Al Krow

Absolutely! Although also doubling up as a really useful survey of the views of musicians who know and appreciate bass probably better than anyone else. I think if we asked the public at large, most would probably not even heard of James Jamerson? They would obviously know Paul McCartney but I bet half of them wouldn't know he played bass, haha! Plus also I think you can only replace the names of the bottom few and not the votes already cast against them, so ideally the most popular choices need to be listed from the start. If I/we run this again next year, we can maybe replace the least popular in this poll with some of the suggestions folk have made along the way.

Bumping this old but excellent thread 😊 Nice little article from Music Radar - pretty up to date (Sept 2023): 5 underrated DAWs that aren't Logic, Ableton or Pro Tools, and why you should consider switching | MusicRadar

Guess I've got the same question as @JohnDaBass ie can you hear quite a difference between the B1-4 and B2-4 in terms of sound quality?

With 75 85 95 esteemed BC'ers already having cast their votes, seems like there's a definite "Top 5": 1. James Jamerson 2. Paul McCartney 3. Pino Palladino Bernard Edwards 4. Bernard Edwards Pino Palladino 5. John Entwistle With a chasing pack of: 6. Chris Squire 7. Duck Dunn 8. Carol Kaye 7= Geddy Lee 9. John Paul Jones 10= Jaco Pastorius 10. Geddy Lee 9= Carol Kaye 10= Jack Bruce 9= Geezer Butler

I love working with drummers who have electronic kits. Can pretty much choose any kit they want and can get the FoH very nicely balanced.

Cos we've 30 slots only alas. Which of the greats would you drop to make way for them?

As in I've swapped him out for Flea, so hopefully Flea gets some votes...isn't he due one from you?

I think knowing the final answer in advance is going to make it a bit less exciting, haha! It's a shame we can't include a wider selection but it's interesting which names regularly feature that are not on the list, so maybe next Xmas we can do a more refined list (or @Dad3353 will help me figure out how we can broaden the poll). What I do love about our poll, though, is that's there's perhaps no more thought-through a group of musicians to be asking this particular question to.

I know, I know...but which of the greats would you cast aside to make room for Steve H? And how about posting a clip of his best bass line ever to make up for his absence on the poll (limited to 30)?

Ok gents Mr Wooten has had a flea in his ear...

Well if Victor Wooten doesn't get any votes soon...😅

Ok I'm gonna fess up that I'm (pleasantly?) surprised at how popular Macca is as a bass player (he wasn't in my top 3). Tbf his post 1965 James Jamerson inspired playing is in a different league to some of his more plodding early Beatles stuff, but was he that good as a "standalone" bassist that he's currently coming in 2nd on our poll? I suppose the equivalent would be our lead vox saying he wasn't an amazing vocalist either - I mean he was no Aretha Franklin. But I guess it's the combination of singer-songwriter-bass player which puts him into the stratosphere, and a combination which very few others (Geddy Lee?) have managed to scale.

Not at all, was just playing catch up in order of posts...and the available 30 slots now all unfortunately gone.

Ah seems we are limited to a total poll list of 30...so despite my best intentions the list is now closed! Sorry to those of you who's favourites I've not managed to list.

I definitely make that 4 from both of you...who would be your top 3 (including the ones already on the list)? 😅

About to add this lot in so hopefully they will get your respective top 3 votes!

Nah - keeping it fair we all get up to 3 votes. I know it's hard, but give it your best shot...

Added 😊 Well let me know which day it is...

For a little bit of Christmas fun, thought it would be interesting to do a poll of our all time favourite bass players. Probably impossible for many of us to name just one, so I'm going to suggest we each get to vote for up to three legends. I've got a list of 15 down to get things going, but if one of your top three is not on the list - no problems at all: just name them and I'll get them added on. UPDATE - apparently a max poll list of 30 is possible, so the list is now closed. Sorry for those of you who's favourite 3 bass players are not on the list, but hopefully at least one or two of them will be up there. If you fancy sharing what your favourite bass line is by any / or all of your three favourite bass players, even better!

Thanks for that Woody. Coming back to @BigRedX's point, the sequencer on the SY 200 (and I'm assuming therefore on the SY 300 and 1000) is pretty good in terms of low latency for the reasons Woody has set out. Dunno if it would get 90% of the way there for what you're wanting BRX, though?

Sounds like it could work decently on a Bass VI?

Watching Nate is never going to be good for taming GAS.

Aww mate...you've handled 369 pages on the Yamaha mega-thread, 89 pages should be a walk in the park for you? 😅 Here you go, some earlier chat around pages 56 and 57 of this thread on synth sounds: Consensus back then was that it wasn't Helix's (or indeed most multifx's) strong point. The exception on the multifx front being the cheap as chips Zoom B1-4 and its siblings and you'd be better off with a Future Impact or C4 for monophonic synth or Boss SY-200 (or the SY-1 if you don't want presets) for polyphonic.

Jam Pedals | The Music Emporium - these guys. @MM Stingray 62 has one and is super happy with it. I'm thinking I might want something a bit more Rat based to cut through and really liked the look of @Sibob's Fuzzrocious Cat Tail on his board.

Just been recommended to me and has a Black Friday discount... I do like the sound of this! (Although maybe not quite enough to replace my Pigtronix Octava)