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hi....my ABG is fretted (a special NAMM show constructed Washburn AB32 with a Fishman Matrix system, Engelman spruce top and Rosewood back and sides instead of the usual Mahogany). It also has the Buzz Feiten tuning system. I opted to go with fretted as I was working out a lot of chordal bass things, and for some reason prefer the 4 string instrument...perhaps due to fretboard size. But, I have had my heart set on a Rick Turner/Renaissance acoustic/electric now for a while (they are absolutely the best bass I have ever played) and after doing the Solo BAss Looping Festival in Santa Cruz with Scott Kunga Drengsen and Steve Lawson have again fallen in love with that fretless sound (why did I ever sell mine?) I place the clips at different harmonic nodes to produce different overtones. Down around the soundhole (on the ABG) are several very gamelan like sounds (esp. on A and D strings). By attaching the clip so it hangs over the string looslely, it will bounce off the next adjacent string adding still more percussiveness. That same kind of placement on the G string (on a 4 string) produces a very passable industrial-trashy snare sound (it really sounds much better than the SR16 "Trashy snare" sample). I also use chop sticks and Funk Fingers (Tony Levin's Bass Drumsticks which attach to your fingers) to strike the strings both with and without the clips. On electric bass it also works...and I have even used the clips with an E-bow (I use Thomastick Acoustic Bass Nylon/Bronze strings on the ABG so the E-bow doesn't work there). Also...left hand muting while striking the strings with right hand for further drum-like sounds...also works with clips attached. And using the piezos actually hitting and tapping the body of the bass or the wooden part of the bridge. I also wear my wedding ring on my right ring finger (it caused too many problems tapping the neck while chording on my left hand)and will use that to strike the string (combined with a left hand mute) to make a metallic side-stick sort of sound, or, at the right harmonic even a high tabla sound. I use artificial harmonics a lot to add dimension to drum-like figures. Loopy....Max Valentino >From: "Liebig, Steuart A." <Steuart.Liebig@maritz.com> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >To: "'Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com'" ><Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >Subject: preparation and processing - - shop talk >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:06:54 -0500 > > > >>But then I took it one step further: I began using my acoustic bass >guitar > >>more for solo/loop stuff, and began playing the body of the bass as a > >>percussion instrument and making loops in real time with that. Now I > >>prepare the bass with aligator clips for faux gamelan type sounds, use > >>chopsticks, different muting techniques, and, of course, sound >processing > >>to alter the timbres. > >** yeah. i actually do this sort of thing on my 6-string electric basses >(though some see this as *only* sound effects) by using a piezo pickup >under >the bridge. gives me a lot of body resonance. are you playing the clips >with >anything? i sometimes strike with a spoon or what-have-you. are you >tapping >on the fingerboard when using the clips? ever try tambourine tangs? make >nice gong sounds . . . is your abg fretted or fretless? > >stig _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com