WalMan

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' post='1350019' date='Aug 24 2011, 10:34 AM']It's all about [i]how[/i] you hit the open E. [/quote] I have a gong mallett I think should do the trick

Yup I find I have stopped using the IEM's and with the bit I get back with the plugs its fine. Mind you I could have sworn from the ACS literature that I shouldn't be hearing myself inside my head (if you know what I mean) with the plugs in

Had a set of ACS 17's made a few months back. Still getting used to them as for some it just seems to knock out too much, but I am assured by others that with regular useage your ears reattune themselves - it's just a bit hard at some quieter gigs

I had to look everywhere for the tab

Done it

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1349499' date='Aug 23 2011, 09:14 PM']I just fiddle around in the key.[/quote] [quote name='Pete Academy' post='1349502' date='Aug 23 2011, 09:15 PM']So do I.[/quote] Yup that's about the size of it

From this months eMusic download just started a second listen to: XsavioR : Caleidoscope - Remastered And it's rather good IMO. A bit Dream Theater / A.C.T ([i]who!?[/i])

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1346969' date='Aug 21 2011, 10:30 AM']wanted to go try Elixers but no where local stocks them. ... Still going to try Elixers when the opportunities arise.[/quote]Seems to be virtually impossible to get Elixirs in store, darn Sarf anyway. Probably because they last ages so stores will end up with stock hanging around forever as they are expensive as well. Bemoaned this fact to the guys on the Elixir stand at the BGM Bass Day Your best bet is one of the online string stores

Back from a local gig. Unfortunately MrsW's blood pressure dropped through the floor at the end of the evening and she was discovered white as a sheet and passed out in the ladies, now hugely embarrassed as she thinks everyone will think she was p155ed, which she wasn't Ah well Another "dep" with the country band, though as mentioned elsewhere I have a nagging feeling that I have usurped the old bass player. As far as I am concerned it is a dep whenever he's not about, but further snippets of conversations tonight might suggest otherwise. Got through both sets OK. Did a few songs that were not rehearsed and had been dropped at the last two deps, last week & the week before due to time constraints so a bit of watch the guitarists, keep an ear open to the drummer and busk it. Got through with no really major screw ups. As Nik said, the set was a bit odd as it went from up tempo to mid and fell a little at the end, but generally pleased and the rig was sounding nice where I was (admittedly stood right on top of it. Now a bit of a break, but loads of songs to learn for assorted other projects

I find on the long gig we have where this can happen that drinking loads o water throughout the night helps. The second set can othen run to close to a couple of hours, it is a hot & sweaty & I perspire a lot (OK too much info but possibly relevant). I can get through nearly 3 litres of water on particularly hot nights and doing that to keep hydrated seems to help with not cramping up in the fretting hand

OK. Another "dep" doing the poppy country rock stuff. Went much better than last weeks & I only had to catch up a couple of times, neither of which I think anyone in the audience would have noticed. Felt I played mush better this week Worst part(s) [list] [*]we were supposed to get fed. I was handed a voucher to the hog roast (yumsk) but unfortunatelty once we were set up ready to go there wasn't time to eat. Decided to wait 'til the break then noticed it was all being packed away as we started the first set [*]Getting to the gig (Eastbourne Yacht Club) was a complete 'mare. First the sat nav took me down a service road behind ASDA, but there was no way through. Then I went for the 24 hour free carpark (and should have just pared up and carried the gear a short distance across to the club as that was where I ended up parked anyway) then I finally found the proper way in, but had to wait for someone to answer the gate phone and open the gate to let me throught. So was a tad later than expected/intended [/list]

So what about a set for my fretless G&L L2500? Strings through body and I have to get extra long Elixirs or the taper starts before the nut and the B at least rattles in the nut. I could I suppose string the B on top rather than through body. Got caught out and wasted at least one string from a set before now

[quote name='lowdown' post='1331206' date='Aug 7 2011, 06:44 PM']Slapping and popping, you will quickly get a gig at the next trade show. Garry[/quote] and a permaban at a Bash

[quote name='bassace' post='1329695' date='Aug 6 2011, 11:00 AM']If you find a bass, any bass, that gives you a buzz when you play it, you feel that your playing's so much better on that instrument, you get the sound you like and it makes you smile every time you play it - [i]that's[/i] an investment.[/quote] What he said. I lucked onto my Wal probably getting on for 30 years ago now. I sort of knew the name and got a good deal as it was up s/h in the drummer in my then bands shop. It's now insured, and probably worth substantially more than I paid, but it was never bought as an investment. It was bought to play, and was my workhorse for 25 years until I got the G&L's and semi retired it. Even if it were now an investment it could not accurately be called one as I love it dearly (we've been through much) so the chances of a sale any time in the near future, if ever, are slim to BA. Don't buy as an investment, buy as an instrument to be loved and used, or sold if you don't get on with it playingwise. If over the years it turns out to become sort after and worth a lot more, then that's just gravy & hurrah!

[quote name='nottswarwick' post='1329286' date='Aug 5 2011, 09:50 PM']What are the LM tube ones like? Can they do the classic MB clean, and also have the tube blended for a bit of grit?[/quote]Love my LMT, and into the BF Super12T sounds great IMO. Pre mix edged just past 12 o'clock, EQ flat and no filter adjustment is looooovely. Grit was what I was after. Set as I do it's more warmth than grit, but nice Just thinking of a BF Midget for smaller gigs. [quote name='nottswarwick' post='1329300' date='Aug 5 2011, 10:04 PM']cool. Sorry for the thread hijack. Anyone used a Littlemark Rocker....actually, new thread alert...[/quote]Tried one at the London Show last year, efore I got the LMT as I had the CMD combo and was looking for a little grit. The valve on the Rocker was just too dirty for me.

Well again, got through a dep relatively unscathed - not so sure about Silvefoxnik's walls as it was just down the road from his Now, why is it that you can play along to songs to try and get them to sink in, but the minute you go and play them with a band it al just escapes you I 'spose because you are playing along to the record and a fraction behind to get the queue. No set list and nothing was really announced (like that would have helped, probably not the way I felt I was playing) but songs wer being started & I just had to catch up. Got through most of the time, but watching the rythmn guitarists left hand most of the night which helped [i]most[/i] of the time. Hadn't realised there were three songs in the first set all called, or abbreviated to, "Breathe". So, "what's the first song?" says I "Breathe" says they ....and of course I picked the wrong one Was supposed to be at a wedding evening do for a mate, but hadn't realised when I commited to the dep. Luckily both in the town I live in, so went to the evening do with MrsW & the car loaded, met up with my bands vocalist, drummer & their wife / g/f and slunk of aroung 7:30 leaving MrsW with them. They brought her down to the gig around 9:30 and then as the wedding do had broken up (and a police van turned up - too many youngsters not holding drink it was thought) they all came back around the break and stayed to the end. So there they all were like the X Factor or BGT judging panel, and me bricking it. Still seemed to go OK, no real train wrecks that we didn't manage to plough through regardless, and once again no one died. EDIT: Other interesting point, for me at least, I didn't use a pick all night. First gig I have done finger stylie in I don't know how many years!! m99.9% of my playing life I have used a pick, so that was different, but it just suited the stuff I 'spose.

The songs in the set for tonights dep I haven't learnt properly yet. Assorted country/pop type stuff Eagles, Faith Hill, Lucie Silvas) so pretty straightforward and actually quite enjoyable too. Whether it's another train wreck of a gig like the last dep with a different lot I shall have to report later

[quote name='Blademan_98' post='1328133' date='Aug 5 2011, 12:59 AM']I lent my fretless to a friend. He proceeded to take out a pick and play I told him 'NO' and took it off him. It may just be my personal opinion, but on no account should you play fretless with a pick! /rant[/quote] That's where I'm going wrong then. Not about to change though

First one back for a while. Tight, but the crowd was the usual MEH until we finished then wanted more TCHAH! Rig sounded nice to me. Need to check the basses for dings for a quick change when I had to grab the fretless I had already primed someone with and throw the fretted back at them. Just manager to get the f/less round my neck and cancel the mute on the tuner for the next song by the skin of my teeth. Also need to work on some more everyone plays/knows them songs as some of the lesser known ones get blank stares however good/well played they might be

[quote name='essexbasscat' post='1318173' date='Jul 27 2011, 12:56 PM']Heard through a friend the same situation exists in Brighton[/quote] Not obviously last time I was over there

Just back from picking up MrsW & her chum from Rox and caught the last couple of numbers from the Blockheads. Sadly due to a rehearsal at the opposite end of the county I missed the rest of the set Caught the end of Clever Trevor. Reasons To Be Cheerful & Hit Me With Your Rythmn Stick

Well. I was depping with a band I have depped for a couple of times before, but this time with a dep drummer as well, and he knew hardly any of the songs in the set. So not only was I busking songs I had never played before (but sort of knew) but trying to cue him on stuff I had played a couple of times before. Working out songs by ear/watching one of the guitarists chord hand. Got through the evening OK but quite a few of the endings were train wrecks. Still, you guessed it, the crowd went wild, more gigs were booked & drummer & I were being chatted to in the break by people who either swore blind they had seen us with the band before. Hey ho. Got out, made some noise, pleased the crowd and got paid. No one died

[quote name='AndyTravis' post='1306304' date='Jul 16 2011, 11:50 PM']Played a White 8-String Marathon in Music Ground in Manchester before it closed. I loved it, but it had an unworkable hump in the neck from the 3rd fret leading towards the headstock, suck a shame. In typical style they still wanted about a grand for it.[/quote] [i][b][size=7]HOW MUCH!!!!?[/size][/b][/i]

Screaming On The Beaches - It Bites plus a few more in that ilk to do