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I did a solo gig in a church in Birmingham city centre last year, it was a Friday lunchtime, part of a regular series, so there's always a good audience, people on their lunch break etc. I was sat on a stool at the front, people were sat on seats, the closest row about 4 metres from me. For one guy that wasn't close enough, he walked up and stood literally half a metre from me. After I'd finished one piece, he started talking to me about what I was fldoing and my music etc. Really nice and I appreciated him liking what I was doing, but he was just oblivious to the fact I was performing.

[quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1496219064' post='3309574'] not quite the same thing, but my last band were getting a bit frustrated at the singer insisting that we de-tune the guitars by two steps to make it easier for him to hit the notes, and on a five string bass the strings were just flapping about and the guitars didn't have quite the zing they wanted from being at concert pitch. So one week we all tuned up a semi tone, and didn't tell him. Three hours of the singer looking slightly puzzled - he knew something was wrong but couldn't quite put his finger on what it was. he never worked it out, and we never went back. [/quote] I'm just curious. I can maybe understand the guitarists tuning down, so they can keep the same shape of chord. It would really cause me problems though, tuning my bass down. I'd be mentally transposing the line, so would end up making a complete mess of it.

Are you playing real book standards? I don't see why you'd rehearse those tbh. It's improvised, so the idea is that they're not played the same each time anyway. I play a whole lot of that stuff, if there's anything unfamiliar on the set list then I run through it a few times at home. This is what I suggest your guys do too.

[quote name='spike' timestamp='1496089574' post='3308731'] Does your singer understand beats and bars? [/quote] This.

The John Patitucci model is really excellent, but I prefer the through-necked TRB6P. I used to own a very early one in red, bought off a guy on here, and now owned by Kevin Glasgow. I just prefer thru-necked instruments.

[quote name='Lucky Stiff' timestamp='1496009662' post='3308130'] Ok, you can play, but can you teach? Big difference. [/quote] Erm...yes!

It's the mids that give clarity to your sound, and will enable it to be heard. The whole band turning down a notch or 2 can help in boomy rooms too.

[quote name='Wooks79' timestamp='1495706070' post='3305963'] That digitech obscura is good, and cheap compared to a lot of options. [/quote] Ooh, lo-fi. I like that, interesting, thanks .

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1495704004' post='3305938'] Another Flashback or Flashback Mini? I am sure they would have a reverse delay toneprint,,,or you could make one with the editor. The toneprint function really make those pedal hard to beat IMHO. [/quote] There is a reverse setting, it's actually quiet nice, and using the editor you can totally remove the clean sound. I was just really after another pedal with a 'different flavour' I guess.

Must be a small pedal though. I've considered the Line 6 DL4 and the Memory man, but they're a little too big really. I'm looking to keep the size down. I've already got a Flashback that's great, but I want another delay to go after that, and my reverbs, the idea being that the phrase that's being reversed is the processed sound from them. I should say that I don't lie Boss pedals, so that discounts the DD7. Any suggestions would be most welcome .

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1495362760' post='3303184'] Just don't get this "owned by (insert famous name)" guff. It's a mass produced instrument. The magic was in JJ's fingers and brain, not a piece of wood with bits of metal stretched along its length. JJ would have made magic with a Satellite copy. The only good thing is that a famous player's family sometimes gets to make a bit out of these sales. Other than that, it's bullshit. [/quote] Exactly. There's more to sounding like someone than owning the same bass.

What a great guy! Roman replied to a wanted advert of mine, and sold me a really excellent reverb pedal. Highly recommended. .

1970's jazz to start with, mainly due to a guy that taught me for a couple of years, he was really into Jaco and that. Then I discovered solo bass, and Steve Lawson particularly, and realised just what a tremendously versatile instrument the bass was.

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1495225709' post='3302368'] Nice. I particularly liked 04-22. Very soothing. [/quote] Thanks . There's lots of new stuff on my Soundcloud page. I also recently played a couple of gigs in Paris, there's recordings of those, and also some videos on my Youtube page.

I have a new record released on vinyl. It can be ordered here: [url="http://store.championversion.com/album/04-19-22-23-29"]http://store.championversion.com/album/04-19-22-23-29[/url] [attachment=245630:Record.jpg]

There's a solo bassist I know uses one when he's tapping, I guess it's for when he's playing open strings.

[quote name='obi 2 kenobi' timestamp='1495119136' post='3301436'] Hi, how do you get a refund - what did you say to your bank ? I also paid by credit card with zero delivery. Thanks [/quote] Just phone them. There should be a section that deals with problems like this. I had a problem with a company a couple of years ago. I'm with Natwest, I had to send them screenshots of my correspondence etc. I got the refund within a week.

I used to use two, they're fine with bass, even when using an ebow for deep synth like pads.