Re: SOLD NS/Stick For Sale
Hi Nik,
Welcome to Club NS!
The NS/Stick is an amazing instrument. I have been a bass player for 20 years and since I have picked up the NS Stick about a year and a half ago I have not gone back.
As much as I like to think that the NS/Stick is the "ultimate instrument" and all bassists and guitarist should give up and take up the NS/Stick the truth is that there are so many different sonic characteristics in the different kind of basses out there.
For me the NS/Stick is the tone I have been looking for.
I did have to adjust my plucking/slap/pop to the NS but that wasn't too hard. There are certain tones that are hard to get which requires a hard pluck or pop of the string but I think that there are ways of doing it on the NS/Stick to remedy that. It's not the same as the standard bass but it works for me.
It would be interesting to see an Emmett Chapman vision of a guitar or bass but I think that the Stick is that instrument. From a marketing standpoint, making a standard bass or guitar may not cover the expense of the development since there are just so many out there.
As for tuning I have been playing standard bass 4th tuning but drop tuned a half step because I want to be able to tap the standard "open string" note. I found that many popular tunes use E,A,D and I could have played them on the 5th fret but then it was very close to my right hand playing (I have worked around this) but I also like some of the tone at the first fret for that "open" note.
JRJ has been pushing the DADGAD type of tuning. I'm not sure what the full tuning is but he plays some very nice tunes with that type of tuning.
Of course there is the tunings page on Stick.com
http://stick.com/instruments/tunings/Welcome to the club!