Hi everybody, I hope you don't mind that I'm starting this new thread to make up for this misnamed thread.  
 
1985 Spoiler/Exploiter, serial #85S3579.
 
Seen here with my 1976 Rickenbacker 4001 Autumnglo:
 


 
 
Both can be heard on this tune as well:
 
circumambulate
 
The first bass you hear is the Exploiter - the second bass that comes in with the drums and playing the bass part is the 4001. The Rick is played through both channels of an Alembic F2-B - one clean with the bright switch on, one distorted, though the distorted track is mixed down quite a bit. Neck pickup, played with a pick.
 
The Exploiter is being played through a Demeter Compulator, then a Roland RE-201 Space Echo, and then through another compressor, before going direct into ProTools. I've got the gain on the Space Echo pretty high, and the second compressor has a tube in it, so that probably accounts for the slight bit of fur. Oh, and for the most part I'm using a really thick bone pick - only the intro and outro parts are played with a regular delrin pick.
 
(Normally I would play all my parts through the F2-B, but I didn't have long enough cables to include it! It was interesting to experiment with a different setup though.)
 
Oh, and before I forget, the credits: composed by Bridge/DeGuglielmo - drums by Greg DeGuglielmo - drums recorded/engineered by Damon Burke at Oxbow Studios in Wayland, MA - bass parts performed and recorded by hieronymous in Lodi, CA.
 
Hope you enjoy it!

Here's a shot of the headstock:
 

I really like that tune!  The tone of the Alembic is very nice!  Very cool!  The drum work is very nice as well.  Great tune!

Thanks Dave! Greg is really an amazing drummer. His playing is so musical - not mere bashing, though he can do that too!

That is acool tune. I checked out your other tunes on myspace, some cool effects. Is that all bass on the tracks?

Thanks olieoliver! Yeah, at the moment everything at myspace is bass - there's an 8-string Tune and Fender Mustang bass on next to last (plus Moog synth), basking in the autumnglo is a Rickenbacker 4001, and afternoon stroll is the Jaguar Bottom Master. (The links in this post are higher quality mp3s.)
 
(Message edited by hieronymous on August 18, 2006)

Man, those are two great looking basses!

Aww, thanks 57basstra! I really lucked out with these...

A new pic of the Exploiter:

  Which brings me to a question - can anyone explain the color difference on the pointy parts? It follows the grain, I've just never seen anything like it on another instrument. Here's a close-up:

From what I understand, not being a botanist, is the color and grain variations are due to the mineral content in the water the tree absorbed when it was alive. Just a glorious freak of nature, in other words.

Thanks kungfusheriff! Here's another shot:
 

 
I had it strung piccolo at the Norther CA gathering, but for now I have put regular strings back on it. I bought strings to set it up with cello tuning (5ths), but starting on D, so DAEB.

I haven't put the cello tuning strings on yet, and actually haven't been playing this bass as much as some of my others. But it's making a nice backrest for my cat Sadie:
 

 
(I took it out of the sun after I saw this picture - I didn't realize the sunlight was hitting it in the afternoon, but that's where Sadie likes to nap...)

I'm in ur music room
 
nappin on ur bassez

Video featuring Sadie and the Exploiter:
 
sadie & alembic bass

Nice soundtrack!