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  1. There's been a lot of talk about this bass... maybe too much talk? Nah... never too much talk about great gear.


    Some have come across the this picture:


    ...and assumed that the above picture is THE bass that was used or one of the same make and model. Close but no..



    Looks like it is indeed a Fender Jazz bass. Adam probably had it made by the Fender Custom shop or had an older model refinished by them.

    Here is the answer I got back from Lakland:

    "Unfortunately those are Fenders. We made him a similar color bass but don't know if he is using it.

    His last order was provided without finish so he could match the paint of his Fender. I don't know if it ever got put together."
  3. More piccies of Adam's sparkly Fender Jazz:

    As you can see, on the headstock, where it says "Fender" in thier script log and then in smaller laters "Jazz Bass" (Lakland is in more of a block like font) :





  4. And as it IS all about the drums...

    I got some facts and figures from the chap I emailed at Yamaha about the Lincoln Memorial / We Are One kit:

    The silver kit was actually a bit of a hybrid.



    A bit of history first:

    - The Joshua Tree/Lovetown tours: LMJ used a Yamaha Turbo Tour kit. (black finish)

    - Zoo TV/Zooropa tours: LMJ used a Yamaha Maple Custom drum kit.
    - Popmart tour: LMJ used (2) Yamaha Maple Custom drum kits. (1) The main stage kit, had each drum with a different sparkle finish (bass drum was gold sparkle, rack tom was red sparkle, (2) floor toms were blue/silver fade sparkle) and the B-Stage kit was a white sparkle kit.

    - Elevation: LMJ used a Yamaha Beech Custom drum kit. (Mica White finish)
    - Vertigo tour: LMJ used a Yamaha Absolute Beech Custom drum kit. (Mica White finish)

    The Kit Used for the "We Are One" show was a bit of a hybrid of drum models.
    - Oak Custom (24") bass drum
    - Oak Custom (16") floor tom
    - Absolute Maple (14") rack tom

    ...all in silver sparkle. The chap from Yamaha wasn't sure about the snare drum. It didn't look like the one of the Brady snares that Larry's used... I will have to investigate the video footage and pictures a bit more.
  5. ^^ Nice! Thanks for bringing us the info!

    Finally, a demonstration of the Digitech RP70 lol. As you know, I got it for Christmas, but haven't been able to use my mother's camera before today, unfortunately. The quality isn't good at all, as it is a Digital Camera that I used, and not an actual Video Camera. Now, I'm sure that what I'm showing you isn't everything that it can do, but I lost the instructional guide lol. Sorry for the two parts .

    Part one:


    Part two:
  6. Wow. These are some impressing sounds. I like especially your "Mysterious Ways" and "The Fly" settings. I just realize how poor my understanding of effects really is...

    Alex
  7. Originally posted by Alex:Wow. These are some impressing sounds. I like especially your "Mysterious Ways" and "The Fly" settings. I just realize how poor my understanding of effects really is...

    Alex


    Thanks man! It means a lot coming from a more experienced person such as yourself (and everyone else on here)
  8. Good stuff Nick, keep it up!
  9. Well, as a person who mostly develops his own stuff I have to face the drawback that I never actually learned to reproduce someone else's sound authentically. Especially since Edge relies on effects so heavily. But you do seem to have a gifted ear for that.

    These days I use my GFS- equipped chinese Gretsch copy with shimmer and delay on sundays at our home church worship team - but I only play with a drummer and two female singers there, so I really need something to fill up the sound. In our network band where we have bass and keyboard player I use effects mostly to just spice up my sound when improvising. I don't use a lot of effects on my studio recordings - besides compression, tube saturation and eq of course which I hardly count as "effects". On my new CD-R I only used some unobtrusive reverb for mellow parts, some not- too- much delay to polish the solos a bit and some slapback echo in two short parts. I used my ebow / slide combo with delay in one song for a "highland" feel. What I did use a fair amount of was multi- tracking for guitar doubling and for twin guitar sounds.

    Alex


  10. Thanks Harry!!

    Originally posted by Alex:Well, as a person who mostly develops his own stuff I have to face the drawback that I never actually learned to reproduce someone else's sound authentically. Especially since Edge relies on effects so heavily. But you do seem to have a gifted ear for that.

    These days I use my GFS- equipped chinese Gretsch copy with shimmer and delay on sundays at our home church worship team - but I only play with a drummer and two female singers there, so I really need something to fill up the sound. In our network band where we have bass and keyboard player I use effects mostly to just spice up my sound when improvising. I don't use a lot of effects on my studio recordings - besides compression, tube saturation and eq of course which I hardly count as "effects". On my new CD-R I only used some unobtrusive reverb for mellow parts, some not- too- much delay to polish the solos a bit and some slapback echo in two short parts. I used my ebow / slide combo with delay in one song for a "highland" feel. What I did use a fair amount of was multi- tracking for guitar doubling and for twin guitar sounds.

    Alex


    Oh my... Me? Gifted ear? *blushes*:P Thanks man!
    That sounds awesome! You sound a lot like my Uncle Frank (who gave me the processor) lol. It's great to hear that you write your own stuff! do you have a website or anything along those lines, where I could hear you? I can't wait!
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