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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?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1458733657' post='3010249'] ...and you annoyed the crap out of your colleagues for a couple of years. [/quote] yeh but that was more to do with my awful sense of humour and love of smelly food

This came up on my facebook from Tape Op magazine and I was so impressed I thought I'd better share it here. It's a recording of a full band in a room using one stereo mic, and it sounds great. Not my kind of music but still, very impressive [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcf6kqvsXu8[/media]

I used to want to be able to play really fast so I practised a three finger technique on my right hand while at work for a couple of years. It worked but now I have no desire to play that fast any more

well that makes it much more listenable! Nice one!

I don't want to explain my technique, it's very unorthodox and I'm sure I'd be banned from basschat. I can play "normal" bass too, but I play a lot of weird heavy music which involves abusing my basses

ahh, not sure if there's a limit on soundcloud but I regularly put files on there at 320kpbs so it might be worth opening a soundcloud account?

I appreciate that. I find the same thing happens on all 3 of my 6 strings on the high C. I've checked for sharp bits on the saddles and can't find any. I think I probably play too hard, or at least pop the high C too hard, but that's because I get carried away and there's not a lot I can do about it (other than getting better, and that's not going to happen! ) The high C from that Newtone set is still intact after 3 years, if a little dead

how did you convert to mp3? You should be going for 320kbps mp3s IMO

I want to know the options really When I was gigging a lot (about 10 years ago) I was using Elites 5 string sets plus matching high Cs, and these were OK but died quite quickly. I also went through a phase of Elixers but I hated the way the plastic came off, although I gather they've solved this problem in the mean time? The Newtone set I'm on about was very heavy, I think .145 on the B and .40 on the C, and they were great and lasted ages. They cost me about £65 though In the last 12 months I've tried Pro Steels which were 0.32 to 0.130. The high C snapped on the first or second "pop" (I'm quite an aggressive player) but other than this they're OK. The low B is nowhere near as good as the Newtone though I don't know if this is down to the gauge or the construction. I also had some Warwick Red Label and snapped the high C within a minute and the low B within a day Basically I'm on a very tight budget so it'd be good to be able to compare lots of different 6 string sets by price and figure out what I can afford

I have no idea which brand or type I'd like to try next, but I'd like to be able to compare lots of sets in terms of gauge and type. I'm generally looking at steel strings, but other than that I have no set opinions I've looked on bass direct's site and I can't see a way to compare all of their 6 string sets?