BottomEndian

[quote name='Conan' post='1287620' date='Jun 30 2011, 01:06 PM']He is obviously extremely intelligent, and he is a phenomenal bass player - but a lot of his stuff leaves me cold. If he played that material but with a guitar round his neck, would he be so well regarded here? I doubt it.[/quote] I've been dipping in and out of Squarepusher's music for years, but without really knowing anything about him or his methods, so it was only a couple of years ago that I discovered he was even a bass player. I just thought he was an awesome composer and programmer... and he is.

[quote name='burno70' post='1287427' date='Jun 30 2011, 10:40 AM']Thats the thing - you can see the difference - but can you really hear it?[/quote] Isn't the idea that you [b]can't[/b] really hear it? It's getting rid of the rumble you can't hear in the first place, so your speakers can work more efficiently, no?

[quote name='Oscar South' post='1285310' date='Jun 28 2011, 02:36 PM']One from a recent radio session.. the contrast really brought out my expression well! [url="http://www.bearbeatsband.com"][/url][/quote]

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1285150' date='Jun 28 2011, 12:05 PM']Probably 0.105? There's a number of factors going into play here. If you downtune a standard 34" scale to C#, the third fret would be about 28.5" scale and so the tension along the length of the string would be the same as what you'd expect on the 28.5" scale length. Now, although that string could seem quite floppy when plugging away on the open C# at 34", imagine that the string was securely clamped at the 3rd fret, i.e. put a nut at the third fret. The amount of absolute 'side-to-side' give of the string will therefore be reduced (relative to the full length of the string) in response to a pluck of a given energy. So actually its not going to [i]feel [/i]as bad as it might initially seem. Also, an easy way to increase the absolute tension is to increase the string gauge. Obviously its not going to sound exactly the same as a standard bass, but Hunter's bass sound on the Novax guitars is stupendous, so I have no worries about it sounding good.[/quote] Ah, good man; you remind me of me. I have spreadsheets full of tension calculations for various scale lengths, gauges and tunings. I'm [b]really[/b] looking forward to hearing this beast.

[quote name='charic' post='1285145' date='Jun 28 2011, 12:02 PM']What's wrong with noodles? Are you a noodlist?[/quote] I'm allergic to wheat.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1285119' date='Jun 28 2011, 11:41 AM']Unfortunately for this project I need [i]totally [/i]custom strings: 8 strings, fanned fret from 28.5" scale bass strings fanning through incrementally to 25.5" scale guitar strings, tuned EAD on the bass with tapewound, and ADGBE on the guitar side with nickel plated steel roundwounds...[/quote] Just out of interest, what sort of gauge are you looking at for the bass side of things? At that scale length, they'll have to be pretty heavy to come to pitch without flapping about like noodles, surely?

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1283953' date='Jun 27 2011, 12:22 PM']Brian Wilson? Who's he? [/quote] If I do make it down, I'll be sure to wear a Burberry cap so you can pick me out of the crowd.

Arise, ancient thread! I got the Sage brochure through the post the other day. Flicking through... suddenly, BAM. Pete's grinning up at me from the bottom of the page. Nearly Dan, Saturday 10th September, Hall Two. Hope I might be able to make it along this year. Shame you're up against Brian Wilson in Hall One on the same night though.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1283709' date='Jun 27 2011, 09:12 AM']When the instrument is complete I will probably travel up to Moffat to pick it up (provided Alan is OK with that), particularly as it would be somewhat unfair for him to build such an unusual instrument and not see the nutter who ordered it try to play the thing. So if any of you want to come along too (whenever that may be) you are more than welcome to.[/quote] If Alan can time it to coincide with the Moffat Bass Bash 2012, you'll have quite an audience!

[quote name='silddx' post='1280701' date='Jun 24 2011, 11:09 AM']I didn't realise it could be powered from the FW port.[/quote] It certainly can (I've got one too)... but like I said before, I don't and I won't if I can avoid it.

Advice: forget about it as much as possible. Then every update is like a little blast of unexpected awesomeness.

[quote name='urb' post='1278883' date='Jun 22 2011, 06:49 PM']You know you've probably just hit the nail on the head - my Mackie audio interface was working great on Bus power then suddenly showed power surges - I wondered why it was doing it after working fine for ages - then an external hard drive is now not showing up either... I should have suspected something but it had all been working fine.[/quote] That does indeed sound suspicious. As long as you have the bus-powered device plugged in when you boot up, it should be fine, but if there's stuff being swapped in and out while the system's powered up... I've heard it said that it's equivalent (in terms of potential for power-surge mayhem) to plugging in a condenser mic with phantom power switched on.

Have you been hot-plugging bus-powered stuff? That's apparently the kiss of death for Firewire ports. It may happen first time... it may happen the one-thousandth time... but it'll probably happen eventually. ZAP. Pfff. Dead. Or so I've heard. I've heard it so many times that I [b]never[/b] hot-plug Firewire stuff, [i]or[/i] power it from the bus. But like Crez sez, get thee to an Apple store.

[quote name='Mark Latimour' post='1278606' date='Jun 22 2011, 03:12 PM']People who don't own them. People who do don't care, they just play them.[/quote] ...is the most sensible thing anyone's said so far.

[quote name='Scoop' post='1278300' date='Jun 22 2011, 11:04 AM']Just wait til I ask him to build me a 4 and 8 twin neck for my next one...[/quote] Entirely in blue gum burl.

Wow. Truly one of a kind. Really looking forward to seeing this one coming together!

[quote name='essexbasscat' post='1277824' date='Jun 21 2011, 10:11 PM']Just checked it to be sure. The lowest note of the Cello in standard tuning is C2, that is C two octaves below middle C, which is one semitone lower than the B on a 5 string bass.[/quote] The lowest note on a cello is indeed C2, but that's still an octave and a semitone higher than the low B on a 5-string bass, which is B0. The cello range (C2 to around A5, according to Wikipedia) is more comparable to a guitar (E2 to somewhere around C6, depending on number of frets).

[quote name='lanark' post='1277708' date='Jun 21 2011, 08:44 PM']But that's just nomenclature, why isn't it also an Extended Range Guitar?[/quote] Physical size and scale length, surely?

[quote name='mike_zimmerman' post='1277702' date='Jun 21 2011, 08:41 PM']Curbow Petite 5..[/quote] Aaah, lovely! Certainly don't see many of those over this side of the pond.

[quote name='mike_zimmerman' post='1277375' date='Jun 21 2011, 05:28 PM']I really need to take some better pictures of mine: [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65797029@N00/5296962445/"][/url][/quote] You certainly do... I can't even tell what it is!

Can I suggest a series of threads to keep BC alive for the next millennium or two? 5-strings: fad or future? Frets: fad or future? Fretless: fad or future? Roundwounds: fad or future? Solid-colour finishes: fad or future? Lungs: fad or future? Active basses: fad or future? 6-strings: fad or future? Personal preference: fad or future? Les Dennis: fad or future? Web forums: fad or future? Loud sighing: fad or future? 7-strings: fad or future? Moist toilet tissue: fad or future? and so on, and so on... we can even do each one repeatedly, maybe every few weeks, just to keep things fresh.

[quote name='Marvin' post='1265683' date='Jun 12 2011, 02:12 AM'] This is me! There you go I actually do play a bass occasionally and now at gigs , rather than just loaf around here talking about it EDIT: And here's another one. [/quote] You're very small... or are you just far away?

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1265067' date='Jun 11 2011, 04:16 PM'] This has gone in the Quotes thread for defamatory posterity.[/quote] I totally understand why Skank's post had to go. Still... It'll live on in my memory.

This has gone in the Quotes thread for defamatory posterity.