Spalt Hybrid Bass Guitars

Very weird and nice shape and looks like they are very rare. But after some googling I’ve found some info about Matrix M-401, and then site of Spalt Instruments. Site looks very old, but with plenty of information, like gallery of hybrids and description of them. Prices on those guitars varies from $1250 to $3000.

Spalt MATRIX Prototype Orange Hybrid BassSpalt Matrix M-401 Bass5 String Multi-laminate Spalt Bass

As I mentioned above, more pictures you can see at Spalt Hybryd Guitars and Basses Gallery.

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Studybass.com’s scale and chord tone printer 2.0

Great tool to print fretboard diagrams for 4,5,6-string bass, guitar, violin, banjo and other instruments. You can specify tuning, size and location of fretboard on page, mark degrees and notes of specific scales or chords, display location and notes of harmonics (very useful for me). It is very neat, but interface is a little tricky. Thanks, StudyBass.

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First gig

Here is some videos from our first gig in US.
Any comments (bass-related) are welcome :)

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Weird Bass Guitars

Weird-designed bass guitars. They looks more like piece of art than playable instruments. Have fun =)

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What is “pocket player” and “playing in the pocket”

I’ve heard this hundreds of times – good “pocket player” or “oh, yeah, this was in the pocket”. This discussion may explain what is this.

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Innovative bass pedals

Innovative bass pedals! One of a kind! A must have for every bassist. :)

Jaco-B-Gone, Bass-B-Havior and Fret-B-Gone from RedTelectronix.

A pedal of the greatest magnitude!! I’ve seen all the grousing on the various discussion boards about “busy” bass players in blues bands and the grief they can cause. Give ‘em a break guys and girls, it’s not their fault! It’s the dreaded Jaco Syndrome (no disrespect intended!). Simply insert the Jaco-B-Gone in your bass players signal chain and he or she will never know what hit them! No matter how hard they try, all that comes out is a deep, grooving, solid bass line.

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Jerzy Drozd Legend X

What you’ll get if you mix surfing board with bass – Jerzy Drozd Legend X. Custom 10 strings beauty for Yves Carbonne. My 6-stringer looks now like something small and very easy-playable. :)

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Standing and sitting position

Finally, I think I got it. The difference between standing and sitting position is not only in angle of neck, position of bass itself… Just do this: sit down with your bass. Do you see the fretboard? The whole fretboard? Yes? This is the problem. Stand up and check what you see now. This is only 4th (5th, 6th) string and small dots on the side of the neck. Maybe part of fretboard. The problem is in this lengthwise angle. Remember it and practice sitting with the same angle.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what is wrong – leg, angle of bass towards horizon, height… I tried to maintain this things the same while sitting and standing and failed again and again. I’m standing up and my speed and accuracy reduces. And I’m doomed to practice it from the beginning. And finally I got it. I’m happy. :)

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Longbow Bass video

Here is one video of Longbow Bass in action. Looks not so comfortable…

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Ninjam servers status page

Recent outage of Ninjam servers shows all ninjamers we need more servers in different places. This nice page shows status of 10 known servers. Come on and play! :)

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