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What's dat bass?

It's a JPBasses from 2006 when the builder was still making them. Piezo only/hollowbody and MIDI on the 6 upper strings. Remnant of an outdated era and OTT in every aspect but I love that thing.

sweet bass!

Glenouille wrote:Thanks buddy! I love the Meatball, but it is one of these pedals where small changes have a huge influence on the sound - I always end up super annoyed.

I definitely remember that from the Meatball...

That bass is crazy, how thick is that body???

cosmicevan wrote:sweet bass!

Thx - I like it too, though I buy "simpler" things these days. Not sure I would go all out and add all the woods and specs if I were to order one today!

coldbrightsunlight wrote:That bass is crazy, how thick is that body???

I know right! it's 8 cm thick! But it's hollow, so it looks fat but doesn't weight too much!

Glenouille wrote:It's a JPBasses

Nice!

Glenouille wrote:Remnant of an outdated era

Yeah... it's a shame really that that era died the way it did but... well maybe it needed to so other types of players will pickup those tools and build pyramids instead of towers I'm building a 7 string around a NOS conklin neck I found atm and I have no intention of playing "chops music" for "chops fanbois" I think that you using it with odd effects and stuff is cool

Glenouille wrote:

cosmicevan wrote:sweet bass!

Thx - I like it too, though I buy "simpler" things these days. Not sure I would go all out and add all the woods and specs if I were to order one today!

coldbrightsunlight wrote:That bass is crazy, how thick is that body???

I know right! it's 8 cm thick! But it's hollow, so it looks fat but doesn't weight too much!

Yeah I figured it was hollow! Probably sounds great, but too many strings for my tastes haha. What kind of pickup?

I never think about the strings. I noodle until I have something wherever it is on the neck and I go from there. If it sounds nice to me, I keep going until I have a tune.
There are loads of folks with great bass skills, if I need a line that I can't play, I call a friend who can! (true story!)
I would love to say I don't like being limited, that's why I went for this at the time but it'd be BS. I like having limited strings on a dulcimer or a baritone uke, or limited tines on a kalimba, etc. It forces me to work around it. I just liked the look of it and wanted a fat bass. End of story!
In the end, I like instruments too much to dedicate enough time to a single one and become good. I'm ok with it. I still make stuff I like and I have plenty fun. Discovering might be more important to me than achieving something.

This bass only has piezo pickups (the gold saddles on the bridge) going to a 8 DIN out - the bass has no jack output. the 8 DIN cable goes to a RMC polydrive like so:



I pull a standard jack from this box to the pedalboard. The bass is therefore pretty bright and unforgiving, but it has plenty of that fretless "mwah" sound. I often use preamps (Empress, BDPG, and recently the Okko Cocaine) to give it more corones, if not it's nicely acoustic-ish albeit pretty far from a double bass sound really.

If I use it to sound like a Hammond Organ or any other instrument I use a 13 DIN cable going from the Polydrive to a Roland GI-20 gk and then to a Roland XV-2020 (or for the Hammond Organ sounds I go into a Viscount D9e and a Korg G4). All that MIDI stuff is pretty old tech, but the cool thing is that it cannot be "off" - no bum notes: it has to choose a note, so if I'm not super accurate on the fretless (particularly difficult on the high F and Bb), well that's not apparent when the instrument is used with MIDI. Only drawback: the glissandi/slides so cool to do on the fretless don't work that well in MIDI.

Blackened Soul wrote:Yeah... it's a shame really that that era died the way it did but... well maybe it needed to so other types of players will pick up those tools and build pyramids instead of towers I'm building a 7 string around a NOS conklin neck I found atm and I have no intention of playing "chops music" for "chops fanbois" I think that you using it with odd effects and stuff is cool

I got no chops. Generally if many are doing something, the same thing, I will be drawn to do the opposite or find an alternative route. Probs why I like ILF so much.

That 7 string project sounds excellent! Do share pics when you're done!

That bass is ridiculous! I hope you tune to low F#

Wow that pickup situation is pretty wild haha. Sounds cool.

I've been playing with this small setup in the last two days. Put it together on the fly with shitty cables etc because I wanted to create some bell/resonating/rhythmically cohesive loops (plus yeah, single company board - - >AESTHETICS ) and I'm having fun like I haven't in a while.
The trusty RC30 is because I just wanted very long progressions of sounds to build on, without loop mangling, and it continues to be my looper of choice BUT the fact that the two loops can't have different length is still a major failure.
I want to plug it in and straight record a live session one of these days as I am really happy of the sounds I'm getting from i this setup.

Oooooh.

Got this little (well, kinda big actually) fold up DJ table and spent a good chunk of time this weekend bugging out on this setup:





My main board is on the fritze thanks to the dreaded Boss ES-8 volume problem getting too significant to have a work around for. As such, I whipped up this little temp bass board just so I can play. It's fun as is, but I need to play with the order, maybe swap some stuff on/off...

Tidied up my old organ... mostly so I could have a place to plunk down the Concertmate-500. This setup is ZOIA front and centre as I keep playing around with it.

cosmicevan wrote:Got this little (well, kinda big actually) fold up DJ table and spent a good chunk of time this weekend bugging out on this setup: