PatrickJ

This week I've been reworking my pedal board. I've fitted it out with a great set of pedals, spent some time routing all the power cables neatly and safely on the underside of the board and now I want to look at my patch cables, especially as I'm currently using EBS flat cables - eeek. I watched the video above and fancied a few of the cables recommended, especially the purple providence ones or even the Ibanez cables, but it seems most listed are not easily available in the UK (from what I could find on google). What patch cables do you guys recommend?? I don't need many 4-5x 15cm lengths and 2x 20 cm lengths. Bonus points for blue or purple coloured cables :).

Reworked my pedal board this week - pretty simple compared with a lot of what I've seen posted in this thread but I'm really happy with this configuration! Just need to work on the cabling as it's a bit of a mess.

Loved this !!

Scott's website has recently been re-designed and is much better now. The material has been categorised into ability levels and the lessons into themes. It's much easier to find relevant content which always used to a bug bear of mine. IMO the course material is excellent if you invest the time to work through it. I've not found the campus forum to be that useful and the individual lessons that are usually on YouTube can be a bit hit or miss, but overall I'd say it's worth it. I just wish I had more time to invest.

Apparently Prince wrote the keyboard / synth parts

My first band was through a friend of my wife's. I'd been playing for about a year and their bass player was emigrating. My wife put me in contact and I went to audition - turns out I was better than their existing bassist so I got the gig so to speak. I put my current band together, I knew some guys through work who played guitar and drums and so we started jamming until it became more serious and bandy - we didn't know any singers though so after we'd rehearsed a few times I put an add on Join My Band then run some auditions for the people of responded. We've landed a pretty good singer but I'm not sure if she's going to stick around.

Thanks again for the information @obi 2 kenobi it was spot on! I made my way over to Rue Victor Masses and Rue De Douai this afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed walking up to the Moulin Rogue. I spent a good hour or so ignoring the kids and browsing 2 dedicated bass guitar stores, Bass Center and Bass Maniac, and a dedicated pedal shop - all in one street! Bass center was really great, an old school music shop with a good range of brands and a friendly and helpful owner. My favourite store however was GUITARE COLLECTION, Rare and vintage guitars. A locked door affair, entrance on request only. Once in and he'd dismissed a young teenage couple he obviously didn't like the look of the guy in the store was lovely He spoke fluent English and happily talked me through the basses they had - I fell a little bit in love with a '52 P bass. If anyone goes to Paris, it's a must for the musician. When I get back to London I'll have to revisit Denmark street and see how it compares.

I'd always try and buy a physical instrument in store - I can't imagine ordering a bass that I haven't had a chance to hold and play. Neck comfort is of particular importance to me! This is what I value the most. I really like Andertons, they are a great example of how to do retail in the digital age! They are about an hours drive from me but probably the physical shop I am most loyal to, though frustratingly their range of Basses is not particularly good in store (compared to what is available on their online store) but their range of pedals, accessories etc is amazing. i've bought 3 bass guitars from GuitarGuitar Epsom, they have a much better range than Andertons - the usual Fenders and Ibanzes but also brands such as Mayones, Lakland, Sandberg, Music Man etc. GG's customer service is also pretty good in-store - I had an issue with a Lakland bass I bought there, I brought it in and despite not being able to recreate the issue they gave it to their tech who found the problem and fixed it - all within about 30 mins on a Saturday afternoin with no charge! This summer I'd like to get back up to Bass Direct and possibly to the Bass Gallery - I'm also in Paris this week and apparently there's some good music shops here (California Music and Bass Centre seem to be strong recommendations).

+1 - that's a great looking instrument. I quite enjoyed the video. I'm a pretty big Foo fighters fan and a big admirer of Dave Grohl, how he comes across and everything he has achieved. I've never been particularly taken with Nate Mendel's bass work with the Foos. Rope is the only song he played on that I think has a decent/creative bass line. Dave demonstrates here he'd actually do a better job if he was to compose them IMO.

Sorry, looks like my phone had made some crazy auto-corrections along with some poor typos on my part - I've edited my original post - hopefully it makes more sense now.

I'm also a member of the 4 kid club, eldest 9 and youngest 1 - I don't get time to practice during the day. If I even attempt to pick up the bass the kids and the wife get upset. I have to wait until 9 o'clock, bed times are usually finished and its wood shedding time!! My two eldest have just started drum lessons - might be an opportunity for some family jamming in the near future !

I've seen a couple of TTE's in the for sale secrion, any thoughts on those? Harder for me to go try one out as they are discontinued.

I'm looking for a new 500 watt Amp Head to replace my GK MB500, I'm very much considering giving a Markbass a go. I would love some recommendations from you lot. The GK has served me very well and I intend to keep it as a backup head but I've found myself wanting for something new. Of the five or six cover bands I've seen this year, the bassists have been using Markbass rigs in at least four of them (the four best ones as it happens). I can't recall which models but they all sounded great which is what is drawing me to MB. My short list of heads are: - Little Mark III - Little Mark Tube - CASA I'll try and get to Bassdirect or somewhere over the summer to try what I can but I'm keen to hear the thoughts from some BC'ers too. The LMIII has a lot of glowing reviews in another MB thread, however, I always somewhat regretted not going for the MB Fusion with the Tube pre-amp and I wonder if I'd feel the same here by passing on the LM Tube. I really dig the vintage looks of the CASA, it kind of fits with the rig Aesthetics I'd like to achieve but it is the most expensive of the three and from what I've read is a MM BH-500 in disguise despite being pitched as the Michael League signature model. I don't know of the BH-500 was a good amp or not. Cab wise I'm primarily using a Barefaced Super Compact. Basses are active an PJ and a 5 string active J. The bands I play with are primarily rock covers band, although outside of those I'm developing a love for funk and would like to pursue that more. Let me know your thoughts!!

Anyone own, or tried one of these? I'm interested to hear opinions.

Just the 2 for me. 1. A Mayones Jabba 5 (In a Black/Grey sunburst) 2. A Fender Deluxe PJ (in traditional sunburst) I'm very much a hobbyist, with just a handful of gigs notched up so the two basses has been perfectly adequate for me. Each bass is dedicated to a specific band, the 5 string J bass for a classic rock / pop covers band and the 4 string PJ for the heavier alternative rock band. The singist for the latter wants to get more serious about gigging, if that happens I think I'll pick up a Fender Nate Mendel P sig or a Lakland Skyline 44-64 custom as a back up / alternate tuning bass for the Deluxe. My aim is to only own basses I will actively use / have a reason to own for so i've maintained a one in / one out policy and fortunately don't really have GAS for any more basses right now,. Amp heads however, this is where I think I'm going to be in trouble!!