Recent content by Dr Steve Lawson

For the longest time, I loved the sound of Rob's basses and was amazed by the construction, but I'd never played one with a spacing I could handle. So when we built the first version of the SLC, I measure everything on the Moduluses and got it 17mm and the same spacing at the nut so I was super...

I'm so glad that stuck in your memory! I always had such an amazing time with Todd. What an extraordinary musician he is !

Ahh thanks so much! It's the opening track from my latest solo album, all of which was recorded on this bass. Enjoy!

ahh thanks so much Glenn, I really appreciate that! :)

Here's the most recent version of my pedal board - all inside the MOD DuoX :) Every purple line is an audio path, every blue one is MIDI... this board is mono in, three stereo signals out, and is controlled via a Keith McMillen Softstep and Quneo, a MOD Footswitch and two expression pedals...

bit late to the party here, but here's a vid of my most recent Elrick - Mk II of my signature bass, the SLC: Spec is that it's 32" scale, 16.5mm spacing, headless, passive, dual coil pickups, splitable to single coil, controls are vol/vol/tone, with a pickup selector switch and a kill switch...

finally getting caught up here... A few thoughts on fretless, that for the most part apply to all music making :) Firstly, there's no 'cheating' - do what you need to do to make the music be what it should be. In my experience as a teacher and player (across 30-odd years, teaching at...

Hi all, sticking my head back into Talkbass after a decade away working on a PhD. Finally finished that this summer, so now re-exploring the world as it existed before every spare moment was spoken for! So, bring on your questions, discussions, queries and comments. I'll endeavour to be...

hi Nigel! So long as you're not stringing through the body, any that will fit the scale length should be fine - my preference is for Dunlop flats, but I've also really enjoyed Labella, Bass Centre Elites and Tomastik. I've yet to try the Dogal strings but I hear really good things :)

Really looking forward to this show! It's been a while since I last played in London :)

hey! So so sorry I didn't see this when you posted it - I'm not around here as often as before, but if an answer a year late is interesting (though clearly not helpful for your paper! sorry about that!) I use the laptop for three things - it records everything I do multitracked, it's the sound...

ha! yeah, that hasn't been updated in a looooong time... Around the time that YouTube came on the scene and tracking what people were up to with solo bass became a wholly futile pursuit... :)

Yeah, that's a bit of mistaken editing in the video - the MXR *does* have a bass roll-off on the plate setting, with the tone turned up full, but it's not controllable as a separate feature. The sound I was actually using was one I'd built myself in the MOD Devices MOD Duo - a multi-FX box that...

My system is good old fashioned stereo - hard panned left/right out of my MOTU Ultralite - so it's mainly stereo effects like reverb, chorus, delay, and some panning filters that give it width... I don't generally run loopers out of one cab and other signal out of the other, except on one patch...

hey all, I've been busy with videos of late - here are two you might enjoy: my MXR pedal/Dunlop Strings demo: and my cover of REM's Orange Crush: ...and I have a new album out next Monday! Busy times. :) Steve www.stevelawson.net