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It gets bonus points over its guitar equivalent because it has a DI out, the lack of which is very annoying in the event we ever have to use a PA at a gig because of guitarist can never remember the way to get a signal out of it.

I've gone myself listening to a lot of 6 Music recently now my car has a DAB radio. That Craig Charles gets about, doesn't he.

Learning Halo by Texas, which I'm finding tricky because the bass is buried in the mix and I can't easily pick it out. Not that it matters because it's got the band and our singist is male, so I may not be able to go low enough with a 4er anyway. Such a shame I don't have the money for a 5er as we seem to be finding more songs that would be better in a lower register so singist can actually sing it.

No, lowest line = lowest note string, n'est-ce pas?

Nice! I have a fiver version of this in my sights, the distance it's within keeps changing though 😅

Lovely! If I hadn't got my Sire when I did then I'd have been all over one of these.

Or just use a 4-string and conventional music paper but ignore the bottom staff line.

Any modern single cut bass, for example: These just remind me of a beluga whale.

I was just about to say I find these hideous, but you do you!

I use the Windows camera app, with my computer's webcam used to record the video and audio using my Focusrite Scarlett as the "microphone" with the bass going straight into that. Then I use Lightworks to combine and sync the video with the two audio tracks (me playing and the original track), topping and tailing it to remove me getting ready and starting/stopping the recording, to produce a final video file ready to upload.

Just remembered this from rehearsal a week yesterday. At the rehearsal studios we normally frequent we're normally tucked away upstairs, but last week we were downstairs in the room next to the main area, and where you can see into the room from outside. It was a good rehearsal overall, we dropped one track because it was pretty dull and had a quick run through another we wanted to introduce, so we now have a slightly revamped setlist for our first gig of the year in May. I was made to run through Two Tribes three times in a row at tempo, after which I left the guitarist to work out her part while I regained consciousness. We were outside having a break when someone from another band who was there, who had been similarly breaking while we were playing, made a point while taking his gear to his car to tell us how good he thought we'd sounded. Which was nice.

Late to this topic but the Elf is definitely worth considering, I think it sounds great DI'd because you only get a post-EQ signal.

I've just realised this colour scheme reminds me of a fungal nail infection.

I had piano lessons when I was about 9 or 10 which were more useful than school music lessons, but I still didn't get a huge amount out of it.

I've only ever seen good reviews of that series so I doubt it'll be terrible.

Yeah, he's concentrating on writing and performing music so video releases will be less frequent.

BOAK!

He's had good moans about Peavey and Behringer as well, but he definitely has a huge bee in his bonnet about Rob Chapman and Lee Anderton.

It's a shame he's stepping back a bit from YT because he's definitely one of my favourites.

Rick Beato has Views on modern music all sounding the same and heavily compressed, so there's definitely some controversy possible there. Outside that my favourite music- and non-bass-related channel is The Charismatic Voice, where opera singer, voice coach, etc. Elizabeth Zharoff reacts to songs but then explains what's going on mainly from a singing technique point of view but also throws in some music theory as well. She does interviews with singers too like David Draiman, Lzzy Hale, Tatiana Shmayluk, etc. which are very informative.

Can confirm my Squier P is from 96 and has the 50th anniversary sticker on it.

I assume loads of people have bought them online during Covid because shops weren't open to try them, then once they've had them for a while they realise they want something else.

Very nice. Just $3k short of being able to afford it...

I'm pretty certain that Jason Newsted used a fretless on a couple of Metallica tracks: certainly Until It Sleeps but possibly others as well.

As a general rule it's bass into Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, then direct out to headphones while also playing music from the PC where I'm playing along to stuff. I generally don't play out loud at home because it's a chance for me to have some time to myself so I don't want to disturb others. Ideally I'd like to get a wee practice amp, or a small cab to play through my Elf, but that's not something urgent at the moment.