jensenmann

Original bands often change their songstructures, why not a covers band, too. It has nothing to do with the intention to improve a "flawed" hit song. My band often moves parts, plays songs longer, give certain parts a different vibe. It simply catches the crowd´s attention, which is good.

No rehearsal this week, last week, the week before..... I´m hearing excuses all the time. Everything else is more important than rehearsing. It seems that it´s time to look for a new band. Motivation is at it´s lowest ever. Not that we had many gigs, like 5 or 6 a year. But nobody cares anymore. 🤮 rant over

I always bring my rig to gigs and then decide if I´ll use the provided backline or my own stuff. Since I´m a soundengineer, too, I never had a problem to communicate my needs to the local crew. In the end it´s just plugging an XLR from amp 1 to amp 2 DI out and backwards. I´ll do that for them and all is good, no more additional work for them, no complaints. In my own location I have a Boogie Prodigy top + Powerhouse 4x10" as well as a rack with Sansamp RBI preamp + KMT DC3 poweramp + 2x EV15L (TL606) cabs as 2nd choice. This is clearly a serious kit. We had a few bassplayers in that were not happy, though. It always turned out that they were idiots and had no clue about sound.

That´s only in the Black Forest area in Germany 😘

That´s one of my favourite records ever! Very tasty bassplaying.

The very first record I played on required a fretless for a slow song. I borrowed a 76 maple neck precision from a friend. It was modded with a JB PU in the bridge position, just like yours. It was the first time I played fretless but it worked out fine and sounded very good. Since then I´m in love with these.

My rig tonight:

They sound beautiful when pushed with a P Bass.

I did that, too, but not the entire Kreuzer thingy. I´ve been using the three transistor frontend without EQ and added a 3 band swinging input EQ based on the API553 circuit. It serves me well up to today. I´ve tailored the EQ frequencies to match with my Wal fretless.

Clearly, this shirt is a call to solo in the highest registers all the time.

priceless

I recently rediscovered Quincy Jones:

I have no clue how that picture ended in the signature. It should be gone now.

No, I don´t use a tablet. What´s wrong?

I totally get the two input feature but I´d like to see two seperate input gains and EQs come with it. I´m playing fretted and fretless and both basses need different EQ settings to work together in the band.