Colin Edwin
Colin Edwin's Bass Guitars
When I started my hunt for a good fretless bass, I had already been playing a fretted Wal for a couple of years, a solid ash model, originally made for my bass playing friend Martin Elliott. At the time, I was looking to replace a cheap and cheerful Westone Thunder 1A fretless with something a bit more serious. I opted for another Wal for two main reasons, one being that I was already comfortable with the string spacing and fretboard feel, so making the leap to playing fretless was, I reasoned, sure to be less problematic, and secondly, I was confident that in choosing another Wal I could be sure the craftsmanship and materials would mean I was going to find another really great instrument.
Wal basses have become very sought after in recent years, but at the time, a secondhand Wal could be found fairly regularly in the pages of Loot (…now replaced by Ebay and the like) for somewhere around the £400 - £500 mark, which seems amazing today given the prices they go for.
Made in 1984 at Electric Wood in the UK, my Wal fretless has a Brazillian Mahogany Core with American Cherry wood facings and an Indian Ebony fretboard.
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Colin Edwin is noted for using a Spector NS-4H2 Fretless bass, as confirmed by the official Spector website.
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There are multiple sources1 that confirm that Colin uses Basslab Soul basses. The official basslab website also features Colin's playing as a sound sample for Soul-IV.
- http://www.colinedwin.co.uk/ - https://web.archive.org/web/20080517032231/http://www.bassplayer.com/article/colin-edwin-riding/sep-07/31497 - http://colinedwin.blogspot.com/2012/05/recent-stuff.html - https://basslab.de/sounds-more-bass/
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Colin Edwin uses a natural 2001 Spector (Czech) electric bass, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Imgur.
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Colin Edwin used this bass during Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet tour in 2008.
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Colin made a post about this bass in his blog in late may of 2011.
....been experimenting with this old Ovation Magnum II Bass. It's bascially a later, active version of the Magnum I which came out in the early 1970's... I was lucky enough to find a Magnum I a couple of years ago, as I became interested in the different possibities offered by the passive pickups, foam mute and heavy flatwound strings. It's an instrument well suited to deep, heavy basslines, and sounds quite different to any other bass I own, having an almost rubbery quality to the tone.....
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Colin mentioned this bass in multiple interviews and in his blog and on his website
I first became aware of Rob Allen basses on a visit to the bass department of Rudy's in New York City some years ago. I was extremely close to laying out for a very nice four string version, when a moment of realisation struck me that, at that point, I simply didn't have the money. These basses are not mass produced so sometimes a little hard to find, and subsequent "cashed up" visits to Rudy's and also Bass Northwest, in Seattle (the only other place that seemed to stock them) left me with the choice of either five strings, lined fretboards or fretted versions, and not the unlined 4 string fretless that I was really after. Eventually, after some searching, I bought this five string second hand in the UK, and realising the rarity of them, I was happy to forego my usual preference for four strings. I have no idea why it never occurred to me to simply get one direct from the source….but in any case it's proved useful for me to have the low B on occasion.
http://colinedwin.blogspot.com/2015/05/basses-part-4-rob-allen-fretless.html http://www.colinedwin.co.uk/ http://www.fretlessbass.com/edwin-colin/ http://www.bassfrontiersmag.com/interview-with-colin-edwin https://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2013/04/colin-edwin-bass-musician-magazine-qa/
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Colin mentions owning two fretted wal mk1 basses (and one fretless) in multiple interviews and on his blog and website
I am lucky enough to own three Wals, my most recent acquisition being another 80's era fretted which was previously owned by Jack Monck and given a thorough working out on The Incident tour and album with Porcupine Tree.
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