Owen

[quote name='bassace' post='820425' date='Apr 27 2010, 11:17 AM']One of the first basses I saw was a blond and was played live on TV, Buddy Holly and the Crickets on the Sunday Palladium show. That was something.[/quote] Formative moments - unbeatable. Mine came when watching Oscar Peterson and my dad saying that they were all just making it up on the spot. Little did he know about the changes My 'cello teacher booted me out and my next teacher offered me a double bass instead. Much more fun.

[quote name='bassace' post='803487' date='Apr 12 2010, 10:40 AM']I knocked this up from a few lengths of wood at home. It seems to work very well. [attachment=47071:2010_041...rman0032.JPG][/quote] Different colours for different outfits. Nice.

[quote name='fretmeister' post='819937' date='Apr 26 2010, 09:00 PM']JS Bach - the greatest writer of bass parts ever.[/quote] Word

Lush.

Alan, thank you very much. Owen

Thomastic Jazz Rounds. HOW MUCH?!?!?!?! but I have had a set on for 3 years now and they still give up their mellow goodness.

I have just picked up a short scale one of these for my daughter for £220 off Ebay. It needs some setting up but it is a sound instrument and MUCH nicer than the Encore short scales (as it should be for costing that much more - but that is not always so). It looks like it will be a lot of fun. I have a spare set of Gotoh machines which can go on (not that it needs them, but they are sitting in my basement and she might as well have the use of them) and will prob eventually change the pick up when something suitable appears 2nd hand. It is very nice and with fitted gig bag included it is all good. I can see myself messing with putting a piezo in at some stage to make a pretend Rob Allen mouse

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='803488' date='Apr 12 2010, 10:40 AM']That threw me as I suddenly realised that in the past I've regularly covered at least 3 songs called Peaches... and all of them good songs in their own right! Presidents of the USA The Stranglers Prince (OK that one doesn't have an 'es' on the end ) So which one was it Owen? [/quote] Stranglers. Big boys music.

The A team or Peaches. Peaches always sorts out the people who know what's good from the people who don't.

Now and again I do some work in a studio which is local to me. Like all of us I like to hear more of me than the communal foldback will allow me to have. I take a small mains powered desk with me, plug the cans feed into that as well as a link from the DI. I can then mix myself as loud as I like. Unfortunately this places a nasty buzz in other peoples cans. Is there some sort of isolatiing thingumywotsit-ma-bob I can get to make all this earth hum-ness go away?

Yes, you read the parts on the session, but not with the red light on for the first read through. If the line is written, you can actually take liberties with it - it is more than likely written by a keyboard player who is not a bassist so will not 'sound' like a bass line as we know and love them. The producers or Musical Directors want bread and butter lines for 98% of any recording work you do. It is not about technical chops, it is about time and feel chops. It is about making a rubbish drummer sound good even though no one else in the room knows why the feel is not happening. It is about bringing enough fresh crunchy grapes to share around all the musos and the technical staff and making the vibe good.

Today I am A/Bing my Demeter with an Avalon U5. I am cataloguing my thoughts as much a record for me as anything else. All going into a Berg IP310. My wife is not loving the whole thing The tone settings on the U5 certainly change the output level, but there is loads of gain so that is not really an issue. Magnetic pick ups. The U5 seemed more "immediate' than the Demeter. Not sure how to define it really. There was more hit on harder plucking. Punch would be the wrong word really, more kind of aggressive poke. Harder or faster - not in a bad or good way, just different. Perhaps it is just more headroom. I tried the piezo pick up on my Bolin NS bass and there was certainly more "whoosh" of air movement with the U5. I guess what I am aiming at here is that the U5 delivers it's goods in a more prompt way than the Demeter. I'm guessing that this is due to the U5 having a better power supply able to deliver the juice quicker. Unbuffered Double Bass Piezo pick up. Again (yes, you can tell I have collected my thoughts by now) there is more speed in the U5. They both buffer the piezo really nicely EQ wise the Demeter is obviously a lot more versatile with the 3 bands and also the 2 bands of full parametric. I will keep both and gig with them for a bit. Will I actually hear the extra immeadiacy through the general noise on a gig? I really don't know and as such the Demeter wins. I will report back later on. I reserve the right to take a few years to get back to report further.

[quote name='Vibrating G String' post='795024' date='Apr 3 2010, 01:13 PM']Great video! And I love that he's doing it on a low end cheap bass.[/quote] +1 on the cheap bass. It appears that it IS all in the fingers. When I grow up I want to be able to play like that.