Twigman

I stuck Fender Original in my Warmoth build and it is just awesome!

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1328887398' post='1534399'] What do you do when you're rehearsing? . [/quote] Amps on back/side wall pointing in PA on front wall pointing back kit not mic'd just between the PA speakers.....everyone hears everything

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1328885330' post='1534364'] Fair enough, but my main point about sharing the mix still applies I would think. If money's not an issue and you can fit it into your vehicle, why not just take the extra bits you need to take a feed from the guitarist's monitor? Not a long term solution I'll grant you, but if it's important enough to post a thread about... [/quote] 100kg baggage allowance (between 5 of us) is limiting factor

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1328881840' post='1534278'] May I suggest that the solution is right there in front of you? Given that by your own admission you're never likely to get your own mix, why not share the guitarist's mix? (You're going to hear the drums anyway I would think.) Once the decision's made it's just a matter of taking the technology with you to make it happen. If the stage is so big that you're getting problems with delay, then congratulations as you've almost certainly hit the bigtime and can bully people into giving you the stuff you need anyway. [/quote] When i said I play to the delay I meant we use the delay effect on the guitar as a metronome instead of a click track - the guitar delay sets the tempo..... Not easy when one cannot hear the guitar coz it's on the other side of the stage

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1328878279' post='1534190'] I think 4 mixes is good... it is whether the boxes can take what is required. This is why you still need your bigger rig as per the stage size UNLESS you know the company can deliver. I always have a wry smile when I see the bass rock up with a single 12 or combo... and then finds out his sound can't cover the stage sound and the monitors will always sacrifice bass first. I let them fight it out as I know I can flood the stages I play on..if I have to. [/quote] I think I'll be OK but I might struggle to hear the guitar......the backine as quoted on the plan is this: [b]BASS[/b]: AMPEG SVT AMPEG V-4B HEAD 1x 810E CABINET 2 x 4 x 10 CABS 1 x EBS POWERAMP+P.AMP [b]GUITAR[/b]: 1 x MARSHALL JCM 2000 TSL 100W HEAD 1 x MARSHALL JCM 900 100W HEAD 2 x MARSHALL 1960 CABS

[quote name='Ed_S' timestamp='1328877202' post='1534162'] you can afford to make your on-stage mix from backline and whatever exists in the way of wedges communally acceptable, rather than needing mixes and wedges for every individual? [/quote] Sound doesn't carry far from those onstage wedges......The singer always insists on lots of vocal in his monitor, the keyboard insists on lots of keys in his.....I need primarily drums and guitar and vox in mine. I always stand between the kit and the keyboard player, on the other side of the stage from the guitarist - the guitarist cannot hear my backline and I cannot hear his. We need to hear echa other in our wedges. The drummer always has a wedge by his ear - mostly bass bit of guitar (we play to the delay) and vocals for cues. We all need different things in our monitors...there is no concensus on the perfect onstage mix....and never will be

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1328877183' post='1534159'] I usually get by on spill from the other monitors (1 & 2), my backline and the guitarist's backline, not had a problem thus far [/quote] Me too - I stay close to the kit and get spill from the keyboard monitor and the guitar backlne - often though I can't even hear the guitar backline as it is too far away on the other side of the kit I can rarely hear the vocals - get some spill from the singer's wedge but often not enough to hear cues in particularly noisy passages. I long for my own wedge It's so rare to find a venue capable of 5 wedge mixes......

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1328876692' post='1534144'] When my band plays gigs we're lucky if any of us have got a monitor. We just get on with it. [/quote] On a large stage in a large venue with a large PA, monitors are essential.......but often venues only have a FOH desk which allows only 4 monitor mixes (like a Soundcraft GB4 or soemthing)....

I play in a 5 piece band: Drums Guitar Bass Keyboard Vocal - who also plays Sax and Percussion..... Many venues seem to only support 4 monitor mixes. Generally the keyboards are DI'd so he gets a wedge and a mix. Vocals always need a wedge and a mix Drummers always need a wedge and a mix or they'd hear nothing above the banging and crashing. The guitarist always seems to get the remaining wedge and mix... and I generally end up without my own mix on the wedge - sometimes I'll get a wedge but often with someone else's mix in it. Why do us bass players have to put up with not having our own wedge mix? Why do we come last in the pecking order? Why do so many venues not cater for 5 piece bands properly? At least there's plenty of excuse mileage there...... This rant was brought on by the stage plan for our forthcoming gig in Thessaloniki.......

Played at the Pop Corn club in Marghera Venice Saturday night. We were awful First off drum kit missing 2 cymbal stands Hired D50 keyboard had faulty keys so required another 5 octave keyboard to be found and midi'd up. Bass head was a feeble thin sounding solid state into a 1x15 when had asked for valve into 4x10..... No dressing room.... When we eventually went on the monitor mix was nothing like the soundcheck monitor mix. The distorted channel on the guitar amp seemed to be 5 times louder than the clean channel and both seemed twice as loud as at the soundcheck. As a result the guitarist could only hear himself. The snare mic seemed to have problems throughout (tech jumping on stage fiddling with it all the time). As a result we played like sh*te. The punters and promoter seemed to enjoy it though. And we did get paid. And then we got delayed on the plane home. Only good bit of weekend was drinking a Venetian pub dry of Johnny Walker red label on Friday night.

[quote name='Rayman' timestamp='1328026071' post='1520506'] Ok well I'll come in from a different angle to what most people will say on here......... I've been playing bass for 30 years on and off (big time off halfway through that 30 years), but I don't know any theory. At all. I don't know what notes I'm playing at any point at all, apart from E A D G, the standard open string tuning. I picked up a bass because I heard Tina Weymouth, JJ Burnel and Colin Moulding....and because I loved the sound so much, I wanted to have a go myself. I've never been one for learning someone else's basslines note for note (unless it was for a tribute band and it was expected of me), and I can do that no problem, but it's not "FUN". It's not [i]creative[/i]. A lot of people will advise learning basic theory, etc etc, and they're wise words, honestly, but ask yourself.....[i]WHY[/i] do you want to play music on a bass guitar? To be technically great in a few years time? Or because you love music and want to have [i]fun[/i]? For me it was the later. I learnt to play, by playing along to my favourite music, with my bass, making up basslines that sounded good to me, and I had fun doing it. So I'm still doing it all these years later because I still enjoy it, and I learn everything by ear, and by listening carefully to what the music needs, NOT what amazing techniques I can throw in there. Theory is probably a good idea to be honest, long term, but don't forget to have fun too, otherwise there's really no point. Just my opinion, many will shoot me down, but whatever. [/quote] +1 are you me by another name?

I thought £31 for my fave set of EBGroup3 flats from stringsdirect was good value until I saw you guys getting sets of flats for £20 Do you guys play 3 string basses or what?

As you pull into the North terminal Long Stay Car Park at Gatwick..."Err, lads, I think I left my passport at home"

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This fella is a diamond...I was floundering around trying to find a Boss CE-2B pedal and this chap volunteered to make me a 'replica' at a very reasonable price and he came through. Good lightweight but very solid aluminium construction with the advantage over the original of a flashing LED (in sync with the rate knob) rather than a static on/off. Superb comms and service. Thanks

A gig to me is generally an expenses paid weekend away with my mates in some historic European city. :-) Next Venice 4th Feb.

[quote name='99mustang' timestamp='1324418485' post='1474117'] I fitted my new Badass II to my Squier the other day, and noticed that the earth wire is just trapped between the underside of the bridge and the body. [attachment=95637:Badass II.jpg] The old bridge had pressed the earth wire into the body making a poor connection. Has anyone any idea how to make a better more permanent connection? Cheers. John. [/quote] Under my bridge is recessed. I taped the recess and surrounding area (still under the bridge) with copper tape, then I screwed a solder tag into the recess and soldered the earth wire to the tag.

I was really proud of my fiesta red Squier JV - P until Squier released the CV.......as now my JV just looks like a knackered CV (albeit with a 4 ply plate and threaded saddles and a JV serial).

I had one of them. Same model but with a white plate rather than the black. It must've weighed around 15lbs and had a really fat neck with chronic neck dive. It cost about £30 in '80 or '81 and was a crock of sh*t. I can't imagine paying £295 for one these days...seller is in cloud cuckooland. Only place for a bass like that was the bonfire.

[quote name='OldG' timestamp='1324043980' post='1470166'] Anything based on a TI (Texas Instruments) chipset is preferable - VIA will do at a push... These are the only 2 worth considering for audio, as far as I know. [/quote] Don't buy VIA - only TI will work with many FW interfaces.

In action: [media]http://youtu.be/l23FvLYIXzo[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOyZ2ZEKkVA[/media]

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[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1323974365' post='1469458'] You've read this thread right? [/quote] I read as far as the post I quoted....I've since read on. i think the OP is barking to major in Music(Bass)......I understand why he wants to do it but I think he's totally hat stand.

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1323887951' post='1468341'] I say this all the time, but studying music at University has to be one of the silliest ideas going these days. It's a lovely thing to do if you have no aspirations to own a house or get a job, but in the real world, a music degree is as much use to an employer as as a wad of used toilet paper. You might enjoy indulging your hobby for a couple of years but beyond university and the meagre pickings of the music world you'll not have much to show for the colossal debt you've accrued. [/quote] +1 Do a degree in something that will give you skills to fall back on and pursue session/live work to pay for the degree that employers will be looking for.

Since building my Warmoth my JV feels too wide....a p-bass [i]needs[/i] a Jazz neck...I only discovered this with my Warmoth....do Fender make a Jazz necked P anymore? Late 70s P specials had a Jazz neck as far as I remember but I don't think they make that combo currently