BB3000S

Bear with me, just the work horses left... And yes, at the end of the day I'm a jazz bass fan. thanks for looking // Matt [b]Musicman Stingray 30th Anniversary Model[/b] Mahogany body, loads and loads of Stingray growl here. [b]Fender Roscoe Beck V[/b] Jazz with some really nice twists in a five string package. Great bass, can't see why Fender discontinued this model. [b]Fender Jazz -74[/b] Love it to bits. [b]Sandberg California JM4[/b] I'm not one for relics really, but the way this one plays I couldn't resist. Got an amazing neck, and resonates like there's no tomorrow. The way I like it - black pickguard and proper Fender knobs: [b]Mike Lull M5V[/b] Probably the sweetest fivestring neck I've ever played.

Hello guys, With all the wonderful basses out there my setup is bound to change over time (at least it's done so in the past), but anyway I thought I'd share some pics on the ones currently in my care. More gear than talent for sure, but that's not really a problem now, is it? Love their different personalities, and unlike women these beauties don't seem to get jealous - not so much anyway. cheers // Matt [b]Aria Pro II SB-R80[/b] My very first bass, a Matsumoku build from -82 given to me by my dear parents in 1984. Thanks mom and dad, you set me off on a nice path there. Cracking bass, and built like a tank. [b]Yamaha BB3000S[/b] My #1 bass for a very long time. After saving up all my hard earned cash for over a year I managed to lay my hands on it in -87 (or was it 88?). Simply wonderful. [b]Ken Smith BSR5EG[/b] Fully loaded with KS magic. [b]Unicorn Artist[/b] Handcrafted by Christian Olsson of [url="http://www.unicornbass.se"]www.unicornbass.se[/url], an amazing luthier and bass player. Christian built this one for himself but has graciously allowed it to pass along to me since. He also built one just like it for Mark King - oddly enough I still need to practise that thumb wizardry. Playability and sound is amazing - incredibly responsive to how you treat it. [b]Windmill JModern[/b] cuddling with my [b]MGP Level 5[/b] The Windmill is my blue quilt indulgence, has an incredible B-string only barely beaten by the Smith. The MPG was a gift from my darling wife :wub: (how about that!). Though the Barts are sweet I see Nordstrand pickups heading its way in the future, think that would be a great fit. [b]Custom Windmill Fretless[/b] (aka the iPod Bass) Well, you gotta have a fretless (or so I was told) so why not one with some cool looks? Wonderful bass that doesn't quite get aired as much as it deserves.

Hello everyone! As I've been lurking around here for some time I guess it's about time for an introduction. Name's Mattias, or Matt for short, saw the light of day in 1971 and started playing the bass as a 13-year old in 1984. I live in Uppsala just north of Stockholm with my wife and two kids, and spend my working days doing chemical engineering stuff within the biotech sector. My father who is a jazz pianist introduced me to the bass, or more to the point he patiently played jazz standards for hours on end with me while I was slowly absorbing how to play something meaningful and hopefully supportive on the bass. I'm incredibly grateful to him even to this day - I recall how magical it felt that I was part of playing real music, jazz no less! Never mind that I was playing scales either up or down for the most part. Well, it was fun, great fun, from the get go and I knew there would be no turning back. Apart from jazz which I played (and still do) with my dad and his guys, influenced by the 80's me and my pals went pretty deep into West Coast style pop/rock. Later on (90's-ish) I played in some more fusion-like constellations, and have also payed my dues in cover bands. Since ~00 I play more at home and less out than before, but the music is always there - perhaps I'm narrowminded but I can't imagine many things more fun than playing the bass! My current projects are a Robben Ford influenced type of blues band (though if I can help it without any tapping on my part) and a really fun band where we're mixing pretty AC/DC'ish guitars with more funky bass and drums and a singer that loves RHCP. For my bass playing at home I'm amazed and inspired by all the great stuff that's on Youtube - if only one could have been shown how to do Mark King's stuff back in the eighties... I'm very glad to have found Basschat, you guys seem to have a really nice place here. Thanks for reading through the ramblings of a bassoholic Swede! cheers // Matt Edit: Spleling error

[quote name='steve-soar' post='563029' date='Aug 7 2009, 09:08 PM']Now that's more like it. Very, very nice and well done on the LabGruppen. The Ampeg pres are amazing.[/quote] Thanks a lot, and yes the Ampeg is pure gold. [quote name='Finbar' post='563068' date='Aug 7 2009, 10:04 PM']If you simplify that rig to the EBS alone, you have a buyer for your SVT-IIp right here [/quote] Thanks mate, good to know but please don't hold your breath.

Here's mine, the cabinets are two Swedish built TKS-212's (~20kg's each and NO Neodynium involved). Sound amazing and are a breeze to carry, used to play Aguilar GS-212 and EBS Proline 410 but my back said no. The TKS:es have filled the Aguilar/EBS shoes perfectly. I'm in the process of simplifying my head (ampwise that is ) and will either be running the EBS alone or the Ampeg SVT-IIp together with a LabGruppen 1000 poweramp I just came across. In all honesty the Ampeg pre really floors the EBS for the most part, good stuff! My pedalboard is pretty EBS-heavy to say the least... I'm trying to remedy that and have recently replaced the ValveDrive and MultiDrive by a BJFE Blueberry bass overdrive that's pure magic.

Here's my long time partner in bass, a Yamaha BB3000S bought new in -87. Worked all summer that year to be able to afford it, and boy have we had fun together since - wonderful instruments the BB's!

Matt Pulcinella Guitars (MPG) come in 35" as standard. Wonderful instruments. On the topic of the influence of scale length on the B-string's performance, I agree with the sentiment that other factors contribute to a greater extent. Excellent pickups and a super stiff neck well (graphite/graphite rods/fancywood laminates/whathaveyou) and probably a bunch of other parameters would get my vote before scale length. IME, limited as it is, I feel that the longer the scale the more you you gain in sustain but loose in attack/thump - but then again in the wonderful realm of bass lutherie there are other means (magic and angel dust for instance ) to balance that. It's truly multivariate.

Too schizofrenic to stick to one, but at the end of the day I'm a jazz kind of guy. My Fender J-74 has always served me well, so I voted Fender.