BottomEndian

Yikes. The listing makes it out to be real rocking-horse-sh*t stuff, while there's actually [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/1960-Fender-P-Bass-Precision-Lefty-Left-Handed-Vintage-/160598555392"]another 1960 lefty Precision on eBay[/url] right now. Rare coincidence, or do these things crop up all the time? I know nothing of vintage Fender lefties.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1265003' date='Jun 11 2011, 03:23 PM'][url="http://wordsmith.org/anagram/"]http://wordsmith.org/anagram/[/url] Enjoy [/quote] Music Man StingRay = Gymnastic Anus Rim ... or ... C***-Rimming Assay You want either of those on your headstock, you've got problems.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1263114' date='Jun 9 2011, 07:24 PM']Jeff Berlin once said that he doesn't play fretless because everyone just ends up sounding like Jaco.[/quote] I play loads of fretless and I don't sound like Jaco. It's mainly because I'm sh*t. [quote name='Mcgiver69' post='1263894' date='Jun 10 2011, 01:28 PM']The Jaco I learned to love is Jaco the groove player, he's like a hyperactive child [b]running up and down filling every hole left by the other musicians in the band[/b].[/quote] This sums up Jaco for me, but it's the reason I struggle with him a bit. I love a bit (or maybe even a lot) of space in music. He always seemed to be treading a very fine line between supplementing the song and overpowering it. It's very easy to identify a song with Jaco playing on it, and it's often because his distinctive tone is ploughing through everything else as he fills up all the gaps.

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[quote name='deksawyer' post='1264518' date='Jun 11 2011, 12:23 AM']Almost exactly a year to the day I picked my first (so far) ACG bass... I can't help think this is the best bass ever made.[/quote] That is one gorgeous bass!

[quote name='eude' post='1264053' date='Jun 10 2011, 03:51 PM']Lovely collection there mate![/quote] Cheers! I just think it'd be nice to have the many many ACGs on Basschat in one place for... er... reference. *hides the bog-roll*

Seriously, how is there no ACG thread in the porn section? Let's get all of Alan's Scottish beauties together in one thread. I'll kick off... Recurve 5 fretless Skelf 5 fretless chambered piezo-only prototype Graft Recurve prototype satin black finish

[quote name='absolutpepper' post='1262383' date='Jun 9 2011, 10:24 AM']Perhaps a bit of an obvious one but why not just swell into the notes using a volume pedal, something like a VP-Jr is pretty responsive and would work grand.[/quote] Do keep up, dear fellow ... [quote name='RhysP' post='1259571' date='Jun 7 2011, 12:35 PM']Anyway; something similar: why not just use a volume pedal for swells? Too labour intensive for you? [/quote] [quote name='Sibob' post='1259740' date='Jun 7 2011, 02:45 PM']A bit labour intensive yeah, I have a couple if tunes in my hiphop/dubstep band that have every note swelled...I'm not riding the volume pedal for 8mins lol.[/quote]

What are the two behind the Sadowsky? I assume it's a Ray on the left, but on the right... pointy headstock suggests Alembic or Pangborn?

Gaaahhh! The one with the guy from Florence and the Machine on the cover? Mine got "rationalised" into the recycling bin last week as part of our grand spring clean.

Just had a lightbulb moment... remembered that the EBS wah pedals (Wah One and Stanley Clarke) both have switchable LP modes. They're not sprung (at least, not that I know of), but they seem quite tweakable. Not tried them though. Pricey too.

[quote name='cocco' post='1259549' date='Jun 7 2011, 12:13 PM']Do AGC make anything away from their shapes? And do they do passive?[/quote] As a rule, no and no.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='1259523' date='Jun 7 2011, 11:50 AM'][url="http://www.buildyourownclone.com/lazysprocket.html"]this kit[/url] is pretty cheap[/quote] Although still almost double the price of the Behringer. Depends on whether Si feels he can stoop to Behringer pedals.

[quote name='Sibob' post='1259490' date='Jun 7 2011, 11:30 AM']Any idea as to what might be able to replace it as a single pedal.[/quote] No idea, I'm afraid. My ACGs have resonant filters built into the preamps, so I'm all filtered up. If I were in the market for a sweepable, tweakable filter pedal setup, I'd probably go for a Moogerfooger Low-Pass Filter with an expression pedal. But obviously that's 2 pedals and it costs a bomb.

[quote name='Sibob' post='1259443' date='Jun 7 2011, 10:54 AM']As the title suggests really, any bass pedals that slow the attack of a note? Essentially an auto-fade in I guess. Not a 'Reverse' as I don't want the note to cut off, decay as normal[/quote] Well, seeing as the original Slow Gear pedals are extremely rare and about a bazillion squid, you could always get the [url="http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/SM200.aspx"]Behringer clone[/url]. Or were you after something bass-specific?

As I understand it, the "Wah" setting is based on a band-pass filter with a reasonably sharp Q factor (just like a normal wah pedal), so as you sweep the frequency, you're shifting a narrow "window" of frequencies around the spectrum. As you sweep up, you lose the low end, and vice versa. I believe the "Resonance" setting is based on an old-school analogue-type low-pass filter, so you'll retain the low end at all positions of the pedal, but just open up the top-end as you sweep up. It's still got a reasonably sharp Q, so there's a fair old wedge of honky resonance around the filter cutoff frequency. This is just from what I know about filters and what I remember from 15 minutes or so with an ME-50B about 3 years ago, so take it with a pinch of salt.

My Graft is 7lb 11oz. Feels incredibly light. Very comfortable to play. Alder body and maple neck: My "proper" custom-spec-level ACGs are more like your normal sort of weight for 5-strings. 9lb 1oz for the Skelf singlecut (which is incredibly light given the thickness of the body, but it is thoroughly chambered) and 9lb 4oz for the Recurve, which is all black limba and wenge. Regardless of the weights, every ACG I've put on a strap has balanced beautifully. The Skelf singlecut in particular feels about 2lb lighter than it actually is, just because it balances so well.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1259002' date='Jun 6 2011, 09:47 PM']So, £3900 now.[/quote] Wow. Talk about just pulling a figure out of one's arse. £3900? Surely that's double the top end of what any right-thinking (reasonably knowledgeable) person would pay?

[quote name='chrismuzz' post='1258002' date='Jun 6 2011, 02:43 AM']Should I steer clear of the Boss NS-2 then?[/quote] I've used the NS-2 quite happily for many years. It's a bit of a tone-sucker (not too much, though... no more so than any other Boss pedal), but the key beauty of it is that it's essentially a side-chaining gate. If you put your dirt pedals in the NS-2's loop, it runs the signal through the pedals in the loop, but bases the gated output on the clean input signal. If you're running stuff at really high gain levels, sometimes the hum/noise/hiss between notes can be almost as loud (if not [i]actually[/i] as loud) as the notes themselves; that doesn't matter if the gate's only listening to your clean signal. That said, the guitarist I play with uses a Decimator, and it's bloody great. Just a bit of top-end loss if you set the threshold a smidgeon too high, so in a high-gain situation it can be a bit of a micro-adjustment balancing act.

[quote name='TheBear' post='1258122' date='Jun 6 2011, 10:08 AM']the Zoom looks good indeed. Has anyone used it in a rehearsal ? (volume is way louder. so I'm curious)[/quote] I use my Zoom H2 in rehearsals that any normal person would describe as "punishing" in terms of volume (doom, innit). It's happy, as long as the mic gain is set to Low.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1257381' date='Jun 5 2011, 03:10 PM'].. and £3,100 it was.[/quote] Everyone keeping their eyes peeled for the relisting then?

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1255274' date='Jun 3 2011, 11:59 AM']I remember reading somewhere that Jamerson had a Bass V but hated it so much that he threw it across the studio saying 'Never let me play that thing again!'. [I may have invented that because my memory is not what it used to be.][/quote] I seem to remember that being the tale of him trying a fretless bass guitar (possibly an Ampeg). He could have done it with the Bass V too, to be fair.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1253596' date='Jun 2 2011, 09:52 AM']Already at £2,551.00 with over three days to go.[/quote] I know nowt about vintage Fender values... but it's getting silly, isn't it?