BassTractor

Thanks for posting! Finally someone who plays like I do! (banging on bass body - - though in my case it's an attempt at reaching the strings). Seriously though, though I don't dislike bass solos like others do, and liked this well enough, happy and effective as it was, what moved me most in this vid was in fact those low double notes. I love relatively tight intervals in the lows.

As you may expect, I'm not able to say anything about culture and reasonable expectations in the UK. But IME, in order to limit the amount of noise experienced on the other side of walls and floors, in addition to reducing the bass frequencies, the best thing is to augment your cone area, IOW to buy an extra Compact. Though it may well be that my experience is too limited, and this idea defies physics. Me, I always use two cabs, one placed in ear height when I stand, and one in ear height when I sit (leaving just enough space between them for the amp to sit). I then play sitting/standing within one yard from them, them pointing directly at me. When I check with the neighbours (my ex and my daughter), they'll always tell that they hardly heard me, and it wasn't annoying at all. Of course my ex isn't a grumpy stranger, and also she herself is guilty of playing a classical guitar every now and then (which I wisely do not criticise ).

Welcome, Mitch! bert

Welcome, Dave! bert

We're silent, but we're silently in awe, Blablas. Again: thanks for sharing!

Welcome, Swansea! bert

Welcome, Bostonbass! bert

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1383052306' post='2259512'] It is not based on repetition and most people like repetition. [/quote] At it's core, music [b]is[/b] based on repetition, so that statement in that exact wording will fall in the very first stages of a serious discussion. You may wish to rephrase.

Welcome, grogg! bert

Huh? Wo' we say?

Welcome, Ben! Yup! The pattern is you'll have an SR3205 within 60 months from now. Sadly, limited data resource access disallows more specific statistical extrapolation at this point. Enjoy the fold! bert

Welcome, Chris! (I'm happy you added "was a piano teacher" to that. ) bert

Welcome, John! (btw, it's not called "expand". It's called "turning the volume knob clockwise".) bert

Welcome, aalam! Great intro. Enjoy the bass and BC! bert

Ours was a viola da gamba (bass viola much like a cello). Happily I was allowed to take it home to practise, and so could ditch the bow, hold it horizontally sitting on my lap, and pluck it as if it was a real instrument. Also, it helped with a microphone into a mixer and that signal fed into a Small Stone (IMS) and certainly a Big Muff Pi. Great days! BTW, music teacher was not too convinced about my progress with bow playing.

Welcome, smokin! bert

New tracks to be included on the re-release of The Next Day, which is coming next week. I hope people outside Norway can hear these: http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Her-kan-du-hore-fem-nye-later-fra-David-Bowie-7356175.html#.UnDxdxAb_kc

[quote name='Wylie' timestamp='1383008679' post='2259171'] Wouldn't make me a better player, but would make me a better person. [/quote] Nonsense! You're a better person already. It's the Geddy Lee!

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1382956359' post='2258315'] Visual fail, so it's a no from me [/quote] Doesn't matter to us at all. We still need out gut shots!

Welcome, Julius! bert

Those who do not love jazz are time and again described as lesser specimen, but in fact some of the most musical people dislike jazz. I think it is much about what way you listen to music, and to what degree you can accept the enormous amounts of weak choices that are made in jazz. I personally can accept those weak choices (and love jazz), but some people just can't.

Welcome, Andy! bert

Two 112EXTs, a Midget and a Compact. Yup, I'm looking forward to it.

Sorry if this seems harsh, and I don't mean to be harsh, but me, I can't manage to get my head around why anyone would think they were in any way served by adopting a name they know is already in use. This has boggled my mind for decades if not centuries. That and the very notion that you have to walk around knowing you hadn't been able to come up with a name that is unique and works well with Google. My take: open dictionary, blindfoldedly pick a set of words, combine several of them and repeat until reasonably satisfied, check for availability. Done.

Well, at any rate it's a lot lighter in weight than a Streamliner with attached 19" rack module, so my back is safe!