The Jazz in the clip sounds great, as does the Ampeg B15 tone. I must admit I’m getting more into just getting some drive/gain on my bass without changing the sound of it, this pedal, expensive as it may be looks like a great way to do that, and with the filters good levels of control.
Thats the same for me this Thu, Nick, am on call so travelling light in case I need to make a quick getaway. After years of setting up preamp pedal, tuner, leads, DI cable it seems like a luxury.
My old band played there, we’d heard horror stories of how the locals treated the bands but we went down fine. Probably helped that we had as many of our mates with us as there were locals in the pub, bullies don’t often go for equal opportunities.
I know he mimed - or at least used to - on True, he says so in his book, as it was a synth bassline. Fair play to him, he’s not miming cos he couldn’t play it, but keeping “ahem” true to the sound of the recording.
In my last band I used to use a Tech21 Para Driver for my eq & gain, whereas in my current band I just use my amp and I do prefer it that way. I had a very specific sound for my last band though, whereas I’m now much more generic Precision sound.
In my first “real” band I was def the weakest member. But not for long. I wouldn’t say I overtook anyone but I soon caught up. Was a good learning experience, and I’d recommend it to anyone, it soon pushes your limits further than you thought and makes you more proficient on your instrument of choice.
That’s a good point, if your playing is on the money it should give an impression of just sounding “right”, so that probably accounts for the comments, especially from the drummists.