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Bit of a trek down to Swindon Wyvern Theatre today. Air con in the band bus a bit intermittent but we managed to get there without too much grumbling. Good gig to a full venue, hot on stage though even with two big fans on full. Up to Manchester tomorrow, so hope it’s a bit cooler.17 points
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Back working after a period of ill health. Bandeoke in Bristol. Starting to take off at last. I went with my little Trace Cabs which are firm favourites now, and VM P bass. All sounded good to me.15 points
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Here you go. I picked it up for £500 on eBay about 15 years ago. It was in a sorry state, so I stripped the paint and refinished it (poorly and not patiently) in a thin layer of white blonde nitro, and added a racing stripe decal. It has been played a lot, so in lockdown I got the frets replaced with stainless steel ones, so I won't have to have it done again, and the old tuners are shot, so replaced them with some Hipshot ultralights. The new hole I drilled would be covered by the old tuners were I ever in the unlikely event of selling it. All mojo is genuine play wear and it even came with me on a short Japanese tour. I'll bring it along to the SW bass bash! 😁13 points
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2013 MusicMan Classic Sabre One piece natural ash body with birdseye maple neck. Usual Sabre appointments- two flat topped humbuckers (16 pole in neck/8 pole at bridge), 5 way selector switch - in between positions are bridge facing coil of neck pickup on its own (getting into P bass territory) and the other is the same coil paired with the bridge humbucker (Lakland mode) There is a silent circuit for the single coil when in pos 2 and 4. 2EQ preamp, no centre detentes on pots/knobs. Old style bridge with mutes. 12" radius fretboard, compensated nut and body contours (only the Sabre has these features in the Classic series) Now discontinued, wonderful sounding bass. Weight is 4.77kg on my luggage scales. (I got a multitude of readings from 4.46 up to 4.79 kgs so took one at the top end) Feels indestructible, top quality, no issues at all. Balances great when worn and not tiring if worn with a wide(ish) strap.Comes with the original MM hard case. Only selling as a chance to buy back my much missed Valenti Jazz has come up. Audition in Market Drayton, Shropshire. Can possibly meet Stoke, Crewe,Shrewsbury,Telford and possibly driving down to London on Sunday 6th August. Thanks for looking Keir6 points -
I've just managed to solder up a 30cm jack to jack lead and finish up with there being a resistance of 7k between tip and sleeve, so you need to revise your estimate of my soldering ability downwards.6 points
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We played at a small festival at the weekend (split across multiple venues in a local town). First gig was awful due to a terrible sound person. I turned round during our set and found him looking through the instruction manual for the mixing desk... tbf that was an improvement on being at the bar drinking! Tbf, our guitarist had knocked the bass control (and his volume 🤔) on one of his presets on his pedalboard so I actually turned off during one song to make a point. Second gig was much better, sound engineer was brilliant, no over loud guitarist issues (turning my bass off did the trick here). Mixed weekend but got to take the bad with the good. Annoyingly only got a single gig in August due to band member holidays so if anyone knows of any dep gigs going in the Portsmouth area give me a shout :D5 points
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You’re never too old! I picked up a bass for the very first time in Nov/Dec 2021 at the age of 56. Practiced at home every day, got bad GAS, bought amps and basses, then thought I should venture out. My first outing was to a local monthly jam in October 2022, and I didn’t take a bass, too scared, I lurked in the background and sussed it out. It’s a jam where there’s a setlist/book on a table to choose tunes from, and copies on stage for everyone to look at. There’s a lot of tunes in it. I took a pic of the front page list and vowed to return the following month with at least three I could play. The next time I went, I took my bass and did play on two tunes with the other musicians. Over the next few months, and keeping attending the jam, I found myself in a band with the house drummer and some other musicians from the jam, and we play gigs every month or so, sometimes two gigs, for actual money! We get along very well, and I would now call them friends. This all gave me loads of confidence, and allowed me to stretch out musically and become a better player. A few months ago I answered an ad on JMB for a bass player for a nine piece band with horn section. I auditioned and landed the job. That band is the most challenging musical experience I have ever had, really complicated stuff, but I would say that I’m swimming not drowning. A journey of 1000 miles begins with the first step. Rob5 points
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Holding Out for an Aero - Bonnie Tyler4 points
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A JB62M I bought through eBay from Japan just arrived. Quick play as I have a gig but seems great,just had to loosen the truss Rod a little and raise the strings a tad. Medium scale is my favourite scale now and selling my 34” basses (one left,it’s in the classifieds,Fender P American standard) Pleased so far but I’m a tinkerer and think I’m going to try some Quarter pounders in the Aerodyne as it’s for Rock and unsure what to put in the Jazz for Motown,soul with flats. Any recommendations?4 points
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Just got my 2nd 32” fender.4 points
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Pretty good. Played at an open mic/Jam night as part of the house band. Busked my way through a good few songs that I've not played before, but with musicians that I knew, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Didn't take an amp, so was reliant on the house PA; I reckon next time I'll take a feed from the mixer into a set of IEMs.4 points
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Just came across this picture I've taken a while ago when I was doing maintance to some of my Spectors. Gotta love a nice clean bass with freshly oiled boards and new strigs....especially if it's a Spector. (Also big shoutout to EB Cobalt strings, they sound ace and last long)4 points
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I will also bring my Bongo as I remember when I wanted to try one there were none around. Maybe there would be interest in bringing the dwarf too and a screen so people can see what that is like to set one of those up?4 points
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Agreed, the high point of the night was being approached by a lady who had seen me in the video shoot I did with Terry Sweet. The " Days Of Dyanna" video . She was very nice. My response; " I can see that it's hard for you to believe your actually standing here talking to me" 😆 Blue4 points
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Yeah, you are absolutely right, at 45 you are done! Just look at all those famous great acts that decides to break up and retire at age 45. I mean I can't really name any off the top of my head, but I am sure there a loads of examples... Ah, yes, how about: Iron Maiden, Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra... And the list goes o... Oh, wait... They didn't, did they? Well, that admittedly was probably not of much help, plenty of great pieces of advice and helpful suggestions in this thread already though.4 points
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Because bassist has left. I am auditioning4 points
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This looks nice Very tempting3 points
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Up for sale is my 2007 Stingray 5 in white (now faded to a rather lovely cream, as they do) and a maple fingerboard. Excellent overall condition, just a couple of small chips in the finish shown in the photos, but otherwise unmarked. Weighs in at 4.3kg on my scales. Plays beautifully with a low action, just fitted with a new set of D'Addario EXL170 nickels. No visible fret wear. The case shows a little use, but all the hinges and clasps are present and correct. There was a small crack in the bottom edge of the case, which the previous owned glued up, and it hasn't shifted. Collection from near Woking in Surrey, or I can ship within the UK at the buyer's cost. Sorry, no trades please.3 points -
Hey all, I've decided to move on my D'addario XPND 2 pedalboard, my plans have changed from building a large home board hence the sale. https://www.daddario.com/xpnd-pedalboard/ This has not left the house, it's been assembled, pedals board Tetris played a few times, but not actually built a board with it so is in very good condition. This is for the board only, I never felt the need to buy the optional bag for this one as it was going to be a home use only item. I have the original box, but as you have to assemble the board yourself when initially bought I’d rather sell built (box included). However if you want me to disassemble it for postage I can. The whole idea of this design is that you'll only need one board to satisfy the inherent pedal merry go round nature of effects! Just change the size of your board to fit whatever pedals who have at the time, need that bit extra, expand a bit, board looking a bit sparse with unsightly gaps, contract a bit etc etc. I'm now asking £70 collected from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire for it please. If you want it posting (UK only) please add that on. There are a few minor marks from how the expanding ability operate (on the internal face of the smaller black board bars), these are due to the design of the board. There were also some sharpish edges on some of the silver end cap internal cutouts, I deburred them carefully upon assembly (due to the manufacturing process, pressed rather than machined etc). All good though and the board is certainly solid and feels very well made. Has velcro on both the top and bottom of the rails, also comes with a bit of velcro for the pedals (Pedaltrain stuff I haven't used). Any questions please ask 👍🏼 Peace.3 points -
*SOLD* Selling my Warwick Thumb BO 5. As per my other sale post I'm also not using this for my current project. Just sitting in its case. Again, in immaculate condition. Amazing growl and clank you would expect from a Warwick. Any questions, please ask.3 points -
Selling my Warwick Streamer Stage 1 as I no longer use it for the current project I am in. Amazing bass. Probably the nicest neck I've ever played. Super smooth. 9.5/10 condition. Really is immaculate apart from a couple of really miniscule indentations. Unless you look for them you'll never notice. Plays superbly. Happy to answer any questions. Thanks for looking Mike3 points -
Ok, going to keep this and sell the Jazz. This really suits me better and it doesn’t owe me so much. Now withdrawn.3 points -
I couldn't agree more. Absolutely unacceptable, complete amateur hour. I know we all make music for a variety of reasons, but if you're in a cover band and want ongoing paying gigs then what happens between songs is as important as the songs themselves imo. Good luck getting them to stop.3 points
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Absolutely unprofessional or even cool. Ask them if they’ve attended major gigs where this happened? Smacks of amateur hour big style for me - I’d get them to knock it on the head pronto. If they feel the current band is not where they’re at, then as you say get them to get their metal rocks off somewhere else.3 points
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Rounds - just a fad that people'll grow out of! 🙂3 points
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One can never tell. If I had to list my influences, it'd be much more eclectic still than that ^^^^. The 'influences' are one thing, the end result of what the chap has written would be more probative, I'd say. No harm in taking a look, and step away if it's rubbish. A shame he didn't mention Prokofiev, or I might have given it a go.3 points
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I had one the Weds before last; usual jam night, same setup as always, same kit, same room, same people (well, our hosting trio, at least)...just couldn't get out of first gear. Nothing definite, nothing like a 'disaster gig', but it just sounded mostly rubbish - I was faffing about with the bass tone for about ten minutes to no avail (and I'm normally about two and a half minutes from walking in the door, setting up, getting a tone and going to the bar), and the harder I tried to bring it back, the more it persisted. Last Weds was night and day better (as it usually is), for no reason...it just happens sometimes...3 points
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Delighted to get an email yesterday advising that XTC's 'The Big Express' has undergone the Steven Wilson treatment and gets a 5.1/Atmos release in mid-September. This will be the 7th release that Steven has curated and what makes this even sweeter is that Andy Partridge has gone on record saying there were no more masters available to generate 5.1 mixes (which is alarming, given that the Apple Venus and Wasp Star albums are only about 20 years old and we're overseen by Andy Partridge, so must be on hard drives somewhere). Anyhoo. A little bit of joy.3 points
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1/2" Hipshot Ultralite licensed clover tuners Originally shiny chrome, these have been reliced. I feel they are a little bit stiffer to turn than brand new Ultralites. It's hard to quantify something like this, so I'll accept returns if you are not 100% happy. All dimensions here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1574/0577/files/206K.PDF?147414096911308745 £60 posted3 points -
Scott's bear lessons, teaching bass slapping to brown bears.3 points
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Two gigs in early August:3 points
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Youtube randomly suggested a demo of Sine Effects (Scottish company) HPF Website: https://sineeffect.company.site/ They look pretty good. I've always got a Thumpinator on my board as I like to control Octave and Synth pedals a bit more before they hit the front of the amp. It would be good if the slope was a bit more drastic though. I like a more obvious chop off!2 points
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For sale is this beautiful jazz. Usual story had a beer on a Friday evening, loved the colour and lakland basses in general so bought it! But realistically it’s not going to displace the Ibanez ehb for gigs. it’s in good nick, think it’s 2014 so got some playing wear and a few little marks on the top of the headstock and a couple of little marks on the top of the next, but the body is very clean. Lovely deep and punchy sound, strings could do with a change but I have been enjoying the dull thud they give the bass. Collection preferred from Chelmsford essex. Only trades I could be interested in is a nice pj or a Dingwall plus cash from me. Original ad below hope thats ok with bigmuff.2 points -
… the B-side of Mountains is an instrumental called Alexa de Paris. His guitar playing is very Zappa-esque, to my ears. Great track. (but way too many fantastic tracks to have a favourite…)2 points
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For sure. But its bass. Its only distracting if it was that high in the mix. I very much doubt any bass player would want their bass that high in the mix. She is doing it to show off her chops. Sharray Reed and other great players are very busy bass players. Thats what a studio engineer is for. You can have really busy bass playing and not be intrusive to the record.2 points
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It's not something exclusive to guitarists. I've been in bands with drummers who did it, even bassists who did it. In my last band, the singer always took ages to get to the next song due to the insuffereable jiiba-jabba. Look-at-me syndrome, the curse of our age. You can't purge it from someone's personality. Best thing to do is structure your setlist so you go straight from one song to the next. We would do three songs back to back, everything in clusters. Bang bang bang. Gap. Bang bang bang. Keep them busy so their idle mind can't wander to the point they need to feel people are looking at them thinking how wonderful they are. Get disciplined, get your setlist together and get tight and you can cut this crap right down.2 points
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Leap Up and Down (Wave Your Snickers in the Air) - St Cecelia2 points
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Dying to hear what this sounds like.2 points
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Fully agree, my white Spector Mike Starr with the Haz 9V is also the only bass (not only Spector) that is safe from me selling it. What a killer bass 😍2 points
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She said four!2 points
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For me, if you're the one setting up a band, you need to have the vision and know what you're aiming for. This just smacks of desperation, trying to appeal to everyone. It's the ad of someone who doesn't know what it is they want to play. I'd avoid, personally. There'll be a long march ahead before you arrive at a cohesive set with a stable lineup. Too much time will be wasted finding the true direction.2 points
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He is @Andre_Passini !2 points
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Yes, it doesn't get any more classy than the white one, which is a custom Euro 435 with 35" scale length. The only white 435 I've ever seen. Nice occasion to share a better pic of it (laying on our neck-through dining table 🙂 ) The pink one is notoriously hard to take a relevant picture of, here are two so you get the idea: It is a pre-lx Euro 5 with EMG 40 P and J pickups and John East deluxe preamp. A real joy to play. I think that's exactly what I'm gonna do this afternoon.2 points
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The Mod Dwarf looks really interesting and I've been reading the thread with interest. I'd be keen to take a look!2 points
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I suspect it's a definitive watch for any bass player, whether you like the music or not. To me it's not unlike Some Kind of Monster, less about the music than the people2 points
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If memory serves me correct I believe Jaco was in part sleeping rough in NYC around the time of this production. Heart rending really. Never is there a truer maxim, 'When you laugh the whole world laughs with you, when you cry you cry alone'. It's all about context: everything always is. In retrospect my guess is a lot of young players won't get what the fuss was about but this footage features a genius talent already set on an irretrievable tragic course. He was on the cusp of being snuffed out and in part he craved it for some blessed relief from his demons. For me he was an absolute beast on the instrument. A monster player and a cool cat. The best.2 points
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Good luck. Hope it goes well for you.2 points
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The idea is quite old, actually ...2 points
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Well, ask his bandmates, they might know, or be able to get you in contact with the former bass player. My best bet though is some kind of RAT based pedal mixed with clean signal and compression, also probably a Turbo variant of a RAT will get you closest. The MXR M85 Bass Distortion, which is indeed based on a RAT, and does in fact feature both a silicon diode clipping classic RAT mode, and a LED diode clipping Turbo RAT mode, as well as allowing you to blend in clean signal, might be able to get you in the approximate same ballpark. Be aware though that the song in that video was produced and mixed in a studio, so I think it is pretty safe to assume a lot more is going on than just that, most certainly a separate clean and distorted bass track, each processed individually with compression and various equalization, and that the bass player with all possible likelihood didn't actually sound exactly like that when playing live, heck for all I know the actual distortion on that track might very well be a VST effect. But as said, to me it sounds very RAT like with clean signal blended in, so that is what I would aim at, if the band can't be of any help to you.2 points
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Thanks man! The HA4000 was a great amp, I had no idea how to use it properly at that age though!! I've gone back to the gear of my youth, hartke amps and finding I just love playing my Warwick 5 string with emgs recently!! I think its important to play instruments and gear you enjoy!2 points
