Rayman

Pull all the unnecessary cr*p out of it and you have a handful of hundred quids worth of a decent entry level musicman style bass. That’s all. Dark Ray Schmark Ray 🔨👞 (cobblers)

Me neither…… never won anything in my life!

Yep me too…. Thunderbird mostly, but this is on 3 songs….

Very interesting. Does the Humbucker split to produce a jazz bridge pickup tone? I guess then you’ve pretty much go all the basses in one?

Great basses Rumblekats. In addition to the above info, a lot depends on what kind of sound you’re looking for? Bright, thumpy, woolly…. ?

Have they done the bass giveaway?

Wow…. what a great thread. It absolutely didn’t take the direction I thought it would. Much like Scott’s album

Yep, I'd be into that too

Fascinating really….. we all have one thing in common, the love of bass guitars…… and yet we’re all so massively different in our interpretations of the instrument.

I didn’t slag off fusion, if you read what I actually did say.

There you, horses for courses…. I’m obviously at the wrong race track.

Don’t get me wrong, my OP was not a pop at Mr D, he’s an amazing player and very good at what he does, he also seems like a really nice chap. I stop by his website pretty often. However this self indulgent musical offering is not my bag, that’s really my only point. I’m sure lots of people disagree and really enjoy it, which of course, is great.

I hear you. Listen, I'm a jazz fan, along with metal, dub, funk, Britpop (😉) etc etc... a vast array of different genres.... I'm a music fan, like most of us are. I love fusion.... Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Jamiroquai, (early) Level 42 etc... some amazing stuff there. I also love art and poetry. However, there are, for example some works of art and poetry that make me work too hard to understand. I want to understand, but no matter how hard I work, I don't get it. There's nothing for me, intellectually, to grab on to. It makes me feel like I'm too stupid to get it, and gets my back up. That's how I feel about this music. In my opinion, art should make you feel good and make you want to go back for more. For me, this art makes me feel like a Cy Twombly painting. Confused and irritated.

Totally amazing player But so far the album sounds like the soundtrack to a 70s cop show….. you know…. when the police are chasing the bad guys down a back alley in San Francisco….. in a gold sedan with a magnetic red flashing light on the roof….. crashing through piles of empty cardboard boxes with a box of donuts on the dashboard.

We’re bass players, we’re into all kinds of music, rhythms etc….. but I can’t listen to that at all, totally discombobulating. Meanwhile I’m hoping I can get a handle on Janeks’ new stuff before his gig and masterclass coming up next month.

Technically clever, but it sends my head West listening to it. Mrs Rayman had to leave the room, her anxiety was peaking

I’m sorry, if I’m being really thick, but from the tracks I’ve heard so far…. I….. Don’t….. Understand. Anyone into it? Or……

Nice. I had a long conversation with Dave Swift about one of those….. I never pulled the trigger though. Let us know how you get on.

I think dull insinuates a negative thing, whereas dark is more descriptive? Dark is good, I definitely lean in a darker direction now, tonally, compared to the bright tone I used to prefer years ago. To me, dull means meh

Dark, to me, is a lack of top end clarity and sparkle. Not necessarily muddy, but more mid and bottom than top. I had a 60s fender jazz that wasn’t as bright as my 70s jazz, mostly because the bridge pickup placement is different. I used to describe that bass as sounding darker than the other.