Conan

Would someone from Ashington pronounce it "Sairndborg"?

[size=4][sub]Can't believe I read all the way through this thread (instead of going straight to the last post as I usually do) to find that the bass has still not arrived!?! [/sub][/size] [size=4][sub]BTW, is it a Sandberg?[/sub][/size]

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1325616637' post='1485288'] It looks a lot like an SRT800DX. Not sure the pick ups look wide enough though. They're not on the UK Ibanez site, you need to look on the US site. He does play Warwicks apparently, and others. It certainly says he plays a RDB on the marillion website, don't know what they are [/quote] Yeah, I knew about the Warwicks and the Ricks, but I know very little about the Ibanez product range! I love the sound he gets on The Whirlwind and assumed it was a thumb bass . Sound-wise, the bass he uses on that video is very similar to the one he used to record it and I'd like to know more about the bass he used to get that tone... As you say, it is not on the UK site - but I never thought to look at the US one! Cheers.

What is the bass being used here by Pete Trewavas? Looks like an Ibanez, and the closest I can find is the SR300, but the socket position and knob configuration is not quite right (and there's nothing worse that having your knobs oddly configured!). Before seeing this video I assumed that he was using a Warwick or a Rick on the studio recording due to that growl.... Not everyone's taste in tone, I realise, but I like it! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCZXU2Kqw7k&feature=related[/media]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwyuB8QKzBI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwyuB8QKzBI[/url]

Once I get the Hammers fitted into my J copy I look forward to contrinuting to this thread!

Yeah. There is nothing original there that I can discern. His tone is pretty uninspiring too (IMO). The bass solo in that "single" is bloody awful. Totally pointless. A solo should be there to "say something" - and that something should be more than just "listen to how clever I am and how many random notes I can play quite quickly". I find it rather depressing that this/he could be described in such glowing terms...

This Thundercat? Sounds like the out-takes from a Level 42 track that was too dull to make it onto the "Standing in the Light" album. Dull, dull, dull. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVp2zl2c2tM&feature=related[/media] This video gets interesting at around 2:15 though... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5GXoMuVzU&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5GXoMuVzU&feature=related[/url]

Very useful, thanks! Would have been nice if they'd played the same music on each clip, but still very enlightening. Might be my crap speakers but I thought a lot of them sounded similar...

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1323424268' post='1463101'] Fender P - Iron Maiden [/quote] And Saxon. And Budgie. And Samson. Oh, hang on - what about a B. C. Rich?!

[quote name='grimbeaver' timestamp='1323423586' post='1463085'] Just looking at a project that is an 80s British New wave metal band IE Def Lepoard, Whitesnake etc you get my drift. I have a wonderful Overwater that I love to bits but it looks "too modern" for this. What would be a typical glam metal rock bass, flying V? T,bird? White fender P? any ideas? [/quote] Depends if you're going predominantly for the look or the sound. Most of the basslines from that genre and time were pretty simple (with the obvious exception of Whitesnake!) and mostly involved eighth note roots. Will anyone other than yourself and other bassists in the audience notice? Go for a bass that you like the sound of and can play! The P will get you the raunchy tone and cut through well, but the J will give more versatility. What about a Stingray? Good enough for John Deacon and Cliff Williams among others...

Poor Geddy. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't! His style has evolved over the years and he is clearly still listening to other types of music. The influence can be heard at various points in his career. As it can when he switches to another instrument. On the first couple of albums, when (I believe) he was using a combination of Fender P and Rick, he had a certain sound and style. That was very different to the much more upfront clangy Rick sound on Farewell to Kings and Permanent Waves. It changed/evolved again into Moving Pictures as the smoother, more distorted Jazz tone came to the fore. Signals was Steinberger scoopedness... Then it all went pear-shaped (IMO) with the Wals and funkmaster strings. Bleearrgh. Since then we have had the increasingly metallic clanginess of various Jazz basses... And that's just his sound, never mind his technique!! Sounds like some people would rather he has stayed exactly as he was in 1981, but that was never likely to happen with such an innovative musician was it? I still love him and his playing, but find his current tone harder to listen to. My choice I know. As far as his last "great" bass line? I really like "The Pass" from Presto. Others since then have been good in parts, but no more than that.

[quote name='skinzz' timestamp='1323243960' post='1460870'] I quite like the look of the roger walters p bass [/quote] The Roger Waters one ain't bad either... (although it needs a black headstock IMO).

And now the weather report... [quote name='M-N-Y' timestamp='1323199468' post='1460553'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW5A6mypjRw&feature=related[/media] [/quote]

[quote name='swanbrook' timestamp='1323216287' post='1460809'] Mr slap ! Had some of the worst bass face moments !! Class vid [/quote] Instead of laughing at the poor guy, maybe we should cut him some slack? It's very brave of him to post a video of himself having a convulsion like that. Very useful to first aid providers.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1323181825' post='1460211'] Because if you can play a crap instrument and make it sound good then you can make anything sound good. [/quote] But that's the trouble for a beginner isn't it? As an old philosopher (with very poor grammar) once said: "Quest to make crap bass sound good leave many by wayside".

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' timestamp='1323180021' post='1460171'] You wouldn't put them on a thoroughbred race horse either. [/quote] Touche!

[quote name='Bankai' timestamp='1323174377' post='1460051'] Wouldn't call something that's £1500 a beginner bass! [/quote] A 'beginner's bass' and a 'bass for a beginner' aren't necessarily the same thing... If someone wanted to learn to ride a horse would you put them on an arthritic old nag? OK, strange analogy.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUwO9xkyDnA[/media] This one too. I had to learn this for a rock covers band last year. To be honest I never quite got the section from 3:15... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDGElJSXqwU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDGElJSXqwU[/url]

I find that I can [i]almost[/i] get a P tone out of a J on the neck pickup (a bit thin maybe), but a P (or even a PJ on the P pickup) will never do a J tone...

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1323170107' post='1459967'] 'an almost unbelievable amount of low end grunt, snappy string response and sweet, round tone.' At the same time? [/quote] Oh yeah. And they do the weekly food shop as well!