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2 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

It’s alright, it’s been denounced by the band as just “alright”.

Better than yesterday’s idea I sent them 1 met with “I don’t get it”.

Which itself was better than I got when suggesting a change to the part on a session I had been called in to replacing a fairly well known player who shall remain anonymous but had refused to change his strings - "Have you... completely lost your mind?"

2 hours ago, Bassfinger said:

Nothing.  I just don't like it.  I also don't like the sound of noisy dustmen, car alarms going off, and plimsolls squeaking on lino floors.

"And I am not professional but I love basketball
The squeaking of the sneakers, the echo in the hall" - Michael Franti and Spearhead from "The People in Tha Middle" 1994

Don't know why but your plimsolls made me think of that.

In all honesty, I didn't have much option anyway on a Steinberger shaped Status but yep - makes it look as if there's nothing unusual going on.

This sort of installation keeps it out of the way and lets you see what you need or don't need without permanently disfiguring the instrument.

Oh well, this has gone exactly as expected.

3 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

May I refer the honourable gentleman to Juna Serita doing a proper slap version of What is Hip... Funky as!

 

Well I thought that was great and I don't really care!

Love the slap and always did. Still tend to use it a bit for effect - it's just another sound.

This forum gets itself tied in knots over it in exactly the same way as "who needs more than 12 frets", "the fender precision is the only bass I will ever need" and Jaco was just tuneless noodling.

Also, if your bass doesn't supply enough bottom end when you slap it, you're not doing it right, you're using the wrong bass or you've not set up your sound properly.

Forgive me basschat - I'm just in that sort of a mood today!

Can't help you with 1 - 5 but Emmet Chapman modifies hex pickups to match the string spacing on the Chapman Stick so he may be able to help or point you in the right direction?

I've played a Vbass on a fretless Stingray and the double bass sounds were very nice indeed.

On either of these systems the basic acoustic tonality of the physical instrument does show through.

5 hours ago, NoirBass said:

These just add eq shapes and don’t really work like the modelling on the Variax and GK bass.

4 hours ago, NoirBass said:

The piezo pickup on each string allows a profile of various instruments to be superimposed. This works really nicely with very little latency and keeping a lot of the dynamics and resonance of the modelled guitar. It all hinges on how well the profiles are taken, for example the Stingray and Rickenbacker models on the VB-99 pretty close,  you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference blindfolded. However for me the P basses on both units are a long way off.

Where do you get your info on suprimposed profiles @NoirBass? 

As far as I can ascertain, it *is* just eq shapes - albeit very nuanced and particular ones- applied to the output of the GK hex pickup. The modelling aspect is really the clever way that they can persuade you that you're using say a bridge pickup or a neck pickup by simply varying the eq being applied so that you hear something similar to what you might expect.

It can't supply the subtle nuances like the difference in tone when you actually pick over the pole pieces of a pickup as opposed to vaguely in that area or changing harmonic nodes on each string as you move up the fingerboard because it's all being sensed from the same spot on the string, just next to the bridge.

I like the Vbass system but I think you'd have to be quite unfussy to imagine that it could exactly replicate all the instruments it claims to.

Bought a TC Spectracomp pedal from Marshall. Speedy delivery, great comms, excellent packaging, pedal looks like new - brilliant!

I've got an X3 live which is actually still pretty good sounds wise and offers two parallel chains which you can switch between or use completely separately. Amp and cab sims and FX are good and you can use it as an audio interface for pc/mac recording software.

A quick look on ebay suggests you could quickly pick one up for under £150.

I never really thought that way then- as has been mentioned even on this thread, you just modded things to suit yourself. Hence what I realise now was the best 4001 I ever owned went from brand new pristine fireglow in 1974 to being stripped and oiled with its white binding removed and replaced with a wood (effect!) binding by the early 80s! I had no idea it might be valuable in the future- it was an instrument to be played. Sold it in the mid 80s for £250. 

1 hour ago, el borracho said:

He actually sold that on here a few years ago. I was going to put a link on but the pictures have gone - blame Photobucket.

I first saw it in a magazine article in the early 90s and at one time looked at building a similar one but I couldn't get the proportions right with a long scale P body . Pre internet I didn't have much to refer to. 

Thanks - I had a hankering for doing that to a Rick 4001 many years ago- unlike some other Frankenstien ideas I had, this one never came to fruition. Nice to learn I was not alone in my madness.😀

10 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Here's his early collection

 

Ah - a big Strat bass with whammy - excellent!

Sounds like an interesting half-way house between bass  and Stick. Enjoy!

Late as usual! Missed this at the time.

How are you getting on with it - is it tuned in 4ths all the way?

I've failed miserably and according to the no. 7 clip, so miserably that I shouldn't really be watching. A lot of them sound familiar but I just can't put my finger on it...

I will offer:

3. Boogie Nights - Heatwave

7. Some Bon Jovi tune??

9. Ruby - Donald Fagen

14. Rhythm Stick - ian Dury and the Blockheads

19. Don't Look Down - Go West

Ah, ok- I had a look online and thought they only had 22. My bad as they say!

But still, with neither Fretless or whammy bar you are missing out on lots of slidey, wibbly nonsense. 
 

Since however you have freely admitted to spending an inordinate amount of time up at the dusty end, we are prepared to overlook this oversight and allow you to proceed with this strategy. 😀👍

Lovely.

Although I don't do it, fretless with a pick can sound great!

In terms of your strategy, as well as the fretless hole, none of your basses have enough frets. And don't say you never go up there! And you 've got nothing with a whammy bar! What are you thinking?

Ahh... the lovely Rickenbirchers. They are one shiny object of bass desire that I’ve never had the opportunity to experience. I suspect they were made to look like Rics but not necessarily play or sound like them. I recall Tony Wilson of Hot Chocolate had a beautiful example  

Excellent - there'll be no stopping you now!

PM'd

15 hours ago, verb said:

I'm currently giving shotcut a go. I'm having trouble putting the backing track into the time line, but I have to admit I'm a total dinosaur with regard to computers.

Did you get it working?

You need to create a new audio track first then grab the clip from the preview window and drag it onto that track.