CURRENT CATALDO

[slinkp]

I love how the back looks with the contouring. That'd make a really pretty front of an instrument.  A cool variant of your RNR.

[Pilgrim]

As usual, beautemous work!!

[dadagoboi]

Thanks for the compliments, guys!

Basses Passing in the Night...Raw MAX42 and colorsanded to 12000 micromesh G8R 122



MAX after the gold treatment.  Off the shelf for pickups and tuners,etc.  Caswell brushplate kit 23K for rings, tailpiece and bridge channel.


Finish will be Gretsch Champagne Sparkle.

G8R buffed with Megiar's Ultimate Compound.



Bridge is a Schaller 471-8 modded with 4 wider brass saddle for tighter string spacing.  Click for closeups.

[Highlander]

 

[dadagoboi]

Here today, gone tomorrow. 

9.2 lbs. ThunderBucker 66 pickups, twin stacked pots, Gotoh Resolite/Stealth tuners.  34" scale, fits in a standard case.











All Basses, All the Time.

[doombass]

Fantastic work!

[copacetic]

Beautiful work. Also really like the key choices and setup.

[gearHed289]

Amazing. I bet TP would love this.

[Highlander]

Gorgeous...

[dadagoboi]

Thanks, guys!

Here's a clip made less than an hour after customer unpacked the bass.

https://soundcloud.com/dadagoboi/cataldo-g8r-12-noodles

[gearHed289]

Sounds as good as it looks. Multi-course basses are like an instrument unto themselves. I tried using my 8 string in my band, but our violinist and guitarist have such massive, saturated overdrive tones, the effect just gets lost.

[dadagoboi]

Sounds as good as it looks. Multi-course basses are like an instrument unto themselves. I tried using my 8 string in my band, but our violinist and guitarist have such massive, saturated overdrive tones, the effect just gets lost.

Thanks, Tom.  You're right, doesn't leave a lot of space for other instruments unless everyone's on the same page.    But in the right hands I think there's a place for them if you're a composer and building your own tracks in a studio.  Can eliminate the necessity for arpeggios or sustained chords played on keys or guitar...bass, not so much!  This one's spaced extra wide between the courses so you can pick out a bass line with upstrokes if you work at it.

All in all, fun to play!

[slinkp]

What are the gauges and tuning like? I love how it sounds.

[dadagoboi]

What are the gauges and tuning like? I love how it sounds.

http://daddario.com/DADProductDetail.Page?ActiveID=3769&productid=137&productname=EXL170_12_Nickel_Wound_12_String_Bass__Light__18_45&sid=b7219b07-4286-44c5-88dc-f61f5105b06d

Four courses: Eee Aaa Ddd Ggg   The lighter strings are an octave higher.

I spaced the courses really tight so it's easier to fret three strings at once.

[dadagoboi]

More Twelver noise

https://soundcloud.com/bill-holder-942023694/wild-horses-intro