PatrickJ

I'm wanting to get ahead of my New Year goal of getting on top of walking bass. I've been given a lot of useful advice of how to approach getting started on playing but I wanted some recommendations of listening for inspiration. I don't really know who the goto's of walking bass are, and what outstanding albums / tracks are out there (classic and modern). If you have any recommendations please let me know so I can start putting together some inspirational play lists. Thanks

The 2*8 cab to complete my GR Mini rig.

Completely echo this. I went through a complete gear refresh this year, from basses to amps to pedals; I think the only thing that stayed from previous years was my TU-3 tuner and maybe my cables. But i ended up with a really nice bass and amp setup and set of very functional boss effect pedals that cover all the basics: drive, octave, wah, synth and compression. Looking forward to getting really stuck into them all in 2022 and maybe getting back out there into the band thing after a few years hiatus. That being said, I really like the look of the broughton pre's - will have to keep GAS at bay until at least my birthday in April lol

Firstly I wanted to say thank you for everyone who has commented on my thread, some of you guys have put a lot of time into your responses which I am most grateful for. With Christmas preparations I'd not had a chance to really check back on all the advice given. Firstly, I opened this thread saying I wanted a professional / studio quality recording. That was a naive statement to make; I am not a professional / session quality bassist so my own ability / skill level is never going to allow me to achieve that. But I do want to be able to produce good quality recordings to be able to use as demo's for perspective bands and perhaps a bit of occasional social media. I hear all the advice on not investing more money on gear, I don't want to do that - I want to use what I have more effectively. In fact I'm not even going to entertain mic'ing the cabinet and will work with a single DI feed either from the Amp's DI or straight into the SSL audio interface. I'll take some time to properly read through all the suggestions post Christmas when I get a few minutes!

After having the pleasure of hearing the Sabre in action I have a definitive answer / suggestion. Sell both, the Sabre looks as good as the Aerodyne and sounds fabulous. The Sabre visually and sonically suits your band really well too so it's a bass that should be well used Selling both would cover the cost, or give you enough for a second Sabre as a backup for when the 602 start touring the new EP!! Edit - just seen the weight of the Sabre in the other thread -- ooof. That would be a consideration for me.

Well I think I've done a pretty significant refresh of all my gear this year In: Sadowsky Metroline MV4 Ibanez SRF700 Fretless GR Bass Mini One Amp Epifani UL310 Cabinet Boss BCB-6 Pedal Board Boss BB1X Boss BC1X Boss OC2 Boss AW3 Boss SYB5 Radial Pro DI SSL2 Audio Interface Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro Headphones Software: cubase 11 upgrade, a few IR packs, EZ Drummer Jazz kit and midis Midi Keyboard In then Out: Trace Elliot 122H Combo ACG Retro4 Pedal Train Nano+ Pedalboard Xvive Wireless Kit EBS Microbass 2 Out: Sandberg VT4 Sandberg VS4 Mayones Jabba 5 Markbass LMT500 Head Markbass Traveller 2x10 cabinet SansAmp BDDI v2 Line6 Helix FX Fender MX Strat Gibson Les Paul Gretsch Hollowbody Focusrite Solo Audio Interface Steinberg Audio Interface Audio Technica Headphones That's quite a lot in - must be better next year.

Got a new set sitting around? String one up, record, move the strings to the other and repeat. Needs to be a blind test though, so recordings labelled guitar 1 and guitar 2 so no visual bias influences votes.

As you know I'd keep the Fender, but I like MIJ Fenders and I've never warmed to the Yamaha BB shape aesthetically. You've done a nice couple of mods to Aerodyne and it looks killer, amazing colour! Perhaps a side by side recording would help ? How they play and how they sound should be the deciding factor I guess.

Sean seems to be doing a lot on Social Media recently. Though did I get the end right, despite all that fancy set up Warren just took the isolated DI feed?

Chuck Rainey on bass I believe

Nice to see this thread is still going 3.5 years on. In that time I've owned a lot of the pre-amps that have been mentioned. Of the full featured stomp box type pre's my favourite has been the EBS Microbass II however I'm now just taking the DI out from my amp head. Should that change I'm sure I'll be revisiting this list, I've still yet to to try the Tone Hammer and the Broughton pres have piqued my interest.

I do have this app! Thanks, I'll go check this out

In the New Year I'll be meeting up with a guy I met on the internet for a bit of a Jazz standards jam. Learning jazz and walking bass has been on my to do list all through lockdown I just lacked motivation to pick up and play. In recent months I've been playing a lot more but not much focussed practice and now I've gone and committed myself to this new beginners jazz group. It's been pitched as a beginners level so I'm not expecting to master anything in just a few short weeks but I want to show up being able to play more than root notes to a 2 feel (which was the extent of my last jazzcapade). I have a Real Book to hand and I'll be spending a ton of time on arpeggio exercises but any other tips, help or advice that the BC community can offer me to get me on my way to build some level competence would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Hi Again, In addition to my last thread on how to record professional / studio quality bass I'm also looking for tips on how to get EZ-Drummer sounding more authentic. As a tool it's easy to use and I can quite quickly get a backing drum track to jam too. However I'm never completely satisfied with how it sounds when I'm mixing it with bass and other instruments. Does anyone here have any experience of using it for producing decent quality music? I know it's possible to split each of the drums into it's own dedicated channel in a DAW (in my case Cubase, I've got a YouTube tutorial on this) but I'm looking for more tips on how to mix / master it better for a more authentic sound. If you have any tips, YT tutorials or articles on how to produce / mix electronic drums, especially EZ Drummer, please share with me! Thanks

Good Evening Folks, I'm desperately trying to stay away from all the gear threads here on BC (sadly failing) preferring to focus on discussions that are going to help improve my playing and help me learn how to record more professional quality bass. Although not a complete novice to home recording I don't feel I've really mastered it as a skill and I'm looking for any advice / guidance / tips that the BC community can offer me. I use Cubase as my DAW and have a pretty good understanding of how it works. I also have some of the required equipment at my disposal: - DI options: Radial Pro 48 DI box or DI out of my GR Bass head. - Audio Interface: SSL 2 channel AI - DAW plugins (IR cab sims, Cubase's standard suit of tools (reverb, compression, eq etc.) I'm willing to invest in other plugin's if needed and potentially a decent microphone for the cab. Please do share your wisdom with me; any links to articles or YouTube tutorials also very welcome - I really want to be able to record more professional / studio quality bass. Thanks

Paul bought a pedalboard off me last month so I'm a bit late in leaving this feedback (sorry). Everything was super smooth with the transaction, if you get an opportunity to deal with @Shepster8316 don't hesitate, a great BC'er.

Bob recently bought a Markbass head from me. Super smooth transaction with good communications - totally recommended. Thanks Bob!

Dave bought a Trace Elliot combo from me in a completely smooth and hassle free exchange of goods for cash! He's a lovely chap and it was a pleasure to meet him. If you have the opportunity to deal with Dave don't hesitate, he's a great member of the BC community.

Made worse as I ended up hating the cab and selling it for a loss a year or so later 🤣