New Gittler Basses!

[rsm]

@Joe Nerve Yes, and I admitted I was being thin skinned in an earlier post, though being accused of "promoting" with its' possible connotations can tend to do that to some of us I'll add snarky too. Apologies.

...thanks for the additional info @Solarmist

 

[Nev375]

Yes, and I admitted I was being thin skinned in an earlier post I'll add snarky too. Apologies.

...thanks for the additional info @Solarmist

BTW your avatar looks funny too!

Welcome to talkbass... or back to talkbass... or the internet in general.
You don't have to be snarky, but it helps!

 

[bholder]

You don't have to be snarky, but it helps!

Well, but you do have to do it right to get the extra credit style points!

 

[rsm]

Really? See, and I thought I was having a good hair day when my avatar picture was done, my girlfriend at the time liked it...then again, she was in her early 20s, and I'm not.

I'm actually anime

 

[rsm]

Yes, clearly bass snarky is very different from guitar snarky. I'll need to work on my bass technique

 

[Jack Butler]

I've been looking at that picture for a solid 2 minutes trying to figure out what it has to do with glitter.

I've been looking at that picture for a solid 2 minutes trying to figure out what it has to do with bass...

 

[red_rhino]

Yes, clearly bass snarky is very different from guitar snarky. I'll need to work on my bass technique

Being bass snarky is easier than being guitar snarky, because you only have four strings.

 

[Gaolee]

I'm curious to know what kinds of techniques you would have to use to play a guitar built like that. I assume that if you use a technique that's mostly classical guitar based, with your thumb in the middle of the back of the neck, then you are good to go. Just about anything else would be an adventure at best. I suppose using your thumb to fret the 6th string would be pretty straight forward, what with no neck in the way. I'm struggling to picture how some of the more splayed out chords might work, since your fingers rely on the fretboard a bit to keep from slipping off of the strings. Mine do, anyway.

Bass technique would be pretty straight forward to imagine, in contrast to guitar technique.

 

[hsech]

Butt ugly comes to mind.

 

[josiah goldfish]

As cool as these are (and as much as I want one) I think I'll make my own, rather than pay $5000 for one. I love the idea, but I just don't understand why they're so expensive.

 

[Nev375]

Butt ugly comes to mind.

Tsk tsk tsk, you aren't allowed to say things are ugly here.

Also clearly you have been looking at the wrong butts. I would post some, but that's also against the rules.

 

[hsech]

Tsk tsk tsk, you aren't allowed to say things are ugly here.

Also clearly you have been looking at the wrong butts. I would post some, but that's also against the rules.

Oh my. What will be banned next. "Flats"?

 

[Chef]

It looks...interesting...I guess.
I'm not sure "what problems it solves" for me to get me to move away from my Sadowsky, Nordy, Alleva or Valenti though.

 

[Nev375]

Oh my. What will be banned next. "Flats"?

Asking questions about why things are banned.

Though technically, you asked "what" things are banned so I think you are ok for now.

 

[josiah goldfish]

It looks...interesting...I guess.
I'm not sure "what problems it solves" for me to get me to move away from my Sadowsky, Nordy, Alleva or Valenti though.

I don't think it's about solving problems, I think it's about creating an artistic design. I can see this fitting in perfectly in a Daft Punk situation, or the XX or something.

 

[lukatch]

FWIW, I think it's breathtaking.

 

[Kukulkan61]

Talk about non traditional...

 

[Kukulkan61]

What does it weigh??

 

[JackANSI]

If it's as expensive as I think for the material/time involved, it's time for me to start practicing my TIG welding again...

Definitely looks interesting... I just hope it doesn't have that "chain clanking on a cyclone fence" kind of sound the other metal basses I've heard through TB have.

 

[Matthew Barrack]

I think it's a play on minimalism. The name is the flashiest part.

Yeah, probably