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Haha, unlucky Jack! [quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1460404838' post='3025493'] All the most petty, childish behaviour I've encountered in my adult life has been while I've been in bands, which is yet another reason why I stopped gigging years ago & I'll never be in another band. [/quote] Obviously I read a lot of this stuff on here, so I know it's true, but I've been in about 8 bands so far and only one had a fall out, and that was very civil. I'm currently in 4 bands and we all get on really well. The only childishness is some of the humour. Sorry you've been so unlucky!

some prickly posts in here!

Just bought a power conditioner from Charlie and it couldn't have gone better. Cheers!

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1460041771' post='3022031'] I agree that we're louder now. I think that the main reason for this is that [u]drum kits have become better and louder[/u] along with the introduction of PA's at an affordable price for pub bands. I would love to play at lower volumes, my time for heavy metal has gone, but the drum kit alone, unamplified, makes me have to turn the volume of my 500W amp to almost half... [/quote] drum kits have got louder?! Any reason you think that?

I use a load of pedals into the behringer BDI21 straight to the desk. I just use monitors, CBA to carry an amp around!

definitely try a thumb pick, it works for me!

it depends how you look at it. Some of my very old recordings have a rubbish mix, which is quite frustrating and makes me want to go back over them. Most of the stuff I've done for the last 10 years sounds great! I play all of the songs differently now, and it'd be nice to record them the way I play now, but I'm not too bothered about that as I see it as capturing a moment in time I've not long finished an album with one of my bands. I think it's great but the rest of the band are already frustrated with it. "Not enough acoustic guitar, too much electric, too fast, too shouty" etc etc. As far as I'm concerned the album is a perfect capture of what we were doing at that time so I really have no problem with it. I would say "maybe the more you record the easier it gets to tolerate" but I guess Lennon had plenty of practise

surely that would play like a knife through butter? I guess a bass that plays like butter would be great as long as it was colder than room temperature

Is the sound you have on your first recording similar to the sound you had when you recorded the parts? Or do you think he played with it a lot in the mixing stage? The mix sounds like a bit of a rush job to be honest, no offence intended, so while the above is all good advice, it may well be that this engineer is going to leave your sound alone in the mix, in which case getting a different sound at source would be a good idea.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1459942657' post='3021055'] Can I have sex with a raw badger and eat my parents instead? [/quote]

it's just a bit of fun isn't it? Like "Would you rather eat a raw badger OR watch your parents have sex? You HAVE to choose one"

You know the "I sound like me on every bass" argument? Well I think it's mostly balls. If you mostly play folk on a P with flats into a clean amp, and then I ask you to try slapping on my J with rounds through a distorted amp, it's not going to sound like the same bassist at all. Maybe a lot of us bassists like to just have one sound? In which case, fair enough! But I have loads of sounds. How could I possibly say "it always sounds like me" when actually it always sounds different!?!

I've never played a bass I wouldn't be comfortable playing. The bass I choose to put in the bag is the one I think will sound best for the task at hand, so I guess it's tone over playability for me, but yeh, I've never known an unplayable instrument

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1459793497' post='3019721'] My favourite bass performance is on Aretha Franklin's Border Song. I think it's Chuck Rainey? [/quote] Wow, I'd not heard that before, thanks!!!

This [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9eED6Krl14[/media] I think it came from you or one of your threads. I love a lot of bassists but I've yet to find a performance to excite me as much as this

looking good Matt!

It took me ages to get 3 fingers sounding "fluid" and consistent. I've lost that skill now. I'm just not interested in going that fast any more, and I actually realised my two fingers are much faster than I thought.

what's an aggressive offer? A generous one might have more chance of success! I play a load of beer festivals, folk festivals, punk festivals, indoor and out. They're all usually fun. I don't think we've got anything massive though. We'll probably play to audiences of 500 or so

maybe build yourself a manshed or rent a room somewhere?

I play whatever I want in 4 originals bands, and write my own music when I get time. It's pretty fulfilling! Good advice above to set up a small recording studio. I used to have this upstairs at home and got loads of my own music recorded. I never did anything with it, but it was very fulfilling. Since starting an actual studio I've not had the time!

I play 6 string basses with standard tuning (High C) and switch between them and guitars all the time. I play lots of chords and write lots of stuff on guitar which I then move over to bass but I've never considered tuning the high C down to B. Maybe I'm just used to the different shapes?

not sure on that one sorry!

yeh, quite a big difference in the high frequencies It still sounds like the kit's a bit distorted... no point in me making any comments on the sound unless you can get hold of the stems from the engineer?