bassist_lewis

1. Jaco Pastorius played a stock Fender.

2. It depends what you care about. I'm a teacher, so I earn a decent salary, and some of my colleagues feel its worthwhile spending their's on leasing a brand new BMW. I think that's the dumbest waste of money ever, but its not my money so who cares what I think. I'm spending £3kish on a Serek because I think they look cool, they come well reviewed and I can afford it.

The phrase "f**k it, do what you want" comes to mind.

I'm working on Donna Lee (just the head at the moment) and I can't seem to get the feel right. Whether I play it straight or swung it doesn't feel quite right when I play along with the Charlie Parker recording. Anyone know more about Bebop than me?

I bought this pedal for £25 from a friend who doesn't play much bass anymore, and honestly wasn't expecting much (I have some prejudices against the mass produced pedals). BUT I plugged it in this evening and holy s**t, this overdrive sounds so good! Its got basic bass/treble EQ, mix, level and gain. With everything at 12 it's a bit aggressive but a very useable starting point. I found trimming the top end and putting the mix at 3 o'clock (towards dry) gave me a nice bit of grind while still feeling the sound of my bass.

I'd honestly put this up there with the Xotic BB Preamp and JHS Morning Glory as pretty transparent overdrive. I regret anything bad I ever thought or said about Boss.

22 minutes ago, meterman said:

I wasn't familiar with Soame basses, they're a custom builder from Argentina. But they popped up randomly on my Instagram feed and there's a few of their short scale basses that look great to me, so I thought I'd share some screenshots. All seem to be offset Mustang types, some semi-hollow, and priced around 2400 dollars. Nice looking 😎

 

 

 

 

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https://www.soamecustomguitars.com  

 

 

 

 

 

Seen these before and they look cool af

51 minutes ago, BCH said:

Arrived today Tim Commerford Music Man Stingray short scale (30") active #14 of 50. Its a great build, size, weight & comfort. So far the tone is very promising...cant wait to gig. So my Mike Lull short scale will have to go!!!!!!

😍 so much love

Also, look at this rare beast!

https://reverb.com/uk/item/49312045-fender-mustang-bass-1978-antiqua

Already looking at if I can afford to get this and still pay for my Serek 😅

4 hours ago, sPiKi said:

For all you Mustang lovers:

 

 

Doe snayone know what model that is? it doesn't look vintage and I'm not aware of recent (i.e. last 20 years) models with a matching headstock.

1 minute ago, ped said:

Hopefully they don’t sell or he’s in for a long wait at the very least! I saw the Proton. Mental price. I couldn’t get rid of mine fast enough!

The Doom 2 is gone already and I only saw them a couple of hours ago. I think what annoys me is that Spencer could have charged more on his own site, and that would've been a better place for the money to go IMO.

Just seen a Proton and a Doom 2 up on Reverb for about £500. What is uncomfortable is that the seller says the bought them directly from 3Leaf in the last few weeks where Spencer has been selling off the B-stock. I don't know about you guys but that doesn't sit right with me, to buy at a comparative discount and sell on at a huge profit (for context, I believe Spencer sold them for approx. £150).

I'm looking out for a 3Leaf Doom 2. Will probably be a few months before Spencer does another run

I personally prefer my filter after overdrive/distortion, it gives the filter more upper frequencies to work with. As Josh Scott of JHS says, just try stuff

4 hours ago, Thunderbird said:

I look at these incredible boards and wonder how most of you use the effects are they just for fun or used in actual songs? I understand where preamps and drives are used but some of the boards blow my mind with the cool toys on them and I just can't think how some of them are used 🤔

I play in a few different wedding bands so I use octaves, filters and chorus to recreate synth bass sounds (I don't play with nay of them consistently enough to justify shelling out for an actual synth). I also make some pretty wild sounds in my original band, we're a trio so there's lots of space to take up. Having said that, my phaser and chorus probably get the least use of all my pedals, hence why I only have one of each.

35 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

 

Oh well. Keeps me in the Gear Abstinence Challenge for 2022 🤷‍♂️

Same... but as soon as some Doom 2s appear I'll be all over them.

2 hours ago, whave said:

 

Good Lord, in the age of next day delivery, this makes me feel like being in a weird Twilight Zone episode or something!

Every time I've checked Amazon doesn't stock Serek basses 😔

2 hours ago, Owno said:

Great! How long is the wait now? 

When I put the deposit down at the end of October Jake said it would be a year, but they've had supply chain issues and he posted on the socials to add an extra 6-8 weeks. Everything I've read about them says it'll be worth it.

On 05/01/2022 at 21:50, Owno said:

 

It is inspired by the Epiphone Coronet guitar and Newport bass seen to the gumbyesque body shape and pickguard, for sure. In terms of playability this is - dare I say - way better though. Here’s another pic of my bass from the Serek factory floor: It plays like a dream, weighs less than 3kg and sounds incredible. Another beast than my JMJ and P-bass. I highly recommend all short scale fans contemplating whether to purchase a slightly more expensive bass to order one (if low output thump is what you need)!

This makes me more excited for mine, but also more frustrated because I probably won't get it til January 2023 😭

For my mini board (Mono Lite, so basically a Pedlatrain Nano) I've mounted a Gigrig isolator underneath and I plug that into a standard 9v True Tone power supply. I'm sure that would void any warranty but I've been doing it for about 6 months and it works great.

Gone a little bit crazy  this festive period with pedal buying but here is 3 of 4 pedals ordered this last few weeks. This is a fantastic fuzz for bass, probably second only to my  Malekko B:Assmaster. The clipping settings give a lot of fun options to play with, the bass boost is good if you really want that low end, though at my preferred setting it becomes flabby and loses definition.

1 hour ago, GisserD said:

ill eat my words then. 

im selling mine.

SCRAMBLE!!!!!!!!!

7 hours ago, stewblack said:

The only weakness I can see is the lack of bass content. He did one show where the message was, stick a graphic after the pedal and boost the low end.

But surely the low end isn't there to be boosted if the guitar pedal has sucked it out 🤔

I sometimes wonder if what's happening there is that the upper frequencies are so loud as to cause us to perceive the lower frequencies as quieter. The ear (bot the physical structure and the audio centres of the brain) pick up more on upper mid frequencies than anything else, cause that's roughly where human voices lie. Total theory and nothing to back it up mind!

1 minute ago, stewblack said:

He's a brilliant broadcaster, obviously a complete pedal geek, and by featuring all pedals not just his own, has produced a wonderful show.

I love his humour and the way he shares his knowledge. Not a half bad musician either.

Yeah, I love the show. The irony is, he hardly changes up his own pedalboard! 

17 hours ago, stewblack said:

It's an envelope filter into a phaser. Only two controls and a choice of upsweep or down.

It sounds absolutely amazing. I never knew an envelope needed a phaser. It's like going through life eating chips with neither salt nor vinegar on them.

What a revelation. Easily smashing its way into my top 3 ever pedals, the moment I tried it.

I do have a question however. The power socket is labelled 9 - 18v.  After literally minutes of extensive research, I found a video where Josh wotsit off JHS, said it made little or no difference which I used. He said some people claim it makes a difference, but really it doesn't. He wasn't on about this pedal mind you, just the whole 9 to 18v thing.

Now here's the thing. My pedal works beautifully with 18v, with 9v the light comes on but nobody's home, it doesn't affect the sound at all, with 12v nothing happens, the light doesn't even come on.

My question, in a nutshell, is this. What gives?

I have an Fulltone OCD that runs at 9-18v and I honestly can't hear the difference between the two. I saw that video and felt vindicated. I feel there's a lot of myth and magical thinking in the pedal world about components, vintage pedals etc etc. and it's good that someone like Josh Scott is *trying* to dispel the myths.

2 minutes ago, Len_derby said:

Any recommendations for gig bags for short scale basses? Fender Mustang in particular. I know it’ll fit into a standard size bag, but that takes away the ability to stash the bass out of sight in the boot of my car. 
Suggestions welcome.

Very much depends on the bass, particularly the headstock. My Callowhill MPB will fit comfortably in a Mono sleeve, but I have to fight the zipper with my JMJ Mustang. Harvest Leather make a short scale gig bag that fits the JMJ, but they are very expensive.

Serek and Maruszczyk also make bags that will fit most short scales.

7 hours ago, stewblack said:

Cool, thank you

I've just found a video I did on Instagram using the Dweller and a little bit of Moog for filter sweeps. My username is bassistlewis and its a post from the 10 March

14 minutes ago, stewblack said:

Hey, I've been researching (just your basic GAS really) OBNE pedals but there's not many bass videos. How are you getting on with this pedal, now you've had it a while?

Do you have any video or sound samples?

I haven't done any recording with it but I like the sound of it with bass. You can change the number of stages, the wave shape plus the usual mix, depth, rate, so it's pretty versatile. Though I'm guilty of set and forget. It can get pretty wild with the delay feature, so I don't really use that function (might if I had a TRS cable).