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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 Bakunin

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😤

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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 @Thebassdoctorifthisisabitcreepy

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:

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)

Go to The London Bass Guitar Show for starters!

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.

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.

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. 😂

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 me

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?

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.

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.

So I guess pulling on a bong midsong is deemed unacceptable these days?

It's hard to believe there's a comment that is more interested in the Basses than the Beer...!

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%2F292450625132

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.

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?!

And Lord Percy discovered Green. The original Trace Elliot design team.

Bought some strings from Mark. Great comms and fast posting! Another great ambassador for this great group. Cheers.

This ^^^^^, I got one at Christmas and this sums up my experiences as well.

So will Fred West, but I’m not about to start burying people in the walls of my house just to be remembered! Just because someone will be remembered doesn’t mean everyone has to like them. Opinions vary, that’s what make discussion boards interesting!

I bought myself a fretless about 3 months ago. Although the unlined ones are doubtless more aethetically pleasing I went with lined because I thought it would be easier to get to grips with. And judging by my fumblings with the lined fretless, I'd have no chance with an unlined. At least when my fingers slip up the neck and knacker my intonation I have a clear reference to get back to.

I only personally know of one female bass player...I don't think she'd be up for lots of touring stuff though.

band is all female! and band likes to get female musicians out touring the globe...

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 infinitum

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.

Ah, in that case he's all front and no substance :-D

Thanks for your thoughts Mr Bassman, This looks like a really great cab! So portable & neat, and a real, practical solution for those of us who need to lug DB's around When / if you play Bass guitar through it, along with a drummer and several other instruments - please share your thoughts & experiences again I've now got GAS for something I didn't even know existed until recently! lol

Yeah it’s a bit of a prancing parade, but within it actually the awards were fairly distributed. Like it or not Stormzy was the first ever Grime artist to get a number 1 album, and he won, would have been too easy to give it to Ed Sheeran. International female went to Lorde from New Zealand, would have been too easy to give it to Taylor swift, I agree Lamarr was a bit weird, as as lovely as she is Rita Ora needs to stop taking clothes off and dropping to Littel Mix’s level. Dua Lipa seems a genuine person. Gorillaz are great, and had longevity It does represent the masses, which is not always good, but I kinda like the Brits, it goes a little leftfield, may not be everyone’s cuppa but it’s OK

Well if you need a load of TurboBlue Tuffcab paint, then fleabag's your man!!

Absolutely. And if you have 'quiet on stage' at a gig, it makes the engineer's job a lot easier too.

So today was tracking. I recorded 3 guitars, Ukes, fretless, fretted and a melodica. Then strings...pfft, software strings are crap. so I’ve got a mate in Madrid and one here in Manchester I used to be in a band with - they’re both graduates from RNCM and both very busy musicians - they’re providing their services for free, a real spot of luck. Should transform the overall sound. vocals next, and then replace the programmed drums with a real drummer (hopefully)

My ever changing board. Removed a few pedals, added a few new ones and moved a few pedals around and slightly changed the order. Gone: Spectracomp (barely used it), Black Teeth (RAT clone) and Bass Sweeper (also barely used). New: Golden Halo and Alpha-Omicron. The Darkglass Alpha-Omicron is in a league of its own, whatever setting I try it sounds great! I think I'll be busy for quiet a while searching for my favourite settings.

Ha. If only it were true. This amp is waiting for ya :-)

Buy a 5 string set and use the lower four strings. 140 for the low string is crazy!

RRP on this is £679 but shop price is more like £589. As it's all but mint you should try for £400.

I dig in hard on some notes, and lightly stroke the strings like a frail old lady on others. I like the contrast you get from combining the 2. Bit of compression helps to even it out.

I currently own some of that nostalgia GP11 Mk V 4x10 combo

Maybe so - but who wouldn't want to look at the Mona Lisa over and over again? I'll happily pay to see Bobby Vega / Steve Lawson and Guy Pratt 365 days a year!

I would be so worried about falling off that

RH450 and heft. Choose 1.

Loud, clean and valves. Choose 2.

I'd say get some fingers in some pies first then

Used Yamaha basses can be had for peanuts, and to my mind represent almost unbeatable VFM.