I'm gigging the Knuckle tonight!

[Rowka]

Hell Yeah!!!!!

 

Rock the house with some Quake-y goodness.

[ezstep]

Stretch those fingers!!!!

 

[j powell]

is that what you kids call it nowadays?

[bholder]

Tomorrow's headlines: "Seismographs detect unexplained tremors in the Jacksonville area".

 

RAWK!

[oldivor]

Originally posted by j powell is that what you kids call it nowadays?

 

I know Fisting is so much easier to say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[T. Alan Smith]

I'd love to hear that puppy in a live setting. It was cool hearing BNyswonger rock that thing out.

[Rowka]

Gig review:

First off this was my first gig with this band, Token Blonde ( www.tokenblonde.com ). I had about a week to learn the night's worth of music and then some. Granted none of the songs were that tough to figure out but the sheer quantity of material was tough to remember. Every song started sounding like every other song. Stuff like :

Rocking in the Free World

I'm Just a Girl

Bobby McGee

Gold Dust Woman

Boys of Summer

a few Donnas tunes

She talks to Angels

Ocean Ave

Crawling in the Dark

etc.

 

I was a little stiff all night. Partly because I wasn't totally confident about the music and partly because I wasn't confident about playing a five on stage. Not at all because of the additional scale length.

 

Sonically, this bass is a monster. Full and rich. Lots of information in each note, like 96 bit when regular basses are 16 bit.

[illidian]

So do you play it an octave up the neck, then?

 

They sound like an interesting concept, but I can't see them working very well with a regular rig playing the same neck position as a usual bass.

[Rowka]

 

Originally posted by illidian So do you play it an octave up the neck, then? They sound like an interesting concept, but I can't see them working very well with a regular rig playing the same neck position as a usual bass.

 

 

It is tuned like a standard 5 string bass. An open E is an open E.

[illidian]

 

Originally posted by Rowka It is tuned like a standard 5 string bass. An open E is an open E.

 

 

But it's an octave lower, right?

 

So the open E fundamental is no longer 40Hz, it's somewhere in the twenties.

[Rowka]

 

Originally posted by illidian But it's an octave lower, right? So the open E fundamental is no longer 40Hz, it's somewhere in the twenties.

 

Nope. An open E is 42 Hz

[illidian]

 

Originally posted by Rowka Nope. An open E is 42 Hz

 

 

I thought the Knuckles were tuned an octave low, hence the reason for the 39" scale.

 

My bad.

 

 

How do you feel the extra five inches helps the bass tone?

[L-1329]

Originally posted by Rowka Sonically, this bass is a monster. Full and rich. Lots of information in each note, like 96 bit when regular basses are 16 bit.

 

Now that is a cool description!

[T. Alan Smith]

Originally posted by L-1329 Now that is a cool description!

 

What HE said. That's the kind of detail I like to hear.

[anothertxn]

 

Originally posted by illidian But it's an octave lower, right? So the open E fundamental is no longer 40Hz, it's somewhere in the twenties.

 

 

It can be dropped to an octave below and still work fine, it isn't already set there. At least that was impression...

[bholder]

 

Originally posted by illidian I thought the Knuckles were tuned an octave low, hence the reason for the 39" scale. My bad. How do you feel the extra five inches helps the bass tone?

 

 

That's how mine is going to be set up, open E is about 21 hz. Mine's a 5er, set up EADGC (one octave down). And fretless.

[Rowka]

When I got it it was strung up F# B E A D, basically, a half step up from a full octave down. While there was a lot of sonic content in that low F#, I just didn't find notes that low very usable. Maybe in a context other than pop-rock, bar-band stuff it would work better. This is not to say the quality of the instrument was lacking, just the physics of 20hz.