David King Bass

[echo008]

It really is he hasn't really updated his website in along time. But his attention to detail is extraordinary. There's a page on his site where he details how he makes a bass. Made my head spin.

[edwin]

You know, just now looking at the picture of the front of yours - Mike Gordon has at least one David King bass, in kind of a reverse V shape - I think there's a picture of Mike onstage with Edwin both playing bass and that's what Mike is playing.




And that reminded me - when I met David King he mentioned that he was doing some work on Mike's 5-string Languadoc bass in those days. So I'm also thinking that this meeting happened closer to '92.




Sorry for the walk down memory lane! I enjoyed it though, thanks to you and your bass!

I have #15 or so, as Harry recalls. It's an amazing fretless. It's the most ergonomic bass I've ever played and just sounds wonderful. Sadly, my fretless chops are pretty lacking these days, but it's just delicious to play.


And here's the picture he mentioned, at a Shockra gig ca. 1994:

[echo008]

Looks awesome, I appreciate you sharing it. Is it passive? Theres alot of switches

[edwin]

Looks awesome, I appreciate you sharing it. Is it passive? Theres alot of switches

It is passive. I went through a period where I wanted to have maximum flexibility, so each pickup has a coil selector switch, and then there was a stereo/mono switch and another few switches and a pot for connection to a Lexicon MRC via a 5 pin connector so that I could control effects parameters right off the bass. It was pretty silly. Now it just has a coil select for the back pickup and a blend control. No volume or anything else.

[echo008]

I hear that, Im finding the less is more approach works better for me these days. Very nice bass.