The Last Bass Outpost

We're now in the mixing stage, two tracks with backing vocals finished. One of them, "Unity" is probably the more interesting one for bass players as it features two separately recorded bass tracks. Panned to the left you hear a 64 TB II Rev with D'Addario Chromes, panned to the right a fretless medium scale Gibson Super 400 one-off Phil Jones created Custom Shop acoustic bass guitar with a piezo bridge (passive, not active) and the E string tuned to D. Not sure whether we will keep that for most of the song very extreme TB left/Super 400 right panning for the endmix. But the Super 400 emulates a doublebass quite nicely, just listen to the three sliding notes at the end of the song.

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I listen to this stuff (and Summer's Gone is largely written by me and the singer, so there is no one else to blame) and wonder: "Uwe Hornung, you used to be a fearsome Heavy Metal player with a New Wave edge to your playing, what has become of you?"   This is probably the "poppiest" music I have ever made. That vocal intro (initially a backing vocal elevated to intro status by our producer who liked what he heard) sounds so AOR/Middle of the Road, even, yes, cheesy, it wouldn't be out of place on a Blackmore's Night album!!!  

Who spots the In-a-gadda-da-vida riff I play for a few seconds at one point?   My bandmates were dumbfounded, but then they didn't even know who Iron Butterfly was. Ah yes, the generational gap ... I expect you guys to do much better!!!!

Vorsprung durch Technik.

He couldn't have told it better:

You need to get off that reality-enhancing medication real soon! Hop off the drug train!!!!



That is a perfectly standard Standard. The only changes the Standard model ever underwent were 1. replacement of the three-point by ze Wärwick (early nineties), 2. removal of the Bartolini TCT active entrails (mid nineties - together with the deletion of the DeLuxe) and 3. drilling Swiss cheese holes into the body ("chambered") sometime in the early noughties. Pup size and positions remained the same, correct intake of prescribed medication herewith assumed.  

And I can vouch for the seller. He's not cheap, but not a bullshitter and knows his LPs. I bought my 5-string LP DeLuxe and my 4-string Meshell Ndegeocello single coil LP Custom model from him. He "grew out of" playing LP basses several years ago.

That is a nice honeyburst specimen, but pricey as a BIN.

Uwe

We need a pic! On a Gibson Les Paul Standard the pups are pretty far back, that is the position they settled with after prototypes featured pups closer to the neck. And the pups are guitar size humbuckers with TB Plus innards dwelling inside. They pick up all strings evenly and there is no issue with lack of bass, those basses roar and might be in fact a little much for some types of music. 

Figures! You invented it. Still playing your Nachtfalke creation too?

I wondered about that too, but could it be that the fin holds better on maho than on maple?

Maho necks with the fin worn off are rare (if not unheard of), but on maple necks it is much more common. Just speculating, no scientific back up!!!!