Richard R

Get thee behind me @TheGreek! Thankfully the 5 string brother of my bass I saw for sale is in the US, otherwise I would have had to buy it.

I was going to, then decided to wait and see who broke cover first 🙂

Urge for Offall, whose tragic tale can be heard here:

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/In-Store-Used/Used-Brawley-ARTEMIS-Natural-Electric-Bass-Guitar.gc While on a rather long call at work, for which I was required only for some parts, I did my occasional hunt for Brawley Artemis 5 string guitars, and came across this. It's in Manchester, NH rather than Manchester UK otherwise I would have bought it immediately. My bass is the 4 string brother of this, bought a couple of years ago -I'm half-looking for a 5 string and would love a matching pair. But shipping and possible returns to the US make it rather too risky as an impulse buy. I can't do my guitar justice, but everyone who can play has really liked it and agrees that they are really nice basses. Well built, sound fantastic, 3 band Active eq, dual humbuckers, 35" scale. The opinion across the 'net is much the same, that they are hugely underrated - Hardly anyone knows about Brawley as they went out of business after only a couple of years. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brawley_Guitars, see also the references to the original Brawley web site, various reviews on Talkbass etc) So while I won't be buying this, if there is anyone on that side of the pond who wants to take a punt (only $350!) and buy this then I am pretty sure you won't be disappointed. And if it plays as well as mine I shall be a teeny bit jealous. @Mods - Not sure if this sort of post is OK or where it should go. I have no association with Guitar Center, but move/delete as appropriate..

🎶 I'm playing Graceland, Graceland, on my fretless P, I'm playing Graceland 🎶😊

I think I may have a suitable prize for that I can donate.

The fusion do look very good, but they're double the current price of the defender. Maybe we should have a "gig bag comparison corner" at the Midlands Bass Bash. @jebroad? 😁

Music created by Artificial Insemination?? That's a load of bull.

I think this thread may be derailed, and I (mercifully) have little understanding and no experience of what I think @dave moffat might be referring to.🙂 So as it's my fault we're here, I shall bring the thread back on topic: Backbone, Status Quo's current album. Which is actually a LOT better than you expect it to be.

That'll be flatworms and roundworms. Apparently, in the fishing community, "Diggin' for bait" actually means what it says, and isn't automatically assumed to be a sexual innuendo from the early days of blues music. Who'd have thought it?

Jean-Michel Jarre, Equinoxe. The album that first got me into listening to music, hearing my best friend's brother playing it when it first came out. It is unknown if Jarre used roundwound or flatwound mains cables on the bass synths.

@Andysylvia - I have updated the review with dimensions, and some photographs with the tape measure on the case. Hope this helps.

Updated with some internal measurements and photographs as promised. The internal length, if you keep the bottom padding in place, is about 117 cm. If you were to take that pad out you would have a length of nearly 123cm, at the expense of some protection. Max width about 34cm. The neck rest can be moved, it sticks to the case floor with wide velcro. Maximum distance from the top is 23cm, min is 16.

Thanks for that. It looks like the width of the body starts back from the metal. Will be ordering a couple 👍

p.s. I also had to use just DI and wedges for a couple of services, as the cab was playing up. It's hard to put enough bass in to be heard clearly, and I suspect they aren't voiced for that. If there's a wedge just for you then you could plug a £30 wired iem amp instead and leave the wedge where it is, silent and unused.

Sound for the monitors will be different to the FOH. In most cases the eq will be the same, as your monitor feeds will be Aux out post eq, but the engineer will have FOH as the priority, and so be eq-ing so that the instruments sit properly in that mix. Your monitor mix will have a subset of the instruments at different volumes, so will sound different. That will be true for wedges or iems coming from the desk. That said, if the band can't hear themselves, the performance suffers, and when I am FOH I find it is worth taking almost half the practice time to get the monitor mixes acceptable. If you're back at the same venue and approach the engineer along the lines of "Everyone liked the FOH mix last time, but we struggled a bit with foldback, can we spend some time on that this time?", you can build up a good relationship pretty fast. I've had the interesting experience of playing in the band for the last month, having been FOH for years. What was a real revelation is that a band really has no idea what is out front at all. I sort of knew that, but only appreciated it properly when I was playing.

This is an absolute pain. Almost every audio cable I have ever used or made up has the body of the 3.5mm connector just too large to fit into a phone/tablet with a case on. If I am running the PA then I often have to ask folks to take their device out of the case. At some point I need to butcher a pair of earbuds to make an adapter with a narrow body. But then I would worry the wires are too flimsy to withstand stage use.

I meant to post photos with a tape measure! Nag me if I haven't done it in the next couple of days.

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-lil-nas-x-ft-billy-ray-cyrus-old-town-road A lot of work went into that track!

Far and away it was the best ending to "Moon River" we have ever done. Glad the bass survived though!

I had a play with the configurator, and you can make a pretty nice looking bass, as well as some wacky options. The headstock shape isn't a problem for me - there are worse and it's definitely distinctive and would stand out on stage. However the white/orange logo on the end really isn't my taste, I'd prefer something more something more subtle-- a black stencil on the bass below would be good. However - they key thing is what they play and sound like. If they play well and sound good then that's the main thing, and hopefully there is a decent target market for bands who want a great sounding bass that does the job they want and that they can customise to suit. Good luck to @BITE Guitars - I wish you every success. 👍

Right. I guess the approximate equivalent on a BG would be how far the body is carved to allow you to reach the upper notes. Though there is no equivalent of resting the thumb against the body as a datum position that I know of. Thanks for replying, I appreciate that. Not sure when the knowledge would ever be useful, but that's the difference between education and training. 🙂

The SE bash suggested including in the equipment listwhat strings are on each bass, since the strings make such a difference to the sound. That way if someone wants to hear what flats/tapeworms etc. sound like they know where to go.

Ever wandered into a conversation by accident and thought "what on earth are they on about?" Since I play one of those "short horizontal toys" as a colleague once described bass guitars, I am a bit bemused. Are you referring to the scale length of the neck, as I would say 34", 35" etc., or the lowest note on the thickest string, or the former, but with some standard using notes as reference? In my world I know how long the neck is, and tune the first string E, or D to suit the song if I need to. I thought double bass was similar tuning EADG, but it seems Eb was a standard length?? Google hasn't helped one jot, so can someone please take pity and explain?

If you are referring to the rather spiffing avatar that someone kindly sent as my secret santa, then I thought it was a giant bloomer.