Bass confessions

[EssentialTension]

And I admit to having used a music stand.

[40hz]

4 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

around your leg?

That's not my strap!

[Bassfinger]

1 hour ago, Cato said:

Unless some kind sole actually taught you how to do it there wasn't really anywhere to find out. 

Alas, none like that round here, although a kindly haddock showed me how to set intonation.

[chris_b]

7 minutes ago, EssentialTension said:

I've been playing bass guitar for nearly fifty years.

 

For the first forty years I was getting better.

 

Now I am only getting older.

 

After 50 years common sense kicks. You play 50% less notes and sound 200% better. 

[EssentialTension]

2 minutes ago, chris_b said:

 

After 50 years common sense kicks. You play 50% less notes and sound 200% better. 

 

I have to play 50% less notes because my fingers now move more slowly.

[EssentialTension]

 

And as Inti once told us, we are all clown whores.

 

Which is good because I was worried it was just me.

[thodrik]

I have owned a Sadowsky bass for twelve years and have never used the Vintage Tone Control once. 

 

[Bassfinger]

I have a bass confession, something shameful. Something so perverted and warped that if the media were to find out then I would be headline news across the world. Here it is...

 

I do not believe that MIA fenders are automatically better 'quality' or better sounding than top flight examples of the same bass from some of Fender's other factories. 

 

There, I've said it.  I am working hard at this, going to all the counselling and taking the medication, so I hope you'll not judge me and will find it in your hearts to be supportive at this difficult time.

[EssentialTension]

I gigged a Mesa Walkabout Scout for a decade and never used the parametric EQ.

[Man.about.Tyne]

1 hour ago, EssentialTension said:

And I admit to having used a music stand.

If you get one of the solid ones that you can angle back, you can use it as a wine table…

[weezergeezer]

I left school at 14 years old, these things happened in the 20th century, my first bass was made by a UK manufacturer WEM who made amplification too

I clawed my way up the ladder Fender Mustang.. Pbass.. Rickernbacker 4001 stero bass with stereo amplification..(I should be deaf ).. MM Stingray, eventually owner of a 1962 Jazz bass and Fender Stratocaster from the same year ...(not bad for someone with learning difficulties ) and zero education..

[Old Horse Murphy]

I had an active bass for four years before realising that that had a passive switch by pulling the tone knob up. 
 

I still have no idea how to use an Effects Loop

 

 

Edited March 15, 2022 by Old Horse Murphy

[40hz]

Every single bass distortion pedal sounds the same to me.

[skankdelvar]

For years I played the intro and verse to Gimme Some Lovin'  as  i - i -  i - i - i - iv.  

 

Oh, the shame 

[Len_derby]

I think hats worn indoors look really naff.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m really a bass player. 🤔

[JapanAxe]

36 minutes ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

I had an active bass for four years before realising that that had a passive switch by pulling the tone knob up. 
 

I still have no idea how to use an Effects Loop

 

 

 

Best to just ignore it tbh.

[thodrik]

1 hour ago, EssentialTension said:

I gigged a Mesa Walkabout Scout for a decade and never used the parametric EQ.

Me too!

[Geek99]

6 hours ago, ped said:

I carried my first bass home in a carrier bag

Mine was in a cardboard box on a train to Chelmsford- very cumbersome 

[NJE]

When I got my first fretless I spend an evening messing around with tuning and intonation until I realised you had to play on the lines not in-between them.

[TheRev]

I spent at least 15 years obsessing about my tone in the mistaken belief that other people gave a toss.

[Bassassin]

18 hours ago, chris_b said:

 

After 50 years common sense kicks. You play 50% less notes and sound 200% better. 

I'm not quite there yet, then.

 

Fortunately! 😉

[SteveK]

19 hours ago, skankdelvar said:

For years I played the intro and verse to Gimme Some Lovin'  as  i - i -  i - i - i - iv.  

 

Oh, the shame 

Hands up all those that have just hummed that to themselves, or reached for their bass🎸

FWIW I think you may have actually improved on a classic🤩

[Monkey Steve]

When I first started playing the common opinion in my group of mates was that using a tuner pedal was some sort of awful affectation and they were only used by non-serious musicians with too much money.  You just needed an accurate E and it's harmonics for the rest.

 

So I used to tune up at home using a flexi disk from a "learn to play the bass" book, and when we all got to practice/gigs everybody would tune to my E.

 

None of us understood about stretching strings.  We did understand about staring at everybody else and insisting that they were out of tune, definitely not me

Edited March 16, 2022 by Monkey Steve

[Linus27]

I've been playing for 35 years and I still couldn't tell you what the Ampeg sound is and I've even had an Ampeg amp.

[Bassfinger]

3 hours ago, Linus27 said:

I've been playing for 35 years...

You must be absolutely exhausted!