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The Knuckle Quake 39.5" Scale Bass Thread

#61
edbutler3 said:
Congrats!

I stayed subscribed to this thread waiting to read your thoughts on the Quake once you received it. Skip is building me a 6-string Quake (F# B E A D G) which should be ready in a couple months or so, and I'm very excited to get to play it.

I'm glad to hear how happy you are with your bass. I was a little surprised to hear that it was fretless -- I saw the pics of it on another thread and couldn't tell...
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Congrats to you as well, for taking the leap. Mark my words, it will exceed whatever your expectations are.

I will try to get better pics up later so you can see the detail better (what an amazing job he did with the lines on the board) I'm not sure if it's me or the camera, but I just cannot take good pictures...
 
#63
Here ya go Tfunkadelic. They're not perfectly aligned, but I think you can see what you were looking for:

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#65
Coming from the Dingwall camp, it's an interesting bass to see. Fanning makes sense to me because you get a more even sound and feel across all the strings. When I first got a 35" scale 5-string, I like what it did to the low strings, but not so much on the higher strings. They were tighter and lost some low end punch. That's why the fanned fret thing works so well; you have the best of both worlds.

So, how does the extra scale length affect the sound and feel of the treble strings?
 
#78
Bass Below said:
The Quake has already been around for a number of years. Just my opinion, but it's not an oddity, it's a legitimate, innovative solution to changing times and changing tunings. People are afraid of change, even if change would solve their problems.
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Well, you hear the hype, you read about it all over, but then you go and listen to it and it doesn't sound good AT ALL... Lightwave basses, graphite necks...
 
#79
allexcosta said:
Well, you hear the hype, you read about it all over, but then you go and listen to it and it doesn't sound good AT ALL... Lightwave basses, graphite necks...
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Now Alex you have a right to your opinion but I like the way my Lightwave basses sound and play as well as the graphite basses that I own.

I think for the most part, good to great products sound bad when they are not recorded properly or the sound just isn't captured accordingly(like most youtube clips).
 
#80
allexcosta said:
Well, you hear the hype, you read about it all over, but then you go and listen to it and it doesn't sound good AT ALL... Lightwave basses, graphite necks...
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Apples and oranges. You mention modern technological attempts at improvements, the Quake maintains all traditional structural integrity, just on a larger scale.

Are baritone guitars oddities? Scale lengths have increased on various instruments as players have reached for lower tunings.
 

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