JAUQO III-X
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embellisher I was at warrior and I saw your bass its almost finished.can I play it when you get it?
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JAUQO III-X
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Warriorbass you asked us and we told you.where are you geting the Low F# and C# string and what company are making them?
I just thought I'd comment on this:
I don't like warriorbass' signiature: "The more strings the better the bass."
Therefore, shouldn't Manring and Wooten be playing 12 strings and that the best DB's would have at least 9 strings on their upright (imagine that !) and that Jaco should have played a 52-string fretless, 60" scale, 5 1/2 octave bass?
I don't like warriorbass' signiature: "The more strings the better the bass."
Therefore, shouldn't Manring and Wooten be playing 12 strings and that the best DB's would have at least 9 strings on their upright (imagine that !) and that Jaco should have played a 52-string fretless, 60" scale, 5 1/2 octave bass?
The more strings the better the bass .
Bass, not bassist.
You were talking about bassist, not basses.
Besides, which bass is best is a personal opinion. So is which bassist. Either way neither you nor he is right.
Nothing is the best in a mater of opinion.
Peace
NicK
Forget strings. How many trussrods would it take to hold the neck in place?!?! 
Width of neck? You'd have to play it in your lap like Jeff Healy does with his guitar.
Well, that's my $0.02. I'm off to play my triple-neck acoustic bass with 2 strings.
Width of neck? You'd have to play it in your lap like Jeff Healy does with his guitar.
Well, that's my $0.02. I'm off to play my triple-neck acoustic bass with 2 strings.
Truss rod & neck problems?
A builder like Conklin could pull it off.
Check out JT's mean machines and the 9 string basses he's built.
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Nick
A builder like Conklin could pull it off.
Check out JT's mean machines and the 9 string basses he's built.
Peace
Nick
i'm stuck at the 46" scale...i imagine that anyone who could play that would also be able to tie their shoes without bending over...
The reason I bring it up is the talk about the bulk of the F# and C# strings. I remember reading about the problems with the first 12 string triple octave concept came up, no one thought the neck could be supported. (I believe the first 12 string of this sort was actually a 10 string. I think E and G were doubled and A and D were tripled, or I have it backwards. Anywho, it was this process were we learned of, oh my memory sucks, either the dual truss-rod or the truss-rod with the parallel support rods.)
Now, someone mentioned the F#, I think, would be roughly a 1/4 inch? And with the extended length of the neck, just seems like it would be very difficult and stressful on the neck.
I've reviewed JT's basses and I've seen 9 strings. I just can't see the neck being durable under the stress of the F# and C# along with the rest of the strings. Then again, at one time I couldn't see Micheal Jackson as a white guy, but it happened.
john turner
You don't want to do that. Trust me.
believe it or not, the larger strings actually exert less tension when they are tuned to pitch. the low f# is a .165", and i think jauqo's using a .195" for his c#. just fyi on the gauges there.
Interesting, thanks for the info.
Tell me/us JT, what kind of setup do your 7 and 8 strings use as far as truss-rod support? Single with the additional support? 2 truss-rods?
Just curious. Lately I find myself wanting to learn more about construction of basses instead of playing them. Maybe I have a fever...
john turner
You don't want to do that. Trust me.
dual rod in all my basses, along with multi-lam necks. bill conklin has told me that it really doesn't have to be a dual rod, it could be a single, but he uses a dual because folks think it's stronger - people assume that a single wouldn't be strong enough, although according to him it would.
Just out of curiousity.
Are the Groove Tools 7 string models tuned to B on the low string, or F#?
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Nick
Are the Groove Tools 7 string models tuned to B on the low string, or F#?
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Nick
I'm not JT (though I post half nude pics of him on the net) but I beleive the GT 7 is intended to be tuned b E A D G c f where the capital letters are the traditional 4 strings. I say intended to because when you get crazy people wanting crazy basses, you get crazy tunings.
John, when will the 2 cds of Lord Only be in stores ?
I downloaded this instrumental and it just kicks ass ?
Which bass do you use in this one ?
I downloaded this instrumental and it just kicks ass ?
Which bass do you use in this one ?
john turner
You don't want to do that. Trust me.
well, i don't know when they will be in stores, but starting july 16th we'll be in chicago getting the first one mixed by neil kernon - he's mixed, produced and recorded a whole heap of artists, like queensryche's rage for order, some queen, even cannibal corpse.
john turner
You don't want to do that. Trust me.
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