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g1's 3rd bass build
g1
Finally got the preamp in!! Spent all of today wiring and a large part of last saturday.
Had 2 wire the 2 stacked humbuckers, the piezo, a homemade buffer for the piezo, the preamp and all the pots. Also added an LED near the sound hole which came out nice!
Certainly enough wires to be getting on with. Maybe the next one will be passive ?
Getting some cool sounds. Loving playing fretless! Although some problems with the piezo. The aguilar preamp takes 18v but the buffer only takes 9v, so it's grabbing it's voltage from between the batteries. However when I plug the piezo and buffer in, the LED stays on all the time regardless to whether a jack is plugged in (I'm using a stereo jack to seperate the ground from the 0v). So I'll have to pull the buffer out and have a look for shorts. But otherwise glad that the wiring is done ?
I'll finish her up tomorrow and grab some pics / sound clips.
deanBailey
Awesome, I was gonna ask for some clips ?
Quite keen to check it out.
g1
Final pics:
If I find some time I'll try and put some sound clips together ?
Manfred-Klose
G1
That is insane!!!!!
Well done, kind of cool that it can be fretless and have frets at the same time.
Have played with this one in your band yet?
Heath
i love that bass ..... it's absolutely awesome
Explorerlover
It's just wrong how good that bass looks... Congrats and well done g1.
FatBoy
Man that is hot! Really awesome! One day when I'm big...
:applause:
CDee
That looks gorgeous! ?
Bob-Dubery
Very well done! My hat's off to you. This isn't just a bass guitar, it's forming a vision and then realising it. You should be pretty chuffed.
g1
Thanks for the kind compliments everyone!
Manfred: I'm busy recording a CD with my church worship band. Used it for some of the scratch tracks, which came out cool!
Fritz: are you calling me big >☹ ?
Gotta find/build a case for it though. It doesn't quite fit in my other case...
Time to look forward to the next 2 builds! Some of the parts have arrived!
deanBailey
Really, really Nice man ?
g1
So I was messing around this evening on the 6 string and thought I would record it. It's kinda longer than I intended so don't feel a need to listen to the whole thing, but it will give you an idea of how it sounds:
http://www.jayda.co.za/s6.mp3