When that color came out I didn't like it much but I have to say I really like it now !
Hey GOT - sorry I missed this post - I was going to say that the color this bass ended up as is a little different than the traditional
poop brown mocha/whatever it's called - it strikes me as a little bit richer, maybe a little bit more red. I like to think of it as root beer...
Anyway, here's a couple of more shots:
The lighting is different in both - you can tell by looking at my shirt that the first shot has a bit more red, also no flash, while the second one was taken with flash.
I also went nuts with some soundclips - they're all the same performance, but with different pickups. I named the jam "tamanegi" (onion in Japanese - don't ask why, cuz I don't know!), there are little flubs here and there, but I thought it might be fun:
A word of caution - this is not a scientific study! We worked harder on the Alembic sound than the humbucker - each pickup is going separately into separate channels of an Alembic F-2B preamp, and to tell the truth the humbucker was more of an afterthought. I should also point out that I didn't work too hard on the recording with both pickups - they are panned a little bit left and right, pretty much equal volume. If I were going to do it right, I think I would mainly use the Alembic pup and then add in a bit of the humbucker to beef it up. The humbucker sounds really midrangey on the track by itself, but it actually blends in nicely.
