GloopyJon

[quote name='PlungerModerno' timestamp='1420793224' post='2653391'] Good stuff. [/quote]
Thanks for your comments, it's great to hear that people see some value in what I did. The whole point was to provide a different perspective from the CG publicity videos (which is what they are, despite their informal, matey presentation).

Some of my samples were played with a pick and some were fingered. I tried playing some slap but I have done very little of it and I'm very bad at it, so it sounded appalling.

My video is live now. Don't expect great playing but I hope it gives people an idea of the bass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq3-9LJRvew

I think he plays the fool a bit but their videos are deceptively professional, if you compare them with many other similar videos. In this day and age, nobody is going to spend megabucks on doing studio productions for guitar reviews - look at the magazine reviews, they're just one guy sitting in front of a camcorder on a tripod, probably doing everything on his own. Anderton's have a cameraman and a sound man when they shoot their videos, and I suspect that their review videos are actually more professionally done than any others on the internet from that perspective.

It helps that they have a couple of guys who work as a great partnership to present the videos, which makes them much more entertaining, and they follow the classic comedy pairing of the comedian and the straight man. And don't forget that the sole purpose of these videos is to sell gear for Anderton's. I think that they do that exceptionally well - I've bought a lot of stuff from them in the past year or two, and I wouldn't have known about them if I hadn't stumbled across the videos.

It does have individual volumes, a blender and a tone knob that pulls out to coil tap.

The cavity is large enough to put extra stuff in - I've put a photo in the video that I'm making. I just recorded some samples with the coil tap on and off which I'll add too. Hoping that the video will be finished in the next day or two but it's slowed down because I've been ill today.

Thanks for the tips. I like it, but then I'm biased because I've just spent six hundred quid on it! The review is in progress - hopefully it'll get finished soon and I'll post a link on one or other of the threads about the MLB-1.

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1398500283' post='2434662']
Hmmmm, the coil tap mode sounded the best by far, on the whole sounded rather indistinct; considering it's seems to be mostly aimed at metal/heavy players it doesn't sound (in this video) nearly clear enough.

I like the aesthetics of it, I like the wood combinations, but I suspect if I were to plan on buying one I'd need to budget a hundred to two hundred quid more for replacement pickups, and possibly a different wiring harness too - volume/volume/blend seems too complicated to me.
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Drat, I forgot to record some samples with the coil tap on! Thanks for the reminder.

It's all personal taste. I happen to like the way it looks.

I'm working on a video review but it's been halted today by an apparent glitch in Movie Maker and me being ill. I hope it'll go live within a day or two. Don't expect good playing - I'm not a very experienced bassist and apparently I'm blind!

[I wasn't one of the 100, by the way, but evidently almost none of them have actually bought the bass. I got one of the first batch of 8 that arrived at Anderton's]

I don't know where you guys got the information from on the nut width. I have an MLB - one of the first batch - and I've measured the nut. It's 37mm wide, and 29.5mm between the top and bottom strings (measuring at the centre of the string) - spreading out to 54mm at the bridge. Regarding the thickness of the neck, it's quite slim, around 18-19mm at the first fret, and about 25mm at the 17th fret, after which it curves gently up to the full width of the body. Top fret access is excellent, I can even easily reach the 24th fret on the E string.

It's a lovely bass IMO. I'm hoping to post a video review on YouTube in the next couple of days.

Thanks! 'Gloopy' is just a word that I find comical and at least provides a totally unique ID on any site that I register on

Hello all, I've been aware of this forum for a while but have now joined because I just bought one of the first Chapman basses and there seems to be some interest here.

I'm English but live in Belgium (but am actually in England right now). My musical performing life has been limited to singing in am dram shows, of which I've done quite a few (about 30). I played a bit of piano as a kid and a tiny bit of guitar, then started playing more or less every day when Rocksmith came out a couple of years ago. That led me to buying my first bass a few months later, and I've been learning bass with Rocksmith as well as guitar since then - mostly guitar, I'm afraid!

I've just bought my second bass, the Chapman MLB-1, but I haven't yet had a chance to plug it into Rocksmith and really have a good go on it (plus I probably need to do a truss rod adjustment when I get it home because it's buzzing a bit). I've had a bit of a mad year in 2014 for buying guitar gear (quite a few guitars and pedals, plus the bass) and need to calm down a bit in 2015 or there won't be any room left in the house!

I've rabbited on enough now. I look forward to finding out a bit more about bass stuff on here.

Hi guys, I'm new here. Just wanted to mention that I have an MLB-1 in case anyone's interested

I don't know how to post a photo here yet though