LukeFRC

Supporting member ? Says what it is, and members have benefits

Not really, but each to their own!

Sort of thing that will sell better on here

To be fair @binky_bass your points 4-7 would be good applied to basschat too?

I think it’s more of a rack compressor

Filters would be better, so you could actively filter down to what you want to see. Subsections mean that somethings just won't get seen enough as you'll loose the more casual but interested traffic. Filters would be a lot of dev work though I think.

I like Basschat. Folk are generally sound, on a similar wavelength to me and it's the best place for shifting specialist stuff. FB takes more time if you're looking to buy, and also fills up your newsfeed with pictures off basses. Personally I don't think you can buy from there unless it's local. Selling is ok depending on where you are in the country. eBay will take your money and probably shift it for you. For some stuff it's the best place to find stuff... I like the idea of using Bassdirect. At the end of the day their cut is probably not that much different to eBay/Paypal, and if someone is taking a chunk, I would much rather support a local specialist bass retailer than eBay who aren't the nicest company in the world. The big problem I see with Basschat at the moment, is that it's become really only effective at the higher end stuff... cheaper more generallist items (say a squier bass) are more likely to be listed and sold on FB and move quicker. The issues with that I can see are twofold... for the site, is it a valid channel for young folk at the start moving cheaper end stuff around? as there's a risk of the bass chat demographic getting older and older... and secondly for me... things like straps, bridges and odd bits just don't get listed as much as they used too, folk just listing their parts drawers used to be more common, and for someone just wanting a secondhand pickup or something, they just aren't here any more. Pickups are a good example...

Use the effects send to go to your amp. Main send with a TRS-XLR to the desk what it will let you do too is add any blocks that you don’t want going to your rig after the send. eg if you are playing through a cab you probably don’t want to put a cab sim in your rig, but you might to the FOH

yes you have. ACG have beautiful body shapes - but something about the woods on your one......

I’m trying to get us onto a digital solution. We use opensongs for the presentation and the opensong format supports chords and they have a free android app that supports them - opensong files also can be read by OnSong ... the thing is you then loose OnSong ability to create and beam sets but it’s more accessible to non Apple owners

Based on this review I also spent £3 to fit these to my UE 900s earphones - up to now I’ve been getting an ok response with different foam ear buds, but playing at church where sometimes you have to take one side in and out a bit they never last long... these things though are brilliant - I’ve just used them and not had so good, and long lasting, isolation from the room - you know they work when the ambient noise of a bunch of people chatting in the room is quieter than your IEM mix was. Really really really good. Recommended if anyone hasn’t found something that works for you plus if you’ve any wax in your ears the flanges pull it all out!

you're reacting well to your band leader suggesting you all switch to IEM and not amps... which stage are you at now? denial?

achhh it all gets beyond my ability! I bought a big old class AB amp myself last week- power consumption 950w it says

No - make sure phantom is off on that channel though

Ideal three bass sounds you want... something that can sound like a precision, something like a jazz and something like a stingray. Plus animal based wallpaper to match at least one of your basses

Three thoughts... An active stingray-a-like and a passive jazz sit utterly differently in the mix and you would have to set your amp/eq way differently. Often times the uncomfortableness you have is you not hearing the bass exactly where you expect it in the mix... even if it sounds fine to everyone else. For example, for years I was so used to the low mid P bass sound in the mix I couldn't hear Jazz basses when I played. Active vs passive alone is enough to throw you, but Jazz basses tend to have a mid scoop, Ray-a-like tend to have a lot of mids... are you changing your amp to suit? If not, that's why you're fiddling with your eq! It's a sparkly blue Flea bass... having bought a Sparkly blue jazz off you in the past I know it's your style and you would be utterly mad to sell it. My dream bass was a Warwick JD thumb... I bought one from 1985. It ended up sat on the wall for four years not being played much before I admitted to myself I didn't love it with my playing to pick it up over my other two basses. So it went. It was a good move. It sounded utterly amazing like really amazing... but it didn't fit with the sound I get out of my fingers, and wasn't going to be picked up and played.

soooo 2019 mate!

* that's * what's fun about worship bass - the sense of being able to experiment and mix things up. (unless you go to a church where you have to play it to the letter) Reading this thread I think a lot depends on if you have a keys player, I haven't in the churches I've played in, and when I have they have mostly been very good. You also find out that non-professional sound people can be scared of bass.... I had one situation with a digital desk where everything under 80Hz was boosted, everything 100Hz-2k was -18db and the top end was left alone, that's where they thought the bass guitar lived in the mix ?! and more than a few times I've played and later found out I may as well not as I wasn't audible in the FOH.

not sure where you're shopping. If you look secondhand a decent passive jazz will set you back way less than that. here's one: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/392744-fsft-lakland-skyline-44-64-custom-colour-£575/ and another https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/388826-fender-japan-jazz-1984-7-black-rosewood-red-tort/ and a relic if that's your thing https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/383458-now-£700-limelight-custom-guitars-63-j-bass-heavy-relic/ and that's just on a quick scan on here. I think that a lot of the cheaper end basses probably don't make it on bass chat and are on the gumtree/ebay/facebook groups instead. And that's before even suggesting a Good Squier, or even something like a Bass Collection, or Sire even, could scratch that itch for you without shelling out the big bucks. I've gone on a similar-ish journey to you... I've had neck through basses with fancy preamps in and a very cultured tone... and actually the sound of a simple fender style bass just works in the mix in the way that some custom basses won't. BUT you'll find the Shukers will do things that a jazz won't. I guess the question is - Guesing you use the other Shuker live... what does the single cut do differently that the main one doesn't that justify's you keeping it? If there isn't enough, then a change is good. Mind you - if I were going to spend £1200 on a jazz bass - I'ld be buying one from Jon Shuker...

take a banjo?

You must have?!

Church we used to go to was an old 1720s building that had been abandoned and then renovated - one of the decisions made was to put a big glass wall down the back third in order to put a cafe space and bit of a second floor in... big stone building.... glass wall.... in case you are wondering it was The C on the A string that resonated most

OnSong is good

Yep, musically it's often a kind of indie-rock style somewhere between U2 and Coldplay for example... this isn't Sunday morning, one of the local churches that puts a woman's conference, their Sunday is similar

it all depends on the church... it could be everything from a venue that holds thousands and the most polished band ever (and you have to play exactly what's on the music), through to a joyful but atonal mess of not-very-good-musicians. You could find out the drummer one week has a PHD in jazz drumming and the next week is a 14 year old who started learning 6 months ago. Be prepared for a massive variety of musical skills, and more importantly listening skills. I've found that as the music is often in chord charts, the way a lot of worship leaders on piano and guitar think about them is via the lyrics rather than via the medium of musical bars we would be used too... for instance the music finishes a bar at the end of the chorus, but the leader may truncate the bad and jump straight into the start of the verse... this is a challenge that you get to practice your interpersonal skills with! When I started playing church was great way to learn, I got a sheet of music 30 min before playing and had to just nail it- which was a good discipline. Unless it's gospel be prepared to play a lot of simpler less flashy basslines, and sometimes just hold everything together. The big no-no is the crazy flashy thing, or big fill that you don't pull off. If you can pull it off ok, if it fits, but if it's not perfect then it will distract everyone. So don't do anything if you can't actually pull it off... in practice though this creates a lovely dynamic between your playing and your practicing - e.g. I used to read stuff about Jamerson, practice at home and then very quickly be able to introduce what I was learning into my lines on a Sunday...