Winter NAMM 2018 (ultra Pic-heavy)

[wintremute]

Claas Guitars

Ok, a bolt-on 1-piece. What do you think?

 

[wintremute]

Here's another cool booth. Hey, your bass pre-amp up on that huge stack of cabs is too high for me to get a good picture. Can you take it down and hold it for me? No problem fam, I got you! (proceeds to just open a brand new one to show me). Nice.

Newbasstone

 

[wintremute]

This thread is too quiet. Please let me know what you think about some of this stuff.

 

[wintremute]

Visual Note

 

[McG]

Enjoying day two. I would love to spend some time at the Trickfish booth!

 

[wintremute]

So Modulus was one of chillest booths yet. They ask why I'm there, and I tell them I want to take a picture of every bass that they have. They go out of their way to help me. Move basses around for me. They even offer to drink Fireball Whiskey with me (because of my t-shirt). I may take them up on that offer if it's still available.

 

[wintremute]

More Modulus!

 

[McG]

This thread is too quiet. Please let me know what you think about some of this stuff.

There are some beautiful basses, and some really gaudy ones.

Gotta agree with you about the silver Hammersmith. Wow!

It was a trip seeing Sterling Ball. My wife worked for them in the 80s. Haven't talked to him since the company moved from Costa Mesa.

 

[wintremute]

So I take a break from Hall E to go to level 2 to check out Chris Wyse at Ampeg. However, I get there early enough to check out Peavey.

Nothing really new with them or Trace Elliot. I ask one of the engineers if there's any plans to make a beefier ELF. He tells me that almost as soon as they put it out, people were asking for a more powerful version. He says they're still in the talking stage. One of the things he thinks their mulling over is whether or not to keep it simple, or to add a couple of knobs for a compressor or other effect. He also said he thinks they were thinking of a 500 or 800 watt version. All speculation at this point.

 

[ModuMan]

Does Zon have a booth?

 

[wintremute]

Does Zon have a booth?

No.

 

[ModuMan]

No.

Bummer... saw the "random bass sighting" on the previous page and was hoping.

 

[TolerancEJ]

This thread is too quiet. Please let me know what you think about some of this stuff.

Just enjoying the pics. Such a great job!

 

[wintremute]

Realized I forgot to embed the Tony Smith video. Go back to post #315 and check it out (give it a few minutes to upload).

 

[TolerancEJ]

Yeah, I got excited when I came across them. Then I saw the word “prototype” next to each of them.

That’s the first step. Now we flood Ibanez with requests for official releases.

 

[wintremute]

So I make it to Ampeg and ask for them to show me what's new. It's the Opto Comp and the Liquifier.

 

[Mastermold]

Here's another cool booth. Hey, your bass pre-amp up on that huge stack of cabs is too high for me to get a good picture. Can you take it down and hold it for me? No problem fam, I got you! (proceeds to just open a brand new one to show me). Nice.


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Going back tomorrow for a bit!

 

[Schlyder]

Here's another cool booth. Hey, your bass pre-amp up on that huge stack of cabs is too high for me to get a good picture. Can you take it down and hold it for me? No problem fam, I got you! (proceeds to just open a brand new one to show me). Nice.


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What's that DB looking thing there? try and get a few more shots of it please.

 

[Wisebass]

This thread is too quiet. Please let me know what you think about some of this stuff.

Hi wintremute

Nothing really new so far, lotsa like Fender but better, or like Fender but cheaper...

(some things will never change )

and a whole bunch of boutique stuff

(is there someone who uses wood that can be shipped without a whole pile of CITES paperwork?)


all in all still the best bassporn thread of the year!!! Thank you sooo much

Wise

 

[wintremute]

It's still a few minutes before Chris Wyse is set to appear. I ask if I can go on the stage and snap some pics of his stuff. Permission granted!

I know of Chris Wyse mainly from The Cult. I expected him to come out and just rock. I was surprised when he started off with some beautifully melodic tapping. This dude is way more skilled than I realized.

However, later on he does play some Cult! He's also loving that new Liquifier Chorus Pedal.