Rosie C

I sold some DMX connectors to Whizzzy. Smooth transaction, happy to recommend!

I sold a Fishman pre-amp to ronibassman, a straightforward sale, happy to recommend him. (I did search for other feedback posts, couldn't find any)

Bill Wither's "Lovely Day" - I can't believe I've not done it before when it's such a good bass line.

That's exactly what I use for our PA. Bright orange cables that make it less likely we'll trip over.

Or the P2, which has one of those fancy all-in-one XLR and jack sockets.

We use a Jackery brand battery pack which is pure sine and it works fine with modern amps. But they do work out at about £1/Watt.

I use a Behringer P2. I run my bass into a Boss TU-3 tuner pedal - the 'output' jack goes to my amp, the 'bypass' jack goes into the P2. I'm not sure what's going on inside but there's a strong enough signal to drive everything. I use it with ACS ambient IEMs which are something like ambient less 17dB.

A tenor recorder that I bought in 1999-2000. I have only one bass guitar, a Squier/Fender hybrid which I bought in 2020.

Sound advice! We have a service tonight for the licensing of our new priest. I'm sad to see the old one leave, but change might be good. My back's playing up (again) so bass guitar instead of upright for me (again).

We used "Americana" as it seemed less niche, more accessible, trendier than Bluegrass, Country, etc. Planet Rock say "Americana" when they play Country songs. Rather than an attempt to subdivide it I guess we were using it as a catch all for a range of American music.

Although quite simple - root-5 with a run here and there, but I found the bass lines a lot of fun to play. No drummer in our band, so the bass and banjo were the rhythm section. I played on upright too, which always adds a bit of theatre.

I played in a bluegrass band in 2022-23 - mostly bluegrass but some country music too - Johnny Cash, etc. I was surprised that here in South Wales there are a lot of bands playing Americana and it was fairly easy to get bookings and decent audiences. Just a couple of weeks ago we went to see Texas Tick Fever who do a range of Americana styles and the venue was packed.

I did a gig on recorder last Saturday - through the house PA in a music bar to a pretty good reception. I didn't do three blind mice. I've a try-out next week with a folk dance outfit on treble recorder, so lunchtime 'recorder club' in 1978-9 has actually served me pretty well.

My upright is sub-£1000, it's a white-painted plywood model. It is probably this one, though I bought it second hand: https://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_kontrabass_rockabilly_weiss.htm I only play it pizz, and use it for bluegrass, jazz and worship music. It has had a pro setup, decent strings & pickup. I had to have a new end pin fitted after the original one self-destructed. I wouldn't pay anymore unless I moved over to classical or wanted to return to bowing. I actually like that it's plywood and not worth much as it's regularly gigged and I don't worry too much about it.

I'd not heard of this creation and it has me confused. Is a regular bass guitar 2 octaves below a regular 6-string, and the VI sits in between?

Going back a LOT of years, we always finished our rock DJ set with Freebird. Happy days!

I note that @solo4652 doesn't want to alter the bass, but for anyone else who doesn't mind a bit of engineering and modification, this is how I did my EUB. The stand was off-the-shelf and has a lot of adjustment.

My favourite is WSM Radio, home of 'Grand Ole Opry'. Live isn't so good with the time zone differences, but there's an on-demand archive on their website https://wsmradio.com Closer to home, Absolute Country on DAB is always guaranteed to cheer me up when doing cooking, housework, etc.

Sound advice! I got into a rut, sold all but one bass, and my big amps. But kept my favourite jazz bass and a half-decent practice amp. A year on I'm playing regularly again.

It's similar at our local high school - great teachers and very good facilities. Very different to my own experience in the 1980s!

Oh, I'd forgotten that. While high school music lessons were a waste of time for me, we played recorder at junior school age 8 or 9. They must have worked as I still play recorder now - though admittedly now I play it through a rack-mount chorus unit and a PA muhahahahaha!

I use a Boss VE-8, though I'm not sure I'd recommend it. It works really well for acoustic guitar-type instruments with chorus and acoustic enhancement. The looper is useful and it provides phantom power for my condenser mic. The vocal enhance (apparently a compressor and EQ) works well with my voice. But the vocal accompaniment are all a bit robotic - although the doubling and octave are better than the others. It draws a fair amount of power - I use it with a 4Ah lithium drill battery which lasts about 24 hours. Edit: this matches with a couple of reviews I read - that the TC Helicon is better for vocal, the VE-8 better for guitar.

I'm with you on burgers and pizza! 😉

Ah, but that is my favourite shape! I have an SG-shaped mandocello being built right now, and a Hagstrom H8 is top of my list of must-have basses!