| Author | Message | ||
| hieronymous
Junior Username: hieronymous Post Number: 23 Registered: 1-2005 |
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:  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 |
Here's a shot of the headstock:  | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 4217 Registered: 5-2002 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Man, those are two great looking basses! | ||
| hieronymous
Junior Username: hieronymous Post Number: 36 Registered: 1-2005 |
Aww, thanks 57basstra! I really lucked out with these... | ||
| hieronymous
Intermediate Member Username: hieronymous Post Number: 189 Registered: 1-2005 |
A new pic of the Exploiter:  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:  | ||
| kungfusheriff
Senior Member Username: kungfusheriff Post Number: 630 Registered: 8-2003 |
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 |
Thanks kungfusheriff! Here's another shot:  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 |
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:  (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 |
I'm in ur music room nappin on ur bassez | ||
| hieronymous
Advanced Member Username: hieronymous Post Number: 236 Registered: 1-2005 |
Video featuring Sadie and the Exploiter: sadie & alembic bass  | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 5867 Registered: 5-2002 |
Nice soundtrack! | ||
| 57basstra
Senior Member Username: 57basstra Post Number: 970 Registered: 4-2005 |
Cool CAT! |
