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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 😁

You've never run one over then! It's OK, I won't need my coat in hell. 😄

I am indeed doing the 35.5-33.5” one.... I hate slotting at the best of times, but now I cannot use my normal jig I am REALLY hating it. 5 slots in and all is well, but man it is an ordeal.... am going to take as long as I need.

So like most slap then (IMHO)

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

@BadHands - the use of FX is still achievable - you just tap the DI out to the PA post the FX. As above, if the amp is a big part of the resulting tone (through colouration, distortion, speaker etc), then go to a amp modeller, or speaker emulation that can emulate it. You can tap a DI (using a special DI box that allows for speaker level outputs) from a speaker output on the amp - and then you'd just have to EQ for the speaker, or use a speaker emulator. As for pushed air - it's the PA speakers that do that for you. The signal is the same, just the amplitude that changes - and arguably where Fletcher-Munson comes in. People tend to like and think that things sound better for being louder. This is where compromise I talked about comes in - you can run your stage volume loud - but it will have a negative impact on what you can do with your FoH mix - unless you have a big enough stage to get the separation between audio sources and mics. As for jazz/fusion - no different to what has been explained in the rest of the thread.

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

Just tried a quick experiment with the only piece of cloth I had around, which is a facemask. I don't think this is going to help me, or the OP:

Yes i would do that with any version i bought. I might glue rubber strip on any points that contact my cabs. Maybe even a rubber car mat cut to size and glued on bottom. Dave

I don't think any discussion of ropey lyrics and rhymes would be complete without a mention of Life by Des'ree. Behold this abomination from the mid-90s! I'm afraid of the dark, Especially when I'm in a park And there's no-one else around, Oh, I get the shivers I don't want to see a ghost, It's a sight that I fear most I'd rather have a piece of toast And watch the evening news Life, oh life, oh life, oh life, Doo, doot doot dooo. Life, oh life, oh life, oh life, Doo, doot dooo EDIT: I see casapete beat me to it!

What a lovely back track for the 1st coffee in the morning...excellent

I’m itching to give my lockdown Peavey VB-2 I damn good thrashing. I’ll be honest though, if i was humping stuff in and out of pubs, there’s no way I’d consider a valve amp - small and light is the way to go. Thank God for Roadies!!

Agree 100%. Classic rock is 70's-80's. Everyone should know the hits--they hear them everywhere--from the grocery store to streaming music at work by office workers. I work in a government agency and I know a couple 20 something ladies that are crazy excited about seeing Def Leppard in Seattle this fall. They listen to 80's constantly.

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

Beautifully and succinctly put Sir. This should be page 1, paragraph 1 and line 1 of the one lined Bass Tone Bible.

Covers band isn't the same a a tribute band. and U2 is always improved with slap. Always.

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

Surely that only really works if your guitarist is Brian May? And again more seriously: what makes a great bass tone is not the bass tone itself but how it works in relation to the other instruments. Just listen to the isolated bass tracks in the Geddy Lee thread. On their own, they are a selection of nasty (not in a good way) farty sounds. However when combined with the rest of the instruments in the mix they are perfect, and that nasty fartiness is a lot less pronounced when it's binding the mix together rather than being standing out on its own. For a great bass tone listen to what the other musicians in your band are doing and find something to works in harmony (pun intended) with them. The sound of each individual instrument and how they all work together is as important as the notes that each instrument is playing and how they all work together.

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