="http://www.parcel2go.com/"]http://www.parcel2go.com/[/url]

It will give you a comparison on courier quotes (it gives an insurance/compensation quote at some point too dependent on the value).

cheers

Matt

not sure about the gr-20, but my hexpander setup works great with my VB-99.

shhhh don't tell anyone but this might be a bit of a bargain....

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-American-Duluxe-Jazz-Bass-With-Amazing-Extras_W0QQitemZ400086674092QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item5d27062aac"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-American-Dulu...=item5d27062aac[/url]

This is why I was reluctant to order the Roland kit - most sites claiming to stock it were using a picture of the guitar version to illustrate it. Hope you get this sorted soon mate!

[quote name='purpleblob' post='593351' date='Sep 8 2009, 10:06 PM']What's the tracking like with the ghost on a bass ?

The demo on the Graphtec site is very impressive but ofcourse this is a guitar not a bass, but wondering if this matters with the design of this being in he saddles, it sounds like it should be more accurate than a Roland pickup.[/quote]


It seems pretty good so far. There is a bit of delay below the 5th fret on the low E string, and a slight bit of cross talk between the strings which is causing a bit of glitching, but hopefully I'll be able to iron that out a bit over the next few days by playing about with the string sensitivity and the setup (I only got the VB-99 on Friday so I'm still getting used to it). It does seem to track a bit better than the Roland though.

[quote name='Tait' post='591126' date='Sep 6 2009, 12:28 AM']how does this work then? i guess you would use this as a MIDI controller, like you would use say a MIDI keyboard? i've only recently started messing with MIDI so don't really understand it well, but i'm guessing this converts the notes you play into a MIDI signal somehow (i realise you explained this earlier, but i didn't have a clue what you were saying so we'll say it converts it somehow) then you put the MIDI signal into a synth or whatever? can you use it as a normal jazz as well then? are the pickups normal pickups, and its a piezo bridge or something, or is it how you do the electronics, or are the pickups special MIDI pickups?[/quote]


Ok, I'll try my best to explain this - let me know if anything doesn't make sense. Additionally if I have any of this wrong feel free to chime in

The piezoelectric elements in the bridge (the black saddles visible in the above pictures) pick up the sound of the string (the roland pickups do this slightly differently, as they use a mini humbucker for each string, and require steel core strings to drive the transducer but both are referred to as divided pickups, hexaphonic pickups or polyphonic transducers). Each piezo element has it's own connector to enable the signal from each saddle to be processed/sent separately to the preamp.

The preamp is used to amplify the signal to the midi convertor/Cosm device as the signal taken from the pickups is quite weak. (Roland uses phantom power provided through the cable by whichever converter it is hooked up to, whereas Graphtech require a battery for this purpose as they have 2 preamps, the acousti-phonic preamp for the standard acoustic sound, and the hexpander which outputs the piezo signal to the 13-pin output).

For the divided pickup to out put into the midi convertor/cosm device it requires a 13-pin connector. the 13 separate pins are illustrated in the picture attached, but basically are

[list]
[*]one for each of the six individual string outputs (just 4 used in my case),
[*]a master output (either a mix of the six strings available/normal piezo out or a dry signal from the guitars magnetic pickups) which is available by a 3-way switch enabling synth/mix/magnetic sound,
[*]a MIDI volume signal - via a volume control (this can be assigned to a variety of functions on the VB-99)
[*]Two control switches (S1 & S2) used for patch up/down.
[*]Pin -9 is unused.
[/list]
The information read from the strings is taken into the converter, which determines the pitch coming from each of the strings along with note start & stop and transmits this information into a synthesizer, which generates the intended note (this is similar to when you press a key on a keyboard, you generate a "note on" signal, and when you release the key and you generate a "note off" signal

In short what the MIDI generator does is detect which note is being played, convert the pitch of the note so this information can be sent as a "note on" signal, then once the note has decays there is a point where the MIDI generator has to decide to send a "note off" signal. Additionally, if you bend a note, the appropriate MIDI pitch bend signal has to be sent. In essence this requires quite a bit of patience to ensure you have quite a clean attack and decay to avoid creating additional note information.

Each string can only deliver one midi note at a time. Having 6 indivdual strings processed individually enables you to have up to 6 notes (polyphony).

Just to expand on the above, the Roland V-bass is not a midi device, it is a signal processor, but uses the individual information sent via the divided pickup to enable modeled sounds to be used, as well as enabling pitch bend (whammy) individually (per string) or for different tunings to be adopted (up an octave, down an octave, open g etc) but does not out put midi information (apart from sysex/patch control info)

The Rolands GR20, GR30, GR33 & GI20, as well as Axons AX100 & AX50 are midi convertors which allow the guitar to use either their built in sounds or can be hooked up samplers, hardware synths and software synths etc via midi just like you would with a midi equipped keyboard.

Roland's VB-99 is both a cosm modeller (as is the V-bass) and also outputs midi (as per GI20/GR20)


On my install you can either use the normal sounds of the Magnetic picks (q-tuner neo's in this case through a j-retro preamp) via the normal 1/4 jack out put, or through the 13-pin connector (which you then can process separatly through the vb-99/v-bass)

i'd be interested in the fretless neck if it's getting parted out.

Hi all

The bass is back with me for a week or two whilst i figure out how high the action needs to be before the bassmute is installed and the additional wiring is sorted (currently everything is functioning except the mix mode (mags/piezo) hence the empty hole on the control plate.

Additionally the allparts knobs are installed (and an old 1960's precision knob for the time being) but the shafts need to be shortened slightly, but visually look far better than the j-retro knobs that were originally on there.

My VB-99 turned up today and I have to admit this thing sounds way better than my v-bass. I'm really looking forward to putting this through it's paces tomorrow at rehearsal!

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='585651' date='Aug 31 2009, 10:56 AM']okay. It's just i remember reading about a midi guitar ages ago where the notes were triggered using the frets but i suppose it would be different nowdays as it was like an 80s guitar lol.[/quote]

The Peavey Midi bass used frets to track the midi note information. Wal also used the same system (both designed by Steve Chick) and he has now released the technology in his own bass [url="http://www.industrialradio.com.au/"]http://www.industrialradio.com.au/[/url]

The Roland style 13-pin divided pickups only use the pitch from the string, either by magnetic pickups (Roland/Axon/Yamaha/Soundgarage/Limex), piezos (RMC/Graphtech) or Optically (Lightwave HEXFX).

The fret sensing technology i would imagine is far more accurate, and appears to have much lower latency times.