Owen

Perhaps Dan has built the business and now sold it to retire or something. If I had a sucssesful business that I could sell and retire on the proceeds I know what I would do.

[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.