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I knew a guy like that. He used to (annoyingly) put his cases behind him on stage for easy access too. Whilst I'm all for a reasonably smartish get out of a gig, I really don't get what the rush is to save a few minutes afterwards, and it can give the wrong impression to bookers if the band are rushing around as soon as the last note has died away. Our band used to call them 'Doris Day' gigs ( quick pack away, quick pack away etc.... apologies to younger BC ers.)

Got an Update..and thanks to all your advice which I passed on to him, he stuck to his guns and has got the dealer to agree (very reluctantly) to swap back the guitars on the proviso that he pays £60, 30 quid for setting up the chapman before he advertised it on his FB page and £30 to put back the strat to its origional set up when they re-swap guitars, seems a bit harsh but I told him probably best to bite the bullet on that one and just get your axe back. Thanks for all your advice folks, love this forum, helped me out so many times

TU-3 I typed that slightly tongue in cheek to begin with, but actually, thinking about it, it's truly the only pedal I would be uncomfortable performing without!

Just having some goofy fun here.

He he! No, it’s all good! There’s nothing like a good geek out Unfortunately yes it has been tried and tested. The possible solutions just had me moving away from my desired ‘base tone’ so the MS came off my board. Yes I could replace my EMGs.. but I’ve been using them in my basses solidly for about 20 odd years because of their (imho) tonal benefits.. one being a huge output level. Oh and yeah, a small thing with being an EMG Artist now *chuffed!* ok, so why isn’t it an issue? Well, your Nords aren’t active pickups and are likely to have a lower output level in comparison. So you could say that I am in the minority simply because I have that high(er) output than the average bassist. I use that level to drive my... err.. drive pedals! Although you could now argue that it’s less of a requirement if I am plugged directly in to Helix, but EMGs are just superb sounding pickups when set up properly and I don’t wanna change them out.

For my playing... I'd have to say an envelope filter. If you ask me today, I'm saying the MXR BEF. Tomorrow might be the robotalk 2 Day after that my mini mu..... Revolving doors.

I really wish they'd do a version with the possibility of changing/extending the bands.. maybe making them semi-parametric. That would be a killer pedal.

There was nothing happening to your left.

Find a Cort B4FL. Unlined fingerboard, Bartolini pickups and preamp and great build quality. Also very light and plays beautifully, great mwah.

This is why compact cabs for bass guitar are much more difficult to design than most people think. Not only do you have to get your sound to the audience (assuming no large PA), but you also have to get the sound to the player's ears when he's standing one to two metres in front of the cab. And the sound the audience hears should ideally be the same as the sound the player hears, for obvious reasons. Most players, I think, recognise the limitations of their cabs and live with them - and angling always helps the player to hear better (but not necessarily the audience). You can more or less tell by looking at the driver configuration whether a cab can pull this trick off - and most don't come anywhere near. So you have to stack a second cab on top of your first so that you can at least hear yourself. When you do that you get cancellation between the cabs at certain frequencies, which affects what the audience hears - and so on. No wonder people like in-ears!

Yes I think he has learned a lesson, don't swap a £350 chapman for a dodgy bitsa in the first place!

Can't speak from experience re the mechanical issues, but I have had Basses where there was a distinct 2 tone effect (not the music genre): the top half of the neck has been exposed to sunlight and the bottom end has not and 'shading' has occurred. From memory it was a poly finish and was the rear of the neck.

I think you are making it sound harder than what is, Scalpy. It’s actually very structured and disciplined. The arranger, Peter Newberry transcribed it down to a tee. His scrolling score is below. GM midi sounds, but the notes and time signatures are all there.

Nancyraygun are you still in the room? Anyway, here's the thing all other things being equal the efficiency of loudspeakers is proportional to their surface area, doubling the cone area gives the equivalent of doubling the amplifier power. There is nothing magic about modern speakers just a gradual improvement in materials and engineering which enable you to squeeze a little more sound out of a modern drive unit. The state of play at the moment IMO is that you can just about squeeze enough sound out of a single 12" cone to match a drummer, so long as you aren't demanding anything unusual in terms of boosting the bass. The Barefaced designs along with loads of others takes advantage of this and the ultralight cab helps a lot with portability too. If you are still reading this thread then I'd recommend you think in terms of buying a couple of 8 ohm, 1x12 cabs. a single one will do for rehearsals and small gigs and adding a second cab will double the efficiency and increase the power from your amp giving you a real boost in sound. It means a single journey for smaller gigs and a return trip for big gigs, though I do sometimes manage two light'ish 1x12's, amp and bass as one lift if the route from the car is straightforward. I think you should be fussed by tone though, compared to speakers amps add very little tone of their own and changing your speakers will change your tone more than changing your amp. I'd go out and try as many speakers as possible, preferably with your own amp.

It does until someone asks you to play it. Then it dawns on you.

From some of the conversations in the OT recently, I'm waiting for Tw@t Chat.

Yeah, those early YJ albums had some lovely, groove playing on them. Harmonically, the tunes were interesting & very rich sounding. BB5, I know you are into Piano playing as well, check out this short Russell Ferrante video on stacking/poly chords. It gives you an idea how they got those themes and chord structures.

Yeah it has the Crass logo but it was from San Fran...still unsure as to who owned it. Grabbed it because it was just too cool...

Many apologies - I ran out of time before disappearing into the Scottish highlands! However, here's a link from Projectguitar.com where, a few posts down, I cover the approach fairly well. The photos should be there for the important sections. Hope this helps! http://www.projectguitar.com/forums/topic/48449-veneers-without-the-tears/

I got to see the wonderful Anna Von Hausswolff playing stuff like this, on the organ in Birmingham Town Hall: The organ is massive, you can just make out where the player sits at the bottom of the photo. https://mander-organs.com/birmingham-town-hall/

I was only allowed classical music as a child, but I can remember sitting on the floor in front of the one speaker of our mono record player, intensely tracking the cello line in Mozart string quartets. Just by instinct. I must have been about 6 at the time. The BBC programme "Why is music addicted to bass" is still available: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07vwg5w and (as you'd expect) some very well informed and interesting discussion here:

Ha ha! If only

Couple of East London/Essex covers bands I worked with - when they turned up at a venue and realised that either they were slightly unsuitable for the booking, or the place was a dive, they'd talk about doing a Go Go Fo.......... Get on, Get off, F*** off.....................

^ this. My first thought for low-mid priced would be the Squier VMs - they do a Jazz and a Precision, but the fret lines are standard. On the other hand, I know from experience that you might be able to pick up a second-hand Warwick-Rockbass Corvette for not much more, and that likely have a blank board. Gibson-style fretlesses seem to be like hen's teeth from what I've seen. Short of a stroke of good luck, I expect you'd have to look into a custom job for a fretless SG. Though, speaking of custom jobs, you could always nab yourself a loaded Jazz body and a fretless neck to bolt together - you could probably do quite well off Fleabay without having to spend too much.

All down to heat-induced delirium, honest! (it is crazily hot here at the moment...).

The one pedal that I've always had on my board is a PSK SDS-2 distortion. It's a cheap 80s dirt pedal (made of plastic too), but it adds a great bite to the sound. If I could have any 1 pedal back, it'd probably be the Moog Bass Murf (well, I'd probably opt for the midi murf).

Buggrit, I'm going to bend the rules: Korg Pitchblack+. Yep, I know it's a tuner, but the "+" model is also an A/B switch. On the occasions when my pedals haven't made it to the venue, this has been the once I've missed the most - I can trust my guitars to keep their tuning reasonably well during a set, but most gigs really call for a 4-string and an 8, and having to swap leads around between songs is quite a discomfort in the fundament when you're trying to make a set run smoothly!

If we are talking about which box on my board would stay, it would have to be my Line6 receiver, although its not an effect. Without that no one would hear me lol. Seeing as ive brought 3 BDDI's over the past 15 years, im going to go with that as far as pedals go. Nothing else ive owned has managed to stay the distance, and ive been quite happy using just this one pedal when im too lazy to take more (pre-board days though).

Mustang bass on the way, shortscale La Bella flatwounds ordered, boom!

I've just noticed that Bax Music has 10% off this Sunday and Monday, just use discount code KA518. It's not massive but if you've got your eye on something it might help make your mind up.

I’ll place my vote with the Source Audio Programmable EQ. Incredibly versatile and as the title suggests, it’s programmable, so you can easily save tweaked EQ curves for multiple basses and guitars. They can be had reasonably cheaply on the used market too.

Crass?

It would probably be between my Aguilar Octamizer and Mr. Black Fwonkbeta. The Octamizer edges it though. It was my first pedal (not counting the 24 hours I owned an EHX Micro POG before promptly returning it) and is truly the sound in my head when I think of octavers. I realise that may be heresy to the dedicated OC2 heads out there but so be it. If my pedalboard were lost or stolen it would be the first thing I bought back, no question.

Think the fact Haslip plays left handed with a RH string set up ie E string on the bottom makes it harder to play in his style. No matter what he is an incredible player and hugely entertaining musician. Dave

A good compressor. At the moment it would be a Cali76 Compact Bass, but that could change. I would have picked the dUg pedal if the compressor could have been on without the rest of the pedal being activated. The compressor in it is nowhere near the Cali, but it would have been more versatile overall.

My ‘right now’ pedal would be my Tech21 VTDI. I used to just use it as a separate EQ for slap work with advantage of a DI should I have an amp failure, but now it’s on all the time and is the base of my tone. Could I gig without it, yeah, for sure, but it sounds so much better when it’s there.

Hello, i'd like to thank everyone for helping me find my bass. Luckily enough, someone following this thread had the exact one! Thanks again, Jack

Here's another hack edit I did for the band I was depping with last night. Q4n out front (also providing the audio), Q2HD covering the drummer (poorly placed - lack of a flip-out screen is a problem here). It's canny for a quick job.

The Thrill is Gone. Probably because I've played it with Victor Brox, who played it with BB KIng. In B-flat minor for Victor's trumpet, which he plays right-handed while playing keys with his left. I play a walking minor 7th line with a lot of sustain, love the sound, but also the memory it always brings back of being so close to true greatness.

I can’t bring myself to replace the body on this P bass This was the first bass I bought when I decided to start trying to play again For a cheap £25 unbranded bass it plays and feels really nice So this is now going to be a new build instead I’m going to try and do this as a 5 string thru neck so I’m gonna need some advice when I get round to starting it

Excellent suggestion above. These look less classy than the Maruszczyks but I swear by them. Most comfortable straps I’ve ever used - now I won’t use anything else: http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Comfort_Strapp.html

In theory, yes you can, but in practice it would not be a good idea. Jack sockets for speakers are fairly robust, and may cope with 500W, but jacks intended to switch signal inputs tend to be more fragile. A better solution might be to install a double pole two way switch and switch the amplifier output between the internal speaker and a speakon or jack socket. Speakons are designed for that job, many jack sockets are not. David

You can try to prise my V3 500 from my cold, dead fingers. Love it

Slinky on every level and a fine bit of Bootsy dirt groove on this old classic 🤩