Recent content by TimWinter

So I have tried searching.... but has anyone tried using their Block under 4 ohms on a regular basis?

So count me in as a member of the Bass Block club... Just got mine a few days ago and have played two gigs with it already. So far so good; I am really liking it. First gig was with my Lightwave fretless through a PJB 4B. Just a guitar player and myself mainly doing jazz and the like. Took me...

Thanks Kirk!

Hey Kirk..... can I get and official number now???? HEHEHEHE

Ditto on the adapter.... Several possibilites. First, the employee didn't know anything about the Lightwave and assumed that it needed to be plugged in to work and had no knowledge of the internal battery. Easy way to tell.... since it has been plugged in to play it might have enough charge...

Joe... I had an Ashbory, and I will say without a doubt the Lightwave with the TI Jazz Flats is more authentic upright sound. But there is alway room to grow and experiment.... And NO two uprights sound the same either... for example, Eddie Gomez has a LOT of mid range growl that is downright...

Chris, great talking with you! For strings, I would love to see about pure unwrapped gut... I am sure it would be $$$$$$ but if it gets the tone...... And how about a 21st century Hofner type????? With a tail piece you wouldn't need a solid block to anchor the monoliths. Man I wish I lived near...

hehehehe. Yeah since I am going for an upright sound I needed something to dampen the string a bit.... What you see is pieces of rubber band stuck in the saddles. Still not quite enough but haven't gotten around to trying anything else at this point. I think felt would be next... The strings are...

Here are a couple of pics... Top wood is zircote, chambered body is butternut and back is swamp ash, neck is 3 piece maple with cocobolo fingerboard.

NO problem Kirk. Jack Wilson -- The Bass Company or TBC -- was the luthier for the very FIRST run of Lightwave basses. Tim Landers (who is on the Lightwave Artists page) has one of these early Lightwave basses. There is a club here dedicated to TBC basses. As to why I have the last one he...

Whatever number.... I have the LAST Lightwave that Jack Wilson (TBC) ever made. I will get pics up soon...

Thanks....

My TBC Lightwave..... I have yet to hear an electric sound as much like an upright..... In fact NO electric will sound like an upright unplugged, but once the pick up goes on it then all bets are off. And this TBC sounds like an upright with a pickup.... It is the last Lightwave that Jack...

I kind of thought he was going to "retire" soon..... do you know when he will officially out of business???

I have 2 4B's and a Genz Benz Shuttle 6.0. 300 watts into 8 ohms, 600 into 4..... The ONLY place I needed to use any other cabs was at an outside gig in a blues band that I did not go through a PA. Just throwing it out there that the Shuttle is a great LITTLE amp that I throw in my gig bag with...