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Tort and Flats Precision of course

Well...Now we are back in the giant servers of Talkbass, I would like to take this opportunity to Thank all you wonderful people in Bass Chat for a lovely stay...Toasty crumpets and lashings of hot tea. You have all been so gracious and hospitable. It has been great fun hanging out and getting to know some of you. 👍😎 Cheers

Actually I just started writing a Big Thank you to making us TBers feel so welcome here

Some of you may recall I purchased the 6 string fanned fret Coliseum last year . I sold it a few months ago as I had since bought another 6 string which was more comfortable and the headstock dive was a pain when playing in studio. Well, the prices have since gone up from £299 to £349 for the 6 string, and there's a fair few videos of them now on YouTube. What I haven't seen at all in the wild however, is the 4 string model. It's not fanned fret, it doesn't have a low B and is standard scale so quite unremarkable right ? Gear4Music have had A LOT of issues with QC on these Coliseums, and they added some to eBay in a very sorry state (cracked headstocks and binding falling off worst culprits). I spotted a 4 string model however with what looked like just cosmetic issues (neck bolt routing messy, light scratches on neck)). The price was utterly ridiculous at £125 (Under half of RRP !). So I hit BIN. It arrived today, and whilst it is definitely B-stock, £125 for this is bonkers. It must be well below cost price. I had the 6 before so it wasn't a surprise how it sounded, but still feel like I stole it. Would have paid £269 and still be happy. Will t-cut the scratches, new tuners and this thing is perfect.

Let the hate begin 😂

I got fed up with the wait for left handers continually being pushed back. 😒 So, on a whim I bought a Teenage Engineering OP-Z groove box, and it’s awesome! Plan was to just create some beats and sequences to play along to. But I’ve had it a couple of weeks now and I’m lost in a world of techno dance groves. 😍 Weird for a 55 year old whose never been to a rave, and last time in a nightclub was during the ‘Hitman and her’ era? I guess I’ve always like Faithless though. 😀

Two words:- Option Paralysis The 4SSS has a lot of tonal options and you can’t stop yourself trying them all when you plug it in. Tuning can take a couple of hours. Your musical productivity plummets as you marvel at the quality construction and supreme tactile experience. Then you put it back in its case and take out the Precision with the missing tone knob and start playing. They’re great instruments if you like the shape. Lovely jazz type neck. Had to keep the sticker on to remind me of the options.

I’m recording the bass part to a very well known song I’ve been playing pretty regularly for maybe 25 years. listening to the playback I realise I’ve been playing it wrong. In all those years no one has complained or mentioned it. Not in the bands or in the audience. So it’s true. No one pays any attention to the bass player. Including me.

Good news....! Cue the dormant BC accounts.

Old recording studios were equipped with a device which took the place of autotune. It was called a door. If the performer was inadequate, they never got past the door.

My favourite tone is condescending and bitter... wait up...

Mr Pot, may I introduce Mr Kettle?

... then you listen to a live version and realise that even the original bassist doesn’t play it the same as the record. The only sin, for me, is getting out of the groove.

Hi, I'm hanging in there. I'm scheduled for my second procedure on 4/30. Hopefully it will be my last one. Work on my new teeth starts on 4/ 12. Everything should be fine by June. I'm booked for the whole summer. YAY! How are you guys doing? I have attached a clip from a virtual NYE acoustic gig. Our set starts at 38:40.All originals Headphones or speakers recommended. Cheers Blue

I think I whizzed them off with a pic and a posting of Stephen Fry. Awkward.

More Jimmy Nail, but this time sans shaggy beard.

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There's so much inspiration in these post for nice pedals, must control myself or my wallet will cry. Anyway, I'll do my best at enjoying what I own: This is my current board, used in two different projects. From the left, I got an always-on Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop to always have my sound lightly overdriven. I truly love how that pedal shapes the bass tone. I'm a pick player not into large fat sounds anyway and it really suits. Than the Team Awesome Fuzz Machine which, of course, fuzzes. Alternatively I have a standard Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop set up for for a more overdriven tone, and at the beginning of the chain (yes indeed) EHX Bass Clone chorus & Holy Grail Max reverb. Tuner's a TC Poly black mini. I play alt-rock/90s/acoustic/shoegaze/indie/post-rock&punk with this one. This is instead the old pb I used in my instrumental post-rock/desert trio: I used a P bass tuned in C standard with Re'62 pickups and 50-110 Rotosound flats, resulting in a very low output. I boosted it with the HotTubes (always on) to feed it to the COG Knightfall 66 on which had two levels of gain set; one of the two was my always on/standard tone. Than I had the Pog2, Freeze and Helix for weird/trippy sounding sections, and the Blower Box for the most distorted tones. I did some swells too with the Dunlop volume. This has only been used on that very specific band since it was all fine tuned to work with that bass and bandmates. Damn, I miss them.

Back to the original question. Don't, ever, ask me to play The Chain live, or indeed with anyone else in the room. My fingers will invariably go on strike and I will play Bb randomly. I can play it for me and the cat, no problem.

I will never sell my first P bass, which has been my second bass overall. I bought it a few months after starting to play because I knew I wouldn't stop any time soon (it's been 13 years) so I put most of my pocket money in it. I pretty much learned to play on it, played my first and latests gigs, recorded 4 albums. It feels like a friend.

...a little late for that. Besides USA was the original exit. So, I'd say it was at maximum, the second biggest act (no offense). This is a bass forum and I am here for that. I am a 4-string proponent for electric and acoustic bass.

My tone depends on what context I’m working in. I rarely play bass in a live gig situation so most of what I do is recording, session work basically. Almost every time I record for other people’s tracks I’m using a P style bass with flats, with the volume and tone on full. I often record straight into the desk or interface and let the engineer EQ and process it to suit the music. If I’m playing or recording my own material I’ll take a similar approach. But if I’m playing for fun, like along to old ska or funk records at home then it’s a Hofner violin bass with flats and foam at the bridge, no treble, played with a pick and palm muting or plucked with the side of my thumb for even more bottom end. Amp settings are usually fairly neutral, I rarely touch them, it’s all about the thump and the boom coming from the bass itself. Overall I’m not too fussed as long as it doesn’t get too twangy or toppy, although I realise I’m probably in the minority here.

I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

one or two sound clips would be much easier

I find the first fret quite easy to reach 😁

Is it a left-handed one though?

That’s a nice thing to do Murphy, thank you ☝️

Hopefully the recent new members will stick around for some bass chat , or drop in now and again for a cup of tea 👍

He is indeed so awesome. Anyway, my tone. How would I describe it? Round, hefty, punchy, reminiscent of pear drops, liquorice and monkey spunk.

Posted elsewhere but I hot-rodded by PB20-SBK with SD Quarter Pound pickups and a Gotoh bridge as well as a Ki0gon loom.

Love that, when you have so much history with an instrument it’s that which makes it irreplaceable, not the cash value, name on the headstock of year of manufacture.

Wow, that is a terrific version. (1995 on the Later show according to a search on youtube). That bassline is great, hypnotic and precise with some nice low notes.

When Hush is used, it's usually Kula Shaker's version.

We simply based our set on a few criteria. Would folk like it in the pub?, Can we do it justice with our instruments and ability? Can I play it and sing it? How many other local bands are playing it? If said song passed these rules then we played it regardless of what style it was.

Apart from the experience here, which is as i mentioned unusual, as i have never heard the Mk1 barts to even be in the same ballpark as the big singles (and I have had a few of both), with a good lead and a high input amp, it should sound no different to a preamp (run flat). Also the blend control is wired before the preamp, so again should be no difference passive or active.

I think this one. I sold it once and was fortunate enough to get it back and hope to not make that mistake again.

I like a P bass type tone for myself in my own home, so this usually means 100% neck pickup and the less bridge pickup the better. I leave it at that and never fiddle with the controls. Outside of home, my tone is whatever the sound man wants it to be.

I bought from Todobajos, a bass guitar specialist in Madrid. They shipped to the U.K. very quickly and if I recall correctly for free (or very little if not). They’re on Reverb and it was a very pleasant and easy process.

Fender Urge was Stu Hamm's signature Fender bass. There was a several variations IIRC, in both medium and long scale varieties. I believe his main bass was a 32" with a Split P in-between two J pickups. A veritable plethora of tones! I believe he wanted 32" so that it felt the same as his previous Kubicki Ex Factor basses.

More commonly known as Leo - we want people to be able to join the site after all. Thanks though Mr. Guitarman!

This is always a touchy subject on here. For me personally Classic Rock was when Rock was at it height in 70's / 80's. When i think of Classic Rock i think Deep Purple, Rainbow, Alice Cooper, Sabbath, Whitesnake and similar bands. I think it depends on your age group tho Dave