Beedster

So, last night we rehearsed in a room about 50m from the room above and it couldn't have been more different. Lovely rehearsal space, very well designed and maintained, but with a Mark Bass head and Ampeg portaflex cab that no matter what I did EQ-wise would not punch through, I had to rely on a nebulous rumble to fill out the bottom end in most songs, bloody glad I had a fretted with me as I simply could not hear the note. Next time we use that room I'm taking my own rig

You do if you're watching Chris Wood..... 👍

Frankly I’d get a different bass, pretty clear the QC on this model is poor

…and narrow frets 👍

Wood is wood, they will all vary, but Jazz width, shallow, and small headstock will be lighter all other things being equal. Material of truss rod will be a factor also

Exactly 😆 There's a song by Dylan, I forget which one, and it has the most awful dissonance at one point - it's in a sax solo - to the point that it makes my teeth hurt! My bandmate's can't hear it, or more to the point, it isn't dissonant to them. Brains are funny things

BTW it has NOT been explained, sensation and perception are a major player in audio, what happens inside the skull can be as important as what goes on outside it.

Some people don’t like sunburst finishes, some do 👍

A placebo effect is still an effect 👍

Agreed 👍

Flats on a stingray are glorious 👍 But then flats on any decent bass are glorious 🙂

Preference requires no inference 👍

Irrespective of the science, I prefer 15s also 👍

Plus 1 to all of these 👍

They’ll come after Basschat next 🤔

Yes, this is most certainly not a data capture exercise it is 100% aimed at revenue generation

Absolutely, Chris Wood is about as good as it gets on DB and both MMW and The Wood Brothers are well worth a listen 👍

….which is why I’m going to wait and see, I don’t relish defending an HMRC demand for income tax on ebay sales that are in most cases a used item sold for significantly less than I paid for it new. Also eBay can be pretty brutal to sellers, and while it seems ludicrous to suggest it now, I wouldn’t bet against a future scenario in which they withhold or reclaim money that HMRC believes it’s owed….

That’s not eBay that’s HMRC, I’ve had my account suspended because I didn’t provide the data. I’m sure it’s probably OK and a sign of the times but I’m not really wanting to find ebay sales factored into my taxable income so thought I’d wait a while and see how the dust settles

Agreed, I’m going to get creative on this 👍

Thanks Nick, luthier has accepted the job on the condition that I provide design/dimensions. I’ll send him that link 🙏

I did a pickup gig years ago and the singer without warning shouted ‘bass solo’. So I just carried in playing the exact line I’d been playing albeit with just drums for company….. …… and the audience loved it. Made me wonder whether us bassists really need s band 😆

Excuse my ignorance but why are you testing microphones, especially given they all appear to be giving you similar results? Not criticising, just genuinely interested, all seems a bit eccentric in which case I'm with you 👍 BTW I went quite mad trying out various permutations of my Townsend L22 Sphere, wish I'd stuck with my SM7-Bs to be honest