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Fancy a bit of old purple light Trace Elliot Biamped loveliness?

Unless I transposed my recording the E flat seems to fit the original...

As I work through it now, I realise I've also been suffering from Bass Players Drift. It's a condition affecting musicians when they play a song for a long period of time without listening to the original material. Also when playing a song only sporadically and without rehearsal. In case A) the line alters incrementally without anyone noticing until years later what one might swear is the original line has morphed into something quite different. In case B) relying on memory alone when the BL chucks the song unexpectedly into the mix the bassist blunders about findning an approximation of the line. Parts of this 'best guess' line become muscle memory and a whole new part is born

You sure it wasn't picking up @TheGreek and his girlfriend ? (Ooops sorry just remembered it's Mick not Dave)

As the original. I learned the bassline from this https://basslessons.be/transcriptions.php?i=2 Not 100% but pretty darned close. Now I revisit it i see the bass echoes the melody beautifully in the chorus and I'm definitely going to learn it all.

Yeah I do it. I had to learn it in a hurry so quickly sussed the first pattern (once through the chord pattern) and thought I'll get away with repeating this and improvising around it for one gig. Then I'll learn the rest. BL chops and changes set so often I never got round to learning the rest but I must it's a wonderful line. Sadly the song itself feels limp and flat when we play it live. Sometimes you just don't get under the skin of a tune.

I shall, its in a mates house right now but I'll go get it

I have one like this in the same orange fluffy case. No maker's name anywhere, thru neck stereo jack sockets. Might it be a Matsumoku? You have me wondering now. 🤔

Thinking about my OP, it's interesting because the machine is triggered by pressure. Makes you realise that all this moving air talk is far from the bunkum it might sound.

I've read some far fetched stuff in my time, but this? Now the pre-emptive anglo french nuclear strike on the other hand

Ah, well turns out it's a great little set up for those gigs and I mean literally not a euphemism ! Some places I'm gone the moment I can unstick my feet from the carpet

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I found it a harmless bit of fun.

I like it!

I just set off my sleep apnea machine with my bass. What bizarre and unexpected results have you had from playing?

Never fussy to want the band to be the best it can be

I started dabbling in effects last year, previously I'd enjoyed a love hate relationship with them. My approach has always been to throw the kitchen sink at anything new and slowly work back to what I want. Well, I think I'm getting there, finally! I now have the octave pedal I always wanted - Joyo XVI, the distortion - Big Muff, the pitch shift - Ricochet, the envelope filter - EHX Mini Qtron, and various Zoom multi fx units any of which which cover HPF, compression, synth sounds. Still after the perfect chorus but I'm getting there, the zooms can carry that for now. For those gigs where I want to be in and out with as few bags as possible I slip a Valeton Dapper Bass strip into my pocket. Takes a long time doing it this way but I'm getting there.

It's a mini Qtron by ehx. Takes a 3.5mm jack

If you're really looking forward to gigging, find something else before you quit. I was going to say we, as musicians, can enjoy playing any style, genre or subgenre of music, but that's not the same as enjoying being in a band that can't play well! I used to cycle a lot and read some great advice once Never set out on a long road trip with other riders if your fitness levels are too far apart. You'll end up resenting each other, either because the iron men make you feel inadequate or the slow coaches mean you have to keep stopping for them just as you hit your stride.

This is shaping up to be a success story along the lines of the Bass Centre's collaboration with Bruce Thomas. The Profile is absolutely one of the best instruments I've ever played. I love the colour of both, not common but not insane either, this is a kind of gentle rose - very nice. I'm not a jazz nor active bass kind of guy but Betsy looks very interesting to me.