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BassChat: The Movie - News Tinseltown reels as Brit-flick provisional cast list leaked: Chris O'Dowd as: Kiwi Zachary Quinto as: Ped Christopher Plummer as: The Bass Doc / Sir Charles Lytton Yul Brynner as: Happy Jack Alan Bennett as: Billy Apple Brian Blessed as: Dad3353 / Prince Michael Bakunin9 points
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Just watched some rapper (someone Lamarr) (I guessed at the double "r") Appeared to have backing track problems at the start, every other word bleeped out no doubt due to language and all this whilst his mate smashes up something Lamborghini looking with a baseball bat. You know what? I'm glad I'm old😤3 points
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Thought I'd share this little moment with you... Earlier today I pulled into a car park and spotted a large estate car parked awkwardly on the side of the entrance with its hazard warning lights flashing. Does this person need assistance I thought? A guy was leaning against it scanning the carpark for who knows what... Meanwhile another man was walking toward him with intent. Both nodded as if to say, yes, I'm your contact. Was this a drug deal, undercover cops, secret services???? Just as I checked in my rear view mirror I realised, I know this guy. He was half hiding inside the collar of his jacket but there was no mistaking it, it was @thebassdoc!! I knew that face from the good old days of the bass place, but hadn't seen this revered figure for a good 20 years. My mind raced at what was in the boot of that estate, a quiver of expertly set-up basses most likely!! As my car rolled into the first available bay and I scrambled to get my basschat autograph book out, I looked back and he was gone. Disappeared back into the bass underworld. Ha ha, the whole thing felt very cinematic in a non-stalkery, not geeky-at-all kind of way!! Liam Neeson or Matt Damon would be good casting shouts for the badass bassdoc. This opening scene could then lead to a groovy theme tune, like a bond film, but better Apologies to @Thebassdoctorifthisisabitcreepy2 points
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Wind back five years and you’ll hopefully understand why this bass is as special to me as it is.... In Feb 2013 I was diagnosed with a massive tumour on my right kidney. It was at Stage 3 due to the size (an unbelievable 9.5kgs!) and I was told by the surgeon that it they didn’t operate soon it would kill me one way or another. On Thursday last week, I was given the good news that I had no signs of recurrence and that they were leaving it to me whether I wanted to continue under observation; in short they were happy for me to be discharged. To get to the 5 year milestone was something I wasn’t sure I’d ever get to, so to say I’m relieved is an understatement! After a few tears (something in my eye) my wife told me to treat myself and knew I’d been hankering after one of these: who was I to refuse! After an early morning start I picked this up from Bass Direct on Saturday. The guys kindly restrung it with TI Flats and it really is the best Fretless I have owned. It is more special to me than words can adequately convey. Here it is:2 points
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Just be careful not to mix up your car park assignations. I met a chap in a car park to buy a bass cab and ended up with £200 worth of hash. It's terrible - no low end, undefined mids and a harsh top end. (Also nice to know the bassdoc's still about)2 points
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Go to The London Bass Guitar Show for starters!2 points
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Best bass ive ever played was a Sei. Second best bass ive ever played was also a Sei. Neither owned by me. @joncaulfield72 owned them both.2 points
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By the way, you can still specify purfling on the fingerboard - a choice of various different types is available - when custom ordering (it's likely I'll have it on my next), so whilst you see it much more on the early basses it isn't necessarily an indicator of the bass being old, if that makes sense. I don't know why people don't specify it more often to be honest, I think it's a beautiful aesthetic touch. Oh, and Martin is a gent and then some. I've been a regular customer since 1996 and he's one of the nicest, most genuine blokes you'll ever meet. I love the Gallery. I wish I could live there.2 points
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I don't understand any entertainment awards. All I can see is well known and in the main, wealthy people patting themselves and each other on the back. I find it quite embarrassing and cringeworthy really. Why anyone would want to watch this type of media driven shambolic tripe is beyond me. 😂2 points
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Know what you mean. Gave up all that faffing a while ago now, nearly always just set the eq flat and make slight adjustments if necessary on the fly. Works for me2 points
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If he's so socially right-on, why didn't he sell the car and get a few homeless people off the street? Or donate it to a charity to auction?2 points
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If I've understood your description properly, then it sounds as though the second from last fret is slightly high. If that's the case then it would need, either tapping back into position, assuming that it has lifted, or filing level and then crowning.2 points
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Let me guess. Stormzy, rag and bloody bone man and dua lipa. They seem to be the only musicians the public are aware of at the moment.2 points
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So I guess pulling on a bong midsong is deemed unacceptable these days?2 points
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It's hard to believe there's a comment that is more interested in the Basses than the Beer...!2 points
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Not heard of this brand, but familiar headstock & body shape. Very Ibanez Blazer-esque? https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F2924506251322 points
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Yes I have used it at 2 different venues with drums, both with the Eminence. The first one which is a large room with tiled floor and hard surfaces I thought it lacked a bit in the low end. I tend to leave the eq flat because it sounds so natural and I'd only just got the Clarus SL-2. Now I'm familiar with it I'll take it again and adjust the eq and it should be fine. The second venue is smaller and carpeted. The line up was sax, trombone, guitar/banjo & drums. It was Mardi Gras and the drums were quite loud at times but the Upshot was great, I could've gone louder if needed but it seems to fill the room, I could hear myself no prob and no one asked me to turn up. Haven't played bass guitar through it yet with drums but in a trio without drums the Jazz Bass & Rob Allen sound great.2 points
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if it's overkill for you playing sold-out arenas then what excuse have I got when I'm seriously considering getting one just for home practice?!2 points
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Hello, I've decided to move this bass on as it doesn't get played as much as it deserves! It's a top spec bass and sounds incredible with so many different tones. If you are looking at this you know the cost of Warmoth parts and the quality that comes with it. It cost me £1300+, not including import fees etc to put this together. It's in great condition, not a mark on it as far as I know. It has had a fret dress and full setup done on it. The Deluxe 5 neck comes with an asymmetric neck profile along with it's 17.5mm string spacing make it comfortable to play and easy to get around on. Here's a link to what Warmoth say about the neck - Deluxe 5 4+1 Bass Neck Here are the specs; Warmoth Deluxe 5 neck and body (with contoured heel) Swamp Ash body with Zebrano top Wenge neck with ebony fretboard and matching headstock face 44.45mm nut width Pearloid Block inlays Stainless Steel frets 34" Scale, 22 frets 10" fingerboard radius Hipshot A Bridge in Brass (string through) 17.5mm bridge spacing Hipshot Ultralite Tuners Nordstrand Pickups - MM5.4 (quad Coil) bridge pickup + NJ5 Jazz neck pickup Nordstrand 3b-4B, 3 band Pre Amp Vol, Blend Bass, mid (selectable mid on push/pull) and treble +/- Passive Tone Active passive switch Series/single/parallel switch for music man pickup Hipshot knobs - Only negative about this bass is some of the rubber rings have perished over time Finished in Tru-Oil £900 £800 £700 £650 including postage or you can collect from Manchester Trades possible - 5 strings - interested in Warwick,Sandberg and Dingwall basses, but open to others. Any questions then please ask, Adam1 point -
Well actually a very old Sei, but absolutely beautiful none the less. Aquired recently in a trade on here, and just back today following a service, a refret and the installation of a new preamp. i would love to find out more of it's history, I really want to know exactly how old it is, I do know that it’s one of the first ones, judging by the exquisite binding around the fretboard, so it's at least 20 years old. i love the headless design. The ergonomics are fantastic. It balances superbly, and is an absolute joy to play. The different colour LEDs are a touch of pure genius.1 point
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This is a bit of a feeler. Due to a change in my family circumstances I’ll need to move house in the next few months and will need money for deposits and household stuff. This means having to sell a couple of instruments (including my Rhodes Stage 73). This is a beautiful example of a Sterling. I struck lucky on this (I bought ten years ago from a store in the USA via eBay) as it’s a lovely, resonant thing with lovely grain. Weight is 4.2kg There are a few little marks from the previous owner - see pictures with the 5p coin. There are two tiny cracks in the outer frame of the battery compartment which were there when I got it and have never worsened. They are just visible in the picture (one is by one of the screws). The centre detentes aren’t as positive-feeling as on a new one but are still feelable. Comes in the Road Runner hard case pictured. Collection from Sheffield preferred or I can potentially travel (via train) to deliver. I’m fairly flexible about where I’ll travel to as I have friends in various parts of the UK I could visit and I can bring the bass along. I’m due a London and a Bath trip in the next month or so. Currently strung with 50-105 Chromes but there’s a set of Fender 50-100 flats and some D’Addarrio rounds 50-105 (not sure if they are nickel or steel as they came with the bass) which I’ll include as they are cut for this bass.1 point -
macbook pro and logicx is a mighty combination, my macbook is now 7 years old, after upgrades to RAM and hdd to ssd it's still going strong, with a firewire focusrite saffire interface I can record like a pro (but I don't :D) - so if he respects what he gets from you guys then it will last him through uni and beyond problems with new macbooks he may face are: unable to upgrade capacity of ssd (i think they now solder them to motherboards and charge a fortune for successive increases, 256 vs 512 is way more than if you upgraded yourself, greedy bastards) but ssd's are getting cheaper and cheaper so he can have an external drive for backups or more space (and he may need it since recording sessions in logic get big) and poor input / output options, limited to usb-c only (i think, have not looked for a while now) - now this annoys me no end, you buy a very expensive computer and you immediately need to spend more to connect anything that does not run on usb-c, say a thunderbolt interface uni discounts used to be 14% so definitely wait for him to get his uni details before buying! he can thank us all later1 point
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Be very wary about buying a second-hand Logic licence. Unless it comes with a box and all the install discs its cloned and probably won't work. Also the latest version Logic X is only available as a direct download from the App Store and is linked to your Apple ID so can't be transferred. The file format has changed from Logic 9 so while Logic X will open up older versions projects (7, 8, and 9) older versions won't be able to open Logic X songs.1 point
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Bought some strings from Mark. Great comms and fast posting! Another great ambassador for this great group. Cheers.1 point
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This ^^^^^, I got one at Christmas and this sums up my experiences as well.1 point
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That sounds like he means you only change the valve to a different type for sound reasons, not because you physically can't get it out.1 point
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I only personally know of one female bass player...I don't think she'd be up for lots of touring stuff though.1 point
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I think a lot of people just don't really know what tone they're looking for. So they twiddle about a bit with EQ; try out a few different options; think "meh...does that sound right, I dunno?"; and then zero all settings back to neutral. They then gander about online shopping for a new amp/instrument/strings/whatever to help achieve what EQ couldn't - again, without really knowing what the desired outcome should be. Pot Luck ad infinitum1 point
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That looks pretty accessible to me. It is almost certainly not touching the metal (as that would risk damage), which means it can be pulled up and forwards. Valve basses have a level of flexibility. I would also say, it almost certainly doesn't have the valves put in until the unit is assembled (you never leave the valves in when you are moving the boards around), so that valve was put in when that board was there, therefore it can come out as easily1 point
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The SBL room line-up would be worth the ticket price on its own! Holy stinky poo, Willis, Linder and RICH BROWN! That's nuts. However, anyone who misses either of my sessions in order to got to stuff in the SBL room is on my shitlist1 point
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Jazz supremo Laurence Cottle played bass on The Headless Cross album by Black Sabbath. He's in the video too for the single, but Neil Murray did the tour.1 point
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Got my ideal setting by accident. Spent ages setting EQ then brushed against the pots cos I'm clumsy. Resulting sound was mega, but the setting would look crazy on paper.1 point
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yep, I've got a TE GP12, that combined with 2 preshape settings is a recipe for endless twiddling, since it dawned on me that what sounds good on my own and what sounds good in a band situation are two completely different things I just cut the 30 and 40Hz sliders and maybe 5Hz and above depending on the state of my strings and the room, I should add I also use a Zoom B1on bass drive sim mode to try and compensate for my dodgy technique1 point
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And Bob Holness didn't play sax on Baker Street...1 point
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Yeah, I’ve got a Sansamp it’s the VT Bass DI model and it works extremely well through my Ashdown rig, as you say go into the Return socket on the amp to bypass the TE’s own preamp and (with mine anyway) plug a 1/4” headphone adaptor into the front input socket. Use the XLR on the Sansamp to the desk not the TE’s XLR out. Superb sound, I used to hate hearing the sound of my bass through the PA but it sounds really good now. So now I have a really good on stage sound plus I have confidence that a good sound is going out front. As it’s a Trace Elliott I would turn off the Pre Shape button as this will affect the sound.1 point
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Absolutely. And if you have 'quiet on stage' at a gig, it makes the engineer's job a lot easier too.1 point
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Hey @M@23, nah not yet, it all depends whether i decide to sell my two current Sandbergs or not. I have a new one incoming in June, and IF I do decide to move on my current two, I'm looking at something like the 435 as a backup bass. Hoping there's one to try somewhere at the LBGS.....1 point
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Thanks folks. GAS got the better of me and an AH-500_7 is now in a van on its way to me1 point
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Ha. If only it were true. This amp is waiting for ya :-)1 point
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As the miserable git who runs the PA, I try to bar drinks on stage. Nothing worse than trying to clean up a load of cables, stage box, etc after someone has kicked a pint all over them.1 point
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I currently own some of that nostalgia GP11 Mk V 4x10 combo1 point
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This is my take on vintage and fat. Anywhere near what you're aiming for?1 point
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I would be so worried about falling off that1 point
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RH450 and heft. Choose 1.1 point
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I'd say get some fingers in some pies first then1 point
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Just plugged it in. Omigosh.1 point
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Haha - I misread that as "I agree, a CTM100 gets me stubby immediately" oo-er1 point
