Gareth Hughes

[quote name='Hector' post='1250467' date='May 30 2011, 04:48 PM']Not so much for jamming, but Bill Bentgen's scales podcast is pretty good for practising intonation. (If you just search his name on Itunes store, I'm sure it'll come up) I'd quite like to get into trying to practice scales with some drone notes though, if anyone knows where I can find some? EDIT - Found a couple of sites that have drones free to download, if anyone's interested.[/quote] Absolutely - where'd you get them?

I think this is a very useful tool. Even just using the given examples of chord tones over a 12 bar, it's a good way to demonstrate how to connect chord tones and avoid always playing on the root. Fair play and thanks to BassoRidiculoso for sharing this.

Envelope Filter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe try raising or lowering your bass, or pulling the neck in close to you so the headstock is behind your head. Careful experimentation should yield some good results.

Ooooo oooo - and check this one out: Sara Lee playing live on Ani DiFranco's 'Anticipate' from 'Living In Clip'.

Maybe not in the same vein musically - but a bassline I love playing ad infinitum in Martyn P. Casey's line on Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds cover of Nina Simone's 'Plain Gold Ring' from the 'Live Seeds' record. Beautifully hypnotic. Comes in at 0:47:

Bought a TC Electronic Classic 450 head from Lozz, along with a great GigSkinz bag, and a very funky beach towel. Good man is Lozz - happy to buy from him again.

The closest you'll come to using the POD (well, the original version anyway, that's all I'm familiar with) without any amp/cab simulation is to use the Tube Preamp setting. I used to have the 4 channel footswitch but never liked it for on the fly changes as there was a delay in switching channels. If I were you, and you knew which patch you wanted on each song (only one per song in this way) I'd use the POD with something like a Boss LS-2 Line Selector pedal. That way you would you the LS-2 to turn the POD effect on and off and still have a clean, bypassed, non-amp simulating signal.

Tis a good show indeed. I did it a few years ago. Who doesn't smile at 'Feed me, Seymour!!!!'?

Oooooops - I hope Chez Clarky doesn't smell of burnt circuit board now.

I did for the last few months - but I guess after all those years of resting my thumb on the neck pickup that I just fell in love with the tone found there and missed it too much, so off they came last week.

Yep, it'll be fine - the kettle lead is just carrying the juice from the wall. And AFAIK, those Doubler heads are voltage correcting themselves anyway, so they sort out what they need to run on.

The Boss CEB-3 is a classic - and yep, I'm selling one [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=134212"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=134212[/url]

Or something like a Boss GEB-7 eq pedal?

[quote name='PaulKing' post='1238091' date='May 20 2011, 01:08 PM']I can get two in the back of my Golf hatchback, easy peasy.[/quote] Now that's just showing off Paul

From endpin to the top of the pegbox is about 6ft. I got mine in an old VW Polo. They're quite deceiving buggers.

[quote name='High5bass' post='1236632' date='May 19 2011, 09:12 AM']I use this - [url="http://www.djmmusic.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=SIS14-BK"]http://www.djmmusic.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=SIS14-BK[/url] Looks the same as Gareth's from Thomann. I've had no problems with it.[/quote] Egads - I hate being done on a deal!!!! Yep, looks like exactly the same stand for a few quid cheaper. Caution tho - it doesn't work so good, nay - NOT AT ALL - with an angled endpin. I found this out right at the interval of a gig in front of 1000 people. Put the bass on the stand, turned to walk off and something just felt wrong. Turned around quickly and saw my bass headed for the floor. Thankfully I had a monitor to my right instead of in front of me and the lower bout of the bass hit that first, delaying it from hitting the ground as I got to the bass in time.

Cool one - just put in the intro to 'The Peter Gunn Theme'!!!!

I have this: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/basix_kontrabassstaender.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/basix_kontrabassstaender.htm[/url] It's okay - not amazing. The endpin cup sits a few inches of the ground, which means if you were to rest your bass with endpin extended in it, the bass would sit quite high and make it a little prone to toppling. However, it works fine if you position your endpin behind the front bar that's on the ground (hope that makes sense). Having the arms around the bouts is confidence inspiring. Is this the new K&M one you saw?: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/km_141_mkii.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/km_141_mkii.htm[/url] This looks to address the endpin issue I mentioned. Hmmmmm, tempting. I previously used one like this for years: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/stagg_sv_db_double_bass_stand.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/stagg_sv_db_double_bass_stand.htm[/url] Only changed it because the lower arms that support the bottom of the bass were too low for me. This one seems to have movable arms.

I saw that thread title earlier today and had an involuntary Charlie Brown 'Good Grief' reaction to it. Could it possibly be followed with a 'which foot should I get kicked in the balls with first?' thread - I think it should

Thanks for this Bilbo - much appreciated. And now I await the depression to set in......

Use a stool - you may get some stick for it but so what? I use one whenever I can, and after a few years of getting dodgy looks from bandmates I've noticed a few guys following suit. If it's a gig that it might look out of place sitting down, get a high stool, with a high foot rest, and semi sit/stand - ie: with your left foot on the ground and your right foot on the foot rest, giving support to your bass. It might help to explain what's going on to the band leader or anyone else that might have a problem with it. I do sympathise - I did a few gigs with a broken collarbone years ago (thankfully on my right side, not the strap side) but I still needed help getting the bass over my head. Get some rest!!!!