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Lewitt make a great vical MIc with feedback rejection. There's another that I can't remember the name of too that I want to suggest.

"He'd rather not play than compromise his playing or equipment choice" red flag. I've been in the fortunate position to play with some pretty amazing top-tier drummers as I am sure many BassChatters have. Some of the best have not necesarily been the ones who know their way round the kit, but know their way around the environment. They listen and react as part of the group and do what is necessary to sound the best. For the sound, the band and the song. Adding to the suggestions (other than simply learning how to control ones dynamics which is half their battle it seems) a friend of mine had a kit set up especially for pub and small venue gigs. It was a 'recording' kit versus what could be termed as a 'live' kit. It sounded absolutely amazing, but did not even remotely sound as loud as his live alternative. The bell brass snare stayed at home, that's for sure! The cymbals (Bosphorous) too had a richer more lush sound versus those designed to be leathered (you know those Paiste ones from the 90's lol) and his choice of skins cut down on excessive ring and transients in favour of colour and tone. Interestingly, it meant that we ended up hearing more 'textured' playing from the kit even though we both grew up a pair of metal heads. Think more Gavin Harrison .. In my current band, our on stage volume is such that we can talk loudly and still communicate mid-song. My drummer has a wonderful sense of self-control and knows how to deliver song dynamics that add to the experience. We then leave a really nice PA to do the heavy lifting.

There’s a Facebook group for WISE and it doesn’t make for good reading! And stealing money is an instant strike for me. 😂 Generally speaking, considering the amount of gear I’ve shipped over the years (hundreds of pieces) there have only been a few disasters.. including the issues with my beloved vintage P bass going missing at an infamous London courier depot. We did get the company CEO and his “major complaints” team involved though. Not sure if working for major bass magazines helped persuade them to dig deep for me!

Needless to say, I immediately closed my account without them.

WISE should be avoided. They authorised a payment to an obviously scam account without my knowledge. I wasn’t hacked, nor was my account compromised. I did eventually get a refund, but no apology or recompense for the hassle my end.

On the bass that I play the least, the strings arent even a year old. My job basses have strings that aren't even a week old and one will be ready to change in the next few gigs. Strings on those basses would be incredibly lucky to remain on for as long as a month when I am gigging them (lots).

@everyone I think I have fixed the problem! If you click on 'Accounts'that takes you to your account online, there is a menu for Manage Apps under Security and Privacy. I had a few apps connected to my Spotify account. I knew what the all were. I have deleted all of them and I have subsequently been able (so far) to remove everything by this unknown account. One application happened to be Universal Music.. so it seems they can add tracks to your profile and have access to your playlists. I'm still tempted to ditch Spotify altogether.

I've tried to block the ForYou account and deleted all of their tracks over and over, but they all keep coming back straight away.

Oh wow, that's interesting! So, Spotify is auto-populating people's playlists? Thats sneaky!

I'm thinking about deleting this playlust as I have just noticed (finally) that it has been utterly overrun with thousands (over 10,000 actually) of tracks that are not even remotely relevant to the point of the playlist. "ForYou" account has added the tracks making it nigh on impossible to randomise what we started with. Cheers for that...

Phil Mann's signature valve DI, "Finally" from Sushi Box might do the trick:- https://www.sushiboxfx.com/product/finally/

Thank You!

I have video reviewed both the GB Cube 800 and a nice handful of Barefaced cabinets. I think all the reviews are in this playlist. I hope they help! I have been road testing the Barefaced Big Twin 3 and have been very impressed with its big tone delivery. I'd really love to give the Big Baby 3 a spin too and, even beterr, for the system I am using, a powered option would be so cool!

Thank you!! We've got a massive pile of new gear to video review, including lining up this very bass for a full in-depth deep dive! I've recently covered the Fender Player Plus Jazz bass that is, I guess, the same family as the Blu DeTiger Signature Bass, and I really liked the one Fender sent me.

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My first bass was a Marlin Sidewinder! 80’s P/HB config, which, I believe pre-dated the Fender Deluxe that had the same. I read a rumour that the Marlin inspired the Jazz Bass Special too, but I’ve not looked in to it. Though, I think with the right HB, it certainly has a fatter tone than a standard single coil. There’s a few basses I have reviewed with downright weedy bridge pickups. I don’t tend to solo the bridge pickup in all honesty. Nice to have something useable if I need to.

It’s the bridge pickup solo’d. Probably doesn’t sound awesome on a mobile device, but it had some nice bite on my studio monitors.

Have you tried Brave browser, I find that useful to keep the ads at bay.

You know she's been fronting her own touring band for yonks, right?

"..this Tiger woman.."

In interviews (prior to any discussion over a signature bass), Blu DeTiger had talked about her desire to bring the bass out of the shadows and to the front of the music, having been heavily inspired by Motown and Funk greats and the like. So, that’s not new news, it’s literally the sound of her band and self-penned songs from the beginning. As for “empowering bassists” of the future, I don’t have a signature Fender bass, or 2 million followers on TikTok, but I sure as sh*t have spent more years than our Blu has been alive wanting to inspire all ages to pick up the bass and fall in love with it as much as I have. (I made it my career after all; 100’s of video reviews, years of magazine columns and countless students from all corners.) Is Blu different because she is signed and has albums out and stacks of touring air miles? Still just someone who deep down loves bass and supporting other musicians right? You know, like bass chatters …. 🤨 I, like many of us on BC, have been a music teacher for many, many years and the stats everywhere are the same, there are fewer women choosing to play guitar or bass. Why wouldn’t someone in Blu DeTiger’s position want to use the opportunity to spread some positivity and address this? In support of, I can immediately think of three pro UK bassists (female) off the top of my head who have sought to address the issue in either interview or written their own magazine articles. And there are plenty more!

Putting two compressors in series is a great studio trick for any instrument with a mixture of transients and longer sustained notes. Vocals with plosives for example. A typical example would be to run a super fast 1176 style compressor to capture the initial transients (on average around 3-5dB of reduction) and then place a slower but more 'flavourful' compressor after in series, such as an LA-2A style compressor to do the leveling side of things. (I like to use a cheeky maximiser limiter in my mixes to lift things a bit too.) I'm a massive fan of multiband and parallel compression, something that I have had in my set up for.. i dunno, 25 years+. No, it's not to make up for poor technique, before anyone starts whining, I just like to send a more polished sound to my FOH engineer (when it is appropriate to do so)

1.4M followers on TikTok and 500K on Instagram etc, monetising makes it a very commercial concern to the tax man.