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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1500461979' post='3337938'] Top 40? Wedding /corporate? Party? What's the difference? And what is a Jazz covers band when it is at home? [/quote] We were setting up for a jazz gig and a punter came up and asked the boss what we played. Jazz, said the boss. What kind of jazz? Mainly standards said the boss. Oh, covers, said the punter. Do you know what that bloke just said?, says the boss in disgust. Cue mirth all round.

Just on another matter, I bought a cab from BD a few weeks ago and yesterday got in touch with the USA manufacturers to tell them how pleased I was with it. They asked if they could put my comments on their Facebook page. I agreed if anonymised. So my comments have popped up on BD site today, over my name. They don't miss a trick do they, bless 'em.

F# is just plain bizarre. I can't imagine I'd come across someone wanting to sing in that key. Make 'em do it in F.

Why no double bass?

I'm happy with mine, Pete. It is a bit dark and I always run a high pass filter (FDeck HPF) in the chain.

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1499249896' post='3330238'] As genres go Jazz is no more or less laudable than any other. [/quote] Completely agree. Jazz has been my music for over fifty years and it's what I like to play. But I have never regarded myself as superior or inferior to a guy who plays any other kind of music. I admire the skill of many rock musicians and I certainly enjoy the sounds.

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1499178051' post='3329725'] Oh I don't know, you should see the faces on some of the guitarists at my local jam when a singer asks for a song in Eb or F! [/quote] No problem to a jazzer, Moose :-)

I wouldn't have a problem with a singer wanting to go up or down a tone from the written key to suit their vocal range. You even get plenty of instrumentalists wanting a different key and I don't quite understand that.

Yawn yawn yawn.

Tony Bennett at Symphony Hall, Monday. His bass player, Marshall Wood has organised guest tickets for me and a couple of musos.

Yes, it's a live gig. The discipline/sterility of the recording studio doesn't apply. Thought it was a great set.

[quote name='malbass' timestamp='1498513859' post='3325219'] As an aside, the bass is currently flat on its back on the spare bed, much to the consternation of the wife. I've explained about the risk of dropping the soundpost in its current state but she wasn't impressed as her mother is due to stay at the weekend. A few choice words were hear when I suggested there would be enough room for the mother in law to share the bed with it :-) [/quote] Yes, but make sure the bass has the right amount of room. 😀

Such style! Congratulations to you both.

A street corner busker. With loops.

Wow! The Americans have to come over and show us how to do it. So tight.

Great at Glastonbury yesterday. Also Royal Blood amazing. Year of the bass perhaps?

We were playing an outdoor festival at the weekend and while I was tuning up my DB the sound man came up to me and said 'I want to hear how your bass sounds so I can get the mix/eq right'. And the PA sound was excellent, so a member of the audience told me. But I always take an XLR out of the amp pre eq. I want to get my backline right and have opportunity to adjust it during the gig without affecting the PA. What comes out of that is entirely up to the sound man. If it's good, then great. If it doesn't, then I'm not too bothered.

This mic will need phantom power, meaning you'll need a preamp that provides fp. I'd recommend an Art Tube, nice and cheap and it will control the level of the mic. Plug this into the effects return on the GK and you've got two sources going in whose levels can be individually controlled. Unfortunately tho you'll only be able adjust the eq settings of the pickup that goes in at the front end.

The cajon is the modern equivalent of the bongos that the hipsters of the day used to bang. And before that there was the bloody tambourine. Should all have been consigned to the waste bin. The people who abused them couldn't hit them in any semblance of time. They made the drummer sound like a musical genius, and that takes a lot to achieve. I feel better now.

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1497818895' post='3320729'] Which band mate? I popped down in the afternoon before my evening gig in Deddington 🙂 [/quote] FiddleBop at 6.30.

We did a freebie yesterday for Party in the Park at Adderbury in the acoustic tent. I was tuning my double bass when the sound guy came over and said 'I just want to hear how it sounds before I mix it'. Well that's a first for me, so a big shout for soundman Andy. PS, the mix was excellent.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1497542592' post='3319003'] Don't knock it. Glen Miller discovered his "big band sound" through an accident with a horn player and a music stand. The horn player was going to sit down, his his horn into his teeth as it hit the music stand. From there on the trumpet player took over the horn part and "Big Band" was discovered... not a a lot of people know that. [/quote] Are you serious?

I was playing bass in the late fifties and sixties and if you asked me what strings I used I wouldn't have a clue. I'd say strings, just strings. They used to break from time to time whereas today a break is almost unknown. I still take spares to the gig, though. Incidentally, when I was buying my first DB - £35 at Footes - I met Ray Brown. The tragedy was that back then I hadn't really heard of him. It wasn't till he left that the salesman said 'that was Ray Brown.'