Author Topic: '03 SC Signature Standard 5-string (Read 7535 times)

hieronymous · « **Reply #45 on:** May 28, 2009, 11:19:53 AM »

Here's a picture of me at my temple celebrating some birthdays - I had used my bass to play the music because our regular organist wasn't available.

By the way, the lady on the right is in her 90s!!!

57basstra · « **Reply #46 on:** May 28, 2009, 03:04:45 PM »

Very pleasant and nice looking family. How old is the young one? About six?

hieronymous · « **Reply #47 on:** May 28, 2009, 04:02:19 PM »

I'm not sure - you're probably about right - she is adorable! Actually, the two girls on the left are sisters, they just happened to have their birthdays in the same month!

57basstra · « **Reply #48 on:** May 28, 2009, 04:33:04 PM »

Harry, I just assumed these young ladies were your daughters. The young one just seems to have an easy smile similar to yours.

hieronymous · « **Reply #49 on:** June 28, 2009, 10:44:12 PM »

One of the nice things about the recent Northern California gathering was being able to pick up my 5-string Stanley with its new electronics setup! I have never been a fan of blend controls personally, I much prefer straight ahead pickup selectors, like on a Ric or Gibson (or my Series I), so I went for the Anniversary electronics package. It worked great during the jams, and I now have the option of running stereo too. Here's a shot of Sadie investigating:

After which she took up her guard position:

hieronymous · « **Reply #50 on:** February 25, 2010, 04:51:09 PM »

So I strung this bass up with Chromes and now it plays and sounds GREAT! I was really really impressed with it in rehearsal. For my solo stuff, I often play with effects - fuzz, filters, phaser - but for some reason this time around I didn't plug any in, and was really amazed that I didn't miss them at all! The clarity and power of the bass was all I needed. My drummer was impressed to - he thought it had the depth together with bite, and creamy at the same time!

I'll try and post some soundclips at some point, but for now here's a shot of it at rehearsal, next to my brand new Moog Taurus III bass pedals:

gregduboc · « **Reply #51 on:** February 25, 2010, 05:00:43 PM »

I'm slightly (hugely) jealous of your Taurus pedal...!
Congratulations!

Greg

hieronymous · « **Reply #52 on:** March 01, 2010, 05:17:41 PM »

Thanks Greg! Loving the Taurus, though it's a large and heavy beast!

Here's a shot during rehearsal this past week, a little fuzzy but I like it:

hieronymous · « **Reply #53 on:** March 01, 2010, 11:43:08 PM »

And here's some video!

SC Signature with drums & turntables

Greg DeGuglielmo on drums, DJ TAKA on turntables. This is a tune that Greg and I spontaneously composed last summer. Bass is going through my Glockenklang Soul Head, Custom Audio Japan tube compressor, and Epiphani 2X10 cab. Audio was recorded on a Tascam DR-5 or something like that. This was my first time playing with a turntablist and it was a lot of fun! Hoping to record with him more...

jazzyvee · « **Reply #54 on:** March 01, 2010, 11:58:38 PM »

I did a session on guitar with a DJ /turntableist a few years ago and although it had the potential to be interesting it ended up being less than exciting for me.
I took my strat which is fitted with a roland gk synth pickup and the foot pedals to get some interesting synth sounds going over the music. All was fine until the DJ kept messing with the pitch/speed of the deck. The changes were never in discreet semitones or tones so invariably the pitch was always between notes and whenever i re-tuned, he would invariably change it again so i was constantly having to stretch notes to pitch and chords and it just became really distracting and less and less enjoyable.
In the end i just used sound effects and percussion patches on the roland synth.

I'm glad your first experience was better than mine.
Jazzyvee

hieronymous · « **Reply #55 on:** March 02, 2010, 09:44:33 AM »

Jazzyvee, I was definitely lucky - in fact, I was blown away! DJ TAKA is actually one of my students and a really respectful guy. It was a blast to play with him - at one point, Greg and I were playing a slow groove and all of a sudden we heard rapping - I turn around, and Taka is playing a record, I had no idea what was going on but it sounded great! Turns out you can play mp3s with special digitally encoded records, so he thought an a cappella tune he had in his computer would fit - the time was slightly different, but he could speed it up or slow it down just the teeniest bit to fit what we were playing. It was really cool!

hieronymous · « **Reply #56 on:** March 05, 2010, 09:17:59 PM »

A new recording - terminous live - this time played with a pic, otherwise same equipment as above (Glockenklang, Epiphani, etc.) - again recorded on the Tascam. Actually, I'm playing the Taurus 3 on this one, though I hadn't figured out yet how to fine-tune it!

I like the way the bass sounds with Chromes played with a pick...

(Message edited by hieronymous on March 06, 2010)

hieronymous · « **Reply #57 on:** April 09, 2010, 03:31:05 PM »

I will be playing this bass live this Saturday, April 10, 2010! Check the following link here at the Alembic Club - it will also be simulcast live via the internets!

http://www.dharmarealm.com/live.php

bassfingers · « **Reply #58 on:** April 09, 2010, 04:03:33 PM »

I'm deeply envious,not only of the bass but the Taurus 3's.Both sounding great.

hieronymous · « **Reply #59 on:** April 11, 2010, 11:16:21 PM »

Here's a quick soundclip from rehearsal the other day - the Stanley Clarke is being played through a Z.Vex Mastotron fuzz (plays nice with active electronics), and later a Small Stone phaser.

a brush with fuzz

Hopefully I will have more stuff available soon, but the mix on the recording I made from the live show on Saturday isn't so great - hopefully I can work with it come up with something presentable.