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You're all good here, folks - everyone has an opinion so as long as we all treat each other with respect and realise that not everyone has the same experience, what's the problem?

Yes, the mix can be pre-armed so it activates in that mode.

I do not manufacture or sell speakers, or represent in any way any entity that does. I'm an acoustical engineer, so any comments I may make come purely from an engineering standpoint. I don't have a dog in this fight, but that doesn't mean I can't point out if one or more of them have a decided limp.

When I was in The Beatles it always used to annoy me that the bass player insisted on doing this silly little backwards kick with his left foot when he bowed (see above). He wasn't a bad singer but after one gig we had a huge row about his foot so I left the band. Losers.

Intersteing interview with Kim Ryrie and Peter Vogel founders of Fairlight Instruments, talking about the development of the Fairlight CMI and other projects they have been involved with. Over 90 minutes long but well worth the time to listen (you don't really need to watch the video, it's all static headshots).

But yellow is this years black

Here's my headpiece solution. Drill stops with some longer screws. And a little something walnut to pretty up the output jack And after a day of sanding, finishing has begun. First coat of oil is on

Here is HJ and the MarkAudio systems in action.

Ibanez BTB 775PB here

Although you have the rig wired Amp - Cab - Cab that is still a parallel arrangement. It makes no difference if you wired both back to the amp and used the speakon and jack, the result is exactly the same and a potentially damaging load on the amp. I would just use the 4 Ohm cab until yo decide a way forward. If you want to run 2 2 x 10's, you need to sell the 4 Ohm and replace it with another 8 Ohm. A friend of mine tried a couple of EA cabs on his Mark Bass amp not knowing they were actually 6 Ohm impedance and thus 3 Ohms when in parallel. It was a costly mistake.

FRFR then?

Oh I don't know, I always found that one easy. Certainly no harder than the verse of all right now

Sounds like Jamerson to me, but Carol can get funky. Here she is with Joe Pass on guitar!

You can't trust them. They'll obviously do this again at some point, as they've shown what their philosophy regarding band etiquette is Announce on Farcebook a week before the gig that you forgot you were having your eyebrows plucked on that date

Well I took a chance and bought it!!,£400 picking it up tonight,hopefully it’s not too bad,

Hey all.... @Cuzzie @FacStudio @ShaunB @NancyJohnson @cetera @fretmeister @dannybuoy @Sean Aside from Tech21 claiming they are “shipping soon” I’ve had confirmation these are due in U.K. in April. Exciting news! with these numbers so far I would suggest we can knock our basschat price from £270 RRP down to £240 delivered to you. If more add to the list we can maybe do better. I’ll do the preorders at the end of the month so it’s nearer payday for everyone... if you could email me your details to [email protected] I’ll send you a PayPal invoice with my details. BOOM!

I use my singing skills as a cruel negotiating weapon . the lads in the band won't let me sing as they reckon it is totally stinky poo and don't mind telling me . So when I hear some of the notes coming from the singer's (rhythm-ish) guitar, I keep letting him know his technique is lacking , he generally gets the hump and swears blind he is doing his best. When he is at critical mass, I suggest that I bring a microphone to the next gig and 'do my best' he gets the message 😂

Or sweets, like a reverse pinata...make sure you've gobbed on them all first, though. The sweets, not the band. Possibly.

Best bass for a flounce-smash? Probably a standard-scale hollowbody with no centre block. In advance, fill it with confetti for that extra touch of class.

I left a band once after a blazing row at the rehearsal rooms in the coffee machine area, stormed off back into the room, packed my kit...and then had to go back and ask for a hand getting my Ampeg 810 up the stairs and into my car. This is why lightweight cabs are the way forward...Flouncing Ability is an often-overlooked plus point...

I can see the markbass and branding argument, no problem at all. But honestly, if markbass want to sell a lot of these a black discrete version is essential. Pro djs and companies sell their djing services now 90% on photos of their set ups as its so internet driven now. Clients especially young brides are like magpies "ooh i love how that set up looks, lets book these" (rather than the quality of djing or sound). So it goes in a circle - brides want the discreet classy look, so choose djs with that set up, so other djs buy that set up as they can see what sells, sales of say the fbt vertus go through the roof and everyone copies. If someone had a yellow system and it didnt help them get bookings they wouldnt keep it regardless of the audio quality and theyd get a system that helped them get the work. I know that sounds crazy but its true. These systems are also popular at ceremonies and wedding breakfast which is why discretion is essential. I appreciate we are talking basses here and bands, but just trying to help them see from a different angle.

If its anything like my VM P you've nout to worry about. Cuts thru very nicely so various audience bods have told me.

There's also this, though it's mimed for the camera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh_Qg4CbM8Q And this The Save The Children concert footage is truly amazing though... gave me the chills when I first saw it.

That tends to happen when you start licking speaker cones when they are moving

I spent a very educational and entertaining two hours in a rehearsal studio with MoJoKe this morning and, rather as I feared, I have been thoroughly smitten by these systems, and especially by the Audio Chain - the larger unit with the 2x10 subwoofer. Although I have researched (quite thoroughly) all the major competitors, including all of those listed elsewhere in this thread, I cannot claim to have listened to, or played through, them all. I am therefore NOT an expert on this subject. Nor, indeed, do I have a dog in this fight. I never really got on with pooper-scoopers. But I HAVE invested two hours in getting seriously up close and personal with this Markaudio stuff, and I have been sufficiently impressed that I'll be putting my hand in my pocket. I've already listed for sale about £2k worth of kit here on Basschat to help fund this move, and there will be more to come. I'm not here to write advertising copy for Markbass, and they wouldn't thank me for it anyway, so if you want to know more about my thinking in PA terms please drop me a PM. But this being a forum for bass players, I should at least mention that the deciding factor for me was that this is a PA system that actually is also a serious high-end bass cab, and which can be used quite happily in stand-alone mode (i.e. no PA mixer etc.) to this purpose. Just stick an appropriate preamp or pedal in front of it, plug in to the dedicated socket and ... job done. You can do this regardless of whether or not it is in use as a PA at the time. Rather than - as now - having three Barefaced bass cabs (610 + Compact + Midget) and two RCF PA cabs (ART 322-A) knocking about, and taking at least three of those five to every gig by my main band, I can think in terms of losing all three Barefaced cabs with no appreciable loss of performance. Having been a notorious Barefaced fanboi for roughly a decade, life post-Barefaced will probably seem strange to me at first. But I suspect that Alex won't notice that I've gone.

The Bass Driver DI was designed as a tone shaping direct box. The concept was to plug into the DI and send the "parallel" output to your bass amp and use your amp for your stage monitor and tone. The Bass Driver DI's XLR would be sent to the mixer and would be set for the most desirable DI tone. The Bass Driver does have a specific tone with a midrange dip that many find desirable. When running into the front of an amp it usually sounds best if your amp is set flat. If your amp is set with a midrange dip (which is quite common) or you have an active bass with a similar setting, this will be exacerbated using the Bass Driver DI. It really comes down to whether or not you use the pedal as an always on effect or like to turn it on and off. Usually backing down the Blend or reducing the Bass and Treble (plus increasing the midrange for the V2 pedal) will take care of this. If you require more midrange content you might consider our Para Driver DI, VT Bass DI or Q\Strip (no amp emulation though) products. There seems to be a misconception about tube emulation and tube amps in general. I guess if you're a younger player and have not had much first hand experience with tube amps it's easy to assume that tubes=distortion which is not true. Natural tube output stage distortion is not so much an effect but a byproduct of pushing an analog circuit beyond its design limits. Tube amps as well as our tube emulation can be set clean. Tube amps were designed to run clean. Vintage tube amps had no "blend" control. We provide one because in a studio setting it was quite common to mic a tube amp and also run a DI of the bass direct to the console to get a more complex and refined tone. A big part of the problem when recording bass even in a large professional recording environment is that bass frequencies are very hard to control and will easily bleed into other microphones if say tracking other instruments. This tends to be why most studio and live sound techs prefer using a DI versus a mic with bass amps. Because our products emulate vintage tube amps they are able to achieve their overdrive and distortion characteristics irrespective of their volume levels unlike a vintage Ampeg SVT or Marshall. Because of this, it is advisable to be judicious with the Drive settings as in a live context you will play harder when competing with guitars and drums which will result in more overdrive than intended.

The facebook culture does seem to have bred a new wave of bad manners IMO. I don't do FB, just don't get it etc. Couple of years ago I nearly missed a local fellow musician's funeral as they only announced the details on FB. Of course, up to me to maybe get involved if I want to stay in the loop, but some things require a more personal approach I feel. Your band situation is one of these.

This sort of mismanagement isn't confined to younger bands. Some of the oldies I play with are as poor in their organisational and communication skills as this. I find throwing the toys out even when perfectly entitled to do so rarely get any results, never makes a good impression and never makes me feel any better. I usually put it down to experience, moan like hell to the wife and move on. IMO never leave on bad terms, always be the professional one and leave a positive vibe behind you. Sometimes people will remember this and it could be you who gets the phone call when an ex band member is looking for a bass player. Edit. . .. hey Cat, we're on the same page.

If I may -- my attempt at getting the Jamerson sound -- though a bit more modern and more "up front." It's a P bass (A 1987- 62" reissue to be exact) with very dead strings and some tissue paper squished between the back cover and the strings. I always loved this part and felt it was criminally under mixed. I fixed that. lol

The best advice I can give any young person is to avoid teachers like that. One of mine decided that I was to be her prodigy and she made my life at school a daily bus trip to hell. It put me off music completely until I got through puberty and by then I was no longer a marketable prospect.

announcing stuff on Facebook without clearing it with everybody first is bad form and leads to difficulties all round, but some people don't seem to have any idea about good manners, if you want to do the gig they want you to do, do it if it fits in well with you, if not or you feel badly let down tell them to flip off

Got the emai - they are now on the way from the USA. Can't wait! Now I need to find some stack knob pots and decide whether to put the bridge J in 60s or 70s position.

For me the Stagg is kind of an evolution of the bass guitar, in the direction of the acoustic bass. The SLB is an evolution of the acoustic bass. If acoustic bass is your reference point then the Stagg has many potential frustrations, but if the bass guitar is your reference, or you have little/no experience of upright, then the Stagg is a good gateway and certainly better value for money than what you'd get if you spent the same on what would be a 'cheap' acoustic DB.

Checkout 2.31....amazingly economic finger action...

Another vote of confidence for Newtone strings here! I also used them in the 90's like BigRedX, as a result of the costs of 6 string bass sets here in the UK, for the cost of one set of DR's from The Bass Gallery, I could get two custom made sets from Newtone, and they were just as good! I stopped using them too, in favour of Warwick Red Labels, this is getting spooky! When I started playing 33" basses however, I wanted to get a better fit and Newtone came to the rescue, and haven't really used anything ever since. I now play 31.5" basses exclusively, and Newtone wind me a perfect set, 125 100 80 60 40 28 - wound on heavier cores to make them feel tighter, much like the same set on a 34" bass and they work amazingly well. I only wish they made flatwounds... I find that they last a long old time, as long as any other strings I've had, I always found Rotosounds dulled VERY quickly for me, but everyone is different and perhaps my sweat is kryptonite for Swing Bass strings. Eude

Buurman & Buurman, or Pat&Mat as they're called in Czech Republic. They're awesome! (And my boy is at home with the flu)

Yeh just drop that into the conversation, why don't you? You've got a missus who's into some serious bass gear! Dang, I've gotta get me one of those! Maybe keep a look out in the FS 'other musically related stuff' section I guess...

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@Wolverinebass apologies. You were on my other list. Never have two lists! There’s only one now and you’re on it.

We find the volume sliders on the PA work brilliantly as talent filters for BV

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Did he beat it or is he sticking around?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Harley-Benton-51-Style-Precision-Bass-copy/202251137876?hash=item2f171b7354:g:xVMAAOSwYMNanqiX This looks a good buy, got a SD pickup.......

Stick a saved search on eBay called classic 50s precision bass I think

Not a quest I've ever been on! If it ain't saturated, I ain't infatuated.

Laibach

EBay, by comparison would charge 10% They won't be standing about in the shop, supervising people "testing" out your bass. They won't hang around after hours waiting for another punter to try it on the way home from work. EBay don't get sellers calling 3-4 times a week for a report on who tried it and why they didn't buy. EBay won't offer your buyer a 6month after sales warranty. And for the added 5% you won't have your buyer calling PayPal to say it never arrived/not as advertised... can I have a refund please?

NERD ALERT - the latest video and blog post deal with the value of tracking your practice: Full article is HERE Updated/corrected transcriptions: • Lionel Richie - 'Dancing On The Ceiling' • The Beatles - 'Help' • David Gray - 'Babylon'