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[quote name='OldGit' post='919286' date='Aug 9 2010, 09:05 AM']Kazoo's funnier. Get one each for everyone in the band. Don't bother with the holder then the moment when you whip them out of your pockets for the horn parts will be a surprise and more entertaining. If it's there on a holder everyone will be ahead of you and it will have less impact.[/quote] Yeah you're right, just wondering how that's going to work though. It'll be tricky because of course both my hands are going to be busy but I also sing, so I can't keep the thing in my mouth either. Drummer will manage it but I won't. Maybe he should play it on his own, it would suit him actually.

I didn't know Mark Kermode was a bass player, or that he could play harmonica at the same time, that's ace. We're doing an "unplugged" thing next week and we've got a couple of songs with brass parts that will be missed, I'm just trying to come up with ways to cover some of them. Our singer does have a harmonica, don't know what key it's in though...

I don't think they started making the Corvette until 94 or 95. Check the end of the headstock for a serial stamp, that should tell you the year and month of manufacture (eg. my bass is A2714 91 - A being January and 91 being the year).

[quote name='jonno1981' post='918334' date='Aug 7 2010, 09:00 PM']There are playing wounds in the pick guard and the reception desk picking up.[/quote] Have you ever tried to get wounds out of a guitar's reception desk? Steer clear.

Sorry if the above sounded aggressive but the responses are often very predictable. To the OP: If you play boutique basses then buy the most expensive cab you can find. You will probably notice the difference.

[quote name='chris_b' post='918494' date='Aug 8 2010, 02:30 AM']In my opinion, the Epifani beats the Schroeder by a mile or 10. What amp are you using?[/quote] I would love to see the curve on your scale of cabinet winningness (let's ignore your definition of cab winningness for the time being). It sounds like it gets quite steep towards the top end. Honestly is there a subject with more unchallenged bullshit talked about it than speaker cabinets?

Unless you're in a band doing '80s covers that is making you a living, I don't see much value in learning to play slap. But if it's just for your own entertainment (which slap generally is for bass players, since other band members can't stand listening to it) then Alex Sklarevski's instructional Hot Licks video is probably a good place to start.

Tricky one. During soundcheck the two backing vox (me and drummer) were asking for more level in the monitors. Sound guy said he wasn't getting enough level from us on stage. Sound guy then asked drummer to get closer to the mic and belt it out, drummer said "No". Sound guy came on stage and demonstrated how loud he wanted drummer to sing, drummer said "No, I don't sing that loud". Then the sound guy tells me I'm not loud enough, I tell him his gear is f***ed and I am f***ing yelling into his mic. He says I need to yell more. I check my mic with a couple of lines from Pressure Drop, but it goes "It is you, you, you / your mics are sh*t". I make the point that the lead singer of the headline band literally f***ing mumbles through every song and I could hear him fine during their soundcheck. Singer of headline band helpfully nods in agreement. An hour later the sound guy is telling me how the venue won't let him replace all the f***ed gear because they're about to have a refurb, and that he didn't think he would even have enough cables to do the gig. I asked him why he told me and the drummer that we were the problem when he knew his gear was all f***ed. He didn't have an answer for it. We did the gig, nobody heard the backing vocals, which is probably for the best because we couldn't hear our vocals in our monitors either. Apparently everything else sounded alright. We won't play there again.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='918287' date='Aug 7 2010, 07:40 PM']Schroeders don't do buttery bottom end.. It's not their 'thing'. They're all about mid-punch.[/quote] Really? I play reggae through my 1212L week in and week out with f***ing tonnes of bottom end. Maybe I imagined it. Over and over again. TBH though if someone says "Oh I need more bite - do I buy an Epifani or a Schroeder cab" my response would be "Adjectives are a fairly useless measure of frequency response to everybody except c**ts in guitar shops and forums".

I have a double bass and also a kazoo. I would like to attach my kazoo to the top of it maybe using a goose neck type fitting with a clamp on one end. Where can I get something like that?

I think the L2000s sound better than Stingrays, they just don't look as good. Both feel fairly similar to me. I don't like playing them.

I've never used a band-pass filter on bass for anything other than shaping the occasional nerdy nasal fuzz sound. I think wah effects on bass sound better with a low-pass filter.

[quote name='chris_b' post='917600' date='Aug 7 2010, 12:43 AM']Another Herbie fact: He used to stick a fat wad of foam under the strings for recording.[/quote] Kev fact: I did that today when I was recording. That Jazz looks really cool. Anyone know what those strings are?

[quote name='Geddys nose' post='917566' date='Aug 6 2010, 11:37 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMfKWxH7xlQ&hd=1"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMfKWxH7xlQ&hd=1[/url][/quote] Queshrekois! I like the three coils and some of the sounds and I like Godin, I don't like the colour or the sharpness of the body chamfers or the 20-fret (no doubt P-bass profile) neck. Interesting though.

Hmm. This is starting to sound like a proper arse. PAT testing isn't an issue though, my mate is a chief sparky at a local theatre so he can do that for us.

I don't make any money from music at all but I suppose £13 a month for MU membership is probably about the same as just buying insurance. We only need it for 1 month anyway. Cheers I will consider that.

My band is booked to play a festival where we are required to have PLI cover, and it looks quite expensive. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I was looking at records from the 1901 census today and the heading on the final column reads "1] Deaf & Dumb 2] Blind 3] Lunatic 4] Imbecile / Feeble-minded" Pick any two. Funnily enough in that column I only ever saw single ticks. You can't just tick a column with four optional and quite wide-ranging characteristics!

Try different orders and see which you prefer. With those two pedals I reckon if you put the chorus first then with both of them on you won't hear the chorus because the overdrive will break it up, so the sensible order for those two would be dirt first. Usually you'll have more options if you put dirt first in your chain, and generally pedals that need to track your playing (synths, octavers) are better off at the very start where they can get the cleanest signal, but as for everything else (delays / modulation / filters etc) experiment and see what you prefer.

I am cleaning my house whilst doing [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8-mAGS-o9o"]robotic dancing[/url]. Best Tuesday evar.

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='913814' date='Aug 3 2010, 01:13 PM']Are you using the Eventide Smart Harmony Models? I'm sure I did M9 Clips of it being Polyphonic[/quote] I was talking about the pitch glide (whammy) model. I can't remember whether the smart harmony one works. It's sitting right behind me so I could find out, I surprise myself with my own laziness sometimes. Just had a go. The Smart Harmony patch copes OK with root-third or root-fifth stops, but give it root-7th and the root goes out of tune, minor thirds also sound ropey in some keys. You also can't gliss between notes on the smart harmony patch, you have to use the whammy model for that. The whammy can cope with added fifths but that's all.

I've got a HA2500 which I use at home and keep as a backup, fan's pretty noisy on it and it's missing some knobs and stuff but it still sounds good. My gigging head is an LH500 and has been for the last 18 months without a single hiccup. So yeah I like Hartke amps. Haven't used their cabs since the early '90s so I don't know how good they are these days but I didn't like the aluminium coned stuff they did back then.

[quote name='silddx' post='913841' date='Aug 3 2010, 01:36 PM']Who do you think I am? Alain Caron?![/quote] Class.