Lfalex v1.1

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1378639805' post='2202618'] I don't see why it has to be so divided? Function band gig with a professional set up and performance then you get paid, originals band in the back room at the pub getting your creative juices flowing the next night you don't.I don't get paid for jamming at home. [/quote] Time. I can't even commit to one band, let alone two. I spend SO much time with people at work that I just can't take any more. I play at home to help to shut that out. When I've been in bands, I haven't found it to be particularly pleasurable business. Too many egos. In the other hand, creating new music is great. And delivering a good performance- live, in a studio or in rehearsal is great, too. When you add a financial aspect to it, especially if some members are dependent upon the income, it becomes a nightmare. Enjoyment, then. Except I don't enjoy it.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1378465377' post='2200664'] You can't do room acoustic correction on an amp, because most room problems are time domain related (nodes and reflections) and trying to apply a frequency domain solution (EQ) doesn't give consistent results - improving things in one area of the room usually makes it much worse somewhere else. [/quote] I agree, but was suggesting it in the context of onstage monitoring use rather than using it as something the audience would hear directly. In that sense, I was considering the player rather than the audience. Needless to say, any DI feed would be "clean", and if correction were applied, make mic'ing the cab extremely problematic...

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1378400991' post='2199803'] I have an irrational like of deep tread on car tyres. No idea why. [/quote] [i]Aquaplanaphobia[/i]? Nothing irrational about that!

Real "progress" will continue to come from amplification and cabinets, on board eq, and perhaps pickups. Something like real-time analysis of room modes/reverb by your amp, which then corrects them by applying the relevant eq to give you your desired response. Some good work has come from the folks who produce Q tuner pickups and Lightwave systems. One day, we won't have amps, cabs and PA. It'll either be vibrating force fields to generate the sound or we'll directly transmit it to our audience's brain, missing out ears entirely. © both of those ideas, BTW!

Underrated bargains.

Ned Steinberger. Furniture designer IIRC. Obviously with a taste for minimalism, but that transferred well into bass design. The NS uprights are well designed, and the new Radius series look good too. Didn't he also design the Spector body shape- also used by Warwick in the form of the Streamer?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1378064804' post='2195459'] What has 5 strings got to do with it? [/quote] This- whilst I'm aware that 5 string DBs exist in both BEADG and EADGC tuning, I'm sure I've never actually seen one. Whereas EUBs in a 5 String format are more commonplace. So my point is: availability. I wanted a 5, and one that met all the other stipulations. For me, in my circumstances, an EUB was a no-brainer.

Sorry. Neglected two points. My EUB is a 5 A DB won't fit in my car. At all. Ever. Unless you take a saw to it.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1378029800' post='2194776'] The used Stagg for £200 on here is a bargain! The Stagg is really portable and every time without fail that I have plugged it in it has sounded great even at gigs where my Stingray sounded poor for whatever reason, the other thing to concider is that you will buy a DB not long after, try and find a member here who hasn't! [/quote] I won't. EUB all the way. Why? Silent practice Portability No feedback I can use fx with it Can jam along using a Pandora & MP3 player Game over for DB for what I use it for. Unlikely ever to play Arco, so that's not an issue.

My nearest bass playing neighbour woke me at 0258h this morning. Gonna be hard playing anything with yer head in a sling you *%£#*+- £#%&. That is all.

Wife watches it. I use the time constructively, and get some practice in...

Everything I own needs to be tuned when I pick it up. The EUB, the Vigier, Status, Warwicks, everything. Never out by much, but I always tune up before I play. Even if it's just to remind the machine heads what they're there for..

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1377959532' post='2194111'] Every time I've played in a band with more than one guitarist, they have been excellent at arranging the guitars so that they complimented each other in both note choices and sounds. Those are the sorts of musicians that you want. [/quote] Me, too. Then I pile in... The best band I've been in had 2 guitars. They'd alternate, handing the melody back and forth while the other played rhythm or harmonised. Or in some cases, simply shut up! No solos. No egos. It was great.

I thought the general opinion to be CV > VMJ > Affinity. I have a VMJ. Currently has a Badass II and Black Schaller knobs. I'd regard the electrics as the weak point. The woodwork and construction matches or betters my MIA Jazz.

Not really much difference. A strap is a strap is a strap. You purchase one of the desired length and width. Straplocks are optional, and have washers supplied to prevent them pulling through the holes in the strap..

And [i]still[/i] no Tony Butler. And have I missed Geezer?

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1377597780' post='2189108']... Why do bass players feel that they have to prepare for alien invasion and the likelihood of a tsunamis when no-one else does? [/quote] Bass players feel that they have to prepare for alien invasion and the likelihood of a Tsunami [i]precisely because[/i] no-one else (least of all in the band!) does!

It varies dramatically. From customer to customer within the same establishment. Everyone has off-days and good days. In the late 90's, the old Wapping Bass Centre was where it was at for gear, environment and service. Nick,Grant,Alex and Chris were awesome. But, like all good things, it had to end. Some incarnations of the Bass Merchant were good. Then it just evaporated. After my first (and last) visit to the Gallery, I'll never spend a penny with them, even if they have the last strings on Earth. I'm unlikely to just be passing Bass Direct, so I'll never know. It's just too far. PMT vary, but staff members in my two nearest stores know me by sight and trend to be pretty OK. Oh, and Strings Direct have always been great.

As we've long since covered almost everyone I'd have put on the list, can we have a thread to remove all the ones we don't like?

Still trying to identify the perps from the first vid. All I recognised were Sheehan, Pattitucci and Levin...

Ibanez- Roadster Roadstar Musician

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1377695883' post='2190475'] I'm going to have to go for a fender jazzes... [/quote] I suppose I sort of agree. Even though I own two. Maybe they're more geek than dork. Great to play (for me) Just somehow lacking the simple "cool" of the precision.

Ns design EUBs break down quite small. Still a bit big for a Ford Puma, but alright in almost everything else. One catch with EUB, though- you'll need an amp or at least IEM for monitoring. And that takes up space, too.

It's getting heated again, isn't it? IBTL.

Depends, I suppose. I have a couple of high-ish end basses. I bought them because I liked them, how they felt, and how they played and sounded. And because I could afford them at the time. I still like them now. Some of my friends have written-off their flashy cars that cost twice as much and have nothing to show for it. My Vigier is now 17 years old and going just fine ( not that my cheaper basses aren't!) In some cases, it's just a matter of priorities.