My corner of the basement

[OldManMusic]

I played hooky from work today and played around in my corner of the basement doing some recording. Thought I’d share a picture my little world since I had all my MM balls out. From left to right, that’s my Cabernet Bongo 5, ‘78 Stingray 4, Stingray 5, Big Al 4 and Dargie1 fretless 4 with an acoustic Taylor tucked in the corner. It’s pretty much bass heaven (with classic packing blanket wall coverings). I love the variety of tone I get from all of them when recording (or playing live for that matter). I know, I’m a very lucky guy.

If you’d like to hear some of the recording I do, mostly for my own pleasure, hit www.myspace.com/swirlymanband. All of it is done by me with my MM basses and various guitars. Well, I use some standard drum tools, but the rest is all me.
Kevin

 

[Moondog]

Very Nice OMM!!

I'm awaiting a couple deliveries before I post "my corner of the bedroom" thread! I'm on a slab

 

[danny-79]

Nice looking set up and a nice collection.

 

[njhammer]

The business corner. I'm a lucky boy too.

 

[T-bone]

And such nice balls you have, too.

I'm diggin your music, Kevin. Original and very tasty. Thanks!

tbone

 

[five7]

Your music sounds great! Very nice collection.

 

[shakinbacon]

I played hooky from work today and played around in my corner of the basement doing some recording. Thought I’d share a picture my little world since I had all my MM balls out. From left to right, that’s my Cabernet Bongo 5, ‘78 Stingray 4, Stingray 5, Big Al 4 and Dargie1 fretless 4 with an acoustic Taylor tucked in the corner. It’s pretty much bass heaven (with classic packing blanket wall coverings). I love the variety of tone I get from all of them when recording (or playing live for that matter). I know, I’m a very lucky guy.

If you’d like to hear some of the recording I do, mostly for my own pleasure, hit www.myspace.com/swirlymanband. All of it is done by me with my MM basses and various guitars. Well, I use some standard drum tools, but the rest is all me.
Kevin

I want to live in your basement

 

[OldManMusic]

I want to live in your basement

Sometimes it seems like I do live down here, but that's not a bad thing.

 

[RobertB]

Cool stuff. Diggin Sunset Mountain - great bass line and sound. Can you describe your set up on that one - one of the Bongos, right?

 

[sitonmybass]

Nice collection.

Don't know about you, but I am diggin' my Big Al 5 single H in Candy Red. Does that finish ROCK or what?

It really works on the Big Al shape.

That's a very cool "desktop" or screen saver on your computer monitor!

 

[keko]

I envy You man, I really do!

 

[Chuck B]

I envy You man, I really do!

Too many 5ers...

Very nice basement!

 

[p5string]

Is that an old Tascam 644 with the metering bridge?

 

[7broccos]

Yes you are very lucky,blessed and very talented,Nice tasty stuff,way to go .

 

[fly]

sent a request to your myspace,some nice sounds outta your corner of the basement

 

[Powman]

Now thats what I call a MusicMan Cave! Its an Oasis of Balls!

 

[OldManMusic]

Cool stuff. Diggin Sunset Mountain - great bass line and sound. Can you describe your set up on that one - one of the Bongos, right?

RobertB - Yep, that the cabernet Bongo 5 HS, blended between the two pickups. Not much other than just straight into the board, just a bit of compression.

Don't know about you, but I am diggin' my Big Al 5 single H in Candy Red. Does that finish ROCK or what?
That's a very cool "desktop" or screen saver on your computer monitor!

SOMB - I love the Big Al. Even though I have a festive Dargie green bass, I used the Big Al on a St Paddy's Day gig last month just for the coolness factor. The background on the computer is a pic of my trusty SR5, which really looked cool on the widescreen.

Is that an old Tascam 644 with the metering bridge?

p5 - Close, its a Tascam 688. It's really only getting used ocasionally as a mixer when I record something that my computer inteface can't handle. Part of the old gear I can't seem to get rid of, like my old Teac 3440...

 

[RobertB]

RobertB - Yep, that the cabernet Bongo 5 HS, blended between the two pickups. Not much other than just straight into the board, just a bit of compression.

I knew it was unmistakably Bongo in origin - just has a particular character that I never heard in the Bongos I've owned ... but I've never owned or played an HS. Wow, that sounds REALLY good.

 

[OldManMusic]

Sorry RobertB, the memory is fading... I went back and looked at my notes from the Sunset tracks. I recorded the Bongo about 80% straight into the PC with a bit of compression and about 20% through a 65w Marshall guitar amp set with a bit of gain distortion. It gave it some of that crispy top end. That track is one of my favorites.

 

[RobertB]

Ahhh, interesting. Very cool, thanks for the 411.