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Club Clement (Part 5: Post your basses here)

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SantiagoGT15 said:
Well about F# I dunno, Low B has been the lowest I've ever had, but I think a higher string would be far more interesting.
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Yves Carbonne does play quite well. I venture to say he has a few hours into practicing.
I had fun with the low F# on fretted 122 but on fretless #196 it became alive more so. True it (F#) would not see that much usage but low octaves on G & A etc. are awesome and BIG. So I do think my next "C" bass will sport 7 strings and be fretless low F# to high C.
What are my pickup choices for a 7 string bass? I want clearness, clarity and bottom end and imagine that mid range presence would be most desirable. :D
 
#522
I guess there are a few choices. :-)

Personally, I have a Conklin Groove Tools Bill Dickens bass that I got pretty cheap off of eBay a few years ago.... I just can't wrap my head around the 7th string. *hehe* I mean, I can easily switch between 3, 4, 5, and 6 strings, fretted and fretless... but 7 just throws me off. I presume my natural limitation for strings is 6. As cool as it is... I guess it's just not for me. Had a standard GT-7 earlier, and now the GTBD-7, and although the latter has a slightly narrower string spacing and feels better, it's still got one too many strings. :D

I'm debating narrowing down the bass collection these days. In this process no basses are safe... unless they have a C (or a C signature) on the headstock or body somewhere. Got too many basses at the moment, and it's mostly the Cs that see any play time anyway. And with the addition of a solid-body 6-string C in not too long (hopefully), I should be well covered. :-)

I played at a birthday party with my band last week. We played Beatles songs, and I got to debut my chambered Phoenix for the first time. Got a ton of compliments for the woody and natural sound of it. So I'm happy with my choice of keeping it strung with flats and keeping it's "acoustic" flavour. Soloing the piezo made it so much easier to get that uprightish flavour into the songs. Another brilliant C session for me. :-)
 
#523
Palm muting suffices for those gigs (bluegrass) that need that upright sound for me. Also, I can easily change up tones for those selections that are a bit edgier without changing out basses. I haven't been into carrying more than one bass to any gig to date. Must rely on changing up technique to match the song.
7 string: I also get a little lost when not remembering the extra string is there. I m sure I will compensate in due time.
 
#525
I don't know of anyone else that has "production run" 7-string pickups. I have the Bartolini pickups in my Yamaha TRB6 bass, and I know Tom has used them before. They are definitely good pickups. They have that Bartolini vibe to them, and I happen to like them. My main bass for years (before I got in touch with Tom) had them, and I just love that warmth they add. The TRB has a little more brightness, it's a great sounding bass, a little warmer now that I threw the Barts in there, but still very clear and piano like. Bartolini pickups are always a "safe" choice for me, anyway. I have never tested Delanos, so wouldn't be able to judge those.

As for my new projects, I've now been assigned a build number!!!! My next C will be #250!!! :-) So the new solid body 6-string is getting closer to reality. It will feature....

* White limba body with ebony top
* Maple neck with fretted birdseye maple fingerboard
* Luminlay side dots (see Fluorescent Lumi guitar and bass position mark Luminlay)
* Headless design with Hipshot headless hardware (18mm bridge spacing, I believe we chose in the end)
* Birdseye maple covered Nordstrand Big Splits with an Aguilar OBP-3 with matching birdseye knobs
* Roland GK-3B MIDI pickup (the outboard model, but with knob arrangement to fit the control unit perfect)
* New Clement Willow single-cut body shape (cause i just can't have myself get Tom to cut away all that wonderful ebony!!! :-)

Something like this, except it will have a birdseye maple fingerboard (matching the pickup covers)
final-ebony-singlecut.jpg


I really look forward to this, as 6-string solid body is really my "main" instrument these days. The chambered Anne is a great bass, but it is more special... the sound it produces doesn't always lend itself to what I want to do. So i tend to pick up the solid body Yamaha TRB (that weighs a ton!!) a lot. I'm thinking the Willow will replace that, and then add Tom's usual ergonomic advantages (lightweight, great balance and exquisite beauty). With my chambered and solid body fretted and fretless basses, I will most likely be a 100% Clement player after this bass is finished. :)
 
#530
Congrats on that #250 project. I vote SC, also. Nice nice top.

Thanks for the pickup input. It looks like the Bartolini pups are the ticket 'cause I want the 18 mm spacing. And I have requested Tom to see if he might have clips of #180 a 7 fretless. It has a G6 Bart.

Played out #196 Anne fretless strung F# B E A D G and it is just killer, awesome, farout, very usable in my hands..and the band thought it fit just right. But I would miss the high C big time.

So 7 it will be. Spanish cedar body, limba neck, ebony board, 35" scale, satin/chrome Hipshot hardware.
 
#532
GODSBASSMAN said:
What are my pickup choices for a 7 string bass? I want clearness, clarity and bottom end and imagine that mid range presence would be most desirable. :D
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Have you heard of SGD pickups? They are most intriguing to me, and David (the owner/maker) regularly participates here on TB:Link Removed. I bet that he could make you some pickups that would work great in your Clement.
 
#536
Thanks! :-)

I personally love the singlecut... and I think I will go with that. But the double cut is sexy, too, and had I chosen a different top, then I would probably have stuck to that. But throwing such a lovely piece of ebony away is..... :D
 
#539
tjclem said:
Back from vacation and will get back to work now. Traveling is fun and it is good to get away but also good to come home. I did get to eat 3 lobsters in one day while away never done that before. :D
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Welcome Back Tom. I had a nice lobster on my New Hampshire Vacation a few weeks back as well. I spent my first 30 years in Maryland, and when I moved to Florida I had no idea that the seafood here would have me craving seafood from parts further North. At least we have Grouper, Snapper and some decent shrimp.
 
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