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hieronymous
Junior
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 23
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 12:04 am:   Edit Post

Hi everybody, I hope you don't mind that I'm starting this new thread to make up for this misnamed thread.

1985 Spoiler/Exploiter, serial #85S3579.

Seen here with my 1976 Rickenbacker 4001 Autumnglo:

exploiter & 4001

Both can be heard on this tune as well:

circumambulate

The first bass you hear is the Exploiter - the second bass that comes in with the drums and playing the "bass" part is the 4001. The Rick is played through both channels of an Alembic F2-B - one clean with the bright switch on, one distorted, though the distorted track is mixed down quite a bit. Neck pickup, played with a pick.

The Exploiter is being played through a Demeter Compulator, then a Roland RE-201 Space Echo, and then through another compressor, before going direct into ProTools. I've got the gain on the Space Echo pretty high, and the second compressor has a tube in it, so that probably accounts for the slight bit of fur. Oh, and for the most part I'm using a really thick bone pick - only the intro and outro parts are played with a regular delrin pick.

(Normally I would play all my parts through the F2-B, but I didn't have long enough cables to include it! It was interesting to experiment with a different setup though.)

Oh, and before I forget, the credits: composed by Bridge/DeGuglielmo - drums by Greg DeGuglielmo - drums recorded/engineered by Damon Burke at Oxbow Studios in Wayland, MA - bass parts performed and recorded by hieronymous in Lodi, CA.

Hope you enjoy it!
hieronymous
Junior
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 24
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 10:49 am:   Edit Post

Here's a shot of the headstock:

headstock
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 4217
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, August 09, 2006 - 5:54 pm:   Edit Post

I really like that tune! The tone of the Alembic is very nice! Very cool! The drum work is very nice as well. Great tune!
hieronymous
Junior
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 28
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 9:00 am:   Edit Post

Thanks Dave! Greg is really an amazing drummer. His playing is so musical - not mere bashing, though he can do that too!
olieoliver
Senior Member
Username: olieoliver

Post Number: 621
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 9:16 am:   Edit Post

That is acool tune. I checked out your other tunes on myspace, some cool effects. Is that all bass on the tracks?
hieronymous
Junior
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 30
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 9:43 am:   Edit Post

Thanks olieoliver! Yeah, at the moment everything at myspace is bass - there's an 8-string Tune and Fender Mustang bass on "next to last" (plus Moog synth), "basking in the autumnglo" is a Rickenbacker 4001, and "afternoon stroll" is the Jaguar Bottom Master. (The links in this post are higher quality mp3s.)

(Message edited by hieronymous on August 18, 2006)
57basstra
Advanced Member
Username: 57basstra

Post Number: 271
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 10:33 am:   Edit Post

Man, those are two great looking basses!
hieronymous
Junior
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 36
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 10:36 am:   Edit Post

Aww, thanks 57basstra! I really lucked out with these...
hieronymous
Intermediate Member
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 189
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 3:38 pm:   Edit Post

A new pic of the Exploiter:
exploiter body2

Which brings me to a question - can anyone explain the color difference on the pointy parts? It follows the grain, I've just never seen anything like it on another instrument. Here's a close-up:
color difference
kungfusheriff
Senior Member
Username: kungfusheriff

Post Number: 630
Registered: 8-2003
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 7:05 pm:   Edit Post

From what I understand, not being a botanist, is the color and grain variations are due to the mineral content in the water the tree absorbed when it was alive. Just a glorious freak of nature, in other words.
hieronymous
Intermediate Member
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 190
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 2:22 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks kungfusheriff! Here's another shot:

exploiter body3-4

I had it strung piccolo at the Norther CA gathering, but for now I have put regular strings back on it. I bought strings to set it up with cello tuning (5ths), but starting on D, so DAEB.
hieronymous
Advanced Member
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 205
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 1:33 pm:   Edit Post

I haven't put the cello tuning strings on yet, and actually haven't been playing this bass as much as some of my others. But it's making a nice backrest for my cat Sadie:

sadie_exploiter

(I took it out of the sun after I saw this picture - I didn't realize the sunlight was hitting it in the afternoon, but that's where Sadie likes to nap...)
byoung
Senior Member
Username: byoung

Post Number: 781
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 8:03 pm:   Edit Post

I'm in ur music room

nappin on ur bassez
hieronymous
Advanced Member
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 236
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Tuesday, December 25, 2007 - 4:26 pm:   Edit Post

Video featuring Sadie and the Exploiter:

sadie & alembic bass
sadie/alembic
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 5867
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, December 25, 2007 - 9:15 pm:   Edit Post

Nice soundtrack!
57basstra
Senior Member
Username: 57basstra

Post Number: 970
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 6:53 pm:   Edit Post

Cool CAT!

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