JapanAxe

It's not often that I feel compelled to listen to people's Soundcloud offerings all the way through, but I did with this one. Well done mate!

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1419680271' post='2641817'] It`s all about the image, though I`m sure they`ll want someone who can play as well. Looks a good opportunity for someone, here`s hoping a Basschatter gets the gig. [/quote] Yeah I know, I'm not bitter really. I realise it's hard to sell an ageing curmudgeon like myself into the yoof pop market!

The look would be pretty good for anyone in a glam band.

I have used the same Beyer stand for at least 15 years. I would go for Hercules but I don't think my little clip-on mixer tray would fit.

Age 27 or under? Clearly the extra 27 years of experience count for nothing....

Crap! I could have saved 10% on my identical-looking original 70s P if only I had waited a few months...

You will often find function bands advertising on joinmyband.co.uk However you may find some of these are pub bands hoping to get into function work. It's worth asking what their last few gigs were. Some bands use pub gigs as a shop window to pick up private parties as a way into functions. Nothing wrong with any of this, just something to be aware of.

Looks like that will do the trick.

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1419595906' post='2641108'] Nice Christmas present. I agree that the circuitry on those basses seem more like a juiced up passive rather than what we normally expect from active circuits. [/quote] 'Juiced up passive' is dead right. The tone controls are actually passive, and you have the option of switching in the active circuit, which gives you a punchier 'modern' sound.

This is a 'resolution' that I made in the middle of 2014, but I am up for playing in as many different musical situations as I can manage. BRING IT ON!!

[quote name='wishface' timestamp='1419586351' post='2640996'] How far back is it safe to have the saddle on any given string? There must come a point where the angle is too severe? [/quote] No idea but if you have a duff string it hardly matters - it simply will not intonate properly.

Find a P that plays well and looks great (to you), put flats on it, and you're good to go. For some numbers you may want to pluck with your thumb whilst damping the strings at the bridge.

I have the Les Paul and Strat manuals. Useful to a point, but as others have mentioned, tediously repetitive in parts.

Looks really nice now, well done Painy. When I gig my Sandberg VM4, neither the audience [i]nor the rest of the band[/i] have any idea whether it is a cheap knockoff Fender copy or a high-quality modern take on a classic design!

When this has happened to me I have had to ditch the strings and start again. Are your strings flats? They are particularly prone to problems if they get twisted, or if you get a kink in them somewhere. I reckon twisting creates additional vibrational modes that do not produce simple harmonic motion (as we physicists say).

Well it's been an hour now and no pics, so I reckon you were dreaming. Merry Christmas!

I've always bought my Chromes online. You are lucky if a generalist guitar shop stocks any flats at all, let alone in the make/length/material you want!

Another thing you can do is download a MIDI file and record the drum track (normally MIDI channel 10) into your drum machine.

I started on guitar in 1978, but didn't get round to bass till 2000. Although there were some transferable skills (fretting, plectrum playing, fretboard note knowledge), bass is a very different instrument to guitar, and needs a different approach. It was about 3 years before I got anywhere playing bass fingerstyle, and 2 years ago I completely re-thought my right-hand technique. It was a massive advantage to be able to read music (feel free to argue about this in another thread!), and I have always transcribed guitar and bass parts from recordings, so that gave me a stock of sheet music to work from. I got into playing bass in bands pretty soon, so that gave me the impetus to learn entire bass parts. At the start it was rewarding to work out and play a bass line, and thinking about it, it still is!

[quote name='Dazed' timestamp='1419120149' post='2636872'] Yip hot rods and deluxes from various years left the factory in this format. Here's a few I just found mooching through the Precision gear porn thread [/quote] Tried a Fender hot rod P (or possibly 2 of them) when I spent a day at Bass Direct, and came home with this Sandberg VM4: Reason for purchase: The Sandberg urinated all over the Fender(s) from a great height!

Has Anthony Jackson joined Basschat as a newb?

[quote name='Bassman Sam' timestamp='1418873053' post='2634348'] I going to be 60 on 9th February and my future wife, we marry on 9th March, wants to buy me a new bass for my birthday. We went to see The Who last Saturday and on the way to the gig, popped into Dawson's in Manchester. I was looking at Squier basses but she liked the look of a Gibson Thunderbird in walnut and said if I liked it, she would get it for me. [/quote] Does she have a sister? I'll get me coat....

I am happy to be in the position of the OP's putative deps, as I consider time spent learning material is never wasted; however I understand not everyone is going to share that view, or have the time to spend working on songs.