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Yeah I think we're going to end up with a floor tom with two angled legs for a bass drum, the third leg bracket will hold some "snare"-type drum. The drummer's other hand will be occupied with a shaker of some sort. Perhaps I am too optimistic but I was disappointed that everybody immediately gave up on this thread and instead offered suggestions for making drummers quieter.

[quote name='deaver' post='837494' date='May 14 2010, 06:55 PM']On another point, the graphics of mid-period Tom and Jerry are a thing of beauty. The graphics of Avatar are merely spectacular.[/quote] Well I think that's rendered this thread complete.

[quote name='TPJ' post='837052' date='May 14 2010, 12:12 PM']Sack the drummer and just play bass and guitars. You'd be surprised how well it works for all styles. The listener's brains fill in all the stuff they know should be there.[/quote] I think the drummer might be a bit part-time but we do need to get the mix right for when he's there. The brushes suggestion I'm not sure about, maybe multi-rods - do they make much of a difference? I'd still like to make my bass sound louder if poss.

Don't you need a lot of specialist tools and a sizeable workshop to do your own bass maintenance though?

[quote name='peterG' post='836675' date='May 13 2010, 10:12 PM']It is a strange comparison. Flea is just a good bassplayer in one off the most popular bands but as a bassplayer he doesn't do anything special; he is just a very good bassplayer and his basslines are nice but nothing special.[/quote] I don't get why people are still buying RHCP records, I don't think they're any good any more, but Blood Sugar Sex Magik has some really tasteful bass playing on it. As good as you'll find on any record IMO. Even the simple line from Give It Away is a brilliant bass line. Really simple and brilliant. I don't know if Mark King's ever demonstrated that sort of restraint, I'd be surprised if he has.

Well we don't have keys to worry about, just guitar, drums, bass and three voices. There will be no amplification or monitoring, we'll be playing in the street more often than not, if we were at a venue we'd use amps/PA (and I do have a bass max fitted to my bass, I just haven't used it yet) but AFAICT once you start plugging things into things in the street that's when you run afoul of councils and jobsworth PCSOs so we'd rather not give them the ammunition. Edit: I should add we're mostly playing old rocksteady tunes, so stuff like this: The beats are fairly simplistic, guitar will be chopping ska/reggae rhythms most of the time, so I only really have the drums to compete with, sonically.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' post='836426' date='May 13 2010, 05:57 PM']Don't go with the second soundpost! AFAIK, that's a method used by the rockabilly/psychobilly dudes to reduce feedback (allowing higher amp volume) when amped up by deadening the bass acoustically.[/quote] Hmm. That's advice given by a guitarist who I'll stop paying attention to then! He used to play bass in a psychobilly band a couple of years ago, I think he's confused himself. I have seen a suggestion that a looser soundpost can make a bass louder. I guess I'd have to take it to a chap and see if that would help. The idea is that if I can get a few suggestions that a chap could do for me, then I'll take it to a chap with the suggestions and see what can happen. [quote name='harmonicon' post='836412' date='May 13 2010, 05:40 PM']Unfortunately, there's only one simple and good answer: get an amp. That's assuming no one else in your group will give, which is silly.[/quote] I think they will give. TBH after we'd given up trying to make the drummer's kit any quieter we started planning what he could be using in lieu of a kit. He doesn't want to use a cajon, so I think we're going to build him a little cocktail-style kit. It should mean we can make him as quiet as we need him to be. I would still like to play LOUDER though! Oh come on everybody likes louder!

Man I am starving...

I went and jammed with our guitarist and drummer last night, unamplified. My god I've never picked so hard in my life and the drummer was doing his best to keep it down. I was wondering what are the most common steps to get more volume out of a bass? Our guitarist was saying that installing a second soundpost can help. I was thinking higher action to give the strings more room to move (although my action isn't super-low anyway). The strings themselves are Evah Pirazzis (orch), could they be replaced with something louder? Any other common tricks you can suggest?

[quote name='urb' post='836115' date='May 13 2010, 01:13 PM']his lines are extremely well executed and his slap and tap are solid... but since when does playing 'triplets' make anyone a dickhead? [/quote] Can you not hear the nerve-jangling BLIP! sound that comes around every bar when he's slapping? Or are unpleasant noises like that acceptable because he's a good bass player and he's playing slap and what's a regular battery of annoying loud noises between connoiseurs...

I could hear 15Khz and it was a pretty annoying sound, so I don't feel like I'm missing out on 16Khz. I'm 35.

[quote name='bubinga5' post='834760' date='May 11 2010, 10:04 PM']its like arguing that my girlfriend is better looking than your girlfriend....[/quote] You're probably right though mate my girlfriend is a munter.

[quote name='Eight' post='833750' date='May 10 2010, 10:59 PM']It's basically getting your site to detect a search engine and presenting it with different content than you'd show to a user. You can read more on Wiki if you're interested - [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking[/url] Traditionally, Google will ban you from their listings in a flash if they catch you at it.[/quote] Yeah it is proper naughty. Even the snake oil SEO cretins frown on IP cloaking these days. CK: I am no SEO specialist but I am a freelance web developer, I specialise in ecommerce and payment service integrations, I've provided ecommerce solutions for businesses turning over six figures in monthly web transactions. My expertise is consultancy and code for card payment service integrations and negotiations between emergent web-based businesses with new payment - payment/service models and acquiring banks. If it's purely a UI or content management/delivery problem that needs to be mated to third-party promo code it should be pretty straightforward. If it involves a lot of well-supported local stats and/or insane third-party APIs that's when it gets expensive. Both in terms of code development and also server resources to bag all the biznonsense the third party insists you report to them.

Yeah it's a genuinely interesting Fender man. There'll be a market for it, maybe even some people who'd pay top dollar for it. Fender made some heinous mistakes in their time, stuff like the P-Bass Lyte, but these white '80s spesh models with their hair metal roots were at least used by people so they've got history. I have to be honest though until today I didn't even know this one existed and I've been playing bass since 1989.

I am pleased by the Norwood appreciation fellowship. He's not just my favourite bass player, he's the world's coolest bass player. Here is Norwood's instructional video, you may spend a lot of your time fast-forwarding through his demonstrations, he smokes a lot of skunk. Everybody pay attention because you will learn valuable bass skills...

The colour is pretty marmite. I also think most people don't know what these are. Play up the Status angle - Status are very well-regarded on this forum. Probably fairly in all honesty, but I'm not a fan myself. EDIT: Ah sh*t I read the wrong ad. Yours is the Duff McKagan spesh? There'll be a G&R fan along post haste to buy it. Shame it's not original though. EDIT AGAIN: It's not even one of those? I don't think I've ever seen a bass like this before. Wow. Hey good luck with the sale, I think half the problem is that nobody's ever seen one before. Still not my cup of tea but really interesting anyway, thanks for pointing it out. But you might still sell it to a Duff McKagan fan. There are a lot of Duff McKagan fans around and not many white '80s P-bass specials.

Yeah I like the gaffa look. On Fenders/Stingrays/etc. anyway, it would look pretty silly on my Warwick.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='832628' date='May 9 2010, 10:23 PM']... we'd be interested in developing modifications that allow us to create a more presentable and flexible 'shop front' as well as take advantage of the google bot lurkers that monitor the home page. ... The browsing experience for signed in members should remain unchanged as much as possible.[/quote] You're not talking about cloaking though are you? Because that would be a very bad idea.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='832986' date='May 10 2010, 12:50 PM']Mark King or Flea? What is this? A game of top trumps?[/quote] You're just sore because you got dealt the Adam Clayton card. Good luck winning that round sucker.

Man I'm so jealous you're getting all these DB gigs already Bilbo, even if you do have to play jazz. I'm taking mine to meet my drummer and guitarist on Wednesday, plan is to get an hour or so of old '60s Jamaican pop songs down and go busk them if it ever stops snowing...

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[quote name='crez5150' post='832381' date='May 9 2010, 05:30 PM']there are plenty of bass players out there we all have different opinions about.... I don't think slagging any of them off is very grown up is it...... For example, for me Jaco, Entwistle, Hook...... I think they are utter dross.... but thats my opinion and I would not slate another member here for being a fan....[/quote] I wouldn't slate anybody for being a Mark King fan, but I think Mark King himself is fair game. [quote name='Doddy' post='832738' date='May 10 2010, 01:11 AM']I know that there are players on here who can,and have,done the kind of work that Mark King or (and Flea)could never have done if they hadn't have got lucky with one band.[/quote] Sure knowing your onions inside and out and being able to take any gig and do it competently is admirable, but it's a masterclass in sounding generic most of the time and who wants to do that? I think I'd rather be known for one thing that I originated and have an instantly recognisable sound. There are tonnes of discreet sidemen around, but only one Flea.

A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? The instrumental bits are the intro from Ian Dury & The Blockheads - What A Waste.

[quote name='kevbass' post='829148' date='May 5 2010, 11:25 PM']Hello good folks of basschat, this is the first time ive wandered into the double bass section as I have never so much as touched a double bass in my life, time for that to change. Now these are expensive instruments I know, but I cant really afford to throw much money at one, Ive found a 3/4 for sale at 380 quid, probbably made in a cheap factory in china no doubt but its all I can afford right now so Im going to have make do but to be honest I wouldnt know what faults to look for in a double bass, so any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks Pictures of the bass here [url="http://www.biggerbids.com/auction-image-gallery.php?auction_id=114067&image_id=588279#"]http://www.biggerbids.com/auction-image-ga...mage_id=588279#[/url][/quote] Just FYI those photos look like they came from [url="http://www.gear4music.com/String_Instruments/Double_Bass.html"]Gear 4 Music[/url] here in York, it looks like their bottom-of-the-range bass. I would imagine it would need some work to make it playable (decent strings + some luthier attention on the fingerboard and bridge), probably £150-200. If that's your budget and you're determined to get a bass you might have more luck with a used student instrument, if you can find one. But when I was looking earlier this year pretty much everything I found for that sort of price had problems with it. So either way I think you'll be looking to give another couple of hundred quid to a professional to get it working properly for you.

You've got a week. A whole week. Unless your index finger was once lost in an industrial accident and the surgeons replaced it with a donor GIRL'S FINGER you'll be absolutely fine.