Eliot's Performance & Recording Equipment:
Bass Guitars:
1989 six string fretted bass guitar by Ken Smith
1990 six string fretless bass guitar by Keith Roscoe
Acoustic Basses:
1815c. String bass with chromatic extension. Instrument made by Abraham Prescott, American
1892 String bass with fingered extension. Instrument made by Ferdinand Lang, Czech/German
Lemur Flyaway Bass. Made in 2016 by Lemur Music in California
Amplifiers:
MarkBass Little Mark Tube 500w amplifier
Minimark 802, 150w amplifier
Walter Woods 400w amplifier
Eden WT-800 amplifier
Speaker Cabinets:
Bag End 12” speaker cabinet
Eden XLT 4x10 speaker cabinet
EV 15” speaker cabinet
Abraham Prescott double bass c.1815
Audio Processors:
MOTU Traveler audio processor (EQ’s and mixes)
Ferdinand Lang double bass 1892
Headway blender (interface for string bass)
Juice Box tube direct box
Demeter tube direct box
Microphones and Transducers:
Don Underwood transducer for acoustic bass on the Lang and the Lemur Flyaway.
DPA 4099B acoustic bass microphone mounted onboard the Lang.
When recording, Eliot blends a Neumann TLM 103 microphone and a Royer R121 ribbon microphone as well as the onboard gear.
Strings:
Eliot uses DR bass guitar strings. Piastro Flat-Chrome Steel for the Prescott and a
combination of Piastro Flat-Chrome Steel and Spirocor's on the Lang and the Lemur Flyaway bass.