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Well, someone needed that, why not? Nice colour.
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Meghan Trainor - All about the bass (the Kate Davis version)
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Standing in the shadows of Motown: stories, music, CDs...
Beneath the underdog, a tough Mingus bio
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CD is 80 minutes and 700 MB. I don't think you need more than 2 channels.
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Please use some uncompressed format (PCM, wav...) to record your test. Any coding may ruin results.
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Very interesting, T-shop seems to have it on stock.
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That bass looks wonderful. I love dark, unlined necks. The top is also very neat.
Is the body chambered, do you have any hint of the weight? 10 or 8 lbs.?
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How about pink noise and one meter distance from the cabs? Looper is of interest, but I still would add some pink.
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3D printing gives us possibilities to do something that's not possible to do with ordinary/old ways. These include carving, machining etc. 3D printing is very feasible for short (and in some cases long!) production series. But printing is at its best when you are not able to do something with basic tools.
Costs... well, if printing enables something, it's worth it. There are pages where you can up- and download new designs to print, but I still believe we are only in the beginning. Metal printing is evolving, spare parts can be made to age old machines (classic cars, anyone?).
I really think that personalized stuff will be available to all of us sooner than later. Refining a bass body or a neck profile will be easier than ever. That does not exclude those beautiful wooden instruments made by top luthiers, but maybe a few PLA based trials and errors are much easier, and faster to do before doing the deep dive.
Long live beautiful basses.
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3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:
Personally I am interested in the potential 3D printing offers to incorporate wild designs and textures ...
...but most of the people want something that Leo did.
There's something similar with meat and those protein based particleboards. So many try to imitate meat, although I would love to see/taste something totally different. Meat is there for carnivores, what would there be for you, @Stub Mandrel, and me? Something personal instead of bulk products?
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Didn't Lincoln Goines have a good book about latin bass? This one:
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The set weighs approximately 64 lbs., where the Love Bomb, and Echorec are around 39 lbs., maybe?
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He has been here so long, I was interested to see some new work of his. Are these creations something like electric contra basses?
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Find a student of some music school. Their prices are decent, and enthusiasm at good level. If the first doesn't fit, try another student.
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Have tried/measured them side by side, or putting ends together? 0.5 degrees is not much.
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My favourite at the moment is KMA Queequeg 2. It is simplistic looking, but very powerful. I think I like it even more than my Cog T-16.
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There's a Status/Trace bass for sale at the moment that would fit well to this thread.
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The top looks exotic, and nicely carved (note the slap'n'pop shape between the neck and the pickup). Electronics include XLR output, so this has to be handmade and high quality, Alembic style. Price has been far over £1000.
Check this out for the FB pages:
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But that looks like it will be showed in some woodworking fair! In other words, one really good looking board.
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Many if not most of the exps are simple pots in pedal format. They may be hi-Z (like 250k) or lo-Z (like 25k). Some have an extra pot for minimum vol or similar.
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Come on, who needs tabs, when our fabulous @tomread, has transcribed it.
https://www.tomreadbass.co.uk/_files/ugd/238d8f_911d353594cf40e9b2a20928d4e6fa7b.pdf
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Congrats!!!
Lots of work, lots of excellent transcriptions!
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Remember, you are on the same road where I was with my road bike: Carbon frame, fork, crank, shifters, derailleur, rear axle, bottom bracket cover, handle bar, seat post, saddle, pedals, shoes, pump... I was after a carbon wheelset, and even chainrings, but by then my bank account had dried off. Once I measured myself, and I had only 7 % of fat in me. It was actually too little, only my bike had less... And those were the days.
If you want to remove wood from the back of the headstock, consider making it slightly thinner. Then the shape stays the same. You can remove a lot if you replace it partly with... CF.
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String recommendations
in General Discussion
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Very rough idea of the strings:
- flats have that short, flat sound, and they last and last...
- groundwounds/halfrounds are slightly sharper in sound, but still close to flats
- nickel is good for a fretless, too, and their response is more even than ->
- stainless steel (SS) has a sound that reminds the smiley eq curve when new, thin sets are for slapping twangmen
Material choices are only few (steel, coated steel, and polymers) despite marketing people tend to disagree. Gauges vary a lot, and may mean a lot in playability, as well as how the bass sounds and interacts.