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This arrived a couple of days ago direct from Modern Vintage (Rob Elrick & John Files), but I wanted the La Bella Black Nylons on and the bass setup before I posted it. So far I love it, fantastically built bass, sounds great and a neck finish, feel and shape to die for! Loving the finish too, really nice vintage Shell Pink colour with matching headstock! Si

Very Tower Of Power-ish groove, nice. I massively prefer Vic's tone on the Sire. It actually has some low end! I've always loved his playing, but hated his tone. His Foderas are works of art, but they've always sounded way too thin and snappy for my taste. Maybe his mate Marcus could put in a good word for him with the Sire people.

Looks like the Behringer is the way to go. I'm an amateur singer/songwriter/guitarist/(n00b)bassist and I own a Behringer mic to record my vocals. It's a great mic. Thanks for the replies, folks

When a chance came to get hold of one of my old basses back in a trade I of course had to say yes. This arrived today: a 2014 Fender AV 64 Reissue Jazz in a FSR Daphne Blue with matching headstock. It's bloody lovely so goodness knows why I got rid of it in the first place. I have a love/hate thing with Jazzes but hopefully it will hang around for a while. We'll see...

Part of the Studio Jam's series. Its Curtis Harmon on drums, James Loyd on keys. For me this is Victor Wooten at his fingerstyle best. The detail in his playing is insane and so very musical.. Get past the double thumbing and he lays down the groove... His finger style solo at 5.40 is just.. !

But came out lovely, thankfully...

Huge difference when there's people in the room.

Definitely stew , I’ve never been asked to turn mine down 😁

I got mine for my 14th birthday from Chappells of bond street in Milton Keynes. I couldn't play and never played before. I saw the Encore E83b ltd edition amoungst all the other basses and just loved the look of it and asked the salesman to play it for me. A few minutes of Mark King style slap later I asked my mum and dad for it. Plus a small Marshall amp. Joined my first band at 17 (when I had hair) and proceeded to put a Jamiroquai picture and paw prints on (the band was called The Fat Cat Experience and I was very into Zender back then). I gave it to my niece in my 20s when I got my TRB6. Many years later near the start of the Pandemic I asked and it turns out they still had it in storage so gave it back. 20ish years later. Still one of the nicest P style necks I've played and now I can teach my children on it. Now just debate to leave all original or upgrade electronics?

Body taken to 600 grit, cavity painted with conductive shielding paint, first layer of tru oil applied. Have read many different accounts on how many coats of tru oil people use. I'll try and be patient and see how far I get. Latest plans looking like chrome hardware, hopefully a roasted maple neck and then pickguard dilemma's!!!

Well there's your problem right there son! If you had read the fine manual you would know that is how not to set the EQ. Push that red slider down to the bottom and leave it there. The 40 can go down to -6dB for good measure. Your 15 doesn't do much with 40hz except flap about. Now obviously you like a big old scoop in your mids but indulge me and move the rest of the sliders up so between 60hz and 5kHz they average 0dB. You can safely leave the last two on the floor. You could have 60hz on +3dB but I wouldn't go any more.

4 coats…

I'd like some deodorant, please. Yes sir, Ball or aerosol ? Oh, isn't there one that can do both ?

I've recently came into possession one of the oldest and rarest bass I've ever played. Yamaha SB-75. This was a precursor to the Super Bass Range and was made between 1973-75 Back in the 1970s this was the most expensive bass Yamaha made, and cost 75,000 Yen, which at the time was around $700. The styling, build quality and materials are incredible, and it sounds like a dark blend of a jazz and p bass, very good for harmonics, deep lows, mids and very clear treble tones. Any love for this old Japanese girl?

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It does look lovely when on the bass, I just hope to god it works out ok!

So I've done quite a bit since my last update so I'll hopefully remember it all! First up cavities have been painted with shielding paint, I love the look but it was a bit of a hassle to get nice and the bloody graphite gets everywhere, so next time maybe just copper shielding tape. The exciting news is I've lacquered the bass, I've been wanting to do this for ages, the weather has been absolutely perfect for it so perfect chance to get this done. The white spots all over the shielding paint is resin polish, it'll wipe off later. Love the look of the bass with this lacquer, grain has come alive. This bit could have gone either way, instead of a transfer or sticker I decided to spray paint my surname on the bass... could have been awful...

@marleaux62 get that pickguard off!! Here's my Bravewood

Transcriptions of a couple of the tunes mentioned above. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/refuge-of-the-road-joni-mitchell/ https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/a-remark-you-made-weather-report/

I'd second the recommendation for a BDI21. It really punches above its weight. I don't really use mine anymore but it is handy to keep around for emergencies to use as a DI box.

Nerd away to your heart's content. Thank you for your wholly correct answer to my somewhat rhetorical question. The answer, of course, is that Birmingham is definitely the home of metal and the reason for that is because it's the city I was born and raised in, and I'm so metal I am on the periodic table 😉

I think I need to realise that a Jazz isn't a P Bass, so stop trying to use it as one and don't be disappointed when it doesn't sound like one too. I've restrung it with DR Sunbeams and the round wounds make all the difference for me and it fills that gap sonically that I didn't have with my other basses. So I now have a P Bass with flats, a P Bass with rounds, a Fretless and a Jazz. I think that should do me for a while at least.

My turmeric "tea" is turmeric, black pepper and some chipotle chilli flakes. Three mugs a day. Last month I stopped taking it for 3 days and my neck and shoulder arthritis pain started to come back. I also have twinges in my thumb, which the turmeric seems to be keeping at bay.

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So back in March I joined an established function/club band as their new singer. Band has been going 30 years, original singer has decided to retire. 60 to 80 songs to learn, weekly rehearsals. Having learned most of it, keyboard player retires. Get my mate in, learn it all again. Last rehearsal last night No guitar player. Someone he works with has tested positive for covid. Self isolation for 10 days, which means he can't do the gig. It's not been easy this one. I have a week to learn the guitar solos. (I already play rhythm guitar on most of it) wish me luck😂

I saw Bauhaus for the first time in 1980 (around the time when Terror Couple Kill Colonel came out) when they played the Ad-Lib Club in Nottingham (later to be The Garage). A properly mad gig. The "stage" was only about 1 foot higher than the rest of the venue and to get to it from the "dressing room" the band had to get through the audience first. Peter Murphy spent most of the performance inflicting violence upon anyone in the front row of the audience. They opened with a fantastic version of Bela Lugosi's Dead (the only time I saw them perform it live) and closed with Dark Entries, then band literally leaping into the audience at the end and were gone before anyone realised it was over. No encore. I saw them on every other occasion that they played in Nottingham or Derby over the next 3 years, but none of the other gigs matched that level of intensity.

Lynx Africa, the scent of virginity

I'll be using the JMJ going forward. Sound wise, yes very similar, as someone else has said, the shorter string length makes it a bit more fundamental. Less harmonic overtones. I likey a lot

You know how some forums keep religiously to the topic in hand? Basschat isn't one of them....

Trust me you don't want to be here!

I rang the shop back this morning and basically told them I wanted a refund. I explained my disappointment with the sequence of events and the salesman had the temerity to suggest that I had only paid a deposit for the piano - a 90% deposit... He got a bit stroppy when I said I just wanted to draw a line under things and re-took my payment details in that clipped, disgusted way that only employees of the most prestigious establishments can muster. It was all a bit Mitchell and Webb. Anyway, Forsyth's of Manchester, I realize that my custom might pale next to that of some of your clientele but I've still got a lot of strings, instruments and amps to buy over the next 30 or so years- and they'll be being bought elsewhere.

Our engineer always refers to the audience as ‘meat baffles’......

I was not impressed when I listened to the song on YouTube, so I tried it on Spotify ( spit, spit, wash my mouth out!) the mix is much better there- there is clarity in the bass and the vocals are not as lost. It’s definitely got that ‘modern maiden’ feel to it. However I’m still not massively struck with it. amazing marketing, average song

Just beat me to it - soundchecking in an empty room is really only a starting point for getting a good sound mix IMHO. First few songs with an audience in are critical for the engineer to make adjustments, however small or large.

Wait till they’re not looking and turn up the bass 😁

The tone control on the JMJ is marvellous, plenty of variation all through its travel, very like my old ‘63 P.

Hmm. Shameful this. Japanese Yamaha BB300, in red. Don’t know why, but I did something to it. Eventually I sold it on. A mate still has it. About 3 years ago, I got a beautiful Taiwanese version, which made me realise I’d done a bad thing… And then I sold that one too 😩

My Hardly Benton has had a minor overhaul, in comes black Gotoh hardware and a wenge Warmoth neck.

sorted https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Behringer-BDI21-V-Tone-Bass-Preamp/6LV

Given the city's industrial past/heritage, the answer has to be most definitely. Metal bashing made Birmingham the greatest industrial area in the world. Sorry to be a nerd.

Ashdown are good like that. They don't inflate power outputs. In my experience, their stuff always gives a good account of itself.

I’m going to throw a different Cult track into the mix. I was blown away when I first heard this. Loved the bass!

Wrong, his studio band is his live band too. The drummer is a close friend of mine, and they are all Notts chaps.

Punday Punday - Mamas & Papas

Gettin' Chigley Wit It ～ Will Smith

Surely the important question is why would you have a foot in either of those places?

Naaah surely nobody wants to see porn on the internet, right? Don't think there's a market for that at all.

I think you could well be running out of cab rather than watts. My 250smx doesn't do overdriven tones but it will murder 300w cabs with too much low end, no problem. For drive you can put something like a BDDI in front. I like mine breaking up when I dig in and otherwise only warmed up.

No one ever said 'gosh I want to smell more like a Christmas cake' but Old Spice still sells...