2023 Europa 5 SII Newsted style

[FC Bass]

Thanx!

Some killer B in this vid :-) (thanx Jimmy!)

Ed: Gues I must do a vs vid between those basses :-)
The "casco" is alsmost the same, only difference is the 3 piece chambered body on the SII (Elan has solid Maple body and Flame Maple top)
Somehow the neck on the SII plays a bit easier, though they feel/look exactly the same.

She will get some rest this week, I forgot the cable after recording this vid. Elan week it will be :-)

Here's a shot from the gig we did aug  3:

[edwardofhuncote]

I won't live long enough to get those bass parts down, Flip, but can you show me how to do that disappearing bassist thing? Dude, that's IT, right there. 


You and your new SII are killin' it. 

[pauldo]

I hear why you are happy with this bass.
Are those tapewound strings?

[FC Bass]

Strings are DR Black beauties, currently going trough the third set :-)

Edward: It's multitrack video :-) I shoot about 30 sec of footage without me and than record the track, in the editor the 'higher track' is whats shown.
So I start with the no Flip footage on track 1 and fade in/out the Flip included track 2, very easy :-)  (you can also see the bass appearing/disappearing) :-)

[FC Bass]

and I forgot, also some (very short) moving pictures + sound from the first gig:

[FC Bass]

Jump!

I think I will reupload this in the Future...
Forgot the earthquake video effect on the thundering low C's and I haven't figured out yet how to make a new Youtube channel...
(lost acces to my FCBass Youtube channel due to old 'not existing anymore' email address...)

Esit: Link updated, turns out it was very easy :-)

[pauldo]

Nice.  🤌🏼 the isolated track is delciious.

[edwardofhuncote]

Nice job with that one Flip. 

[FC Bass]

Thanx!

Updated the link in the above message, was not as complicated as I expected. :-)

[FC Bass]

Finally found some time to take some pics :-)

These are extremely difficult to capture, also I'm an Android noob (phone changed settings all the time)
But for now we have to do with this, at least it shows the bass without the protective paper on the covers :-)

[FC Bass]

Plastic plates on the back, they're black and light! :-) Flamed Maple + Purpleheart neck and Flamed Maple veneer on back of the headstock (have we seen this before?*)

[FC Bass]

Body

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Example of how hard these are to capture, can be used as mirror:

[FC Bass]

Body back

[FC Bass]

Ebony veneer on headstock, best of both worlds. In extremely bright light and up close, you can see brown strikes and from about two feet away it looks solid black