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So, I played my own bassline to the song, and the band leader was content. On reflection, a tune in 4/4 which has a chord change on every beat of the bar, can't then shoehorn another 4 notes and rests into those beats, and expect it to be both lucid and funky. We ended up with one note per bar, and a few ghost and staccato notes. That's plenty funky enough for me. Thanks, all, for the advice.
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The 7-10 gig at Rockfield Music & Media went pretty fast. The place was packed. I don't know where all these people come from considering the place sits out in the middle of nowhere. Our performance was just ok. We had some good moments along with a few sloppy ones. I got lost in "Jolene". The dep drummer showed some improvement. The provided rig was fine. However the XRL out was not functioning so we miced the cabs. I wasn't able to get any decent pictures. Daryl
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BenTunnicliffe started following Used Strings - Ernie Ball Super Slinky + Flatwound
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Hi Folks, Clearing out some old packs of strings that have either been used in experiments while chasing that perfect tone or that have been taken off instruments that I've recently bought. £3 postage on each individual set, happy to discount overall P&P if you're buying more than one set. Also happy to arrange collection IRL in Petersfield, Hampshire. No international shipping. Ernie Ball Super Slinky Bass 45 - 100 (used for three months since new, cut to a Jazz bass length) - £10 Unknown Roundwounds Set (Short Scale) - £5 Unknown Flatwounds (red wrapping, taken off a fretless I bought recently which had Fender in line tuning pegs) - £15 Sorry for the vagueness, I don't know how old or what gauge the two latter sets are. Payment by bank transfer (preferred) or Paypal. Cheers!
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Why are venue house bass amps always such utter sh#te?
Paddy Morris replied to Paddy Morris's topic in Amps and Cabs
Well yes, but if it sounds shite to the players on stage, then it makes them play worse. -
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Last gig of the year with the Andy Wales Band at Bar Dos Hermanos in Leicester. Busiest I’ve seen it in all the times we’ve played there, tho thankfully a massive crowd of really rowdy chanting lads moved on elsewhere before we started yay. Good few friends and family of various members were there which is often the kiss of death in my experience but not so. Went with Elton’s Step Into Christmas which mostly worked (complete with surprisingly fiddly bass part) and also chucked in Green Onions and I Am The Resurrection in tribute to Steve Cropper and Mani respectively. I was wedged against a pillar unfortunately so tried to lean on it nonchalantly from time to time and attempted to look cool. I wasn’t having a great day up to then and was a bit narky so it was nice to have two hours of leathering my bass onstage to get it all out of my system. Cheaper than therapy. Gear was the usual Markbass Traveller cabs and LM3 head; pair of Yamaha basses, various pedals, Mackie powered cabs and Allen and Heath desk. Footwear by Converse. Tea by Twinings.
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Ruin a Band or musician's name by replacing a single letter
Jay2U replied to Jean-Luc Pickguard's topic in General Discussion
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Barefaced One10 cab with cover. 250w 8ohm. Trades
petecarlton replied to itsmedunc's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
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This is my first pedal board, using it with double bass. The Fishman Platinum has always been part of my signal chain as it has the tuner, HPF and DI out. The Aphex and the Grizzly are in the FX loop of the Fishman It was a lot fun putting this together - I can see why people really get into it.
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I just watched the Flea/Beato interview where Flea bigs up M'eshell Ndegeocello for her absolute distillation of the bass line so that what she plays is driving the song to the max but not drawing attention. He put it well.
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Sky Arts ,Worlds greatest Basslines .28/11/25
Sparky Mark replied to martin8708's topic in General Discussion
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Most covers you pretty much have a rhythm to follow. Blues and originals, I get more opportunities to be creative. One example, I vary one shuffle based song by dropping in a triplet in a different place in the bar each verse. Was watching another band recently and their bass player did exactly the same.
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Sky Arts ,Worlds greatest Basslines .28/11/25
Stub Mandrel replied to martin8708's topic in General Discussion
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How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?
Stub Mandrel replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
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I've been delaying this for some time, as I have really enjoyed owning this cabinet but the time has come to move it on. I have thrown my lot in with the LFSys Monza and owning two of them, I have 2 x 10" well covered. The specs are probably very well known on this forum and there are plenty of reviews on BC and elsewhere. The headlines are that it is a compact 2 x 10" cabinet weighing only 13 kilos (cloth grill version which this is), capable of handling 500 watts RMS and BF claim up to 800 watts clean. The cabinet has had the switch conversion so that it can operate at either 4 or 12 ohm. The full spec and current pricing can be found here on the Barefaced website: https://barefacedaudio.com/collections/10cr-bass-cabs/products/two_10?variant=12997201723450. Yep, to buy one new in this spec, with a cover, will cost you a tadge over £900! This cab has been gigged quite a lot but despite this it is pretty clean and everything works fine. There are a few marks in the Tolex, which I have photographed but none that have exposed the wood as far as I can see. The Tolex is just starting to peel on the back, as can be seen in the photographs. This is common on BF 10CR based cabs, as are problems with the feet, which are screwed directly into the thin ply. In the case of my cab, some over-enthusiastic "help" at a gig managed to dislodge one foot on the long side and bash another. This caused a little dent under one and some damage around the screw hole on the other. The downside of using 12mm ply to save weight, while screwing the feet directly into the wood, is that they are not very resistant to rough treatment. I have repaired the cab using a dowel in one case and internal 12mm ply reinforcement internally for both. I also decided that directly screwing the feet into the wood was going to lead to problems in the future, so I have used threaded captive nuts and machine screws for all four feet on the long side of the cab (see photos). They are now much more solid than they were originally and consequently more resistant to future damage. I have always used the cab in portrait mode and the feet on the bottom have not given any problems, so I have left them as they were. They are protected by the cover in any case, where as the feet on the long side are exposed in transit. While I was doing these modifications, I noticed that the screws, holding the switch and socket plate onto the cab, were also screwed directly into the ply and one of them didn't have much purchase. Again this seemed like a recipe for long term problems and possible cause of a buzz I was hearing from that area. I decided to use T-nuts and machine screws to secure the plate and replaced the gasket at the same time. It is now very secure and there is no hint of buzz. To get at the inside of the cab, to glue the ply reinforcement in place, it was necessary to remove the drivers. On reassembly, I replaced the driver mounting screws with new stainless steel Allen head machine screws. In my experience these are much more resistant to the heads getting mashed than the original pozidrive type screws. The original T-nuts were in good condition, so I left those as they were. I have priced the cab to take account of the above repairs, although in many ways I think they have actually improved on the original spec. Grab yourself a bargain at less than half the new price! I'm thinning the herd, so I am not looking for trades. You are welcome to come and try the cab (with a variety of heads) at my place in Fakenham. Tea/coffee and biscuits provided. I realise this might not work for many and I am sure I can find suitable packaging to post it at buyers expense. I will also meet up within a reasonable distance of Fakenham.
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