Richard Sinclair Bass - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Richard plays some superb fretless on the Gowen/Miller/Sinclair/Tomkins album 'Before A Word Is Said'.

Not to mention his bass on the Camel albums - the tune 'Echoes' has exquisite lines from Rich. Not bad for a carpenter

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Richards bass has a Fender Jazz neck with a Jazz style body made by his dad.

Hi,

Fender Deluxe P Bass Special 4-String Bass is the equivalent of this and almost the same thing that Mike Howlett plays ... but they both look like a Precision, not the typical Jazz design. The nexk in that special is the Jazz bass neck, by the way.

Fender American Deluxe Precision Bass

is the one I'm looking to get, shown below ... and is almost the same thing as the one above. This one is built in America, and the other is built in Mexico. Same Jazz neck ... and great for smaller hands.

Richard's definitly looks like a Custom made design off the Jazz Bass.

Friend of mine also suggested changing the Precision PickUps to Seymour Duncan for a beef'ier sound, and I honestly do not know a thing about pickups ... I'm just silly enough to think that the pickups don't matter that much anymore as you can do everything else on the rack these days!

Mike Howlett's is definitly the small version, and looks to be almost the same as the Mexican build.

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Originally posted by Tom Ozric

Originally posted by Aussie-Byrd-Brother

Is it just me, or does Sinclair have a totally different bass sound on `Grey and Pink' than on `Waterloo Lily'? I mean, they sound nothing like eachother! I'm sure someone can provide a perfectly plausable explanation for it?

Hey, ABB !! I think that Sinclair gets his 'rubbery' tone by turning the 'middle' part of his EQ-ing up full. I've found when I drop the bottom and top ends off, and crank up the mids, I get a similar 'woh-woh' tone on my bass (Ricky 4001, which, unfortunately, you never seen....). I have an Equalizer pedal with 7 separate levels - from the start, if I set the 'sliders' in a pyramid fashion, it sounds similar to Sinclair's tone on Waterloo Lily. Add distortion and you can get Magma-like bass !!!

Also, picking closer to the bridge (rather than closer to the neck) will give you more of a"woh-woh" sound - I love to do this with the mid-boost you talk about!

I'm listening to Waterloo Lily right now, BTW. He really rampages all over this album!

EDIT - just seen this picture on his artist page here! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2758

Looks like a precision bass pick up at the neck (well, the middle really) and a jazz bass pickup at the bridge.

I'm sure he plays a normal jazz on the German TV clips with Caravan though.

EDIT 2 - I did a search for him on www.talkbass.com (a bass player's forum!) there's a great thread with some great pics here: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f28/whos-daddy-richard-sinclair-thats-who-741368/

Edited by boysmithers - April 11 2013 at 15:42

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Edit: Epic fail.

Edited by Ambient Hurricanes - October 06 2012 at 16:27

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Sinclair plays a Jazz I believe sounds great. From the few Squier Vintage Jazz, they play fab and are as good as any other Fender frankly. Then again I'm just not a "gear freak" so people might disagree with me. But in my opinion it's great.

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Man oh man, just listen to Richard's tone on the amazing 'Rotter's Club' album (Hatfield and the North) - superb sound and incredible playing - possibly his finest hour. He switched to fretless when he joined Camel (or did he just remove the frets from his beloved yellow Fender Jazz ??)

Richards's bass is a Fender Jazz neck on a body built by his father, based on a Jazz bass. He's been using the same one, with various mods for most of his career.

Thank you, I am considering buying a bass and was looking at the Squire Vintage Jazz bass.

I believe he played a Fender Jazz or Precision.