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Considering borrowing an 18" bass bin off my bro for tomorrow's gig. Might even plug it in!

Falkirk or Stirling (or even Perth) would be a better choice. It's more central. I'd be up for one. Quick edit just to say the one in Moffat was last April & I couldn't make it due to a cuz in law's wedding

I've got one of those! Was my first bass & is now in pieces & finished in a flat metallic purple! I'm planning on defretting it & putting all new hardware & electrics on it. Does weigh more than your average 8x10 tho.

I had a shot of a few different Afterburners about 3 years ago in the Guitar Centre. 10 mins to get used to the fanned fretboard & sounded very nice too. Unfortunately I couldn't get $3000 together to get one (which back then was less than £1500!).

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[quote name='KiOgon' post='776604' date='Mar 16 2010, 07:10 PM']Why didn't I think of this earlier? Here you are: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=78791&st=0&gopid=776600&#entry776600"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...mp;#entry776600[/url] Courier collection no problemo![/quote] Funny thing, I was gonna suggest Ashdown as their Mag stuff falls into a similar price range as the Marshall crap & is probably about 1/2 the weight & twice as good sounding. That looks like a good wee rig you're selling there. 2x10 is the way I went & stand it vertically!

Welcome to the groovy side. Learning blues is a good starting point as it teaches scales & progressions with ease & can be as simple or complex as you like. Go & have a listen to Doug Johns on YouTube. Ibanez are excellent basses for the money. Mine was £700 when I bought it 20 years ago & it has served me well. I'm now after a fretless 5string as soon as funds allow. There's plenty of oldies on here, a nice balance of different ages. Graeme (39)

I'd agree if you was to choose one then a limiter is more likely to suit. I don't use either & have (with mucho practice) learned to control how hard I slap as I play some songs that switch techniques.

I was gonna offer you a nice Vox standard bass that's in purple. I bought it in 1983 & it started life as a black bass. I stripped it & resprayed it metallic purple about 20 years ago. It needs new electrics, pick ups, bridge, strings, machine heads & cleaned up. Then laquered & put back together. Oh, & a refret wouldn't go amiss. Could be tempted to let it go for £300, but I see you got a nice Jazz.

I know rock can be hard to play, but what I actually meant was it's easy for a bunch of average (as a whole) musicians to play good sounding rock or punk music. I think funk & jazz take a lot more disciplin for a band to sound good. +1 on the 6-7 members issue too.

I think it's probably a lot easier for bands to play good rock music than it is to play funk or jazz well as a band. That's not a bad thing, just getting a good funk or jazz sound is a difficult thing to do in a pub.

My band, BigRoom, are playing at the Victoria Hall, Station Road in Dunblane for the Holmehill community on Saturday 20th March. Also on with us are Dealer, a cracking blues band & jazz saxoponist Mikhail Rojkov. Doors open at 7:30pm & it's £8 for entry.

I recently saw a pair of Peavey Hysis II & a 1k power amp for sale in crack convertors for £400. Was a little tatty looking but would clean up ok. Add a mixer for @ £200 & you have an ample pa on a budget. My band use a 1k pa that the singer picked up from gear4music for @ £750. has rebranded carlsberg speakers (soundpro or summit), but it does the job for vocals, drums, guitar, mandolin & violin but I wouldn't put my bass thru it & tend to just turn my combo to suit.

I find when I slap on the TIs they lose a slight ammount of bottom compared to rounds but nothing drastic. They sound brilliant if slapping with a filter on. Especially if you do short slides on some notes.

Over the past 20 odd years of playing bass I've had many spells of leaving the bass alone & playing guitar, keys or whatever but always found after a few months, I'd go back to it (sometimes it was 6 month spells). From about 2003 to 2006 I hardly touched my bass (I didn't even have a decent amp to play through) & spent most of my music time sitting in front of a computer with Reason on it. Then a chap at work said "you play bass don't you Graeme, fancy having a jam?", the rest is history. Now I love playing bass more than ever & can't see me putting it down ever again. I do play acoustic guitar in another band, but I'm trying to get someone to replace me so I can play bass. I just like the fact that it's a humble instrument. No one acknowledges you're playing but they do when you don't.

My other 1/2 is always on YouTube & I've made a few vids with iMovie without my iMac (2.8 intel) even fluttering. I'd check your Internet connection if you have trouble. Virgin used to give me 25k on their "upto" 8 meg line, so I switched to their data streaming line (which is now a steady 10 meg).

Aahhh, a local newbie. Welcome to the forum.

Can you adjust the resonance on the Q tron? I was considering one but every demo of one I heard it sounded like the res was too high & just sounded like a whoop whoosh (if you know what I mean).

Was that during a guitar solo?

[quote name='The Funk' post='755745' date='Feb 24 2010, 04:28 AM']I've used distortion (and an envelope filter) on a ballad. It can be done if you write the song.[/quote] Funny enough, this is pretty much what I use in my acoustic band (Me & a Guitar/banjo/vocalist & a Mandolin/whistle/spoonist! & sometimes a drummer/percussionist). Adding a little OD when someone is soloing or using the filter to keep the top & mid off the bass & using the pedal to open the filter to build dynamics into the song. You can get a nice dirty blues sound using the filter with some OD.

We have a few songs that we drop to D for. I hit the open D & me & the guitar drops to it in unison. No tuner needed. We just use 5 & 7 fret harmonics to tune back up. No mess.

Every month or two I get an email from [url="http://www.luthman.fr/"]Luthmann Basses[/url] showing some very tasty (IMO) looking basses. The new [url="http://www.luthmanshop.fr/luthmanshop.fr/luthmanshop.fr.html"]Roots[/url] basses are a verry nice too. Has anyone tried any of this chaps basses?

My hometown. Moved up here a couple of years ago. I'm playing a gig in Dunblane on the 20th march if you're interested. I'll pop details in the gigs forum when I get all the info.

Hey Wayne, I did a quick edit of your pic on my phone to give you an idea of how you can mass with photos until you get something you're happy with. [url="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4376479402_c55f951bcd_o.jpg"]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/437647...55f951bcd_o.jpg[/url] Listen to Ped. Get a DSLR. You can get good s/h or new entry level ones well within a few hundred quids.

If I was earning a decent income just from bass playing then I'd have no problem spending £10k on a bass (one Ritter Royal comes to mind) as it's gonna earn it's money back & can be put thru as expenses for tax. As for value-cost. If you buy a new corsa for @ £10k you'll be able to get to 100mph. To do 200mph is gonna cost more than double this, at least 10x this in reality & if it's something you really want & have the funds, then why not?