BottomEndian

Rich and Gary... condolences and thoughts are with you both. Having seen this bass in the flesh at Moffat, I can say that the grain showing through the finish looks absolutely fantastic, and it's a beautiful beast.

[quote name='munkonthehill' post='1119636' date='Feb 7 2011, 11:16 PM']hahahaha this was my favourite quote of the weekend. It was great meeting up with you buddy and sorry for trying to force you to drink cider!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote] Aye, you're a bad, bad man.

[quote name='7string' post='1119616' date='Feb 7 2011, 11:06 PM'][/quote] Bwahahaa! I hadn't realised quite how much that 9er completely dwarfed me! Still... I'm only wee. Fabulous weekend, and great to meet everybody. Roll on the next one!

[quote name='MythSte' post='1118020' date='Feb 6 2011, 06:33 PM']Edit, I don't actually have monstrously sized hands... I don't think?[/quote] Judging from that picture... yes. Yes, you do.

[quote name='Earbrass' post='1114091' date='Feb 3 2011, 04:26 PM']Could this be an equal temperament issue? The harmonic will be a "pure" maj 3rd, while the keyboard will be tuned to equal temperament. Could this account for the discrepancy?[/quote] Yes. The only harmonic that's genuinely "in tune" (in terms of equal temperament) with the open string is the octave (12th fret). Everything else just gently drifts off from there.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1112036' date='Feb 2 2011, 09:27 AM']Seems a rather lofty opening price considering it's condish.[/quote] +1 I'd be surprised to see it go much further. Still... wouldn't be the first time I've been surprised on eBay.

Not [i]really[/i] famous as such (famous enough to have a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Hairsine"]Wikipedia page[/url] though)... I happen to know that comics artist Trevor Hairsine is a member on here, and you wouldn't guess who from his username. And no, I'm not telling.

[quote name='jezzaboy' post='1108141' date='Jan 30 2011, 02:04 PM']Question. What to do - play a gig, get paid and mabye have some fun with the ladies afterwards or drive for 1.5 hours to spend time with some hairy ars*d blokes and bass guitars?[/quote] I'll shave my arse if it swings the balance.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1107528' date='Jan 29 2011, 07:10 PM']Did you get told the first pic is a google images pic?? Seems odd to put up a googled pic when you have pics of the real thing :/[/quote] Yep, that's exactly what he told me... "cos I hadn't taken a pic then".

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=109677"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=109677[/url] and [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=111397"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=111397[/url] In a nutshell, they sound nice and look crazy. The coating's supposed to be much more hard-wearing than the previous generation of coloured strings too.

Chris May is scheduled to attend the Moffat Bass Bash next weekend, and is hopefully going to be bringing some of these basses along, so with a bit of luck one (or more) of us will be able to have a fiddle and post some opinions. Unless someone gets their hands on one in a shop first, of course.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1105975' date='Jan 28 2011, 10:36 AM']anyone asked yet which bass is for sale?[/quote] Just asked, yep. Wait and see...

You have to bear in mind that (unless you're very lucky) the bridge will only intonate properly for one particular set of strings. If you change gauge, material, type (flat/round/whatever), construction or even brand, chances are the saddles would need a tweak on your average bass, both for intonation and height. On a bass with a fixed bridge, that's obviously not possible. If you know exactly which strings you'll want to use for the entire life of the bass, that may be fine. If, like me, you're a serial tweaker... well, I just wouldn't have a fixed bridge. Here's a thought, though... would it be possible to have the bridge essentially free (like a DB bridge), with only the downward pressure from the strings passing over it holding it onto the body? (Like a nut that hasn't been glued in.)

John Martyn

[quote name='Spoombung' post='1097694' date='Jan 21 2011, 03:48 PM']You can hear it quite clearly in when then 'solo' starts in the middle of the track. That's all done using that sound and a combination of the mag pickup.[/quote] Ah, got it. It's got a sort of... "sparky" quality, for want of a much better word. Like it! (Like the track too!)

[quote name='Spoombung' post='1096739' date='Jan 20 2011, 08:19 PM']It has a trump card; a piezo under the nut which picks up all sorts of unexpected harmonics and multiphonic effects...but [i]you've got to know what you're doing with it[/i]. [/quote] Intriguing! Could you do us a quick audio sample of the nut piezo soloed (if that's possible)? I'd love to know what kind of noises it makes.

[quote name='MythSte' post='1095092' date='Jan 19 2011, 01:15 PM']Fortunately I've just bought a new amp[/quote] Update yer signature then!

Here's a curveball... Thomastik Jazz flatwounds. Flexible as hell, really full bottom end but surprisingly zingy for flats. The gauges don't [i]look[/i] light (standard long-scale 4-string set runs 43-100), but they're so, so playable.

[quote name='jimmyb625' post='1094862' date='Jan 19 2011, 10:10 AM']Series 1&2, series 2&1, parallel, [b]coil 1, coil 2[/b]...[/quote] As in soloed coils? Surely on a split-pickup P, if you solo a coil you'll effectively be switching off 2 strings? Could be useful for punk bassists, I suppose. *dons tin hat to protect from the incoming black/black/maple Precisions*

[quote name='simon1964' post='1089264' date='Jan 14 2011, 01:05 PM']I took the original post to mean that the buyer was saying this was not a genuine Gibson serial number, which in fact it is.[/quote] Do we actually know this though? As I said, the Guitar Dater website will respond to any old number. Just because it dishes up information doesn't necessarily mean that it's a genuine number (after all, I'm pretty sure the Gibson with s/n 12345678 hasn't yet been made ). The only people who'll be able to confirm anything will be Gibson themselves... and only if they've kept proper records.

[quote name='simon1964' post='1089246' date='Jan 14 2011, 12:53 PM']agreed - link here: [url="http://www.guitardaterproject.org/gibson.aspx"]http://www.guitardaterproject.org/gibson.aspx[/url][/quote] The trouble is that you can enter any old 8-digit number and it'll interpret the numbers according to the Gibson rules. For example, I just gave it 12345678... [quote]Your guitar was made at the Nashville Plant, TN, USA August 22nd, [b]2015[/b] Production Number: 378[/quote] You could make a fake Gibson, use that site to figure out what serial number you'd need to make it look a certain age, and then whack that number on the headstock. It's certainly no guarantee that the serial number itself isn't fake.

I find it hard to separate the feel of a certain radius from the general feel of the neck anyway. I certainly find my flat-radiused ACGs easier (and more comfortable) to play than any other 5-strings I've had or played, but they do of course have Alan's asymmetric neck profile on the back. I certainly can't tell how much either aspect contributes to the comfort, although I definitely find it easier to "reach" the B-string. I suppose it's just that little bit closer, because the radius isn't "falling away" from your fingertips. It also seems to encourage me to keep my thumb on the back of the neck. If I go back to something like a Ray, the symmetric neck profile and fairly small board radius seems to be an invitation to grip it like a sword. I assume it's a fair bit easier/cheaper to produce a uniformly flat plank than it is a uniformly radiused fingerboard, so I guess that's why it's starting to crop up as a standard option. Of course, when you start charging US$999 for a different radius (*cough* Fodera *cough*), that's taking the piss somewhat.