Frank Blank

Sir Horace was a superb bass player, great songs to play to.

There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same It might well be a thinly disguised dig at post-war suburbia and the inherent conformism of the vast majority of American citizens but green, pink, blue and yellow boxes, made of ticky tacky or not, are easily recognised as distinct and very different entities.

Zig-a-zig-ah. Do what Spice Girls? Pay attention at the back, obviously...

I think ‘Stick your band up yer ar53’ would have been a more appropriate response.

The retired best of the best unfortunately.

I think, by far, the most important thing about playing acoustic basses is, oddly enough, actually really uncoloured amplification

This doesn’t surprise me having worked for a band who had a run in or two with The Alarm, suffice to say The Alarm had hairdos that drove usually tranquil people to violence.

*shudder*

Chuck a turnip at it.

Ah, got you. I've had a look at these online, I must admit I am skeptical about anything that uses the word enhance. Having said that it does seem to do something to the tone, I think the only way forward is to try one out, difficult I know in the recent circumstances but there are so many variables with things like this, your playing, your guitar. Do you feel there is something lacking in the instrument you are using?

Yes, that alongside sitting crosslegged on cushions in front of a Korg MS10 and an ARP Odyssey, it was highly unlikely to catch on.

Lemmy wanted to call his new post-Hawkwind band Bastard, after due consideration he settled on Mötorhead. I was once in an early synth band called Batrachophrenoboocosmomachia, we didn't get far.

I think I'm about to give birth to twins...

*shudder*

...and that transaction isn’t as smutty as it sounds, Matron. 😁

It is a myth that anyone who refers to their bass as 'she' isn't a complete w4nk3r.

Ftfy.

Don’t hold your breath.

Bodyrez?

Welcome @GarageStudiosCo from just up the road from @Paul S go Hessex.

But Shirley this is an aid until you can recognise each note independently?

I used all my previous acoustic basses apart from this new Ibanez without any pedals or FX and went straight into an AER Basic Performer. This was a beautiful set up and I’ll still be using it now had I not had the Interesting FRFR Story conversion experience... ...my ideal with bass amplification was that I always sought to simply make the intrinsic sound of each bass louder, sounds simple but no, all amplification colours the output so I wasted years trying to get this uncoloured sound from amps and continually being dissatisfied. Until I read the above thread. Having read the whole lot and consulted with many of the extremely wise and knowledgeable experts on BC I settled on a QSC K12.2. I went to PMT with my Rob Allen Mouse and the preamp I was using at the time. Everything on the preamp set to midway, neutral settIng on the QSC plugged in the bass with the expectation of giving it a real thorough work out but the sound was perfect straight away, I made up my mind in about three minutes. So that was my setup for a while, bass > Fishman Platinum Pro > QSC. The only problem was the disparity between the outputs of my various basses, especially the RA Mouse which has a particularly hot output, I didn’t want to be continually altering the EQ on the preamp for each bass which led me too... The HX Stomp. I play in an acoustic duo but we use quite a wide sonic palette (imho) for such a genre so I was using three or four basses per gig. With the Stomp I can tweak the fundamental sound of one fretted and one fretless bass to suit each song. It sounds odd having said I spent so long looking for the fundamental tone and the, once found, tweaking it with the Stomp but the tweaks are tiny, a touch of compression, small tweaks to get a more ‘upright’ sound. In actuality I barely scratch the surface of what’s possible on the Stomp, I basically use one amp/speaker model and the rest is very subtle EQ tweaks. Live I use bass > Stomp > QSC. If there is a PA I take a line out of the QSC (which I use as a monitor) to the desk, if there Is no PA I use the QSC as backline.

Here or here.

I was going to post said video but it's actually just too dreadful.