jensenmann Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 (edited) Hiya gentlemen and gentlewomen Just found this place when searching for Walbasses infos. This seems to be a very cool and peaceful place in the web, so why not registering??? My name is Jens, I´m located in Karlsruhe, Germany and into music since 34 years. Bassaddiction came up 22 years ago with my first bass being a GDR-made Musima fourstring-piece-of-sh*t. I soon decided to get something better which led me to the instruments which I´m actually playing: Wal 5string, Wal 6string fretless, 2x Fender Jazz, Spector NS2, selfmade Jazzbass, Squier JV Precision I totally lost control over which and how many effects I have. Some bandmates gave me the name "sound of the 70s". This must have come from not knowing which knob is doing what on all those pedals. My bassrigs are: Ampeg SVT+cab (silverface, first series), Ampeg B15, Trace Elliot AH600SMX+2x Boogie 2x10 Clone (DIYed), some more cabs with 2x12 EV and 1x15 Celestion, some guitarcabs, SWR Baby Blue, Echolette BN40, Hiwatt Custom 100, Acoustic 470 (this thing has barely ever worked no to speak never sounded good. Now that´s 70s) Could anybody please tell what one should need all that rubbish for??? I´m wondering everyday :-S I´ve been professional bassplayer for about 10 years. My mistake was that I learned to read music. So I got one call after another to read and hence played with probably every band and some more in my area with not enough rehearsing. Quite a frustrating expierience since all the other bands sounded good while wherever I jumped in it sounded not that exciting. Been there, done that made me regret having spent so much time with not playing original music. This (and the ever decreasing wages) made me quit professionalism and get a job as teacher for audioengineering three years ago. Today I enjoy not to read music and play originals, recording, practicing martial arts and DIYing studio gear. Besides that I´m running a nice little homerecording studio and enjoy being daddy since 9 weeks (which is probably the best thing that ever happened in my life). cheers Jens Edited August 26, 2008 by jensenmann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longmayyourun Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Hi Jens - welcome to the forum. The welcome committee will be along soon. It's a holiday here so everyone's probably in bed or gigging (or at work like I should be) Congratulations on your new family. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkThrust Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Interesting intro. Welcome to BC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_the_bassist Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Hallo Jens! Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut, aber ich versuche! Willkommen zu Basschat, Glückwünsche auf der neuen familie und ich hoffen, dass wir Sie fühlen zu Hause bilden! I hope that made sense! Take it easy, Tschus! Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molan Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Nothing wrong with the 'sound of the '70's' - especially if it's a Fender Jazz through an SVT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARGH Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 (edited) GruB dich Jens...Wilkommen zu Basschat UK. Ich spiele 4,5,6 und 9 saiter Basse,und Contrabasse (von Dusseldorf). Ich singen also..... Meine Tante und Cousen kompt aus Osterholtz im Scharmbeck und Bremen...und meine Fussball team im Deutschland ist FC Sankt Pauli. Ich Spiele vor 17 jahre. (Hope that made sense) You ever play an ESH? Edited August 25, 2008 by ARGH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiritchaser Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Hallo Jens, endlich noch ein deutscher Walnut auf'm basschat U.K. Welcome! Oliver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilb Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Wilkommen Jens!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jensenmann Posted August 26, 2008 Author Share Posted August 26, 2008 [quote name='molan' post='269842' date='Aug 25 2008, 10:31 PM']Nothing wrong with the 'sound of the '70's' - especially if it's a Fender Jazz through an SVT [/quote] I know, bro´, you´re absolutely right :brow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jensenmann Posted August 26, 2008 Author Share Posted August 26, 2008 Huh, wow, thanks for your warm welcome. I didn´t expect that. It seems that everybody here speaks german, so why not convert this board into german language No, better not, it´s a good opportunity for me to practice english . Hey, Oliver, where are you located? Somewhere close to me (Karlsruhe)? I´d love to check some other Walbasses :-) ARGH, yes, I played an ESH some years ago. But it was a short checkout when a fellow bassplayer visited me at home. He came with his ESH fretless to check one of my DIYed preamps. The focus at that evening was less the bass but more distortion characteristics of tubes and beer. So I can´t say anything reliable about these instruments (except what is my taste about them - but that´s of no help for anybody else). Very longtime ago I met one of the founders of ESH and talked with him about construction of bassguitars - I used to work at a luthier´s place at that time. He had a very welleducated opinion about this stuff and a very good concept of how to translate his ideas into construction. ESH basses have very good detailsolutions to solve problems other bassguitars have because of design flaws. If one likes the result is a different, very personal thing. cheers Jens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiritchaser Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Hey, Oliver, where are you located? Somewhere close to me (Karlsruhe)? I´d love to check some other Walbasses :-) Hi Jens, I'm in Essen, NRW. Should take you some time to get here tc Oliver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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