Woodinblack

Having had the joy of playing this rather too much, they sound remarkably like other basses! I know that sounds stupid but I was expecting them to sound somehow 'small', but they didn't. This one sounds a bit thinner and quieter than the brown one, more like a jazz, but that could be down to the strings, i believe this one had lighter strings (unless I am missremembering, which is quite likely). I was also surprised at just how high up you could play these things, ok, not all the way to the top fret, it gets a bit crowded around there and there is a lot of wood once you get to where the neck joins. But the access is really good. But the really good thing is once you start playing it, you don't really want to stop.

that group image of us is great, And frank has his trousers on in that one, which is nice! I forgot to mention that the sale basses were great. The Gillet acoustics were great, loved those, and especially liked the little skinny string one. Not sure I have scope for one of those, but I was impressed. Also the walnut Chowny are very impressive. I didn't quite get out of there without buying anything, but I figured I got away lightly, if Jabba had been selling that brown mini bass or the hollow one with the tapewounds it would have been different!

I got a 'so you didn't buy anything at the bass bash then?', which lead to.. "well..."

So how was the acoustic gig, was it ok?

Yep mine has just gone, not sure where it went to!

Just got back and unloaded. Another brilliant south west food bash for bass players I so want a bass like this:

I have a thing for the bass IV. I have had two squier bass IVs, and a SRC06 crossover and don't have any now. But every so often I get the urge for another bass VI. I think the problem is that I am not in the right type of group for one. It would help if the Squier was 'better', ie, fix the bridge, better nut, better other features, which yes is perfectly possible, to do but a lot of work. The SRC06 is just a tuned down guitar and much more metal than anything else.

Entirely context, a pub needs something with a bit of life to it, which is why I hate the slow blues tracks that pub groups always want to throw in. Unless it is a blues night or you are really exceptionally good, there isn't much scope for that in a pub.

I just want everything from one power supply - too many little leads and things around while gigging

Oh not the HX, the power supply!

Finally got round to changing my power supply (which didn't work with the HX) with one that did work. Now soak testing it to see how it works, there is no noise, its quite hot but don't know if that is a major issue

We did wannabe by spice girls. That one was fun but didn’t work with audiences. cant get you out of my head eh? Hmm

We do are you going my way, but we aren't a rock band. Crowd love it, I quite like it as the bass does something in the middle at least. Unlike sex on fire which I hate with a passion almost as much as my hatred for, 'get knocked down'. Unfortunately the crowd love both of those, so there isn't really much of an argument about it. There are a few slow blues one which we sadly can't drop. On the plus side at least it gives the crowd a chance to go to for a fosters and a beer. We do mustang sally, which is interesting as it is supposed to be one of those songs that everyone plays, but I had never been in a group that did it (unlike teenage kicks and all that sort of stuff). I probably should hate it but I really don't, and although we stopped doing it for a while, people complained so it came back.

Yep, i was more than impressed, especially as I had just mentioned to the person playing that I was useless with a looper, and having said that they asked if the helix was the one I was most comfortable with, pointed out I had never used it before. It even plays it backwards.

One of those was true.

Technically on the iPad on my stand, but I don't really look at it much, the singer has the set list and lyrics on his, and I tend to have the mixer up, and a synth that I use. But I do have lyrics for songs I use, although invariably I look at the singers for those too.

Took the HX (which I haven't been using much) to a friends house tonight to see what we can do with some kind of weird busking ambient / prog thing. I hadn't used the looper on this before, and I am not good with loopers, but how good is the looper on it? Answer, very good. I guess I couldn't use one before because they are all hard to use, one button doing multiple things make them useless to me. But you can start looping, go back to the patch and apply effects, and loop with effects etc.

I do - the knobs are the same on all my gigging basses. Althought the G&L doesn't have a mid, but the bass and treble are in the same place.

Pause the flow - he has stopped to tune in the middle of a song!

But surely you have to have the 2 minute pause for the guitarist to tune?

Going to bring my normal 4 way, can bring a 6 way too just in case, can always stay in the car if not needed

I can see what you mean, I had difficulty, but then maybe I don’t know as much as I should! i must admit that I am not sure why Scott is there, as it’s more like an interview than lesson. There is a lot of info there and I can see it might be difficult to translate into something useable. but I shall keep going for a bit to see if it sinks in!

I play with 3 fingers anyway. I didn't realise he did

I assumed there weren't but it seems like they were almost going out of their way to not show him! It did show he had the nametag 'steve' above his guitar!

Yeh, but I virtually never set it to anything other than flat. And never turn it off, even when I am wireless..