ASK PETER HOOK!

Doggy wrote: What about his 5 string?

:bag:

Fuck his 5ive string

Doctor? wrote: One day i will get a decent Six. For now I am contenting myself to learn to play any 2 strings together sans pick, makes for some great dronestring lines. Been playing 21 years, 2/3 of my life, and still learngin. Bass is great.

EDIT: as for going heavy, dunno about you, but my Aria as a neck like paper, and I seriosly can't be arsed playing the truss rod game with it ever again, took ages to get it just right :D

And I dunno when the Clones went off the scene, probably about the time NO bootlegs stopped being accompanied by a spaceship interior effect between songs. whhhhrrrrrwwwwwrrrrrrrwrwwwrrrrrrwwwwrrrrrwwwwrrrrrwwwrrr.

Evil things, you can get an impressive noise by jammingthe function selector switch in the middle, turns it into something very like a ringmodulator. If I ever find the cnut who stole mine I'll snap his legs like twigs :D

I know that spaceship well. Perhaps he got a noise gate?

I love my sixes, but my four plays like butter in comparison. Can't play without a pick at all.

My Starfire could probably take a slightly heavier G, and the Marathon has a neck like a tree trunk, but I'm afraid to try Hooky's gauges - a .050 tuned up to E has over 100 lbs of tension on it. Dunno how he does it. Wouldn't want to snap one of those!

Was your Clone the flange model? Mine has the edge switch, but I may try that trick anyway. Rotten luck yours getting stolen - maybe you should pay a visit to all the Nirvana cover bands in your neighborhood... :evil:

Hooky's Six String Bass wrote: Chase, you gotta gig the 6ix that's what it's meant for... Having said that i do watch mine like a hawk when i'm gigging !!

Yeah, maybe you're right - I could see bringing it out someday just to see the looks on people's faces!

Aye, the one with the chorus/flage selector mounted between the countrols above the stomp pedal (it's been a while). It was actually nicked when I had this ultra clean bass amp, and never realised that the clone was what Hooky used, all I needed was a muckier amp.

And yeah the tension on the 6's neck must be something fierce. Never mind the damage to music history if you twatted it, I seriously doubt you'd survive :D

I'm a caretaker, not an owner! :D

What was with the moustache in Torn Apart?

Chase wrote:

Doctor? wrote: One day i will get a decent Six. For now I am contenting myself to learn to play any 2 strings together sans pick, makes for some great dronestring lines. Been playing 21 years, 2/3 of my life, and still learngin. Bass is great.

EDIT: as for going heavy, dunno about you, but my Aria as a neck like paper, and I seriosly can't be arsed playing the truss rod game with it ever again, took ages to get it just right :D

And I dunno when the Clones went off the scene, probably about the time NO bootlegs stopped being accompanied by a spaceship interior effect between songs. whhhhrrrrrwwwwwrrrrrrrwrwwwrrrrrrwwwwrrrrrwwwwrrrrrwwwrrr.

Evil things, you can get an impressive noise by jammingthe function selector switch in the middle, turns it into something very like a ringmodulator. If I ever find the cnut who stole mine I'll snap his legs like twigs :D

I know that spaceship well. Perhaps he got a noise gate?

I love my sixes, but my four plays like butter in comparison. Can't play without a pick at all.

My Starfire could probably take a slightly heavier G, and the Marathon has a neck like a tree trunk, but I'm afraid to try Hooky's gauges - a .050 tuned up to E has over 100 lbs of tension on it. Dunno how he does it. Wouldn't want to snap one of those!

Was your Clone the flange model? Mine has the edge switch, but I may try that trick anyway. Rotten luck yours getting stolen - maybe you should pay a visit to all the Nirvana cover bands in your neighborhood... :evil:

Hooky used to use a Drawmer noise gate with the Clone. All you need is an amp with a decent effects loop. I use a Peavey Pro Bass 500 and run the Clone through it's effects loop, nice and quite no hiss just that gorgeous chorus we all know and love. The .050 tuned to an E was a typo, it's a .040. You'll never get a .050 tuned to an E.

Chase wrote:

Doctor? wrote: One day i will get a decent Six. For now I am contenting myself to learn to play any 2 strings together sans pick, makes for some great dronestring lines. Been playing 21 years, 2/3 of my life, and still learngin. Bass is great.

EDIT: as for going heavy, dunno about you, but my Aria as a neck like paper, and I seriosly can't be arsed playing the truss rod game with it ever again, took ages to get it just right :D

And I dunno when the Clones went off the scene, probably about the time NO bootlegs stopped being accompanied by a spaceship interior effect between songs. whhhhrrrrrwwwwwrrrrrrrwrwwwrrrrrrwwwwrrrrrwwwwrrrrrwwwrrr.

Evil things, you can get an impressive noise by jammingthe function selector switch in the middle, turns it into something very like a ringmodulator. If I ever find the cnut who stole mine I'll snap his legs like twigs :D

I know that spaceship well. Perhaps he got a noise gate?

I love my sixes, but my four plays like butter in comparison. Can't play without a pick at all.

My Starfire could probably take a slightly heavier G, and the Marathon has a neck like a tree trunk, but I'm afraid to try Hooky's gauges - a .050 tuned up to E has over 100 lbs of tension on it. Dunno how he does it. Wouldn't want to snap one of those!

Was your Clone the flange model? Mine has the edge switch, but I may try that trick anyway. Rotten luck yours getting stolen - maybe you should pay a visit to all the Nirvana cover bands in your neighborhood... :evil:

Hooky used to use a Drawmer noise gate with the Clone. All you need is an amp with a decent effects loop. I use a Peavey Pro Bass 500 and run the Clone through it's effects loop, nice and quite no hiss just that gorgeous chorus we all know and love.The .050 tuned to an E was a typo, it's a .040. You'll never get a .050 tuned to an E.

find yr own sound.

there are lots of em, just waiting for you....

Well, I rather like, really really fresh strings, ultralight if possible, and a very thin pick, or fingerpicking, there's almost a natural chorus that way.

And the effects loop idea for the clone sounds about right, running a slightly preamped level through it would help the stardrive noise no end.

I rather like Victor Wooten's idea as well (and bassplayers, if you aint heard vic...hear vic! make it your mission), 2 basses, one in standard tune, the other tuned DGCF...which he rather idiotically calls his "tenor bass" DOH!

I have a new bass in my mind's eye, and my current aria is destined for de-fretting, and or the retuning to "tenor".

Should this thread be renamed ask Doctor????

Surely, ask Chase, Doggy and HSTB would be more appropriate.

I've offered not a lot of sage advice by my usual high standards.