Maude

My first 'proper' bass (after some terrible SG copy) was an Attitude Special in green. I then traded that in for a brand new BBG5s in black which I still have. Every time I pick up a Yamaha it's like coming home.

I was just thinking the same. The comment about people thinking YouTube is a career, if it pays well then why can't it be? I'm sure a generation or two ago had the same thoughts about I.T. Playing on computers isn't a career. As for annoying people on YouTube, I find not watching their videos does the trick. In general, not engaging with annoying people makes them far less annoying.

Still using one I liberated from a pub years ago, it says "Great stuff this BASS" on it. That'll teach me to post without reading to the end as @The Greek has posted my very towel.

I though it was usually brass instruments that were B♭'s.

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I use the big double. Only pickup I've tried and I'm happy enough with it. Plenty of volume, good tone and I don't get feedback problems. I go through an F-deck into a PJB Suitcase with 4b extension cab. I might try taking one side out and see what it does.

I can only link Facebook stuff, cos I is useless 😁 hopefully you can view it. We're an acoustic band (drummer uses a cajon for most but the drum pad for a couple) and do various covers which aren't necessarily acoustic type songs. Here's some 80s synth pop.

Are you allowed to advertise that on here?

Depends if 'upmarket' is another word for battered.

Whitsand Bay Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill. It's not very catchy is it. 😂

Is it pronounced "Mowg"? Tell me it is 'cos I annoy people correcting them and if I'm wrong I'll have to stop. Tell me it is, tell me it is. 😁

Tony Wilson brought them over to Manchester and Martin Hannet recorded their early songs so sounding New Order-esque is almost inevitable, his production style was pretty unique. 🙂

The mainstream festivals are just too big now I feel. I used to go to Monsters of Rock every year, and through the changes when it was Ozfest (including the Milton Keynes one) and then became Download. I haven't been for years now. I used to love it though. Today's festivals are massively sanitised compared to my first festival experience, at sixteen we went to Treworgey Tree Festival (if any of the 80s travellers are on here then you'll know the one, pretty legendary) and holy sh!t did it open my eyes, amazing and scarey as f*ck at the same time. Anything after that is tame and corporate.

My rig has nothing but 5" speakers in it 😉

I have the dimmer switch issue at home sometimes with certain basses. The little desk with my music stuff on where I practice has the only dimmer switch in the entire house just to my side. Why not move the desk to a different location I hear you ask? That's where Mrs. Maude chose to put the desk and a slight buzz from a bass is far preferable to the consistent whine she emits

Mefgames' post has brought my attention to the fact I never updated this thread. The sound is now bang on, wiring the two PU's in series has given it some serious punch, and still have the option of parallel for mellower tones. I'll get some pictures of the finish, it's in our rehearsal room at the moment, but just to prove it's now most definitely worthy, here it is being used when we supported The Chords.

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Surely it's based on context at that moment in time. Most, if not all the others, were about heterosexual acts which weren't out of keeping with thoughts at that period, 70s and 80s TV were fine with hinting at underage sex at the time but Relax was blatantly about promiscuous homosexual sex at a time when the establishment couldn't handle it, not in public anyway. They wanted a reaction and they got one.

Well if you can't play then you'll have to dance for the whole set then, see ya next Saturday 😁

By rights, yes you should use a plastic primer but in reality you won't need to. Degrease it first to get rid of any residue that will stop adhesion, as Goblin said above, light coats is key but you don't really want any build at all, just enough of a coating to be visible if you know what I mean. I heavy build is when it starts flaking/chipping off as it's less flexible and more likely to crack if hit or flexed . Aim more for 'heavy overspray' rather than 'deep gloss' and it'll be fine.

I quite agree, I wouldn't want to do nothing for most of a set, and I wouldn't expect anyone else to. 🙂

We don't do that there funk.

Personally the the first alarm bell rang when you mentioned a keyboard player. We could do with some Hammond on about 15% of our set but we all know we'd never shut one up for the remainder.

Cannot agree enough with this. I probably do effects wrong but if I get the sound I want then it's right for me. Since I bought a Line 6 X3 I've found the answer to avoid mud/mush is the ability to run two signal paths together, one with your disired effects and the other clean and punchy. No matter how dirty the effected channel gets the low mid punch is always there, unless of course you don't want it to be. The other I do, which relates to the quoted post above, is when creating an effect at home with the Line 6 is to copy that tone to a whole bank or two on the pedal with little tweaks to the amount of effect and EQ, then at rehearsal with the band at volume I can just tap through the patches to find the best one, it really helps to be able to a/b like this, then copy the best patch and make minimal tweaks to that copy to fine tune, you still then have the original 'best patch' to a/b with. Good sound doesn't have cost the earth.