stewblack

Ultimately everything we experience is learning. Good and bad, painful and joyful all we can do is take the knowledge we gain forward into new adventures and use that which we learn to benefit others. Edit: try to benefit others.

That is a fantastic response, thank you. Any ideas about flight cases?

I've always had a love hate relationship with pedals. I GAS for them, buy them, trip over them and sell them on. Never really bothered to spend time learning how best to use them. Lately I've been accumulating pedals for the sound requirements of the different bands I'm in and they're cluttering my bits box so I think I need a pedal board. I'd also like it to be in a hard case and I suspect I'll need a decent power supply too. I suppose really I'm asking for recommendations for everything except the pedals. I have two basic boss sized pedals one fatter one and a zoom b1 so I don't need anything enormous but it's probably wise to assume I'll add a couple more. Oh best leads to link them all too. Is that a job for OBBM? Thanks folks.

The spark between musicians is where the magic lives. Playing without it is like being in a loveless marriage.

That's the problem with humour. I often think I'm being really funny only to discover no one is laughing. I guess he's trying to get noticed.

Yep, that's the road I'm on.

Wow that Peddlers track is amazing. Thank you for sharing. See the drummer play a fill right round the kit with one hand while twirling a stick in the other. And the bassist, just wow.

Yep. I had zero gas till I returned here now I can't stop it.

If only olives played bass!

You see I know nothing of this JK of whom you speak. When I first heard them I just didn't like the noise so I never paid them no nevermind. The bands I'm in now play songs by bands I previously detested but what I find is the bassline is the only thing that matters to me. If it's a cool line I'm on it. Obviously if it's a great tune and a cool line I'm in heaven. The only downers in the set are a couple of turgid rock throwaways with plodding bass parts. YAWN!

Wait, what? Developing bass player? I've been doing this like forever. Does this mean I'm still only starting out?

Aithangyoo

Hi Stew, what a great name! I've gone for the Radial, waiting for it to drop on the mat. I am just about to ask for pedal board / power supply advice as I seem to be accumulating effects (not something I usually do but I'm playing in bands with such a variety of songs and styles it seems a necessary evil) and they are cluttering my bits box!

Never had any time for this band. I always thought they produced a washed out, bland, passionless insult to the great funk and disco bands which preceded them. Strange things happen to one as one grows older, however, and above all when one achieves sobriety. One of the bands I've recently joined performs a tune called Love Foolosophy. What a feckin' ridiculous title, I thought to myself, I wonder what the band is called. You can, dear reader, only begin to imagine my despair on discovering who was responsible for the original. Then I started trying to learn the bassline. I've not only discovered I'm playing without gritted teeth, finding the music rather pleasant, but am actually in awe of the bass part on this track. It's extremely challenging for me to learn, not because it contains anything physically difficult to play but because the ways in which it is phrased and structured are quite alien to the way I usually play. What a marvellous opportunity I've been handed to stretch and enhance my technique and understanding of the bass. And what an endorsement of keeping an open mind. Whatever next? Olives? The Smiths?

Outstanding. Thank you.

Have you a picture of this set up? Sounds so well thought through!

I'm only wading through this topic in the hopes of learning about compression. I would therefore like to thank those who have posted calmly and rationally and shared their knowledge. As for the OP, I can't tell you if an audience would notice or not but I can share one little tale from my years of bass playing. Packed house, lively gig band steaming along nicely. Suddenly a thingy came adrift inside my amp (my tech savvy mate fixed it and glued it in place, been fine ever since) the immediately apparent effect of the loose thingy was to reduce my previously warm, rounded yet punchy and dynamic bass sound to a terrible quacking fart such as a giant duck might produce were it to have imbibed with undue vigour of Mr Perrets Traditional Stout. The actual volume remained reasonably consistent but the tortured distorted sound was like the world's worst fuzz box put through broken speakers. I have never produced a more dreadful noise on stage either before or since. Now, the moral of the story is this. I soldiered on, ashen faced through the final numbers of the set, the only saving grace being that there wasn't long left to play. When we finished and a happy appreciative audience was congratulating us no one knew why I was apologising for the bass sound. I mean no one. Not the paying public, not my mate who had a special interest in the rhythm section and was stood near my side of the room, and yes, you've guessed it, not one member of my band noticed anything amiss. So polling us based on what an audience does or doesn't notice, seems to me a little unlikely to achieve much. Still, I shall be pressing the compressor button on my amp in future so this thread has been useful, if a little painful at times. There'senough anger in the world. We could try meeting it with love maybe. Just a thought.

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