Buy Mode Blitz: Atavera's Contrabass
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hat_plays_simsAtavera's Contrabass (with Argon instrument hack fix!) is one of the very first things I recolored for Buy Mode Blitz... and I did not leave myself a helpful file of notes for it. So this is gonna be a very seat-of-the-pants entry!
So, first things first, as with most things I recolor in wood, Atavera's Contrabass comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem naturals... over I think Piggi Wood 03. Like, I think this was the object that I discovered Piggi Wood 03 was the nicest I had for smooth grain, but it was definitely before I stared mixing the SDA Kitchen wood in there.
But I didn't leave myself any notes, so I'm only pretty sure. It's definitely a Piggi wood, at least?
As these things go, it's a perfectly cromulent... hang on, I gotta look up exactly what a contrabass is. (See, this woulda been in my notes!) Okay "contrabass," technically, just means 'this is lower than bass,' which I, as someone most comfortable singing contralto, ought to have remembered. Looks like what we have here is actually a double bass. Historically, one might want to call it a violone, though.
Is this historical? I have no idea. Looks like it'd be okay all the way back to 1640-- it passes okay for the example of a violone Wiki has on both the double bass and violone entries-- and stringed instruments in this family if not this style apparently date all the way back to around 1480.
So if you want to, you can fake it-- and it'll give you something for your Sims' four-piece bands, which is why I went and recolored this one... back in 2015. (No wonder I can't remember jack about what I did.)
Colors shown a little overlit, as we are facing into the sun... but in this shot you have Molotov instead of two Primers for some reason.
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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
So, first things first, as with most things I recolor in wood, Atavera's Contrabass comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem naturals... over I think Piggi Wood 03. Like, I think this was the object that I discovered Piggi Wood 03 was the nicest I had for smooth grain, but it was definitely before I stared mixing the SDA Kitchen wood in there.
But I didn't leave myself any notes, so I'm only pretty sure. It's definitely a Piggi wood, at least?
As these things go, it's a perfectly cromulent... hang on, I gotta look up exactly what a contrabass is. (See, this woulda been in my notes!) Okay "contrabass," technically, just means 'this is lower than bass,' which I, as someone most comfortable singing contralto, ought to have remembered. Looks like what we have here is actually a double bass. Historically, one might want to call it a violone, though.
Is this historical? I have no idea. Looks like it'd be okay all the way back to 1640-- it passes okay for the example of a violone Wiki has on both the double bass and violone entries-- and stringed instruments in this family if not this style apparently date all the way back to around 1480.
So if you want to, you can fake it-- and it'll give you something for your Sims' four-piece bands, which is why I went and recolored this one... back in 2015. (No wonder I can't remember jack about what I did.)
Colors shown a little overlit, as we are facing into the sun... but in this shot you have Molotov instead of two Primers for some reason.
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
