chris_b

I can't hear a C in there.

She was just seventeen. You know what I mean. Nothing was the same after that.

One finger bass lines and move your hand a lot to get to the notes (a la Rocco Prestia's style). . . . you'll get by.

Good move.

+1 Muff Windwood had one of the worst bass sounds of all time and he wasn't half the bass player many are here. Make this line your own.

You can hear the bass line in the first 4 bars of the SDG version.

I don't believe I've ever noticed a radius on a bass!

The PF-500 has been good for a few years now. Get the budget up a little and you enter another level of amps. Markbass, Genz and one of my favourites, the Aguilar TH500.

Whoa. . . . backup. . . . I just noticed the footwear!!

Looking good JA.

What cab(s) are you using? There is always something "better" out there. The clever bit is to know when to stop looking.

Nice one.

A bigger carpet.

Yeah, but IMO if you got the song down it's not time wasted.

Firstly, if I broke a string I'd be amazed. It would be the first one ever! Depending on the band I could easily lose the G or B strings and get to the end. Again depending on the band I could loose 4 strings and root note it to the end if I had to.

The guitarist I play with writes songs containing some dodgy guitar riffs including hammer-ons, pull-offs, pushes, slides and generally too many notes. . . . and then wants me to play them in unison. . . . and then counts the song in too fast when we're on the gig!!! Apart from that I don't get stressed by bass lines. Work them out, practice slowly then speed up. I did feel pretty satisfied when I put together good slap-less versions of Let's Get Serious and Uptown Funk.

2 each? Jazz? Not really a big fan. . . but I did like Oh Yeah and Ah Um by Charlie Mingus enough to buy them in 1967. Rock? Too many to choose from but I'm picking Waiting For Columbus by Little Feat and Delbert McClinton Live.

Really? You dropped the amp and it was the internal design that was at fault when it stopped working??

He carried a spare tool kit in his car, just in case!

I could have done with one of those on my first recording session. The D string tuner broke. The button came off and we had to tune the bass up with a 12 inch long Stilson type pipe wrench the drummer had in the boot of his car!

I always put the set of strings I've just taken off in the bag as spares to use in an emergency. In order to cover either bass, I'm currently carrying sets of rounds and flats. I have never broken a bass string in my life but I still do this. . . . just in case.

The Police were a what. . . . ? They use a Reggae rhythm or two in some of their arrangements but that doesn't make them a Reggae band.

+1 For those few hours they control your destiny, so make them honorary members of the band and create a rapport as quickly as you can. The guys I meet are usually happy to shake hands, do the introduction and chat about "stuff", then get down to business.

Why would bass be a boomy mess? I assume the sound guy has an HPF and will use it. He will have a parametric EQ that will knock the socks off anything a bass player has. He just needs to use that correctly and problem solved. I'm not talking about 5 band amateur nights, but proper FOH sound guys. We were supporting Paul Jones on his album launch. We were in a church so the sound was difficult and getting it right was critical. I was standing behind the desk ans there was one slight squeak of feedback. The PA guy jumped right on the correct fader. Immediate solution. I was impressed. I agree that we always have to work with the sound guy but unless either party is a total idiot I don't see how the bass tone on stage cannot be the tone out front. It must be, it's your tone.

Eh?? Whatever sound you provide to the FOH should be "your sound", the sound that you want out in the room. It's not about providing a sound that is convenient to the sound guy! If the sound guy has a particularly difficult room then that's for him to resolve with his PA config and more powerful EQ. The "room" won't dictate and the sound guy won't have "hands tied behind his back" unless he's not up to the job. If that's the case then pre or post won't matter at all.