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Fantastic sold out gig at Sudbury Quay Theatre last night with Leather & Lace! Crowd were well up for it and we had a great sound. 👍 I was especially pleased when the Sound guy told me that mine was the best bass tone he's ever been presented with!😲 Had a few more compliments on my sound from punters after too.... 🎸🎶😎

Telebass, sorry to hear your situation buddy…. I can relate…. I have a condition called Ankylosing spondylitis which has left me with an awful lot of similarities to you in regard to fusion, surgeries and just general spinal nightmare… Im sticks all Time and a wheelchair for anything outside of my limited capabilities to stand, walk or like you say , just be upright. What I’ve come here to say is that for a long time I stopped playing, packed in and accepted it……. But after some time i found a way to make it work. that did seem impossible at one time and believe me sometimes I still have major difficulties , but with a band that values my input, they’re willing to help fetch and carry if it means I just sit and play. with the right bass , playing sitting (even at gigs) , even if I’m curled up over my bass, I can still pull it off and be right in the pocket. morphine 3 times a day helps with that but joking aside , its kinda become my thing to be hunched over my bass looking like I’m in the groove…. Know one needs to know that that just the shape of my spine now ! Hahah my band rehearsals are once a week for 2 hrs, gigs are no more than 1 or 2 every 2 or 3 months…. It’s enough for me…. We enjoy it….. take some time pal, find a way and don’t let it take away the last thing in your life that makes you you. I’ll be thinking of you buddy…… take some time…. edit: just re-read and realise this is an age post with a positive update ! Which is great to read. a note on the DVT, I also have that in my right leg…. and blood thinners for life (apixiban) ….. my legs are absolutley ruined too after a terrible bike crash around 18’years ago i which I shattered both femurs…. seems we have alot in common hahaha

Looking back through the last four pages, I can only conclude that when you said "discuss" what you actually meant was "agree with me or else".

Private party last night. In my home town though so that was easy. An impromptu set as our own support, then I stood in for a band comprising the birthday boy and his son's for a few tunes and then a full blown Bandeoke which descended into good natured drunken chaos. Great fun.

Basso = Grimalkin with a new account. Different name, same old boring shite.

Indeed - that is why there is only one correct size of shoes. Everyone else is wrong.

New multi fx day! Got a headrush gig board this week. Been looking at a whole range of mfx and the headrush units seemed to have a good mix of power, decent sound and out of all of them seemed to have the easiest interface by far. Not a lot of bass models but all sound decent. Some really nice sounding guitar models too. All in all a good bread and butter starting point.

There are three types of necks: fat ones, slim ones, and those that need winding in

And then she looked at me with those big brown eyes and said…………

tell the guitarist to turn the f@ck down...

I took the time to take a pair of pics after following this thread for ages - this is my pedalboard, a Nano+ powered by a TRex Fuel Tank JR underneath (with feet lightly raised) I use this one on various projects and give it a few add-ons for specific gigs The base/main shape/main band version of it is this one: Polytune2 noir mini EHX Holy Grail EHX Bass Clone Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop Fairfield Circuitry Modéle B The Pedaltrain itself, the power bank, the TC Polytune and the Barbershop have been together in this since 2016. Once I found the Modéle B (which is an always on Barberhsop) I stacked them resulting in a distortion grain i love. The chorus and reverb are bridged with a modded Ikea tool for some parts of my main band and I love the tone they get together. When I play with another act I stick a loaned B7K, and when I play in my acoustic duo I add a Tech21 for clean guitar and the Boss DD-3 for a guitar part also. This is the largest board I had, at the time (2017-2020) I had a post-rock/desert instrumental trio and I knew no clean at all.. good memories (I still have all the gear, it's just... in drawers. Sigh)

I've built/assembled/constructed tons of guitars & basses. Obtain the necessary bits, nail them together, some mild fettling might occasionally be required. However I lack the necessary skills (or time & motivation to learn them) to actually make/create a functioning musical instrument from scratch. Projects like my headless Rickish mess and, for example, @Andyjr1515's incredible Psilos bass are on completely different planets. I am in both awe and envy of the creativity displayed in BC's' Build Diaries folder.

I think I have worked it out, combing this thread with other similarly proscriptive nonsense. Thin, shallow necks are fast, but only if you use a pick and a music stand and play once a month. If you wear a hat you can play a narrow but chunky neck finger style every other weekend as long as you only take occasional prompts from an iPad. But it is only wide, chunky necks that allow the correct technique employed by proper, regularly gigging musicians who either sight read or memorize 300 songs, with or without a waistcoat. Did I miss anything out?

W/ gig bag!!😄 This thing needs a body bag.

Next time you complain don't mention you have a video. They'll talk to the driver who will give them some bullpois. That's when you produce the video. Managers hate being caught out in a lie and there's a good chance driver would get the sack. I use this technique when gradsing up lorry drivers who try and kill me when I'm out cycling.

yep he did a few songs for me that i was trying to learn. Gem of a guy and here's hoping he's ok. Dave

I looked at downloading some of the transcriptions from his archive thread but I was unable to all the links seem to be broken from back in the day, is there any chance we can restore? Also hope Bilbo is well, being new to community and reviewing his contributions he seemed invaluable to many.

Tweeters don't hiss. Amps do.

Finished build 1/5 Pedal PCB…er PCB clone of the Fairfield barbershop in a 1590b the barbershop is fairly picky about the ldss of the Jfets - the SMD jfets weren’t too hard, getting a batch and measuring the ldss of them all was! The decal was a pain, it ended up as a metallic sticker - Some of the other pedals I’ve been building I’ve spent a bit of time on the graphics - by the time I got to this I kinda wanted something stupid. A talent pedal would have been ideal but I couldn’t think up cool visuals … so we ended up with a homage to the best carbonated soft drink around. the labels were a bit high up, and the knobs aren’t deep enough but it works. Adjust sugar and caffeine to taste…

Ive had this chat with many people about a good tone on its own, verse a good tone in a band setting. I think guitar players are overly greed when they have a playing on there own, which tbh why not it sounds very full. But you cant bring that into a band setting as it just clouds the whole band sound. I think you can roll pretty much most the bass out of a guitar sound, it just adds mud tbh (in the sort of bands I play in anyway, rock and metal) but thats just me.

The/your problem is not your eq per se. If all your bandmates stopped playing you'd be able to hear yourself regardless of how your eq is set. you'd still be able to hear your self if you turned your volume down by half. In fact you'd still hear yourself if you turned off your amp altogether. My guess, based on having no idea what your band is, is that your guitarist(s) have waaaaay too much low end in their sound. if they took this out, (good luck suggesting this) you would have so much more bandwidth to fill the low end yourself and fit in and around the drums much more satisfyingly and as a result your drummer will have a nicer time and may well be able to play quieter or with greater dynamic swing. I've been in this exact situation in bands before. Having had to boost mid eq (regardless of the bass I was using) and still only just being able to hear my attack. Upon inspecting the guitarists amp the bass knob was always maxed, producing a huge amount of low end that in reality I couldn't "compete" with. Have a chat with your guitarist about what they can do for their eq FOR THE BAND (a lot of guitarists struggle with this) and see kf you can sculpt a band sound everyone is happy with. Good luck!

This. everyone is different. On a 4 string I find a vintage P 1.75” nut a tad too much but a modern 1.625” fine. I’m comfortable on a 1.5” but if the neck depth is too slim somehow I can’t get comfortable. in terms of ‘speed’ neck finish is important to me, a nice wax/oil finish like on an EBMM I find faster than a gloss neck if hands are sweaty. Lots of variables here with one of the biggest variables being the bassist, one mans meat is another’s tofu. On this basis this topic is bound to be subjective rather than objective and dominated by opinion rather than dimensional facts.

I'd go for lowering the p/u's a little, too. Easy to do, so easy to judge the outcome. Easy to put back if it doesn't please. Easy, me..? One would think so.

@fleabag If it's growling it is either coming from your bass configuration/attack of the strings, or it's distortion. I can get all kinds of growly with round wound strings if I pluck it like I mean it just so in the breadbasket between bridge and neck. Distortion can come from too much gain applied to a circuit or too much power applied to speakers. Distortion of low mids is very audible in the upper mids. Instead of boosting mids you could cut the bass and treble and up the volume. Less chance of too much gain or power overall.

Let me get my patches worked out and I'll see what i can do.

I had a Matt Freeman in both colours. I sold the black one a while ago, and the white one last year. I wish I'd kept one of them, they're excellent basses.

So second rehearsal and the NXT just fits the music so well, so much so I’m playing her on a lot more of the set than I originally thought. Just about got the Stanley Clarke dialled in too and I’ve got to say I’m getting a pretty convincing double bass tone out of the NXT and the secret is definitely all in the fingers. If you play like a double bassist the NXT sounds like a double bass, whereas if you play like an electric bassist the NXT sounds like a fretless bass, albeit an extended range one. Oh and no thumb issues either, which confirms that the stand is the answer to my old problem.

I think so!! Swapped the nightsky for a rv-500 just for recording will def be going back on soon, project depending as I want to use the sequencer def a squeeze but the second blooper is on and the bass fuzz sounds killer.

Desiccated Follower Of Fashion The Kinks

Lucy, in the sky, with diamonds. John Lennon never quite got the hang of Cluedo

It's a toss up between that and the recently released gold foil Fender jazz.

My hands are different than yours, my reach is different than yours. I still may - or not - like your bass' neck. You are lying. I have two abyssinians.

Installed and looking great.

I have a B4 from the early 90s (V/B/T) and the circuit is very much of its time. I've kept saying I'll put a Glockenklang 2-band into it and this thread has reminded me to do it. Again!