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02-09-2013, 08:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Dallas | | And here, we have a poorly done overview/demo! I'll get something better in the coming weeks. http://youtu.be/FZzSAQIMlls
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02-09-2013, 09:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Abingdon, Virginia | | Nice looking bass. I wish I would have had the money to blow on a 9 string bass when I was younger, but only a handful had been built at that time (and 11's had not even been attempted yet). Live out the dream man.   |
02-09-2013, 10:02 PM
|  | Hyper-Registered User | | | | | Wow, really sounds great. I love the tone in the upper register! Very even and well balanced. Seems like Chris did a great job as usual. |
02-09-2013, 10:17 PM
|  | Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion. | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Ohio | | Wow that is a fantastic looking bass but young man I do not approve of that haircut
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02-09-2013, 10:23 PM
|  | aka Marc or Marky Potatoes | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Brooklyn, NY, United States | | | That thing is incredible looking.
Question - are the two lowest strings C#-1 and F#-1 instead of C#0 and F#0 as described in the first post? It looks like they are thicker than the B0. Also, where would you get strings to restring that crazy thing??
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02-09-2013, 10:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: New Jersey | | | Cool haircut, nice bass.
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02-09-2013, 10:26 PM
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02-09-2013, 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by mjac28 Wow that is a fantastic looking bass but young man I do not approve of that haircut | The mullet requires no approval but that of the wearer  Quote:
Originally Posted by ggvicviper Question - are the two lowest strings C#-1 and F#-1 instead of C#0 and F#0 as described in the first post? It looks like they are thicker than the B0. Also, where would you get strings to restring that crazy thing?? | The octave notation goes from C to C, so B0 is above C#0 and F#0. B00would be a whole step below the lowest string (a .232") I get my strings for both my basses and my guitar from Circle K strings. They make up to .252s and down to .008s for any scale length up to 39"! At a price slightly higher than most standard sets. Quote:
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02-09-2013, 11:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Australia | | I couldn't imagine myself trying to play that! 
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02-09-2013, 11:46 PM
| | | | Very cool of you to post that video. Thanks!
The instrument has a great tone, and based on what you played, I'd definitely say that the piezos are a great addition. When you make video number two, it would be interesting to hear the entire range of the instrument with the piezos soloed. Even if you don't get the opportunity to make another video, it's great just getting to hear this one. Thanks again.
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02-09-2013, 11:52 PM
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Originally Posted by TapyTap Very cool of you to post that video. Thanks!
The instrument has a great tone, and based on what you played, I'd definitely say that the piezos are a great addition. When you make video number two, it would be interesting to hear the entire range of the instrument with the piezos soloed. Even if you don't get the opportunity to make another video, it's great just getting to hear this one. Thanks again. | I've already been requested to play both a more "bass-oriented" demo, and to showcase the piezo a bit more. Now that I've figured out how to set my mixer as the audio-interface for quicktime I'll be able to make videos a lot faster! Disclaimer though, the piezo only works down to the B string, and even then not very well. I cut it off at E. I should have something up in the next week though!
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02-09-2013, 11:57 PM
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Originally Posted by JamesGoodall | How do you reach your fingers to the low strings? I didn't see you do it at all in the video. Surely you can't do it with your fingers arched if you thumb isn't brought out from behind the neck?
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02-10-2013, 12:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2012 Location: Münster, Germany | | | Very nice looking bass, man!
But: I don't think this is a bass.
And it isn't a guitar.
It's both at the same time...;-)
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02-10-2013, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by JamesGoodall I've already been requested to play both a more "bass-oriented" demo, and to showcase the piezo a bit more. Now that I've figured out how to set my mixer as the audio-interface for quicktime I'll be able to make videos a lot faster! Disclaimer though, the piezo only works down to the B string, and even then not very well. I cut it off at E. I should have something up in the next week though! | Awesome! I'm looking forward to it.
Curious about the piezo not working well below the E-string...what exactly is not working so well?
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02-10-2013, 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by SGD Lutherie How do you reach your fingers to the low strings? I didn't see you do it at all in the video. Surely you can't do it with your fingers arched if you thumb isn't brought out from behind the neck? | At about 9:45 you can see (though probably not hear) me playing on the F# and C# strings with relative "ease." It honestly doesn't get very strenuous to hit the C# string until about the 10th fret, at which point it is not a very musical sound regardless. More of a dull thump with a pitch hidden somewhere deep within  Quote:
Originally Posted by 2meterbassman Very nice looking bass, man!
But: I don't think this is a bass.
And it isn't a guitar.
It's both at the same time...;-) | Ah, the age old debate. It contains the range of a bass, and is evolved from a bass. But at the same time, it also surpasses the range of a 24 fret guitar. So which is it? I for the most part use it as a bass in a band setting, so for me it is an extended range bass. Yet on my compositions I play in a more fingerstyle, classical sort of way, thus it is more like a guitar... I doubt this conundrum will ever be solved!
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02-10-2013, 12:20 AM
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Originally Posted by TapyTap Awesome! I'm looking forward to it.
Curious about the piezo not working well below the E-string...what exactly is not working so well? | Honestly, it is something to do with piezo systems not handling well at 25 hz and below. Chris also said it had something to do with the tapers, but I dont think that affects it as much as the fact that such slow oscillations (if I'm understanding piezoelectricity correct) cant get much of an electrical signal out of the pickups. I may be wrong though... I don't play with the piezo much due to the fact that the output is so low I'm constantly having to reach over and adjust the gain on my mixer.
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02-10-2013, 12:33 AM
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Originally Posted by JamesGoodall At about 9:45 you can see (though probably not hear) me playing on the F# and C# strings with relative "ease." It honestly doesn't get very strenuous to hit the C# string until about the 10th fret, at which point it is not a very musical sound regardless. More of a dull thump with a pitch hidden somewhere deep within
Ah, the age old debate. It contains the range of a bass, and is evolved from a bass. But at the same time, it also surpasses the range of a 24 fret guitar. So which is it? I for the most part use it as a bass in a band setting, so for me it is an extended range bass. Yet on my compositions I play in a more fingerstyle, classical sort of way, thus it is more like a guitar... I doubt this conundrum will ever be solved! | Ooo I know what it is...it's an incredible, beautiful custom made instrument that can be used to create superb, wonderful music. Nothing more, nothing less! 
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02-10-2013, 12:34 AM
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02-10-2013, 12:38 AM
| | | | Wow!! I wouldn't have a clue what to do on something like that! I think 5 strings is all my feeble brain can handle! I tried a 6 string once and while interesting it was a bit much for me. More power to ya young man! That is one incredable looking piece of work. |
02-10-2013, 12:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Epitaph04 Ooo I know what it is...it's an incredible, beautiful custom made instrument that can be used to create superb, wonderful music. Nothing more, nothing less! | I reckon you must be one o' them free-thinkin types. Folks 'round here don' take too kindly ta yer sort. We's a simpler sorta folk here at Talk Bass. If it ain't a four string p with flats and one of them beautiful soundin' SVTs with an 810, it ain't bass and we don' like it!
Honestly, if man weren't so fickle I'd agree entirely, but you know how we love our labels!
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