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are you trying to use logic? are you new to bands?

Thanks, excellent advice all round.

Buy the bass that feels the best in your hands and has the look you want. If it has neck dive, replace the tuners with licenced HipShots, if it doesn't sound great, and it probably won't, they always cut corners on pickups, replace them. It won't be the cheapest bass in town any more, but it will be a much improved one. I have a £250 Cort Jazz and instead of replacing the pickups I use an outboard preamp. I haven't wasted any money on modding, I can resell the preamp and it gets me 90% of the way to a decent sound.

Wow! Woah! I thought it was. 🤣😉

Ours was a bit different for me in that I played guitar - 1st time ever in a band. I was finding it a hassle to get guitar players when ours couldn’t do jam night, and thought bass players would be easier to sort out. So I decided to learn to play properly. So for the last year or so I’ve been doing on line guitar lessons. This month’s jam night became the “well if you are going to play live, it’s now or give up” time. It was much easier to get one of the bass players to fill in with us. It went pretty well. A few bum notes, but probably of the “audience won’t have noticed” variety. We screwed up “Don’t look back in anger” - the singer going to a 2nd chorus when it should have been the instrumental and me not sorting out how to fix it quickly enough. I think if I were MD on bass it would have been unnoticeable to the audience, but on guitar I took me too long to get back to the chorus chords to think about where to go next and tell the rest of the band. We managed to sort it and finish it ok. A learning / experience point. We got good feedback from the audience. So overall pretty happy with it.

Apples and Oranges and all that stuff, I suppose. I've used NI software for years and can't say I've had any notable problems with them. They are just part of the furniture for me, which is just as well, because a lot of my 3rd party VI sample libraries require Kontakt.

I saw that Enfield Roger waters p bass up for sale a week or so ago

Songs for the next week are: Slipnot - duality Creed - overcome Sum41 - in too deep offspring - kids aren't alright weezer - pork and beans and hashpipe muse - unravelling first couple are tricky as I don't actually know them, last one is tricky because, well, it just is!

I Have tried a few budget basses over the years including Harley Benton, J and D, Vintage , artist hybrid , Squier , Peavey, yamaha not yet tried the Budget Mark basses . thats probably next on my list to look at. all have been very good for the price point , i have actually gigged with these basses just to try them out and never had any issues with any of them if you go down the Fender copy route you can always upgrade the electronics etc if you feel the need as there are parts widely available.

so did you sack him just because of his drink driving? not very rock and roll

Statue, Mo-dean? - B-52s

The bass player in one of my first funk bands in the late 70's had a fender jazz and a columbus copy, we used to do quite a bit of studio recordings back then and the producer/engineer always preferred the sound of his columbus.

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