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margusalviste
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Aloha everybody!
I am a new proud member here in basschat.co.uk. I'm a management consultant and trainer who loves bass guitars and everything related to them. I also own a small (geared up with quality stuff) studio. I am always interested in best gear and everybody's experiences with new gear. So, let's chat! :)
Margus Alviste

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[quote name='Weird War' post='264193' date='Aug 17 2008, 11:37 PM']Aloha from Hawaii (I wish - ok, London) Margus. :)

Tell us more about yourself, music you like, bands you play with and so on.[/quote]


Hey-hey, Sunny London! :huh:
Well, I have been playing bass since I was 14, that makes 28 years. Hm, is it really sooo looong time? Yeah, ok, I had some 10-12 year break. I had too much work to do and couldn't find any groovy musicians in my country. Appr. 5-6 years ago I just couldn't resist anymore and started to play again. As I had sold everything I started to buy new gear and now I have more than 10 great basses. Actually I had more than 15 but I sold recently some basses I didn't use at all.
I also bought some recording gear to work with bass parts at home. Today I have a small studio geared up by the most powerful gear, you know - Telefunken pre's, vintage Urei compressors, old AKG, Sennheiser etc. mics etc. Not much but a few quality units.

My musical taste is quite broad - from my childhood favourites Weather Report, Jaco, James Brown, Larry Graham, Earth Wind & Fire to Jamiroquai, Incognito, Joss Stone etc. That includes also Bach, Telemann, Haydn (actually both of them) etc.

My current band is called Funki Factori. We play mostly groove based music with some jazzy stuff as well as with some rock flavor. We have 3-4 gigs per month for the starting point and we hope to change it to 3-4 gigs per week. All the musicians are quite educated, it's just me as a hobby player trying to catch other guys. Luckily I have some memories from 80's when I worked with one of the most popular rock group in our country having 7-8 gigs per week.
And here's the list of my gear:

My Basses:
Status S2 Headless 4-string (Blue Burst)
Sadowsky Vintage 5 (Sonic Blue)
Sadowsky UV5 (Sonic Blue)
Fender Jazz/Precision '78 (Sonic Blue)
W&T Custom Single Cut 5-string 34" (Mappa Burl)
W&T Ergon Alvistar 5-string (my signature) 34" (Sonic Blue - on the way)
MTD 535 (ash, maple/rosewood)
MTD 535 (korina, wenge - Seafoam Green)
MTD Heir (heavily modified - Daphne Blue, the best B-string BTW)
OmCustom 4-string fretless (Figured Koa over Black Korina)
Washburn AB20 Acoustic Bass Guitar
Acoustic Fretless Bass Guitar w Flatwounds

My Electrics/Acoustics:
Ibanez Artcore with Seymour Duncans, Gotoh and Grover Golden Hardware
Taylor Acoustic Guitar

My amplification:
Epifani U.L.502
Epifani T410UL cab
Acoustic Image Focus 2 Series III
Schroeder 1210 Cabinet
Markbass Traveller 121H cab
Phil Jones Briefcase combo

Studio:
Telefunken V676 (8 ch)
Millenia TD-1 Preamp
A-Designes Reddi
Langevin Preamp (Manley)
Urei LA3A pair
Mindprint, tc-electronics, MOTU etc. outboard gear
Vintage AKG, Sennheiser and Shure, Rode, GAP etc. mics
Mac+Logic8+Apogee Rosetta 800
Bunch of plugins
Dynaudio and Yamaha monitors

Effects, stompboxes:
Electro Harmonix Bass Micro Synthesizer
Electro Harmonix Bass Balls
EBS Valve Drive preamp/driver
EBS OctaBass
Moogerfooger Low Pass Filter
Q-Tron
MuTron III
Digitech Bass Synth Wah
CryBaby Bass Wah
Boss Bass Limiter Enhancer
Aphex Bass Xciter
Aphex Punch Factory Optical Compressor
Ampeg Tube Di
Peterson Strobo Tuner

Well, feel free to ask more!
M

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Ah, I have had almost 50 basses in the past, included the following axes:

Nordy vJ5
Sadowsky RV-5
Pedulla MVP4
LowEndJazz 5
Om Custom 5-string Fretless
AV Custom 7-string
Carvin LB76 Anniversary Model
Fender Jazz '69, '69, '80, '84
Fender Precision '63
A bunch of Warmoths (4-strings, 5-strings)
Music Man Sting Ray '78
Status Graphite 5-string
Gibson Thunderbird '70-s
Yamaha BB5000AF
Yamaha Billy Sheehan model
etc.

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