Big Poppa
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you cant make progress unless you try!
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Psycho Ward
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Keep trying BP, I think you and your company are the people with "the right stuff".
Looks like a job for some sort of digital switching.... that has to be super quite, small and cheap, I'm too stupid for this type of discussion, build it and I'll buy it BP.
Looks like a job for some sort of digital switching.... that has to be super quite, small and cheap, I'm too stupid for this type of discussion, build it and I'll buy it BP.
BassSound Barrier
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http://www.airbus.com/en/presscentr.../06_11_30_A380_tech_route_proving_wrapup.html
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http://www.airbus.com/en/presscentr.../06_11_30_A380_tech_route_proving_wrapup.html
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PocketGroove82
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Sterling, you look like such a nice young man back in the black&white/pre-Hawaiian shirt days!
I'd love to see some videos of you playing way back then, since now we have open-house jam vids and albert lee vids!
Any old Beta Max clips floating around SLO?
MingusBASS
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There's a Tony Levin Ad on that wall. How old is that pic BP?
n!k
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I was searching up the topic of renewable woods and had a few things to say, sorry for bumping such an old thread.
A few of you in here are saying that a tree is a tree and can grow back in 50 years and that's a sustainable concept. But that is not true. Not all trees grow back in 50 years, some take hundreds of years. Some trees are prehistoric and cannot ever be replaced. The idea of sustainability/rewnewability includes more than just the concept of "Growing it back" but also something that suffers no loss. Forests lost to logging don't grow back into the same forest it was before-- the original is gone forever. Somewhere in there, some folks believe that nature has a right to be its own entity without having to, at all times, bend to the every desires of man. This is why Bamboo is such an awesome idea. It's a grass that grows back to how it was before it was cut.
Anyway, enough eco-rambling. I am excited by this and I would be first in line to buy a bass made of something other than wood. Good on EB to put their balls on the line to build it. "The milk of disruptive innovation doesn't flow from cash-cows." - David Isenberg
A few of you in here are saying that a tree is a tree and can grow back in 50 years and that's a sustainable concept. But that is not true. Not all trees grow back in 50 years, some take hundreds of years. Some trees are prehistoric and cannot ever be replaced. The idea of sustainability/rewnewability includes more than just the concept of "Growing it back" but also something that suffers no loss. Forests lost to logging don't grow back into the same forest it was before-- the original is gone forever. Somewhere in there, some folks believe that nature has a right to be its own entity without having to, at all times, bend to the every desires of man. This is why Bamboo is such an awesome idea. It's a grass that grows back to how it was before it was cut.
Anyway, enough eco-rambling. I am excited by this and I would be first in line to buy a bass made of something other than wood. Good on EB to put their balls on the line to build it. "The milk of disruptive innovation doesn't flow from cash-cows." - David Isenberg
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Alz®
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Regarding the bridge on the Bongo, we're you tempted to replace it with a more modern design? I know the traditional style bridge works a treat but personally I think a more modern looking bridge would have captured the design ethos in a more 'together' way. Just a thought! Thx.
Big Poppa
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NO we werent THe bridge has soo much to o with the sound. This wasnt a design for the designers sake it was for the players sake.
Alz®
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Thanks BP. I guess that when a bridge is that good, there's not many more avenues one can take.
I think that Bridge design can be a complete forum in it's own right.
I think that Bridge design can be a complete forum in it's own right.
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hi all, i don't post often but read the stuff here way too often. Just to add from Musicman Nut.... i soo agree with testing with an unplugged bass first. The first time i tried my sterling unplugged (before purchasing it) i was impressed with how the E string just made the whole instrument alive. That was so addictive wow all this bass coming out an unplugged instrument. I still feel it today and can't pickup any fenders anymore they jsut don't have that. Plus all the details that was taken into consideration for that amazing intrument. It still amazes me.
now if i could only try a bongo...
now if i could only try a bongo...
spencer
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Im not sure if this has been said but I don't get what you guys would really like to see change. I don't see what could be changed about it and still be called a bass. Sure you can radically change the sound with a computer as the preamp with a 15" lcd touch screen to adjust every frequency and add in any tone you want and make it sound SO INCREDIBLY DIFFERENT THAT.................Its not really a bass tone anymore..... Why stop there do away with the strings and lets just have 4, 5, and 6, lasers pointing down the neck, and little sensors on your fingers to let the bass know what note your playing!! Then we can have the lowest action ever, well there wouldn't be any fret buzz, but it might be a little hard to bend lasers. Ehh screw the laser lets PIMP OUR BASSES WITH 24 touchscreen monitors, and we can play music videos on some of them have song written out on the screen so we can't forget which note to play, and we can also have some linked to cameras in the back our bass. Ok I guess you guys weren't talking about advances this big.
Im sticking with my Ernie Balls and thats as far in the future that i want to go.
Im sticking with my Ernie Balls and thats as far in the future that i want to go.
HAha that's interesting. I think there's quite a bit of people working on intuitive multi-touch-based interfaces for computers and such. Check out this video:
TED | Talks | Jeff Han: Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design (video)
This is all tongue in cheek, of course. I wonder if they've thought about designing a bass like that?
TED | Talks | Jeff Han: Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design (video)
This is all tongue in cheek, of course. I wonder if they've thought about designing a bass like that?
Big Poppa
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spenser Im glad you are happy. Im glad you can advance past simple innovation. If Leo had listened we would still be playing passive basses. The cool part of progress is that you dont have to partake...like I said earlier in this thread it isnt replacing anything its giving more players more choices.
syciprider
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The problem with blazing trails is that the market is very traditional.
How many times has Fender tried to introduce something different because folks clamored for new designs? And what did the market actually say? For Fender to stick to Ps and Js.
When the first dual pup MMs came out, the pundits were out saying they did not sound as warm. Or that switch position 1 did not sound like a classic MM (go figure).
On a more personal level, I fought off the Bongo for awhile. Two weeks after I got my first one I sold all my other basses and now only have a pair of Bongos. It was a substantial paradigm shift for me but I would not be enjoying two fine basses right now if I stuck to my old ideals.
Until folks are willing to move outside the familiar zone of what a bass should be like then I am afraid that no progress will be made.
The traditional clientele will not stand a radical departure from what is generally accepted as a "bass" so the future will probably see, not new and unusual bass concepts but more attempts to marry computers to basses.
I always thought that Line 6 had a good idea with the modeling bass. Too bad the overall packaging was lousy and they are not a recognized bass brand. But if anyone can pull off a successful merger of computer and traditional technology, it will be BP and EBMM.
How many times has Fender tried to introduce something different because folks clamored for new designs? And what did the market actually say? For Fender to stick to Ps and Js.
When the first dual pup MMs came out, the pundits were out saying they did not sound as warm. Or that switch position 1 did not sound like a classic MM (go figure).
On a more personal level, I fought off the Bongo for awhile. Two weeks after I got my first one I sold all my other basses and now only have a pair of Bongos. It was a substantial paradigm shift for me but I would not be enjoying two fine basses right now if I stuck to my old ideals.
Until folks are willing to move outside the familiar zone of what a bass should be like then I am afraid that no progress will be made.
The traditional clientele will not stand a radical departure from what is generally accepted as a "bass" so the future will probably see, not new and unusual bass concepts but more attempts to marry computers to basses.
I always thought that Line 6 had a good idea with the modeling bass. Too bad the overall packaging was lousy and they are not a recognized bass brand. But if anyone can pull off a successful merger of computer and traditional technology, it will be BP and EBMM.
Big Poppa
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Im not even thinking of merging the bas with computers but imagine software base switching and instant tone recall
syciprider
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Perhaps you can start us off by offering an outboard box?
That way those of us who resist such things can try them with no great paradigm shift.
That way those of us who resist such things can try them with no great paradigm shift.
scottbass71
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I agree I guess you could take this a step forward when the Stingray was released also came the Sabre ( which is the precursor to the dual humbucker Stingray - even if the wiring was different) But the Sabre was not as popular. Then when Bassplayer did a product review on the dual humbucker stingray I remember reading a comment "why did it take so long for the dual humbucker stingray"
I guess right timing and people willing to try new things and not be caught in they don't make em like they use to mentality.
