Exploitonymous at last!

[hieronymous]

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]

Here's a shot of the headstock:
 

[David Houck]

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]

Thanks Dave! Greg is really an amazing drummer. His playing is so musical - not mere bashing, though he can do that too!

[olieoliver]

That is acool tune. I checked out your other tunes on myspace, some cool effects. Is that all bass on the tracks?

[hieronymous]

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]

Man, those are two great looking basses!

[hieronymous]

Aww, thanks 57basstra! I really lucked out with these...

[hieronymous]

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]

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]

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]

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...)

[Bradley Young]

I'm in ur music room
 
nappin on ur bassez

[hieronymous]

Video featuring Sadie and the Exploiter:
 
sadie & alembic bass

[David Houck]

Nice soundtrack!