Can you tell us about the Yves Carbonne signature series basses you have helped design?
The Noguera YC basses are the synthesis of all the great basses I played up to 1998. The best basses I had used up to that time were an F Bass Alain Caron 6-string fretless and a 1973 Fender Jazz bass. I came to see Christian with my drawing and asked him if he could build a bass with my ideas. The result was very unique from what he doing at that time but it was good. Christian builds great instruments, and he was also the first to materialize my sub-bass concept. I am also currently working with Jerzy Drozd. He is an incredibly talented luthier, and he’s building me a 10-string fretless version of his Legend X model. I’m very excited about this project because this instrument will have 7 playable octaves, and it will be tuned using my sub-bass concept, starting one octave below standard bass tuning: E-A-D-G-C-F-Bb-Eb-Ab-Db. What do you feel are the greatest advantages to be gained by tuning your bass an octave lower than standard tuning? To me, the greatest advantage of tuning a bass
