chris_b

Sometimes you can forget what you've got and how good it sounds. I've been trying out different amp, cab and bass combinations lately and went back to my TH500 for last nights gig. It's a great sounding amp that hits the spot for my ideal bass sound. One of the best sounding amps of the last 10 years.

A lovely guy and playing chops that are off the scale. I saw him at GAK effortlessly playing and chatting to a full house. He's just a regular guy and. . . . he makes mistakes too, but by the time he's played out of them you can't be sure if it was a mistake at all.

Playing bum notes is never fine and playing the wrong notes, which you thought were the right notes, isn't good either. One thing I find guitarists do a lot is to play a song wrong because they were too lazy to listen to it and work out the parts. Interpreting a song is fine, if that's what you are doing, but I don't like lazy short cuts. There are cover bands that just approximate a song, which is OK, and those who play them straight. We have a new drummer in our cover band who is very good, but annoys the hell out of me because he doesn't see why changing the rhythm of a song is a problem! I think he's just being lazy and doesn't want to learn the arrangements, or maybe it's ADD.

Has it got the "Noiseless" pickups? If yours is the same problem, here are a lot of complaints about noisy noiseless pickups on Talkbass. Maybe another foot/shot moment from Fender? They all seem to be very happy after they've changed their pickups. You can try Charlie Chandler's Guitar Experience at Hampton Wick and Chandler Guitars in Kew, or the Bass Gallery in Camden.

The budget was big enough to make everyone happy. Seems like some of them got on top of it and some didn't. 12 years is a long time. I guess how good you are depends on what you've been doing in the meantime. Typically the bass player turned up knowing the parts. Go girl.

There's a Clapton Live at the NEC video where the cock-up is so big they put a speech bubble over his hear with "Oops" in it. Everyone makes mistakes. The better the player the fewer mistakes you'll hear but they're always there. Even classically trained musicians won't get it right every time.

So, how low and are there 1 or 2 notes on 1 or 2 strings that are buzzing or all of them? There are several side issues that could be affecting the action on your bass, like nut height, but if you want to go very low then you're into uneven fret territory, and fret levelling is the first thing to check and fix. Everything else flows from that. A couple of years ago I had my US Lakland set up with a fret levelling. It played like a million dollars afterwards. I cost me about £80. Worth every penny.

Vintage Trouble might have some numbers that would fit. . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fbMmrDItSg

It was Bowie's band, although they hadn't played together for 12 years I thought they were fantastic. I'm not sure what purpose Lorde served. The weak link IMO.

Check out The Groundhogs. Another UK blues band not getting enough praise these days. They moved into heavier and even prog rock territory. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9aS6asrurQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9aS6asrurQ[/url]

Swap the pickups over.

The Mesa Boogie D800 and several of the TC amps will go to 2 ohms.

You have to be practical. If this guy's on the skids it's nothing to do with you, but if you don't replace him someone else will, so it might as well be you. I've been playing with my current covers band (through various changes) for nearly 10 years. Sometimes it's been my main band and sometimes it's been the diary filler, but if it's done properly a good cover band is worth playing in. IMO Mustang Sally is a great number if you can play it like the Wilson Pickett version (Tommy Cogbill on bass).

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1456395417' post='2988483'] his recordings are rather clinical, but his live shows are a joy to behold [/quote] Especially when Carmine Rojas is on bass.

[quote name='Sparky Mark' timestamp='1456331402' post='2987976'] I too was a lightweight cab user until I recovered my heavier weight ceramic magnetic driver Bergantino cabs from the garage and was amazed at how much deeper they sounded than any of my neo cabs (including Bergantinos). They just seem to plant themselves more solidly due the extra weight and vibrate a whole lot less. [/quote] As a general observation, the weight of a cab will not make any difference to its sound. It would help to know which cabs you're talking about.

If a cab is badly designed or made it could vibrate. If it is well designed it won't. Light cabs have internal bracing precisely to stop them vibrating. As I said in another thread a cab that vibrates is like a car with a slipping clutch. Good cabs will put their sound out through the speaker and port rather than wasting it on vibrating the cab. The cab mentioned earlier was probably moving because the sound waves were vibrating the box it was sitting on so non slip mats would work without affecting the sound of the cab.

I know, but there are plenty of blues players at the heavier end of the spectrum to provide inspiration. Free, Cream and the Jeff Beck Group were all bands that moved away from blues and in the process created Rock.

Have a listen to Beck-Ola by the Jeff Beck Group.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, be better than the rest, I'd suggest you leave Red House alone.

. . . maybe Humble Pie, Joe Walsh, Mountain and Grand Funk Railroad.

Slash? Blues? That's a new one on me! Try Joe Bonamassa, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Cream and early Robben Ford.

What does "heavy blues" mean? Loud? Authentic?

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1456245922' post='2987015'] I've noticed that there have been several of these in the "For Sale" threads recently. I was wondering why they're being turn around so quickly. [/quote] How can you say they're being turned around quickly? The obvious answer is that these guys are probably buying something else. . . . maybe the Mesa D800, but there are about 5 new D Class heads around at the moment. I guess we'll see a few Bergs for sale when the HDN cabs arrive. That's what happens.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1456159020' post='2986054'] And this is an Epimedium [/quote] A South African medium?

Doris Stokes was a happy medium.