SteveXFR

Temptations Wings - Down (The greatest metal song to ever come out of the United States)

Just checked Thoman. They don't sell Traynor any more. The cheapest all valve head they sell is an SVT at £1200

I have a compressor with HPF. Would that do the job? I have been considering getting an EQ pedal. I like to run a fair bit of treble and the Trace 12 band EQ allowed me to do that while cutting the noise at the top. I guess it's high mids I really want. Stupidly I just sold the Trace head, I hated pushing it to 90% volume, it felt like abusing it.

I found learning scale patterns more useful than learning the names of notes. It was possibly because all the songs my last band played were either in C minor pentatonic or A# minor pentatonic so I only had to learn two scales! My music theory is pretty much non existent which is probably why I can't improvise very much.

Put a stop to it. My oldest daughter showed an interest a couple years ago so I let her have one of my basses. Now she plays much better than me and my basses and effects pedals keep disappearing! I gave up with learning the notes on the fretboard when I started playing in four different tunings.

That's quite different to my settings. I'm boosting the treble a little, cutting the mids a little and leaving the bass in the centre. I don't go far from centre on anything. I find flat EQ on my Orange head is very different to flat on my Trace head. The Orange seems to have less mids and more bass.

I use a .66 Tortex even with my 5 string on .45 - .130 strings

Thatcher f**ked the kids - Frank Turner & NOFX

I find it odd that the only bass specific picks I've seen are really thick and rigid but that's the opposite to what seems to work best

Wrap it up - Whitey

I'm braced for the inevitable accusations of stupidity for this one so here goes. I'm playing Stingray basses which have an active EQ with cut and boost bass treble and mids. My Orange amp has a similar 3 band EQ. Should I be setting the EQ on the amp with the settings centred on the instrument? Are the EQ controls on the instrument just for fine tweaking as required? Have I got that right or all wrong?

Bounce - System Of A Down

I was going to see Skints in Frome this Saturday. I got my tickets, it's only a 15 minute walk so I got beer money and I got covid symptoms so I can't go 😭 I've had tests which were negative but covid or not, I don't want to give this to people innocently enjoying a good bit of live music so no Skints for us.

Deamon Cleaner - Kyuss

Blood and Thunder - Mastadon

Dreaming of Dead girls - Doyle

I know some punk bassists don't actually pick hard at all. They use a thin, flexible pick and pick through the strings for a consistent tone while playing fast. I'm not sure if they all play like that but some certainly do. I do because it's easy on the hand and sounds good.

Ring finger - Nine Inch Nails

My favourite punk bassist, Klaus Flouride of Dead Kennedys uses a Jazz bass. He was using the same 60's jazz from 1978 to 2013 when it was lost by a South American airline. He's replaced it with another jazz. His bass sound is brilliantly disgusting.

For whom the bell tolls - Metallica

It's impossible to identify the first ever punk song but MC5 and Stooges had songs the could be described as punk in the early 70's and maybe even late 60's. The label "punk" originated with a couple young lads who wrote a fanzine to sell at CBGB

@bigjimmyc Traynor look pretty apealing. I guess it's the YBA100 or YBA300 that would suit me best. it looks like they don't have a UK seller buy it looks like they come up used occasionally.

Malcolm McLaren made a lot of wild claims which were completely untrue. He claimed to have invented punk and he claimed the first punk song was God Save The Queen. Both those were untrue.

Klaus from Dead Kennedys plays a Jazz bass. The bassist in The Members uses a hollow body Epiphone. Paul from The Damned uses something different every time I've seen them. The bassist in Vice Squad uses an old Ibanez SR800 and there's several who use Thunderbirds. There's also Gerry Only from Misfits who makes his own bases and they sound awful.

As mentioned above, plenty of treble but also plenty of dirt. Isolated bass tracks from early punk are hard to find but ones I've heard sounded really dirty in isolation with not an awful lot of bottom end.