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[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='169565' date='Apr 4 2008, 12:46 AM']So long as they're not slapping for 3 hours and getting on everyone's tits, that is.[/quote] What do you mean

[quote name='E_MaN' post='168797' date='Apr 2 2008, 11:40 PM']Get your hands of a copy of 'How to be Idle' by Tom Hodgkingson. As a person who suffers from moods this book is a shining light of excellent liturature. It has taught me to live life totally differently, and I have never had a proper 'mood' since me first reading it and I've read it 6, 7 times now. At the tender age of 19, I'm glad I found this book so early in my life. Cannot rate it highly enough.[/quote] Cheers, I shall have to have a look for that. Reading it again I should just add that my "why do I bother" comment was more playing/gigging rather than life in general.

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='168243' date='Apr 2 2008, 11:07 AM']I’ve been feeling really gloomy lately about the band and the future of live music in general . You know the stuff - dwindling audiences and fewer gigs etc.,[/quote] ...and I mean this as nicely as possible, but I'm glad its not just me Boy I've had some black moods recently (though Sunday was a small shining light even if I did get nothing in the raffle!!) Never thought I'd say it but I find myself wondering quite why I bother sometimes, and I [i]NEVER [/i]thought I would ever be saying that. Perhaps I too need to find something new???

[quote name='nottswarwick' post='165966' date='Mar 29 2008, 06:16 PM']mmm, which is series actually, middle switch towards bride or neck. I did mine with the switch towards the neck - the lounder setting, always thought this is series, I may in fact be wriong. Anyone?[/quote] Yup forwards is series. Wiring diagram [url="http://www.glguitars.com/schematics/ASATbass_L2000_L2500_controls_diagram.pdf"]HERE[/url] Just back from a tech rehearsal to run through stuff with our sound guy & my L2500 sounded luuuuurvly mostly on Active+, Series & both pups (so from back to front forwards, forwards, middle) all tones & volume up. For the rocky stuff we do it is just so good and sits in the mix really well.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='166840' date='Mar 31 2008, 01:16 PM']Overall, I had a great day and a real good laugh travelling there and back with WalMan and Merton and thanks Al for doing all the driving! Your navigator on the other hand needs her circuits re-testing... Still, we only got lost 3 times, so that's good I'd say for mere 'bassists'![/quote] Looks like Diedre wasn't the only sat nav who got it [i]COMPLETELY[/i] wrong We went round lots of roundabouts two or three times & were in fact within a few hundred yards of the venue a couple of times before looping another roundabout & heading back to Northampton (where there was a different Weedon Rd). Then Mert wondered if we left at the right junction. Included a call to OBBM during our travels. (I'm just making excuses now ) [quote name='silverfoxnik' post='166840' date='Mar 31 2008, 01:16 PM']By the way, I've got some video footage to upload but never done it before, so if anyone can tell me how to do that please, I'll try and load it up tonight?[/quote] Nik try setting up a YouTube account & posting it there Al

[quote name='allighatt0r' post='166575' date='Mar 30 2008, 09:49 PM']I would love to attend the next bash, although i think i would feel a bit unworthy in the presence of some properly experienced players. [/quote] Oh I wouldn't worry about that - I'll be there And we're back after a much needed coffee at Mert's so I rather think passing on the meal after - great as that would have been - was probably a good move. And so to the initial SE Bass Bash Bus ([i]reduced[/i]) photos - Arriving, or not as the case may be - Merton realises why his mother told him never accept lifts from strange men - CK needs feeding - the SE Bass Bash Bus prepares for lift off & another eventful journey full of exciting detours. Walman insists it was just the [i]pretty [/i]route. Silverfoxnik & Merton wonder just [i][b]HOW[/b][/i] someone with satnav can get quite so lost so often. - A bevvy of basses have a day trip to Northampton from the seaside - The Vigier club holds its inaugural meeting - Walman demonstrates the wrong way to play a really nice bass Good to meet up with some old faces, as well as meet some new, chat and try some different stuff. Thanks to all involved in organising this celebration of bass. One has to wonder though quite what the Sunday diners thought was happening, probably that another earthquake had hit.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='166047' date='Mar 29 2008, 07:25 PM']+2 [/quote] + some And now to my pit for tomorrow we drive me hearties

[quote name='ianrunci' post='165528' date='Mar 28 2008, 08:15 PM']Mine is the Peavey EXP HP Signature in the pic. Georgeous, ebony fretboard and finished better than any other guitar Iv'e ever owned[/quote] And yet I mentioned mine to a guitarist last Saturday evening & there was a definite air of "Peavey? Bag o' sh1te". Mine may not be the most expensive of models (£199 as I recall) but it looks good, plays well and sounds great for what I am using it for, both electric through the PODxT & acoustic model straight into the recorder. Still there you go.

Probably a Strat. Currently have a pointy Ibanez that drives me so mad getting the floating trem set up that I have pretty much given up on it & got a Peavey Generation EXP with piezo's in the bridge. That is great for home recording. It could probably do with some better pups but for what I am doing noodling at the mo it is fine. I heard the Peavey at a Stu Hamm demo and was impressed. Then saw Neal Morse last year & his guitarist was getting a great acoustic sound without changing guitars, and which turned out to be a PRS with piezo's installed. So whatever I got (Strat or otherwise) I think now I would look for something with that option - or get it added

[quote name='Steve_nottm' post='164508' date='Mar 27 2008, 02:43 PM']and there are a couple that I'm really struggling to get. Namely "Funky Music". Anyone play these and have any specific pointers? Oh, and wish me luck![/quote] Struggling in what way. The way my lot do it it is fairly straightforward. Do you know what key you will be doing it in? Have you got a copy. Could possibly run a mix with my lot panned one side & my cruddy bass the other so you could see what I do FWIW Oh and good luck. Don't know all of the songs on the list but some - like Watchtower - are simple enough3 chord jobs

[quote name='Muppet' post='164092' date='Mar 26 2008, 09:46 PM']I looked at this for my band but as far as I can see, and I'd love to be corrected, we'd need an output per channel on our desk, which we don't have. And then at £950 for the hub and four units, you'd have to decide whether it was worth it[/quote] with the Aviom it all happens at the stagebox end [url="http://www.aviom.com/Product-Categories-2/Analog-Input-17/AN-16-i-M-Mic-Input-Module"]HERE[/url] which as well as feeding the desk that runs into [url="http://www.aviom.com/Product-Categories-5/Network-Devices-28/A-16D-A-Net-Distributor"]THIS[/url] which in turn feeds my sub mixer [url="http://www.aviom.com/Product-Categories-1/Mixers-3/A-16R-Rack-Mount-Mixer"]HERE[/url] or one of [url="http://www.aviom.com/Product-Categories-1/Mixers-1/A-16II-Personal-Mixer"]THESE[/url] Don't ask me what it cost. The sound guy decided it was the way to go and - with no dependants (other than a huge dog) - went ahead & got it Completely over the top, but the idea at the time was to keep stage levels down with more controlled monitoring & control over FOH - it just never actually happened

Will have to check this out. Bit less of a hike than this Sunday and just down the road from Mrs W's best friend so I can dump her there & not feel guilty for deserting her for another bass bash on a Sunday

Similar to the system I use. All the stage feeds go into a stage box / A/D converter that sends the signals back to the desk by CAT5 cable. At the same time it send everything by CAT5 to the second slot down in my rack, which is my submixer. That gets a bit of reverb from one of the Behringers and the stereo mix to the IEM transmitter at the top. I can store up to 16 mixes. That option I only really use for different mixes depending whether we have keyboards, second guitarist, or both of them. [attachment=6921:CurrentRack.jpg] I love the control it gives me, as does our stand in guitarist, but the drummer & main guitarist hate it - more like refuse to give it a proper try. Drummer says he feels to isolated with the phones on and guitarist can't get round how his guitar sounds. You do need good headphones, particularly for the bass, but my Shure E2g's are fine.

I love the D-tuner on my Wal. Piece of cake to fit, just unbolt/screw to original tuner and drop in the replacement. Job done. Set up is easy, the only thing you have to get used to is the shifted positions. The instructions suggest tuning up a semitone flat then switching up & down a few times before tuning up, that & making sure the string is properly stretched. Setting the drop is covered by a thumb screw that stops a plate when you flick down, so to set the dropped tuning you have to flick the switch down, see how close you are to the dropped note required, flick back up and adjust the thumb screw, flick down to chack again & repeat as required until in tune, but it is really easy to do. Great fun to use, particularly when you get flicking it down & back up again with your thumb while still playing. Confuses the hell out of bass players who do not know about de tuners [quote]Seems to work pretty well, as long as you keep your nut lubed (heh) and don't wind too much string round it.[/quote] I had the nut replaced with a graphite nut, which was probably overkill. As above so long as the slot is lubed (a bit of graphite in the slot) to stop it sticking it works really well. I am sure there may be others there, but if you are at the Bash on Sunday have a go on my Wal.

The chap I use charges £30 (plus the strings, which I supply anyway) for a standard setup, and he is someone I trust who has been in the guitar business for years - I have been going to him on & off for at least 30). So yes £55 does sound a bit high for a setup.

[quote name='bassbloke' post='162929' date='Mar 25 2008, 12:16 AM']How would/do you deal with tardy bands?[/quote] Tell bands well in advance of the gig if they run over the PA goes down, have a traffic light system & carry out the warning. It's fairly bad manners to everyone else if, having been told your slot you (i) cannot get there on time, and (ii) do not have the professionalism (regardless of the size of the event) to plan & rehearse a set that fills your allotted time Done a few, some good, some bad. Best running ones tend to have a fairly set backline, worst ones time wise invariably run over because everyone [i][b][u]HAS[/u][/b][/i] to use all their own gear.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='160699' date='Mar 20 2008, 10:59 AM']You're the bass player. No-one is listening to you. Forget it and enjoy yourself. I did a jazz gig once and myself and the pianist were a little frustrated that the audience weren't listening so, to prove a point, we did a fast be-bop 12-bar blues. He played it in Bb and I did it in B. After a chorus, he swapped to B and I swapped to Bb and so on throughout the whole piece. Yes, you've guessed it. No-one in the 120 strong audience noticed. Not even the drummer! The BiBeefChief will love that one![/quote] Been there, done that. Playing eating music on a dep with the keys shouting out chords from a songbook as we we. Got to the end of one particularly painful number (when the keys found there was a page missing from the book) and all the knives & forks went down and we got some applause - Bizarre. Already said, but know the set & enjoy yourself - end of

To add a note in case anyone from the south coast is interested there is a minibus provisionally booked heading up from Littlehampton via Redhill arranged by Silverfoxnik. At present Nik, Merton & I are going, but if no more join the Bass Bash Bus we shall drop down to my motor

Me - playing bass for for 2/3rd of my years now (and with the same drummer for most of those). Have covered a few styles in that time - punk, Policey type reggae, Nik Kershawy pop rock, Big Country/U2 type blend, blues (sort of) & ending up with rock covers For a lot of those I've been in a band of guitar, bass, drums & vocalist so have developed a style that tries to keep solid, but also fill in gaps - though that had to be revisited when we acquired a keyboard player a few years back now in the latest incarnation to stop fighting for sonic space. Have had 6 basses in all my years (two of which were acquired in the last 6 months and were my first foray into 5's). Generally use a pick, but did go through a fingers stage until arthritis struck & they started getting tangled up in themselves. Never could get slapping to any great degree - it would happen then I would think "hey that was good" & it would all turn to cr@p Having been with the same drummer for so long we have developed into a fairly tight unit, which is very important IMO. That and enjoying yourself & looking like you are. I lose track of the number of times people come up and say "you looked like you were really enjoying yourself tonight" to which my reply is generally "isn't that what we're all here for?" Have a tendency to leap around on occasion, as well as the bad habit of getting too comfortable with a line & going off on an experiment Get involved in backing vocals & should probably do better warm ups on both bass & vox as I always feel the latter need a gig to settle back in after a layoff. Can't live without gigging & making a noise generally. Had a horrible sinking feeling last year when I wasn't actually feeling that during the holiday layoff - then I got a new bass & changed my amp & now I am sitting here getting very tetchy after a month away from gigs

A brace of Shergold Marathons. My first basses & now all growed up & left the nest - OK I sold them to slavery [attachment=6572:Shergolds.jpg] Both originally black then the fretted got the silverburst respray followed by an 8 string neck. Can't find a single photo of my old Aria SB100. Shame

[quote name='coasterbass' post='158884' date='Mar 17 2008, 12:55 PM']I think there's someting to be said for your GAS increasing proportionately to the time spent on this site! Whilst I've always been keen to pick up a 'bargain'; I've spent more on gear in the two months I've been a member here than I had in the past 4 years!![/quote] Amen to that

Bit of guitar & keyboards As a child I had piano & trumpet lessons then taught myself guitar before moving to bass

Up until last summer I had used the same bass (my Wal) for 20+ years. Amp wise I had had the Trace 122H for 8 years (ish) and before that a 4x10 Trace Combo for probably another 8-10 years. The reason? I had never found anything bass wise that beat it and amp wise that I could afford or wanted to upgrade to. After all - If it ain't broke, don't fix it Of course since then I've had two 5 strings, sold the Trace and acquired the MarkBass combo so my claim to longevity on gear use has taken a bit of a battering. Still got the same missus as well - no one else will put up with me

[quote name='nick' post='156049' date='Mar 12 2008, 03:10 PM'][b]Les McQueen ; Crème Brulee[/b][i][/i][/quote] I see your Les McQueen and raise you [b]Marc Park - Park Avenue[/b] I'm so sorry!! Must take this seriously