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Drifting – Brilliant Upright Bass Solo

Posted on December 2, 2009 » tagged: accoustic bass, solo, upright » 5 Comments »

Simply Brilliant Adam Ben Ezra, doing Andy McKee’s Drifting on the double bass:

Hat tip to Guy for forwarding it to me!

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Seth Horan Clang and Chime – Produced By You

Posted on August 25, 2009 » » Add a comment »

Last summer singer/bassist Seth Horan gave the opportunity to produce this new album to everyone on his mailing list. A group of people took him up on the offer and became co-producers. A year later and the album is pretty much mixed and mastered. Seth recorded and sent out a song-a-week for twenty weeks over [...]

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Michael Manring explains the Hyperbass

Posted on August 14, 2009 » tagged: Michael Manring, Zon Guitars » 3 Comments »

There was a pointer to this great video of Michael Manring explaining his Zon Bass lurking in the comments to “What I Hate Bass Licks” (a must read post if you haven’t read it already – masterfully written by Steve Uccello. In the video Michael explains how the Zon Hyperbass came about.

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Fret Dressing – a Proper Polishing

Posted on August 12, 2009 » tagged: fretboard, lakland, set up » Add a comment »

One of the things that often comes up in talking about getting the set up right on a bass is fret dressing, or polishing. There are two times this should happen to a bass:

Before it leaves the factory.
If the frets become overly worn from use (usually years of use).

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Stunning String Vibrations – Slow Motion

Posted on August 8, 2009 » tagged: bass, strings » 2 Comments »

Haven’t done a fun end of week post for a while, so here we go! When @JimAnning sent me this I just had to share it straight away on the Twitter feed, and here it is in its full glory, just ‘wow’:

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