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07-05-2012, 05:25 PM
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Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs, Jule Amps | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | | Really interested to see/hear this one. I have a 33" scale E-C bass that will be done towards the end of this month. Never had a C string on a bass, and the only short scale I owned was a 30" Mouse. I figure what the hell, and my tendons will thank me...
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07-06-2012, 03:02 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe, GigRig, COG Effects | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Nottingham, UK | | | I'm learning the benefit of a shorter scale the hard way - It doesn't benefit everyone, but certainly seems to work for me.
I've used a high C (as a 6 string player) for a number of years and over the last 2 years, as I've spent more and more time just doing one musical project, I've used the B less and less. At the start of the year, in anticipation for this new bass I stopped using the B as anything more than a thumb rest and I have to say, with Our Helical Mind, I don't miss it one bit. I couldn't live without the high C though.
I'm now playing a borrowed 5 sting strung E-C and it just feels 'right' to me to keep it that way.
I did have a jam with a singer song writer a few weeks back which was great to step away from the heavy electronic sounds and just plat bass > amp again for a whole night. There were moments were I thought 'if I had that B'... but the important this was that I don't think he, or the audience, felt that I needed to play lower.
Very excited to see this take real shape over the coming weeks now.
Shep
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07-06-2012, 12:47 PM
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Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs, Jule Amps | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | I'm hoping that the E-C setup fills a gap between bass and guitar. I was a guitard for many years, and even as recently as a few years ago was doing some solo guitar stuff. I have a percussion player I work with and we've been talking about doing some duo gigs, but I need a little more higher register sounds than a regular 4-string.
Or it could all sound like crap and I'll go running back to my 4-string with my tail between my legs 
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07-06-2012, 12:55 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe, GigRig, COG Effects | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Nottingham, UK | | | Well... Your E-C five string will still have the same E-G strings as your 4 so I can't imagine you ever needing to go back! :-)
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07-06-2012, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by nostatic I have a percussion player I work with and we've been talking about doing some duo gigs, but I need a little more higher register sounds than a regular 4-string. | That's one reason I went 6... |
07-06-2012, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by SteveC That's one reason I went 6... | And the reason I originally went 6 too.
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07-27-2012, 01:58 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe, GigRig, COG Effects | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Nottingham, UK | | Body complete...  
Pics of the neck (which has been shaped and it entering the finishing process) to follow ASAP....
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07-27-2012, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by pantherairsoft Pics of the neck (which has been shaped and it entering the finishing process) to follow ASAP.... | Sorry for any confusion:
The neck has been CUT OUT and will enter the final shaping process soon. It is "neck shaped" in outline right now, the fingerboard still needs to be radiused, and the back of the neck "hogged" before it's ready for final shaping, then finishing.  |
07-27-2012, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Gard Sorry for any confusion:
The neck has been CUT OUT and will enter the final shaping process soon. It is "neck shaped" in outline right now, the fingerboard still needs to be radiused, and the back of the neck "hogged" before it's ready for final shaping, then finishing. | Likely me mis-reading the message you sent me Thats only like an hour or so's work though yeah?
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07-27-2012, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by pantherairsoft Likely me mis-reading the message you sent me Thats only like an hour or so's work though yeah? | Exactly...we'll be shipping by noon!!!   |
07-27-2012, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Gard Exactly...we'll be shipping by noon!!! | Lovely! 
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07-27-2012, 12:03 PM
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08-23-2012, 02:20 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe, GigRig, COG Effects | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Nottingham, UK | | Oh yes....  
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08-23-2012, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Gard Exactly...we'll be shipping by noon!!! |  Since this is just now coming together did you maybe mean "Shaping" instead of "Shipping" (that was July 27th)? |
08-23-2012, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by JOME77 Very nice! Almost there!!! Since this is just now coming together did you maybe mean "Shaping" instead of "Shipping" (that was July 27th)? | There were a few set backs... That was noon 'Gard time'
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08-23-2012, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by JOME77 Since this is just now coming together did you maybe mean "Shaping" instead of "Shipping" (that was July 27th)? | I think Joe broke his sarcasm meter...  |
08-23-2012, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Gard I think Joe broke his sarcasm meter... | lol
No, no. I just thought that maybe, just maybe you had a typo!
I guess that it's a twist from the "two more weeks" approach!  |
08-23-2012, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by JOME77 | Ah... That old chestnut!
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08-24-2012, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by JOME77 | Is this the first round of just "two weeks" or are we on the second round, I am behind on this post?
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08-24-2012, 02:59 PM
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