cytania

‘Long After This Night Is All Over’ was so good it brought tears to my eyes 😎👍

Stonking cover of Ray Pollard’s ‘Drifter’ 😎

Thanks to everyone who made the event happen, great venue, excellent cross section of basses that no shop could ever assemble. It was a privilege to try so many fine instruments and many of my bass prejudices are now in shreds. Eyes opened to the D-Roc shape and the Mustang Bass and amazingly the Teisco, oh and an upright bass and… 😃

Cytania and MarillionRed should be dropping in with Spears and Warwicks 😃👍

The P bass pickup is a humbucker just with two coils in separate units. Gibson bass humbuckers have a reputation for lacking definition and top end and were dubbed ‘mudbuckers’. Active electronics then came along in the 70s and big MusicMan or soap bar pickups offered a wider more full range sound, although these typically use two coils so are technically humbuckers.

Anyone been to Bass Direct and worked out what the 78 P in Honeyburst had scratched into the back? Somebody made an attempt to sand it out; I think it might read ‘Luv Your Weller’ 🤔🤪

I stumbled across the B90 when I was browsing on ‘dummy coils’ and it’s one of the few times I’ve been impressed by tone in a bass demo video.

Single coil pickup? Surely that’s got to hum alot? Unless there’s a dummy coil concealed within? I have been impressed by the Horne Section’s bassist who uses a 51, it almost sounds too good 🙂

Watch Bart Soeters YouTube video. He plays a variety of basses that give a jazz sound. The problem with old school basses like Hofners is they are muddy and thuddy. With a modern bass you can contrive through EQ, mutes and foam to get an old school thump but you can’t take a semi and give it clarity and definition. Shortscale tends to make the D and G strings ‘pop’ a bit more. On typical Fenders the G is often a bit weak with deadspots. The Precision E is clanky and percussive. It sort of suffers the ’odd one out’ syndrome that alot of 5 strings have with their B string. Modern basses with compound necks try to balance the strings more but some would say they lack the character of a P.

You can see the similarity between the Big Stud and this Tokai.

In the high numbers of the presets were some great synthscape simulations that worked really well with bass and could unleash your inner Hawkwind 😎

Cheap multi effects units are a great way of learning what the plethora of effects do without having to buy each pedal. I had a Vamp2 and before I moved it on I was struck by how synthy the effects now sounded. My ears had moved on but it served it’s purpose.

Classic Stax - surprised to find it’s version of Time Is Tight has a long intro that cheekily riffs on Theme From A Summer Place and an extended outro that wouldn’t be put of place on an Emerson Lake and Palmer album.

They’re at it again!

Two last minute attendees. MarillionRed and Cytania.Two last minute attendees. MarillionRed and Cytania.