Members Rowka Posted September 17, 2005 Members Share Posted September 17, 2005 Hell Yeah!!!!! Rock the house with some Quake-y goodness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ezstep Posted September 17, 2005 Members Share Posted September 17, 2005 Stretch those fingers!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j powell Posted September 17, 2005 Members Share Posted September 17, 2005 is that what you kids call it nowadays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bholder Posted September 17, 2005 Members Share Posted September 17, 2005 Tomorrow's headlines: "Seismographs detect unexplained tremors in the Jacksonville area". RAWK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldivor Posted September 17, 2005 Members Share Posted September 17, 2005 Originally posted by j powell is that what you kids call it nowadays? I know Fisting is so much easier to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T. Alan Smith Posted September 17, 2005 Members Share Posted September 17, 2005 I'd love to hear that puppy in a live setting. It was cool hearing BNyswonger rock that thing out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rowka Posted September 19, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members illidian Posted September 19, 2005 Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rowka Posted September 19, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members illidian Posted September 19, 2005 Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rowka Posted September 19, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members illidian Posted September 19, 2005 Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members L-1329 Posted September 19, 2005 Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T. Alan Smith Posted September 19, 2005 Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 Originally posted by L-1329 Now that is a cool description! What HE said. That's the kind of detail I like to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members anothertxn Posted September 19, 2005 Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bholder Posted September 19, 2005 Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rowka Posted September 19, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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