BassBus

I got a bit carried away with the time again on this one so it's another long form turn. Mind you the bass actually sounds like a bass in parts of it. 😱 Boil the kettle, sit back and let your mind wander to somewhere else.

I dig it 👍 Monster sound

Where have I heard that before? 😄

If it's Facebook it might be to do with your privacy settings.

I'd like to dig it too but it doesn't seem to think I should be able to watch it. 😊

...and all over the circuit board and in the pots as well.

Just use any elfing words you want. No one gives a Moss Bros what you put. The Gareths won't do anything about it.

Shows how long it is since I uploaded to Photobucket. Just deleted my account. Now I'm in the market for a new host.

What's wrong with Photobucket? I've just been on there and all seems OK.

Thanks Steve 👍

For me a cathedral organ played at full pelt beats everything else hands down, bass guitar included. I've been in York Minster and Glasgow Cathedral with the organ having it large (is that too down wiv da yoof?). Utter magic. Don't forget the trombone plays the bass clef too.

Is that an Allen screw on the side of the black bits?

'Advanced techniques: Tuning the Forth String'

Time then that the curriculum was changed to educate them that they should do things the way they were in the olden days. They were so much better then.

In the earlier days of downloads I bought quite a few from Virgin and HMV (remember them?). Soon as they closed I could no longer play them. No licence available. Lesson learnt. Whenever I buy a download now it immediately gets backed up on CD. Yes it's on the PC as well but what happens if that get corrupted, it can happen. I don't think vinyl is as big as some people might like you to think. I think it was last year someone gave the stats on vinyl sales. Something like 1.5 million sales in 2016 against however many 10s of millions at its height. It is a contact medium, you can only put so much on it and it takes up a lot of space. nuff said.

I take a Y cable from the midi out. One side goes to the Strymon Big Sky and changes patches for me, either by a patch change on Helix or a snapshot on Helix. The other midi cable goes to my iPad interface and foot switches on Helix operate record, toggle and clear on the looper app I use. Midi channel 1 goes to iPad and channel 2 to Big Sky. So useful I also use a neat trick to play different steps of harmony on the Dual Pitch on Helix. I have setup four foot switches to change the harmony to 4th, 5th, 7th and 9th. Just play one note with the Ebow and hey presto.

Looks like the kind of thing that's been used in acoustic guitars since the 1980s.

If you want someone with a unique voice of his own on fretless check out Kev Hopper. Loads of his stuff on YouTube.

I would just start by playing it as you play a fretted bass. That way you're playing familiar stuff and getting to know the instrument at the same time. Gradually with more confidence you'll find ways of developing your own voice.

Lovely, lovely sounds Kevin. Need more ambient on Basschat.

Wobbly bridge

Legacy effects appeared with 2.50

Shades of Paul Weller and Edwin Collins in the vocals. Nice work.

Ah, now I see where you're coming from. That was way ahead of its time. Steve Lawson is my biggest influence at the moment and I can hear the same sort of format in his music to Bill Nelson's. Shall have to look into more of this. That's the value of social media, endless inspiration for new directions.

Thanks thebassist and Marc S. Interesting people hearing a Bill Nelson influence. I haven't listened to his music for years and don't own any. Maybe some Bebop Deluxe has crept in from the 70s. Yes, I am that old.