Chris2112

It sounds pretty good. It's not like he has been shredding away for the whole song, he gets a little bass break/solo and so does something cool for a bit. When he starts repeating that pattern over and over and the audience loses the beat it becomes a little bit tiresome but they quickly pick up the new beat and it sounds good. He has some nice ideas there.

It just sounds like a jazz bass into an overdriven amp with some compression at the desk to make it sound even. The whole recording is slathered in compression...

[quote name='urb' timestamp='1355575527' post='1900082'] A vid from the woodshed.... [media]http://youtu.be/Lok6Sy12DpA[/media] [/quote] I probably sound like a broken record, but that was awesome. Some fantastic phrasing going on there. You can see where your ideas have developed, and how far your technique has come over the past few years since you were making videos with the Thumb. Awesome stuff!

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1355916771' post='1904339'] I remember Chris2112 saying how he would play with his old ACG for hours - I can understnad that now, their is something morish about the tone. [/quote] That said, at least my sound engineers are now happy when I turn up with my Thumb, I can plug it in and I'm good to go! The temptation to the fiddle on the ACG was immense but I did really enjoy it!

That blue bass sounds fantastic! And the tune he plays at the end of the video is nice too.

Most people on an upright bass playing in a band at anything over whisper volume. All you get are a peaky few harmonic mids and the highs, the fundamental of the note usually disappears FOH. Of course, to the play standing right next to the instrument and hacking away, it probably doesn't sound as bad.

Hope you enjoy the new preamp, they are very good!

Wojtek Pilichowski is also the man.

[quote name='bassintheface' timestamp='1355837079' post='1903345'] Each to their own - he's a tool. It's over now, I've had my moan. [/quote] I hope you feel vindicated by this five page rant-a-thon you have went on. Meanwhile, I suspect the truth of the matter is rather somewhere in the middle, as it often tends to be. This 'idiot guitarist' is probably off somewhere, having a good time whilst you're concerning yourself with slagging him off to what you probably anticipated would be a wholly appreciative and agreeable audience. Lets face it, we've all met 'him'. It's probably worth remembering the old advanced driver adage: 'you're never as good as you think you are'. I'm sure there are plenty of professional musicians out there who have seen your band and think you're total hacks, that you were sh*t, that your sound sucks, that your two guitarists (who you spent so much time giving the metaphorical fellatio on page one) were dire and couldn't keep up in a Sex Pistols tribute band, that the singer was off key and the bassist was self indulgent, ugly, talentless and was repelling women away from the stage. But then I'm sure anyone who has spent some time at corporate functions has seen a wealth of useless 'corporate' bands who absolutely reek but think they are awesome.

OP, you don't really come across very well in that post at all. So the guy is a bit of a bore, and lacks tact. So he doesn't play as big gigs as you do. It would be one thing to politely tell him there is no place for him on stage, and another thing altogether to come onto the internet and post a lengthy post about your own perceived self worth, how much of a dick he is, how much gear he has, and all the while crawling around your guitarist mate's arses.

I tended to touch the strings when I was playing fretless...!

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1355345292' post='1897296'] I think at the end of the day though that the "elephant in the room" regarding Alembic is this; back in the day nobody was doing what Alembic did...but times have changed. [/quote] Irrespective of the way the market for handbuilt basses has changed, Alembic's books are still back logged, so despite the fact that better value is available elsewhere, Alembic's business model is still working for them.

At a show once, the guitarist had one guitar with him. He stepped on it at the start of the first number, ripping the jack socket out of the bottom of his guitar. Doh...

I love playing the end section from Guitar Prasanna's 'Bliss Factor'. Victor Wooten at his best! Take it to 05:04 for the groove to start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQQVbfam06s Aside from that, I love playing 'Diamonds On The Soles of Her Shoes' by Paul Simon.

[quote name='mushers' timestamp='1355506890' post='1899458'] thinking of sticking one of the above on my ray 35 but in need of some facts first. the fretboard looks plastic is it ? does it feel ok to play on ? [/quote] Just a quick one, but when do you ever really touch the fretboard?

I'm sure we've all been there with a bass.

They are very nice basses. They don't suit everyone though, with most people seemed to cite the shape as the reason they don't like them. I think they're cooler than the mkII Kingbass though.