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You may encounter problems with timing. Just because you're playing to a click doesn't necessarily mean your click will be perfectly in time with your friends. It only needs to be a fraction of a second out, but over the course of a couple of minutes it'll start to get noticeable.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1487786943' post='3242934'] Lee Sklar had a switch fitted to one of his basses used in the studio for that same reason. It isn't wired to anything inside the guitar but he claims it gets the same result that you described. [/quote] Yeah I think he calls it his 'producer switch'.

I read somewhere about some top American session guy at a recording session. The producer kept saying, no that's not quite right, maybe try it on a strat. So the guy got up and bent down behind him, sat back down and started playing again. Same thing from the producer, this time maybe try a telecaster, so whoever the session guy was stood up and appeared to be uncasing a different guitar, sat back down and started playing again. Still the sound wasn't quite right, better but still not quite right. So he again suggested a different guitar. Whatever the next guitar was the producer liked it and was happy. The session guy actually only had the one guitar, he was just altering where he was playing each time. Moral of the story, it's not the instrument but how you play it that matters.

Cinematic rock might be something like Mogwai. They featured with the Kronos quartet on the soundtrack to the fountain by Clint Mansell.

I've never ever been told my bass doesn't fit. I did loads of gigs a few years ago with a Free tribute band, my bass at the time was a 6 string Zon. They were more concerned with my technical ability than what bass I was playing.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1487753068' post='3242350'] In my case, I had arranged the courier, but won't be doing it again. I went up to Leicester last Sunday to meet a Basschatter from Leeds who bought a synth from me, and am going to Birmingham next Saturday to meet someone from Chester who I have just bought a bass from. Bit of a hassle but better then stuff getting damaged. No experience with rip offs, no one has ever tried anything like that with me. [/quote] That's what I always do. I've been all over the place over the years, but have never had a problem. I've bought and sold basses in no end of railway station car parks, tube stations and coffee shops . You'd be amazed at the savings you can get by booking the train a week or so in advance. I always use national rail enquiries for the tickets.

Focusrite Scarlett is pretty good and easy to use.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1487713882' post='3242160'] Anthony Jackson. It don't get any better musically wise. [/quote] For normal playing then AJ is my definite favourite. I was extremely fortunate a few years ago to see him with Mike Stern at a masterclass at my old uni. Absolutely fantastic. Steve Lawson for non-normal playing .

Steve Lawson or Michael Manring,

Lots of people see a band rehearsal as being the time to learn the song. I know a lot of people see it as a social event too. The most recent band I played for that rehearsed was for a NYE gig at a racetrack. We were all given our individual parts weeks in advance. We were expected to learn them at home, the practice was just basically to make sure that everything worked, which is what a rehearsal in my mind is for.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1487639068' post='3241479'] IMO to perform without rehearsal shows contempt for the audience, or at least a lack of care about what you do. Bands who busk it or who talk about playing it their own way without rehearsal and thought are rarely as good as they think they are. I saw an interview with Keith Richards where he said the Stones rehearsed for three months before their last tour, how often must they have played those songs? [/quote] I disagree, it totally depends what you're playing and I guess how good you are. Neither of my two bands rehearse. The one is part of a collective, so who you go out with depends on who's available. Everything is written out, we just read it. A mix of notation and lead sheets. The Stones would rehearse not necessarily the playing of the songs, there's an awful lot of technical stuff that goes on in shows that they have to get right. Cues and ends, lighting and projection etc.

If your gigs are anything like any that I've ever done, then I doubt there will be room in the performance space for several basses. My one residency I have to sit on my combo cos there's not room else.

A total anathema to a lot on here I know . Recorded live at a gig in Bath last night. [url="https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/sssw-performance-19th-february-2017"]https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/sssw-performance-19th-february-2017[/url]