Bobthedog

@pinkflameinthepan The above is very true. Alternatively if if fits, fret the 5th fret of the D string, same note. Whilst none of my current kit has a neck dive issue, I use these straps - very grippy but also good for supporting the weight of the bass: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Comfort_Strapp.html

Smooth Hound user here and very happy with it

Ash dieback (a fungus) in the UK is looking to kill 70% of all UK ash trees and there is no known proven cure. Along with the US borer beetle I would say it is a conservation issue. It will become availability issue if you want to put it that way. It has already affected most of my young ash trees.

I have never been normal this is just a token attempt! I have actually looked at going back to the Polytune. The Polytune is easier to read and gives the same reading as the Polytune clip. Since changing strings the Strobostomp is reading a small amount higher than the Polytunes and telling me to tune down a little. I am not sure what to trust any longer. They used to all read the same with the old strings.

Snap, almost, even down to the patch cables!

If you think the cable sound great, try playing the bass, that will sound amazing! Very difficult to get the tension needed on a cable.

Richard, welcome. You may want to read through this recent thread. Plenty of suggestions there:

Funnily enough i am in the same boat on this one. Currently working through a few songs from George Benson style Jazz to unknown Pop Punk and they are pretty much there, I just cannot nail the "feeling" of I Shot the Sheriff. All the notes are there and in the right places but it still sounds like the audience and/or me will need a ton of ganja to make it sound "real"

I have just bought the AT2020 and so far am very happy with it. Bass and vocals only but it has the range. Apparently quite popular due to reasonable price (£70ish). I am all very new to this so cannot say much more about it though. For your money perhaps lookout the AT2035 too?

This is my simple "desktop" board for skyping (thing in the sun is a Hyper Luminal comp):

Well done P-A! To really fit in, you now have two weeks to buy a 2nd or 3rd bass 😀

Welcome Joe. Love the intro wording. 😃👏

Congratulations on the new and first bass! Very exciting. Enjoy. Congrats too for having (probably) the most on topic responded to first bass thread in the history of bass music. Now that really is astonishing!

I cannot see that I ever posted this one, had it for about a year. My AB1 in the best colour ever and with three Super Fattys

Thanks all. I looked at several options, including Blackhole as a software option (could not begin to understand that one) but ended up with a Yamaha MG06 mixer with the AT2020 and desktop pedal board (MXR Bass DI and Hyper Luminal Comp) plugged into inputs one and two of the MG06 with the left output of the MG06 into input one of the Scarlett 2i4. All seems to work a treat, abeit with a lot of knob fiddling on the mixer (also had to select Mono to get it all blended properly). Photo of my lesson set up this morning as below (note this is purely for personal fun and am not trying to get studio quality sound):

I like both kinds: Country aaand Western. 😀 PS I do not actually.

I used to run my RH750 via an RS210 plus RS112. Worked really well as a set. All gone now for a change of sound, but otherwise nowt wrong as a complete rig.

What come out of this is collectively we could not build a bass that anyone liked in it’s entirety. 😀

Wood control knobs / wood pick up covers. Single cut bodies. Most maple finger boards. Jack sockets on the front of the bass (except for P basses - I do not know why that is an exception but it is)

Hmm, makes my Yamaha MG06 look positively pathetic (to be honest, in a few days of ownership I beginning to think it is).

To be honest, just about any music makes me happy. So long as it has a good rhythm and beat. Not C&W, however.

Done the same thing here. New mic, pop guard, mic stand and 6 channel mixer all for one Skype lesson a week for perhaps 6-8 weeks worth of lessons. Everyone needs a new gadget or two. Staying at home, however, is saving me approx £ 150 a week plus, when I get a season ticket refund, £ 690 per month so still quids in.

I don’t know, I have not written it yet. 😀

I switched to Skype lessons with my tutor yesterday. I was not expecting much but it worked really well. If anyone is in doubt, give it a go. My tutor was using headphones and mixer / mic setup, I just used my Mac microphone with desk studio monitors and Markbass combo on the ground.

That is an interesting point and partially the reason for my question. I was trying to convince myself the the Scarlett is only one source into the Mac, albeit being fed from two inputs. I can mix using the direct monitor knob on the Scarlett (at least that is what I am telling myself). The hope being I could talk and play at the same time. I have already ordered the mic(!) so worst case is I can hopefully use it for singing at home at some point in the near future (the wife tells me I have a good voice, I am not so sure so lessons could be on the things to whilst at home for the next month or so). Tomorrow will be the first Skype lesson but also one using the Mac built in mic.