RobEvansBass

After a while away from this forum...for no good reason i must admit, i'm back (once again like the renegade master!). Now i know that me being back does not affect 99.9% of you but i thought i'd say hi again none-the-less. So in keeping with this being an introductions page: Hi i'm Rob, i'm currently living in Cardiff. I'm a bass player and producer by trade currently working out of Music Wales. www.musicwales.co.uk/studio (clang! shameless plug!) and I play a 5 string shuker bass (picture attached). Anything i've missed out? Find me on twitter @robevansbass Cheers, Rob

[quote name='joncaulfield72' post='724234' date='Jan 25 2010, 04:20 PM']Great looking Studio[/quote] Thought you might say that, JC. When you coming to do your album? You wanna hear the bass sound i'll get you!! Peace, Rob

Yeah, it's pretty nice. Using it with the TLAudio desk (you can see in some other pictures) means we have 8 valve channels going in to the Yamaha. Best of both worlds, 32 inputs, 8 of which get the warmth of the valves and all have the control and range that a digital mixer can provide. Peace, Rob

Here's a few more pictures and more again will appear when i get a chance to go nuts with the camera. In the mean-time, any recording questions feel free to ask, either in this thread or a PM to me. Peace, Rob

Shabbey Road Studios, based near Cardiff in South Wales is run FOR musicians BY musicians. We are easily accesible from Newport and Swansea. We currently have 3 experienced Producers/Engineers/Arrangers and in-house musicians in 2 studios with combined credits too long to list...but we'll have a go! Max Boyce, Elvis Costello, Jeff Hooper, Owen Money, Brotherhood of Man, Bucks Fizz, Sounds of The Supremes, Abbamania (West End), Michael Barrymore, National Ochestra Of Wales, Phantom of The Opera National Tour, Waking Madison (Hollywood), Griff Rhys Jones, Bonnie Tyler, David Soul, Jane McDonald, WRU, Prince Charles to name just a few. Now for The Tech Spec: Unlimited Track Digital Software running through Yamaha digital and TLAudio valve mixing desks, Tannoy(large)/Yamaha/Blue Sky Monitors, 6-way headphone mix, Mics by Neumann, Sennheiser and Audio Technica, numerous outboard effects, a drum room ... and a Yamaha grand piano upstairs! You can call us on 029 20862164 or check out the website at www.shabbeyroad.com or see the fancy new control room at www.myspace.com/shabbeyroadstudios1 ...and yes i know it was a shameless plug...i work there Peace, Rob

hey hey, anyone who's going to bassday this year, come and say hi! i'll be playing during the day on the boom stage with a cracking band (jason cole on drums, luke rendell on guitar and vox) if anybody fancies coming to watch? see you all there, Rob

Now i've heard a lot about which pick-ups sustain the longest and which bridges are best etc etc. but i had a thought the other night which was subsiquently posted in a build diary forum and met with a reasonable response. So i thought i'd open this discussion. It may have been talked about before and i might not be the first to think about it but... I always believed the longer a note lasted the better right? Possibly not, and bare with me on this. Instead of approaching sustain as how long a note lasts, maybe we should think about how long the note contains the original tonal characteristics. How often do you play a note that lasts longer than 2 bars? maybe 4 bars occaisionally. If the note is going to be longer, a second, possibly quieter note is played to support the first thus rendering the 'need huuuuge sustain' arguement useless. Bolt-on necks dont sustain as long and through necks is a quote i hear a lot, but does this matter. Is whats important here the maintainance of the original sound? Most basses i've ever played start to sound like a low rumbly drone after a few seconds. Admittedly having the option of a 3 minute long note is handy, it gives you head room, but would a great sounding 10 second note followed by it fading out be more useful? Or maybe just more representative of the original note you played? Maybe we're so used to how a note dies and turns into a drone that hearing say, a honk from a black walnut body for a long time would actually be a bad thing? Maybe i shouldn't think that hard about it? It might not be an original stance on the sustain issue i hear so much about but i'd be interested to hear your thoughts. Peace, Rob

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='566518' date='Aug 12 2009, 09:17 AM']No, even if just a normal jazz, it won't hold it's value well at all.[/quote] That said, i just sold my Shuker 6 string for only £200 less than i bought it for at 2 1/2 years old. [quote name='peted' post='566566' date='Aug 12 2009, 10:17 AM']From my experience so far - you can expect a long wait [/quote] And from mine its not too bad. My new build came in at 8 months which is around about what was quoted. I had a single cut elite built for me. I'm expecting a slating for saying this but it does seem that the chaps who have the longest waits are the ones getting loads of pictures sent through for build diaries. I left him alone for the first 6 months of the build after discussing my spec in detail and it was ready on time...just. Peace, Rob

[quote name='jmanfunk' post='564103' date='Aug 9 2009, 01:08 PM']How are you finding the set neck design compared to the usual neck-through or bolt-on?[/quote] slightly alcohol fueled response so excuse any typos, but set neck compared to bolt ons and neck throughs.... when choosing the bass it came down to 3 things for me, firstly playability, then tone, then the sustain of the tone. for me playability is an easy thing to comment on, i had an ibanez 6 string a while back, it had 24 frets but i couldn't reach 23 and 24 with ease because it was a bolt on, my thumb got stuck on the body and a huge amount of repositioning was neccessary. more frets is great but only if you can reach them. having a set neck or throughneck allows this. jon (shuker) cut away the body of his standard single cut more for me to allow this easy access sustain is probably the next easiest thing to cover, how long does a note sustain for? i dont mean how long does it make a sound, i mean how long does it contain the same characteristics as the original note you played? the fact of the matter is you may only ever sustain a note for 2 bars, very rarely longer than that without hitting it again, and afetr 1 bar it sounds like a low drone. the best basses in the world all sound the same after being held for some 2 seconds or more and i thin kthat brings me on to the tone of that original note.... is sustain really an issue? i'll leave you decide.... tone....bolt ons have always sounded very percussive to me, very few instruments can cover the range of sounds that an electric bass can so why hide them all with a percussive thud? i like the sweet sound that a bass makes, and the low growl, and the smooth overtones ringing through the wood. if i want it to sound percussive if can re-create that with my fingers. after all it's the player's head, heart and fingers that make the sound. the neck through seemed like a sensible solution to the things i've rambled on about. more sound of the wood chosen for the body because of less neck wood involved, and great access even to fret 26 in my case. win, win for me, and the bass is lovely. hope that kind of anwers your question despite possibly boring you with so much to read, Peace, Rob

[quote name='funkypenguin' post='563487' date='Aug 8 2009, 02:17 PM']you influenced by matt garrisson by any chance?[/quote] haha, it does look that way doesn't it. i am influenced by his playing yes, along with all of these melodic and chordal players... gwizdala, feraud etc. but i chose the walnut cos it sounds good and the massur birch cos it looks good. i wanted a ramp cos i had one in the last bass. i guess its coincidence it looks pretty similar! still...he's not got a bad bass to look similar to. Peace, Rob

S'appnin chaps, This is kind of the whole build all in one. I didn't keep a diary as the build went on cos i figured i'd forget to keep it up to date. This is Shuker no.2, the first has been sold to a fellow basschatter for reasons mentioned in previous threads, i wont go over them again...but here's the new one. Was about an 8 month build and i picked it up about 3 weeks ago now. 5 string 33" single cut set neck. Walnut body, massur birch top, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard. Strung E-C with D-tuner (or B-tuner) to tune the E to a B Delano's with shuker EQ. think thats about it. here's some pics. Peace, Rob

...intrigued as to what it is? check it out here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=44811"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=44811[/url] Peace, Rob