chris_b

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.

The OP says, " . . . I'm put off a little by the wide necks I keep seeing" and ". . . the necks look so fat on those." Wider necks are not difficult to play so I'd suggest he gets out and tries some basses so that he actually knows whether he can get on with wider necks or not.

They were a great band. Should have done much more. Shame they couldn't get on together. I remember seeing Andy Summers in the 60's playing with Zoot Money's Big Roll Band.

Even if I was playing with the MG's I'd definitely think twice if Stevie Wonder called!

Booker T and the MG's, if I could do the Stax and Blues Brothers stuff as well.

I get it. If they're only releasing material online then they're not making any sales here. Their loss.

Just seen this. I've always rate Sting as a bass player and he's still playing with a ton of energy. Love the band.

I always give FOH a post EQ signal. They have never had a problem with that. If the OP has a soundman who doesn't know how to do his job, trying to do it for him isn't going to work.

Get the CD's and be able to hold your music.

I have TI flats on my 35" PJ5 and I don't find the tension to be very different to the GHS Precision flats I had on before. The sound is pretty good though and IMO is an improvement. I'm wondering what the the OP is looking for in strings that makes him want to switch to a set of flats but keep them sounding like a set of rounds? I've never heard that and I reckon he's going to be disappointed. IME rounds clank and flats thump, not the other way around. Flats on the right instrument make a fantastic sound, but they are always flats and never sound like rounds!

The thread seems to have morphed from "most musically talented person" into "name any musician you can think of".

OK. Name some women who fit into the most musically talented category.

Who knows. . . . I'd say Bach, Mozart and Beethoven would be in the top 3. Then in no particular order. . . . Irving Berlin, Gershwin and Rogers and Hart, Ellington, Basie, Miles Davis, Lennon, McCartney and Dylan.

Location/Venue: 20th November 1966, Hesdin Youth Club, Ruislip Manor, West London Your age: Old enough Your bass: Framus Star Bass Your amp: Nashville 60 watt amp and Crook 412 cab The set list (some of it): We were a Blues Band. First number was Spoonful. The rest was a John Mayall inspired selection Anything else that might be funny/interesting/embarrassing: As the singer said, "Thank you and this is the last number", all the lights went on. The caretaker was walking towards us across an empty room and said, "I wouldn't bother mate. They've all gone home!"

Things might resolve themselves and you might have a band after all, or a band minus a singer. Finding another singer might be easier than a whole band. One of the other guys might find something and need a bass player. Keep in touch with all of them, but in the mean time keep looking around for other opportunities. Definitely don't blow it out, keep on the back burner. On the other hand, they might be giving you the brush off. Call one of the other guys and see what their reaction is.

I think in real lift that's called. . . . your children.

A St Patrick night's story. Thankfully, before I joined them, a dreadful working man's club band I played in in the early 70's did a gig at an Irish club in Willesden. At the end they said good-night and started to switch off the gear. The manager rushed up hissing, "The anthem!" Jim the keyboard player struck up with God Save The Queen. The manager wasn't hissing now. "The Irish national anthem you fecking eejit" . Jim didn't know it so the whole club sang it unaccompanied. They didn't get rebooked, but back then it could have ended much worse!

The Arsenio Hall Show. This is an out take at the start of the show but with a band like this any theme tune would groove like. . . .

I used play with the guy who wrote this. . . . he played bass, guitar, keyboards and sang on the record. It was always fun to play in the band.

That's the problem with the Internet. You put a subject up and then have to watch while it morphs into something totally alien and takes on a life of its own. One that you never anticipated or wanted and then you find out there's no way of controlling it.

If you mean the sound effects that were used on the Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins records then I think they are still performance related recordings.

You're asking why a car with a turbo can out accelerate a car that doesn't have one. Preamps always add more beef to your sound. EMG replacement pickups usually add a ton more. And then you're wondering why the tone of a "reasonably" priced Mexican made bass doesn't compete! You're not comparing apples and apples. Upgrade the P bass pickups and you'll move it into the same league as your J bass. Good P bass pickups can be passive and they will still compete in terms of tone. My passive P bass has Seymour Duncan pickups and it is a beefy as my active J.

Les Paul was very innovative and came up with one of the first solid electric guitars, invented multi tracking, the harmonica holder, backing tracks and a whole lot more. Les was up to he elbows in solder and wire. George Martin and the EMI engineers lead by the requests and requirements of the Beatles reinvented how the whole world used the recording studio. Up to the Beatles the studio only recorded performances. The Beatles turned the studio into a creative part of the band.

All my basses have been signature basses. Mine.

In the late 60's, my Mum and Dad had tickets for a night of Strauss Viennese waltzes (conductor Willi Boskovsky) at the Albert Hall and Dad had to drop out at the last moment, so I went instead. I had pretty sturdy blinkers on in those days and was dreading it but discovered that a Viennese orchestra in full flow was a magnificent sound. I haven't been to another but I came home glad I'd been there.