WalMan

Good Lord!! Is it that time already!!?

How are you intending to get your mix and what are you expecting to have in it? I have been through a load of different versions ending up with one of the soundguys Aviom rack mixers in my IEM rack - when I actually bother with them at all nowadays! That gives me the luxury of having a feed to the Aviom from the stagebox and the ability to set my own mix, which is generally bass, my b vox, a smidge of the lead vox for pitching, similarly small amounts of the guitars but rather more kick, snare & hihat. Before he got the Aviom kit I was relying on the line out from the Bass POD xT Pro I was using at the time, with the model out going to FOH, and then a foldback mix for everything else I wanted back from the desk, but it always seemed to change at each gig so was a bit of a trial & eror each time, which was a PITA. I have now gone the other way and had a set of ACS Pro17's moulded and use those rather than the IEM most of the time. I would suggest hiring a system in to see how you get on before shelling out wads on kit that might not achieve what you want. EDIT: Sorry hadn't noticed this was a resurrected thread so most of the above is probably no use / far too late in the day

The Wal & Tanglewater ClassicJ are both blends. For the former I normally have the blend towards the bass side. For the ClassicJ, which is the new toy & the first fully passive bass I have had since Pete converted the Wal in '96, I have been tending towards the bass / P style pup, though I was experimenting with rolling that back a bit last night, however that was for the Country/Americana stuff where the P was working nicely. The L2500's are all switches and tend to be forward (or sometimes middle) on the pup selector, Series, and Active or active + top boost for a bit of extra clank.

[quote name='amnesia' timestamp='1336292204' post='1643496'] Dunlop 1.6mm picks. Strings will stay on my basses for a couple of months in rehearsal, because I don't generally care too much about the tone. In the studio or live is different though, and 1.5 / 2 hours playing is enough to take the shne out of them. [/quote]Blimey you must hit them hard. I use the big Dunlop 3mm Stubbies and Elixirs and dig in pretty hard, but they still seem to last a good 6 months. Just put a set of EB Hybrid Cobalts on the ClassicJ to see what the snakeoil's all about. Its early days - only a couple of gigs / rehearsals and a little bit of gentle recording - I am however liking what I hear at the mo. It remains to be seen (i) how long they last; and (ii) whether I can still get them at a reasonable price when it comes time for a change

BAROCK PROJECT - Coffee in Neukölln http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRCgdsEdM6o Part of this months download batch from eMusic and it's pretty good IMO

This from the same seller looks good too - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tuscany-Silverado-Bass-Guitar-Amber-Basswood-Body-Maple-Neck-Active-Psv-Switch-/290696628967?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item43aede8ae7

Wel another with the fairly regular dep & just rouns the corner from home so nice & easy compared to most of my gigs, which tend to be a 100ish mile round trip. Played the Tanglewater Classic J for most of the night just using the L2500 for a couple towards the end. The Classic J with the EB Cobalts on was really nice and got cpmpliments at the end compared to the L2500. Not an entirely fair comparison as the J had the gain switch in on the Streamliner & out for the L2500, and that bit of oof helps, added to which the L2500 needed re eq'g mids. I should really have taken the Microbass II and used the AB to handle the difference, but went for the bass, lead, amp option leaving the effects board in its bag. Different dep drummer who I had played with once before. Good player but he doesn't know some of the songs or ends (I'm not sure I do even) Still getting the instruction early in the first set to "give him the cues" added to the spice of the night for me as we tried to work out nods between us & played follow the leader

In a bit of a thread resurection I have just put a set of EB Cobalt Hybrids (45-105) onto the Tanglewater ClassicJ and added some "After" clips with the Cobalts on to compare to the "Before" with the strings it came with, which I believe were 38-98. Clips are on my Soundcloud account [url="http://soundcloud.com/aka_walman/sets/overwater-by-tanglewood"]HERE[/url] hopefully. Just a set of rough noodles but a slight comparison perhaps.

[quote name='deepbass5' timestamp='1335739984' post='1635402'] Loved the Fingers P, down the right hand side. What were you using to record that. [/quote]Ta. That was the original demo of the Overwater by Tanglewood Classic J on the front Precision pup. It was the bass into the Mac through an EBS Microbass ii (though set purely as a DI with no tone control used on the EBS) plus a littler reverb I have redone them since I put a heavier set of Ernie Ball Cobalts on and had it set up & must update the account to add those, as a slight comparison of the Cobalts as much as anything. Not a true comparison of the strings as the originals were 38-98's and the Cobalts are 45-105, but anyway.

We were All That's Fiction at the time. Funnily enough a mate found a much more recent punky band called exactly the same on Facebook a couple of weeks back - I have told them there's nothing new under the sun

Aye. I'll just go an add my gear to the for sale section I think. Gotta love a bit of a widdle one in a while.

It was a horrid wet Sunday afternoon so I just wasted faaaaar too many hours mucking about with some old multitracks I had digitised (well I rambled to this effect in the notes to the Soundcloud track) [url="http://soundcloud.com/aka_walman/storyteller-2012"]Storyteller 2012[/url] We were a poorish mans Nik Kershaw - just a bit taller - at the time. Talking of whom he has a new album scheduled for later in the year I am looking forward to.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1335722943' post='1635044'] I fully expected to get the bum's rush for posting this thread, and quite rightly so, but once again the BassChat community has stepped up to the plate and our own Mr Happy Jack has sorted me out with an 1100W rig... Thanks very much, Jack. And thanks to everyone else who posted here and sent PMs to selflessly offer their prized gear to a total stranger! I'm really quite amazed at the spirit of community on this forum and am very touched and humbled. Thanks again. Better go, or I'll start to blub in a minute... *bottom lip tremble* [/quote]Well lets be fair you've been cluttering up the place for a while I suspect it would probably have been different if you'd joined yesterday & had a post count of 2

Went OK considering it had been a while and no r/h in between due to one guitarists dad passing on. The main thing however, and as elsewhere, the screaming in my head has subsided. I really do need to work on getting some more gigs to keep vaguely sane!

The couple of auditions I have been to recently I was:[list=1] [*]sent a couple of CD's and told to learn a couple [*]given a list of songs to learn [/list] For the first I ended up working out all of them. No bother a fair few were pretty basic for the bass. We played the couple, then a few more I had learnt from the CD. For the other we played through the songs, then a couple more I knew from crossover in sets. Got one, not the other. Years back did a few more for what were basically classic rock / blues bands and just turned up. I was cr@p (still am) and didn't get any of those. As others have said an audition ois a two way process. It's not just for them to decide if they like you and you fit in, but for you to decide if you like & can work with them. I think I might have looked on it as something for the back pocket to know a load of songs in the set already, and see what they wanted to run through. If they have a load of people to try out then a comparison of abilities to play the same song might be helpful from their point of view. If you needed to learn a couple of songs, well it's not the end of the world (IMV). Get through those and if there's time you always have the option of throwing back "how about ???" and run through one of the others you know.

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1335429634' post='1630787'] I have to say, that looks better! This one has a blue lit panel on the front (hence the Line6 look) showing off its valves in a cheap, ostentatious, chinese/american way (made in the US - I'm led to believe). This is its low point. (Apparently it does low sound better!) [/quote]That'll be a Streamliner then Edit: Beaten to it, but still loving my STM6.0

[quote name='musophilr' timestamp='1335432726' post='1630871'] Silly music-on-hold while trying to contact HMRC NI dept [/quote]You'll be there a while (30 minutes is our current record) that's assuming they don't just cut you off after a while

Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy & Paul Gilbert's cover of Crazy Horses. This has to be learnt for a gig http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyuIePgMwSw

Have used Elixirs on all my basses for years now (45-105 +130 on the 5's), but have just had the Tanglewater Classic J - which came with a set 38-98's - set up with a set of EB Cobalts (45-105 again) to see what the latest "snakeoil" is all about. Tonight was the first try out with them and they sounded pretty good. Solid but still with some zing there. I recorded a few noodles to the same backing I did to demo the Classic J with the original strings it came with and may put them up for comparison FWIW. Depending on how they last, how they fit in in the band situation, and whether I can get them at a sensible price (Stringbusters had them at just over £30 for a set when everywhere else seemed to be £45 - 50+) then I may give them a second shot on the Classic J. They certainly faired better than a different brand of coated strings that I picked up for a try at LBGS2011 that went on to the Wal and didn't last very long as they were not a patch on the Elixirs.

Again a +1 for Roqsolid. Needed a cover for my MIDI bass pedals. Exchanged a few emails re the dimensions/extras , placed an order and had it withing a week. Admittedly they forgot one of the protection pockets, but that was fixed at no cost within a couple of days. Hotcovers look like they [i]might[/i] possibly be more padded, but all my Roqsolids are still in great condition as is the gear they cover, so....