im making a powerpoint presentation for my music class and its all about bass. i want one of my slides to be a collection of ridiculous basses. multiple strings, necks, inlays, paint jobs, whatever. just really out-there basses. so...post crazy basses? with a some description would be nice but not necessary. thanks in advance
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Extreme basses
- Thread starter rockwarnick
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Moser Spawn. I dunno if shapes is enough...
It's a maple neck through, alder body bass, basically.
It feels like you're playing a better-balanced Tbird, except you can play all 24 frets.
Also, I named him Vlad. And he loves you.
Yeah, Jean Baudin's basses are definitely extreme - I love the look of his Alembic and the Pacman Bass...! 
I also have a bass that usually separates people who see it into lovers and haters pretty quckly; the Ritter Platinum Roya Concept. It is carved out of one single piece of mahogany and has a very rare piece of purple kingwood for fingerboard, so the entire bass is only two pieces of wood...! Everything but the fingerboard is platinum plated with an old gold plating technique, made the more difficult by the fact that platinum is much harder than gold. On top of the platinum there's a coat of clear lacquer for further protection.
There was originally a 0.5 carat diamond as 12th fret position marker, but I had it replaced with a fake to lower costs. There are no other fret markers at all.
The pickup is a custom RMC piezo system, and the bass has no magnetic pickups. That's part of the design concept, which is "as smooth as possible", and that's also why the tuning system is like on a headless bass, but mounted on the back.
Currently the bass is mounted with DR Peacock Blue strings.
Here's a pic:
But you can find many more in the album here:
http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm225/Basdyret/Platinum Concept
I hope this is the kind of thing you were after
I also have a bass that usually separates people who see it into lovers and haters pretty quckly; the Ritter Platinum Roya Concept. It is carved out of one single piece of mahogany and has a very rare piece of purple kingwood for fingerboard, so the entire bass is only two pieces of wood...! Everything but the fingerboard is platinum plated with an old gold plating technique, made the more difficult by the fact that platinum is much harder than gold. On top of the platinum there's a coat of clear lacquer for further protection.
There was originally a 0.5 carat diamond as 12th fret position marker, but I had it replaced with a fake to lower costs. There are no other fret markers at all.
The pickup is a custom RMC piezo system, and the bass has no magnetic pickups. That's part of the design concept, which is "as smooth as possible", and that's also why the tuning system is like on a headless bass, but mounted on the back.
Currently the bass is mounted with DR Peacock Blue strings.
Here's a pic:
But you can find many more in the album here:
http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm225/Basdyret/Platinum Concept
I hope this is the kind of thing you were after
Moser Spawn. I dunno if shapes is enough...
It's a maple neck through, alder body bass, basically.
It feels like you're playing a better-balanced Tbird, except you can play all 24 frets.
Also, I named him Vlad. And he loves you.
Where are the strap buttons? O_O
Yeah, Jean Baudin's basses are definitely extreme - I love the look of his Alembic and the Pacman Bass...!
I also have a bass that usually separates people who see it into lovers and haters pretty quckly; the Ritter Platinum Roya Concept. It is carved out of one single piece of mahogany and has a very rare piece of purple kingwood for fingerboard, so the entire bass is only two pieces of wood...! Everything but the fingerboard is platinum plated with an old gold plating technique, made the more difficult by the fact that platinum is much harder than gold. On top of the platinum there's a coat of clear lacquer for further protection.
There was originally a 0.5 carat diamond as 12th fret position marker, but I had it replaced with a fake to lower costs. There are no other fret markers at all.
The pickup is a custom RMC piezo system, and the bass has no magnetic pickups. That's part of the design concept, which is "as smooth as possible", and that's also why the tuning system is like on a headless bass, but mounted on the back.
Currently the bass is mounted with DR Peacock Blue strings.
Here's a pic:
But you can find many more in the album here:
http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm225/Basdyret/Platinum Concept
I hope this is the kind of thing you were after
I love that bass, you throw it around a lot on this forum but I never tire of seeing it, it is positively beautiful!
trust me i agree. i love these kinds of basses, i just wanted to have a slide to show how basses have evolved, where they are headed, etc.
thanks everybody, and please keep them coming my presentation is thrusday!
Thanks...! The short answer here is "like nothing else" - but I'll just copy/paste a bit from the review I made of it in the "Do you own my dream bass"-thread:
The bass has no magnetic pickups, instead it has a custom RMC piezo system in the bridge saddles, and it's simply the best piezo system I've ever tried. It's not boomy or clanky, it just sounds like wood, extremely clear and natural. There are no controls on the bass, not even volume, but there is one small switch that can activate an active boost circuit, giving the bass a more modern, growly, and punchy tone.
So my two tonal base options are 1) an open, woody, warm sound, and 2) a clear, punchy, growly sound - and then my fingers can do the rest of the shaping. The construction of this fingerboard/ramp really makes it easy to work with different positions.
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And the way they sound is even more 'extreme' then the way they look: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=g_u35sHICjE
And the way they sound is even more 'extreme' then the way they look: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=g_u35sHICjE
Like the BigRedX said - check out BassChat - I spent several days there myself just going through the whole thing plus I saved all the sites - simply amazing!
If any of you "thought you've seen it all", and haven't checked out this site - you're missing out!
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If any of you "thought you've seen it all", and haven't checked out this site - you're missing out!
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I sooooo never get tired of seeing your Ritter Platinum! That bass is just plain art, and makes great computer desktop wallpaper too!
