End of Year Inventory

[leftybass]

Current gear:

Brice violin bass(LH)
Casio keyboard   
Casio keyboard   
Danelectro Longhorn bass
Davison Hollowbody bass(LH)
Dean Pace electric upright bass
Douglas EB-2 bass
Eastwood EEB-1 bass(LH)
Epiphone AJ-1 acoustic guitar
Epiphone EB-O bass(LH)   
Epiphone Flying V bass   
Epiphone Rivoli bass   
Epiphone SG Jr. guitar   
Fender Jazz Bass(LH)white 
Fender Jazz Bass(LH)lake placid blue
Fender Jazz Bass(LH)sunburst
Fender Jazz Bass FSR(LH)sonic blue 
Fender P-Bass Special(LH)   
Fender mandolin   
First Act drum kit
Gibson EB-2 bass(Stereo)
Gold Tone banjo(LH)
Gretsch Synchromatic BassVI 6-string bass(LH)
Hamer B12S 12-string bass   
Hammertone electric mando-guitar 
Hiwatt Theremin
Hofner 500/1 V63 reissue Beatle Bass(LH)
Ibanez ASB140 bass
Ibanez GSR200L bass(LH)
Ibanez Jazz Bass(LH)   
Jay Turser Telecaster guitar(LH)
Jerry Jones Longhorn Bass
Jerry Jones Longhorn BassVI 6-string bass 
Jerry Jones Master electric sitar
Kona acoustic bass guitar 
Peavey Millennium BXP bass(LH)
Phantom custom 3-pickup bass(LH)   
Phantom Teardrop Hollowbody Bass
Rickenbacker 340 guitar(LH)   
Rickenbacker 4001CS bass(LH)   
Rickenbacker 4001S bass(LH) 
Rickenbacker 4003 bass(LH) 
Squier P-Bass Special(LH)
Steinberger L2 bass(Previously Owned by Dee Murray)
SX Jazz Bass(LH) 
SX Jazz Bass-Fretless(LH)   
SX P-Bass(LH)
SX P-Bass short-scale(LH)
SX P/J-Bass(LH)
SX Scorpion Bass(LH)
Yamaha BB300L(LH)
Yamaha BB614L bass(LH)
Yamaha electronic drums

[TBird1958]

So are you inviting us over for a New Years Day jam?......WoW!

[SKATE RAT]

damn! you must have a big house

[Denis]

Dang, that's a huge ole list there! Haha, post pics! 

[chromium]

Gotta say the BaCHbird is simply stunning  

Thanks, Mark.  I have a gig on the 9th- can't wait for its maiden voyage!

How do you like the Roland Bass guitar Synth?

Its very nice, and in that Ibanez Musician vein in terms of sound and quality.  The wings are ash, the neck thru is largely maple, the pickup is single coil in the MM spot, and it has a 2-band active EQ setup that is actually pretty nice- punchy, without being too muddy or too brittle.  The neck is a little chunky- maybe a bit like an Epi Tbird's neck, but with a volute.  Plays wonderfully.  I left the flats on it just for something different, since I mostly use rounds.

Actually, the only reason I have it is because I got it for 275 shipped with HSC - just couldn't pass that up ('cause I'm a geek for this kinda stuff  ).  There was a dedicated floor unit that they made for that bass that I still don't have, and frankly its getting harder to justify stuff like that now that I've built the modular.  I'd rather just add on to that these days.  That thing has a couple of "instrument interfaces" that facilitate control of the synth from a signal source, so if I wanted to do any synth bass stuff that'd be one way to get there.

This generation of the Roland guitar and bass synths used the actual signal from the hex (or quad, in the case of the bass) pickup and shaped it using compression and clipping/distortion to create the synth waveform.  Range of sounds is limited, but they track incredibly well - because there's no pitch-to-voltage/MIDI conversion going on.  Even the ones that do those types of conversions have the potential to perform well, but tend to require a bit of adjustment to the setup and to your playing (note this is the same guitar as mine, but its been retrofitted with a newer Axon pitch-to-MIDI converter):



'Course it helps that he plays much better than I do!  

[OldManC]

'Course it helps that he plays much better than I do!  

Maybe so, but unless you're Quasimodo's long lost twin I can guarantee you've got him beat in the looks department and gettin' the chicks is why we got into this in the first place! Right? 

[Hornisse]

Maybe so, but unless you're Quasimodo's long lost twin

Hey, I resemble that remark!

[chromium]

Maybe so, but unless you're Quasimodo's long lost twin I can guarantee you've got him beat in the looks department and gettin' the chicks is why we got into this in the first place! Right? 

Haha that's why I keep any guitars that sound like pipe organs hidden away in my secret man lair... my sanctuary.  Saaannnctoooarrryyy!
 

[Pilgrim]

That clearly demonstrates the difference between 'My Hump" and "My Humps."

Fewer humps, more hair.

[Dave W]

what hump?

[Pilgrim]

Frau...............................


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...wait for it.......................





BLUCHER!!!!!!!!

[Dave W]

Frau...............................


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...wait for it.......................





BLUCHER!!!!!!!!

Then you and Victor were...

YES. YES. Say it. He vas my... BOYFRIEND!

[Pilgrim]

Rrrrolll, rrrrollll, rrroool in za hay.......

[TBird1958]

Mmmmmmmmm.......What did you get from ze monster?










Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Sweet mystery of life at last I have found you! 

[Pilgrim]

It's TWOO!  It's TWOO!