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I know I'm a late developer, but I've just accidentally discovered playing funk with flats on a J bass. All 3 knobs turned up full, and straight in to my cheapass Behringer 802 USB mixer, using channel #1 for some boost from the mic' pre, and half a turn on the compressor. Playing along to this through a high pass filter. It's so down and dirty, playing it in my Larry Graham (modified) style, I feels like a wild animal, and it sounds... it sounds exactly like the smell of sex. Many thanks to the BCer who recently put me on to Betty Davis. I have the album now on Spotify. 👍

My 414 had been gigged for 3 years weekly in grimey pubs with a classic rock band, now retired for a couple of years from live playing I decided to clean and restring last weekend, wow, what a marvellous bass!!! And what a lot of filth I got off of it. Purchased from a guy called Mojo on here as I remember, I love this bass and it’s the last one I have now....it’s going nowhere....!!

All Jazz has flats, it’s what makes it a Jazz. Something to do with the odd tuning of brass instruments. 🎷

Not my story, but a mate of mine was selling a Boss DD3 pedal and got a trade offer of a broken DD3 plus a bit of cash. 😅

To save putting it in every ad, I'm N. London, 6' 0", and ~160lbs. However, I'm not dating, so not sure why you want to know this when buying an item off me... 😜

I've used my Dremel to route the headstock for the logo - always a time consuming process!! I've glued the logo in and sanded it flat. I've also completed rounding the area on the front between the nut and the headstock. I'm also doing the neck shaping at the moment using my Shinto saw rasp - lovely bit of kit.

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Certainly will help in your quest to have owned all the effects pedals Mind you, as Mooers way of designing effects pedals appears to be stealing them from other people, unless someone else has cracked the problem you want solved, chances are they haven't.

From the Jam were playing last night at a Festival close to mac towers Had the pleasure of listening from my garden. His playing and tone sounded so good. Sounded like a Ric, although I think these days he plays a P bass. Anyway, it was a great sound, every note could be heard perfectly and I could enjoy a cuppa sat in a comfy chair, just the way music should be enjoyed

😂. The D’Addario tapes I’ve got have quite a deep warm sound but still clear, definitely not zingy, absolutely perfect for reggae 🙂

Eeeeewww.

Playing covers I mostly just used the P pickup because that gave a big open but punchy tone with two loud guitars it sat nicely underneath them in the mix, but for some songs I went with both pups and you could really get an awesome Duff McKagan tone which I loved. With some creative eq on the amp you could even get a Geddy Lee-ish tone. 👍

I like a bit of bite from my Jazz so I went for the Ernie Ball Cobalts - perfect mix of thump and bite when I dig in.

Chris Squire wasn't really the caring type

Sounds and spelt like a Kraftwerk tribute band without access to a soldering iron.... I'd go see them

Malfunktion.

Ladies Night!

Or , Happy Hour 😀

That's as confounding as "Free Beer" and my personal fave "All You Can Eat For £3.50".

We were going to call our pub playing, covers band, Quiz Night...

You need to learn your hat etiquette. It is customary for a man to remove his hat when indoors as it is worn as an item of utility. A woman wears a hat as part of her outfit, so may keep it on indoors. However, once performing the hat is part of the stage outfit and may be worn indoors.

Indeed so. Anecdote: One time, me and a pal had a sort-of guitar amp shoot-out evening. A couple of beers, a Les Paul, a Strat, an Orange Tiny Terror, a Marshall JMP Mk2, a 1966 Fender Bassman, a Rivera R55, an SF Princeton, an 80's Pro Reverb and a Mk1 Peavey Bandit. Of course, you can see what's coming a mile off. The Bandit won.

Official Trace Elliot procedure is to turn volume to low, play a loud passage and raise input gain until the overload light comes on, then back off one click. Adjust EQ and repeat. The idea is to get the maximum signal to noise ratio. Unlike the vast majority of amps, it really is a gain control, not a volume control:

It's funny you put that particular vid up because it's the very one where Weller is stood in front of a Marshall half stack but is actually playing through a little Peavey Backstage 30 stood on a flight case off to one side.

If somebody asked me for a video of a bass I was selling I'd have to say no. My phone doesn't take videos. On a general level, if a buyer requires the level of information the OP seems to be demanding then the buyer needs to decide if this kind of sale is right for him. Seems like he needs to see the bass and play it before he hands over his cash. I understand that once bitten twice shy is a valid view point and bad experiences make people wary, but if the OP is so particular or worried then he needs to see that bass. As a seller, I have dealt with a very picky buyer and in the end I decided it wasn't worth the hassle because after I had sent him the bass he was probably going to find a fault and try to back out of the deal. To the OP, there will be another bass along later. Wait until you can try the bass.

Totally agree about not previously noticing it until it was pointed out. Who invited @ped to poop on our party anyway?! 😁😂

So would you sell for £275?

You mean there are people who put rounds on a jazz? Perverts. Mine has worn the same pair of d'addario chromes for the last six years and just sounds better and better.

Not so much a band name as something that dull suburban dads do about once a year. Ahhh. Early PF reference. Nice. Is that a quote from Tubular Bells? The one I like however is:

All my jazzes have flats or tapes, out of 13 basses only 1 has rounds and that’s my P 🙂

TC Classic 450 Barefaced Retro Two10 Musicman Stingray

I'll try and record an example later today and do a non-noisy one for comparison

It’s great isn’t it? I love flats on a Jazz.

Hi, as I spend a huge amount of time in my studio space I bought a "24 Hour chair" from one of PSI's resellers: https://www.psiseating.co.uk/zircon - It's a "posture" chair designed for long hours use and has certainly helped my lower back pain too. The model I have literally has every adjustment known to musician on it including lumbar support. There's all manner of levers and adjustments too. This thing has probably done about ten odd years service and it looks barely used! Yes, it wasn't cheap, but necessary. It has more than made it's money back. Oh and the best thing is that I ordered mine with arms rests that slide backwards out the way. Proper beefy, non-wobbly arms rests that can be moved back so I can play guitar or bass in a comfortable position and then, when it comes to typing up my magazine reviews (just finished ten thousand words) the rest pop up for maximum comfort.

I always practice standing up. You don't normally play gigs sitting down, so maybe it's a bad habit to get into ?

The neck for this bass will need the truss rod at the head end which I have only done once before and that was a few years ago. As I don't want to ruin a nice piece of wood I'm trying this out on some Sapele offcuts to see how it goes. The Sapele wasn't wide enough so I have joined two pieces - looks quite nice how the grain has aligned. I've routed the truss rod slot and access for the allen key to adjust. I'm also making another headless neck at the same time to try on one of the mini basses. This will be fretless this time just to see if it works!!

Just got back from a 400 mile round trip to last night's gig in Hebden Bridge (my wife came with me and we stayed there overnight). My anniversary gig, as I joined the Grateful Dudes at the start of last year and the first gig I played with them was on April 1st 2018, at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, so this was full circle. Good to be back there, they made us feel very welcome, and there is nothing like an audience of Deadheads! I am told we increased audience numbers over last year by 50%, so that was good as well. Usual two set gig, first set approx 70 mins and second about an hour forty (I think!). A good warm up show before our trip to Germany in a couple of days for the Playing in the Band festival, where we are playing a different set each night for three nights. Should be fun!! Tech info - played my Ibanez SR 1206 through Ashdown ABM 600 and Barefaced Super Twin. DI'd from amp to PA. Sounded good on stage, and also in the audience, I'm told.

If your budget, or your ability to use the set is limited, this probably is true. I still think this is a bit of a generalization. There are many ways of setting up any other monitoring in such a way, that someone's ears may be damaged or one player just gets poor response from the other musicians. I had no chance to find that particular article, but I wish he offered some alternatives, too.

Yep I keep it really simple. Bass, whatever pedals you want into a USB audio interface and you are away. if you have something like a focusrite you will need a camera connection kit into the iPad but then it works for Mac/iPad etc. On the Mac garage band will do, the focusrite comes with free ‘light’ software versions, or get logic X which is great! Failing that a simple iRig will work for iPad/iPhone and play and record into garage band. That is my preferred silent practice as in settings you can ensure it runs in the background and play along to tunes in Spotify or whatever. The padding of the signal and keeping ‘your tone’ is way better IMHO than into a combo amp with aux in as I struggle to balance the sounds without battering my ears

I thought the same with this one 🙂

A proper crossover will send more treble to the tweeter, but depending on the choice of drivers this might make the system sound too bright. Main thing is that the woofer impedance is what matters in terms of system impedance. The energy in the HF part of the signal is relatively small.

Hi Nick That will work fine. No need for any software unless you want to record, then you can use something like GarageBand which meets most needs. Otherwise if you’re just playing along with stuff you can play music from Spotify, YouTube etc and it’ll come through the interface to your mixer. Adjust the bass level to match and you’re good to go 👍🏻 If I may make an extreme but excellent suggestion, and you really want to fritter away some money on something extra, then having a Tecamp BassBoard in addition to headphones makes you feel like you’re on stage. Get one of those, too 😛

Since starting up a bass/drums two piece I’d considered going shortscale for something a little different. Took the plunge and wow, what a great bass! Fit, finish and quality is superb (I rarely get on with brand new basses). Great range of tones and loves being played fingerstyle or with a pick. Put simply, I love it. Happy as holy hell with the first brand new bass I’ve bought in more than 15 years.

Rather than look for a good sounding reverb I’d be looking for some with specific features, namely the ability to bypass certain frequency bands (so for example you can add some reverb to the high mids but bypass the bass end). That sounds great on bass.

Tyler Ramsey (Ed-Band of Horses guitarist) at St Pancras Old Church on Monday. Beautiful venue and a superb gig. His fingerpicking is great. His new album, For the Morning, is highly recommended too if you like the singer/songwriter thing...

Reasonable questions IMHO. Hardly idiotic time wasting. I've had far, far worse 😆

I think that's the joy of the internet. You used to have to put work into buying an instrument privately, first buy a paper or whatever it was advertised in, then make a phone call with one of those things connected to the wall and have an actual conversation to discuss and arrange a viewing. Now you can just sit on your sofa, see an ad that takes your fancy and send a quick message, before really thinking about whether you actually want it. Then decline on a whim without having to speak to the seller. The upside is, obviously your ad reaches a far wider audience though. Yes there are lots of numpties out there, but it's still better selling today than in the days of FreeAds.