12 string bass

Dodgy rythym and thick strings here...

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I was out buying a Gibson today, and the guy in the Rock Shop in Tauranga shows me his custom made bass guitar, one of only 12 in the world. 2 rock stars own 4 each, and this one was made for Kenau Reeves, and three others are floating about. Was as heavy as a whole lotta rosie, and certainly an eye catcher!

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:shock: :shock:

Piano territory there as far as strings go. Seriously nice. Bet it sounds like God shouting.
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How.. what.. err.. nngyuuugh... awesome.

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Bogus!

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So how do those work? I've always wondered.

I'm guessing the bass strings play though the bass pickups, and the guitar string (tuned to play a fifth power chord?) play through the humbuckers at the bottom. But how do you split the signal so it doesn't all turn to mush?

Do the pickups have a frequency response range or something??? :?
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Kids is(was) a Japanese company that went bankrupt. this is why the run is so limited. Tom Petersson got them into the 12 after he finished with Hamer. Hamer built Petersson's first 12 in the lat '70s with Seymour Duncan (?) doing the electronics . Pretty sure they are all either short or medium scale.

a 12 is normally tuned in octaves. Generally it is split into a multi-amp set up. (One for highs, one for lows etc).

after Petersson's Cheap Trick stuff probably Doug (dUg) Pinninck of King's X and the guy from Pearl Jam are the layers most visible with a 12. pretty sure the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy" (?) starts with a 12 (playing harmonics too..)
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sambrowne wrote:Bogus!



Totally!

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Here's a very informative 12-string bass video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5W6DfjlXns[/youtube]
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Cool ! Like that. Reminds me of a Sitar. Lots of fun with that. :mrgreen:
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We had some cool basses come through ... some 6 & 8 strings ... some with doubled up high strings and fretless half boards.

Very weird to play ... but kinda cool at the same time.

That 12 string ... is just play weird.
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Informative yes, but long winded. Man that guy drones on.

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Probly not enough..
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And sweet SG there, Shinenz.
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Timoes wrote:And sweet SG there, Shinenz.

Thxs, i been thrashing it since i got it home today, love it!
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If theres any guitar that begs for a good ol trashing it gota be an SG. :twisted:
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