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SPECTOR® Club - Part 60

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JPSBassist said:
Here's a composite photo of my Water Cured Redwood NS-4.

WCR grain is very difficult to photograph because it changes as light hits it.

What I did was set the camera on a tripod and take several different photos, changing the position of the lights in each image.

Then in Photoshop I was able to blend them together (dropping out the reflections of the lights) and get a much more accurate representation of the wood grain and pattern.

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That is gorgeous!
 
#522
JPSBassist said:
Here's a composite photo of my Water Cured Redwood NS-4.

WCR grain is very difficult to photograph because it changes as light hits it.

What I did was set the camera on a tripod and take several different photos, changing the position of the lights in each image.

Then in Photoshop I was able to blend them together (dropping out the reflections of the lights) and get a much more accurate representation of the wood grain and pattern.

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Great idea but on my monitor the bridge and neck-thru seems a bit hot.
 
#523
marchone said:
Great idea but on my monitor the bridge and neck-thru seems a bit hot.
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Hate to say it but your monitor is out of adjustment.
I have dual calibrated 25.5" LED LCD monitors and on mine there is very clear wood grain in the neck-thru area.

Perhaps you should check your contrast settings. If the contrast is cranked up on your monitor, it will blow out anything that is lighter.
 
#524
LimaGuy said:
And Here They are:

Lee wearing a familiar shirt :bassist:

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Lee's Kramer NS-2 waiting to be rocked by Jamie.

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And here he is Rocking it.
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Interesting tone battle tonight. Spector 18V equipped Euro4LX 35TW. vs Kramer era NS-2. This is just my humble opinion. Lee and Jamie may or may not agree. The NS-2 more agressive, cut through better, more pleasing to my ears. The Euro, again just my humble opinion, sounded more like a P-bass. Which is not neccesarily a bad thing at all. Lee is a lot better at describing tonal differences. I'm looking forward to his take on it. Let me add that the TWs might be DCs
 
#525
JPSBassist said:
Here's a composite photo of my Water Cured Redwood NS-4.

WCR grain is very difficult to photograph because it changes as light hits it.

What I did was set the camera on a tripod and take several different photos, changing the position of the lights in each image.

Then in Photoshop I was able to blend them together (dropping out the reflections of the lights) and get a much more accurate representation of the wood grain and pattern.

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:eek:
thats's all i can say....
 
#527
JPSBassist said:
Hate to say it but your monitor is out of adjustment.
I have dual calibrated 25.5" LED LCD monitors and on mine there is very clear wood grain in the neck-thru area.

Perhaps you should check your contrast settings. If the contrast is cranked up on your monitor, it will blow out anything that is lighter.
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Yep, I was able to bring it down. The grain pops now. It looks great.
 
#529
Mr.Bassie720 said:
Interesting tone battle tonight. Spector 18V equipped Euro4LX 35TW. vs Kramer era NS-2. This is just my humble opinion. Lee and Jamie may or may not agree. The NS-2 more agressive, cut through better, more pleasing to my ears. The Euro, again just my humble opinion, sounded more like a P-bass. Which is not neccesarily a bad thing at all. Lee is a lot better at describing tonal differences. I'm looking forward to his take on it.
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yes indeedy. the teeth of the mongoose are the most br00tuhl of all.
 
#530
Mr.Bassie720 said:
Interesting tone battle tonight. Spector 18V equipped Euro4LX 35TW. vs Kramer era NS-2. This is just my humble opinion. Lee and Jamie may or may not agree. The NS-2 more agressive, cut through better, more pleasing to my ears. The Euro, again just my humble opinion, sounded more like a P-bass. Which is not neccesarily a bad thing at all. Lee is a lot better at describing tonal differences. I'm looking forward to his take on it.
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I agree totally. The DC/18V equipped sounded very full and round. Did an excellent job of filling the room. When Jamie picked up the NS 2 it instantly sliced through so much so that the sound tech had to grab his fader and reign him back in. For the AIC stuff they covered it was perfect tone....no effects, just straight into the Mesa M6. I'm, of course, biased to the NS 2 tone but just great bass tone tonight with both Spector's.

Jamie held down the bottom end and the band sounded great! The singer has an amazing voice. They even covered some Soundgarden stuff which takes huge nads to sing IMO.
 
#533
I will write a detailed review and my thoughts on Lees blue kramer era NS2, that he was gracious to let me play at my AIC cover band, tomorrow as I'm exhausted currently and just got home... but it killed!

More importantly....I would like to thank Ho Gonzalez and Lee Presgrave for both coming to see me play....and Ho's wife came too! Big thank you to all three!

Additional note.....I might have to convince Lee to let that NS2 move south to Richmond VA! *wink*
 
#534
JPSBassist said:
Here's a composite photo of my Water Cured Redwood NS-4.

WCR grain is very difficult to photograph because it changes as light hits it.

What I did was set the camera on a tripod and take several different photos, changing the position of the lights in each image.

Then in Photoshop I was able to blend them together (dropping out the reflections of the lights) and get a much more accurate representation of the wood grain and pattern.

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All I can say is....... WOW!!!!!!!!!!
 
#536
JPSBassist said:
Here's a composite photo of my Water Cured Redwood NS-4.

WCR grain is very difficult to photograph because it changes as light hits it.

What I did was set the camera on a tripod and take several different photos, changing the position of the lights in each image.

Then in Photoshop I was able to blend them together (dropping out the reflections of the lights) and get a much more accurate representation of the wood grain and pattern.

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That's the way to shoot a Spector....man....the grain/pattern is tight, fantastic picture!
 
#537
JPSBassist said:
I spent the day in Hollywood on Melrose with Spector Artist Billie Jade of Hatchet Dawn.

She's here in the States with her writing partner (Howsie Noise) working on their next album. They've been in the recording studio for two weeks knocking out a side-project and a new Hatchet Dawn album.

They head back to Melbourne Australia early this coming week, so I was really thankful to have been able to spend the day with her and Howsie.

They're super cool people and they've got some serious musical chops.

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Patrick - what a cool gig you have! :cool:


JPSBassist said:
Here's a composite photo of my Water Cured Redwood NS-4.

WCR grain is very difficult to photograph because it changes as light hits it.

What I did was set the camera on a tripod and take several different photos, changing the position of the lights in each image.

Then in Photoshop I was able to blend them together (dropping out the reflections of the lights) and get a much more accurate representation of the wood grain and pattern.

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Friggin' awesome! :eek:

The pair of WCR basses in the Spector catalog are two of my all-time favorites, and your personal WCR NS-4 is an absolute work of art. ;)
 
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