jazzyvee

Mine was listed there for about a year before I bought it. It was on commission sale but didn't get sold. (The price was too high). I eventually it was removed from there and listed privately and a guy from the alembic forum who knew I was wanted it, found it and sent me the link. The rest is history. The filters do take a while to get used and with the series ii you have the cvq to deal with also. If you haven't done so already I can highly recommend the alembic forum as a great resource for all things alembic. These basses are not one trick ponies and whilst they sound great it can be a challenge to move confidently between sounds.. Here is a link to the series I & ii FAQ http://alembic.com/club/messages/16271/16308.html?1361485906 Have fun. Jazzyvee

Nice bass, that looks like one that was on sale at Station Music. My series I is also burl maple but has an Europa body style. Is it your first alembic?

[quote name='obbm' timestamp='1402382715' post='2472726'] Sad Happy. [/quote] Is that a perspex Ramp?

Most of the gigs I've done in the last couple of years where a back line has been provided have been Ashdown rigs of various types, whether that be big festivals or venues, and I can say that from my experience I have not enjoyed playing through any of them. All have given me a distorted/overdriven sound regardless of what bass I've used and I don't play loudly. The only time I get a reasonable sound is when I use my own pre-amp directly into the return socket of the head although many times that socket has not been working or it's the cabs that are trashed and causing the distortion. I think a lot of venues use them because they are cheaper than the traditional Ampeg rigs that used to be on the festival circuit, and if it's a rock band they are not looking for the same kind of clean tone that I want from playing Reggae so they don't usually have a problem with the cab.

I love the seemingly old fashioned idea of regular band rehearsals. One of my bands we gig a couple of times per month and so only rehearse if we have new material to learn, we have a dep or when there is a long time between gigs and we have a high profile gig. With my other band we gig about 3 or 4 times a year so rehearse only when we have gigs because the three other members of the quartet are full time pro players and are always busy. However when we meet up for rehearsals we really enjoy it and plan to rehearse regularly but somehow our diaries always seem out of sync. Generally I find that many musicians I talk to do not want to rehearse unless there is an impending gig. Whereas my preference would be to rehearse regularly regardless of the gigging situation so that the band gets amazingly tight as a unit.

I'm gonna try to get tickets for the Leeds Gig as I have a gig on 15th so thats out and although London would be a good place to go the uncertainty of finding a close parking space is a put off.

I still have a RCL10 Compressor Limiter that i used back in the days when I had a Tascam 244 Portastudio. Not used it for a while though I last used it in my guitar pedal board and it was great. Jazzyvee

Victor Bailey Jazz Bass. [url="http://www.victorbailey.com/gear.html"]http://www.victorbailey.com/gear.html[/url] http://www.edroman.com/guitars/fender/fender_artist/victor_bailey.html

That Lux like you are Wrights but I was hoping to use them as Simple Pears but that may sound Lush, but then, that's Lifebouy.

I use D'addario EPS170M on my 30.75" short scale bass as regular short scale strings are too short. I love bright sounding strings as I can tame it where necessary from the bass and these they give me and the tone lasts for ages. So you could try the D'addario EPS170s short scale strings. [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/daddario_eps_170s.htm"]http://www.thomann.d...io_eps_170s.htm[/url] Have you decided whether you want roundwound or flatwounds? Jazzyvee .

I posted that wrong and the quotes didn't show up so it's wrongly attributed to me. My bit on there is the last paragraph regarding the alembic forum, it was originally posted here by Bass-driver.[color=#A4A4A4][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3] Posted 07 April 2013 - 12:01 PM[/size][/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] Ahhh, Alembics This is my baby - a bass I intend to keep forever: It's an Essence 5, "post-facelift" version. I absolutely love it. The tone is uncomparable to anything else - it's clear like a bell! It doesn't work everywhere, it needs more room in the mix than Fender basses for example, but when you know where and how to use it it's like nothing else on the planet I've had some problems with it (the neck is VERY meteopatic, the volume control went south - it's disconnected atm - and good luck finding the jack input replacement, lol) but the sound and feel more than makes up for the truble. I've recorded an album and used this beauty on most songs - it worked just fantastic. It's a keeper. [color=#7C7C7C][size=3] [b]Edited by Bass-Driver, 07 April 2013 - 04:30 PM.[/b][/size][/color][/font][/color]

What effect does the pickup aperture have on the sound. For example a single coil Jazz bass size compared to a singe coil soap bar style pickup. Obviously it is seeing a larger portion of the vibrating string but what does that mean in terms of the quality, type of sound etc. jazzyvee

I had some Custom moulds made at the bass show in London this year. They were really good but If you do any singing, smiling or talking on stage it is worth asking for an open mouth mould to be made as they fit a bit more snugly. The ones I had done leaked sound in round the sides of the insert if I smiled or laughed on stage. Something aways happens to make me smile. The Custom IEM company have been great in organising for me to have a fresh open mouth mould taken. Hopefully all will be well this time. Oh as for the off the shelf one's, I used those previously and for guitar i found they were fine but for bass playing it didn't give me enough balance in the frequency spread for me to hear my pitch properly or manage my volume with the band. The soft foamy 3M Yellow type are only a last resort if I forget mine. I use them more for listening to live gigs that are a bit too loud. Jazzyvee

Last year I bought a new Atlas Shark Bass from the Northern Guitar Show at Aintree, that was hand made in Thailand. It came with the Artec SE3 electronics and like you say it sounds ok. Jazzyvee

A few years back I bought a Peavey Micro bass amp to use for practice at home and these quiet rehearsals in front rooms, and I loved the way it sounded with my bass. It also sounded great with my strat and yamaha electro-acoustic guitars so it went out on small low volume gigs and sounded perfectly fine. I even used it a few times mic'd up at big venues when we travelled without a back line and no-one ever complained about the sound. Having good monitors meant the amp didn't need to be up loud. Jazzyvee

Thanks It's the bass I use the most for live gigs over the past couple of years.

[font=Helvetica][size=3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4MOVvDJxBSU#t=1010[/size][/font] [font=Helvetica][size=3] And about vintage instruments.[/size][/font][font=Helvetica][size=3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4MOVvDJxBSU#t=1323[/size][/font] Jazzyvee

I usually start by learning the most difficult section of the piece and once that is done the rest tends to come into place much easier. If I can't technically play a section of the track then learning the rest is pointless. I do all my learning by ear as my score reading is very rudimentary although I'm working on that. Jazzyvee

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I'm gigging with Musical Youth tomorrow at the Caribbean Festival in Victoria Square, Birmingham city centre.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]We haven't been told what time we are on stage yet but have to be back stage for 18:00 so I don't imagine it will be too long after that when we hit the stage. I think we have a 40 minute spot.[/font][/color] https://www.facebook.com/events/397271023747166/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&suggestsessionid=008df727261ac3908bdc400d29403f46 http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/12-things-see-birmingham-caribbean-7209457 Jazzyvee

Thanks for the links I've just downloaded a shed load of them as I've decided to bite the bullet and learn to read music.

[quote name='Roxy' timestamp='1401728865' post='2466269'] thanks for the advice. Did you start slapping on the 4 string first? If so, how long long did it take you to convert. Sorry for the questions but which 5 string do you prefer to slap on? As I'm an oldie now (and I dont want this to sound lazy) but don't feel I've got the time to spend ages to slog away slowly on a 5 . I was a passable slapper 10 years ago on 4 string playing the easier Mark King/ Marcus Miller licks. Cheers [/quote] I must emphasise that although I can slap a bass, It is not the major part of what I do as a bass player and so I don't do the kind of mark king style stuff or the mad stuff that was going on around the bass in the 80's. I think the only thing I play that falls into that category is Marcus Miller's version of What Is Hip?. I started learning tracks that require slap on a 4 string because that was the bass that I had. I don't use 4 string bass a lot these days and so it's usually on a 5 string bass. I don't have a preference between 4's or 5's so I choose depending on the track and whether it's easier on one bass than another. All my basses have the same string spacing except one 5 string bass and all have different amounts of space between the end of the neck and the neck pickup. Regular slapping is ok on all of them except if I want to do double thumbing for a particular song then i try to avoid sing the narrower string bass. I can do it on that bass but it's more difficult to keep the string noises quiet. Due to the neck pickup positions it also means I use slightly a different version of double thumbing when using each one which is a pain if I forget which bass I'm holding at the time. I would say that whichever bass you use will have it's challenges and you will get used to that one if you persevere. Enjoy the practice btw if you want a real easy time go for a 4 string short scale bass and lighter strings gauges.

Check this out with Chuck Rainey. Is your method like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gZC_jSyUmjQ#t=43

I bought the Tascam GB-10 about a year ago and the issues have with it are probably minor but irritating just the same. if you have a track on and you press the [<< button to go back to the beginning of the currently playing track it goes to the beginning of the previous track so you have to press the >>] button to get back to the track you were practicing to which is frustrating. The other thing I would like is a line-in so that you can play along to tracks from your iPod or mp3 player rather than having to fill the memory card from your computer in advance to play along. Finally the screen is not backlit so is not always easy to see what is going on.

I have neck through basses and i find although that design is supposed to be sensitive to temperature changes, it is the 4 string bass that tends to move more so than the others, but only by a minuscule bit and probably because it hangs on the wall whilst the others are always stored in their cases. Usually if the others loose tuning it is due to tuner pegs being knocked when I'm taking them out of the case to play.

Did you manage to find a short scale bass that suited your needs?