Ray

Very nice. Great feel and groove.

[quote name='lonestar' post='660318' date='Nov 20 2009, 04:47 PM']Me too! Mind you having had a quick nosey at your site Ray looks/sounds like you've got a good funky thing going on there already![/quote] Thanks! It's a great band to play in. [quote name='Mike' post='660664' date='Nov 20 2009, 11:53 PM']I think it's worth an audition, mate. They're great guys and not ballbreakers! I've played with them for a while but just can't give them the time that it deserves due to other commitments. The music's great, and they don't make you solo if you don't want to![/quote] Hmm.. I'll have a think. Although, like you, I have other commitments and I wouldn't want to let those guys down. I'm really busy with my band at the moment so now's probably not the best time to join another band anyway. Thanks R

I'd be all over this if I had the jazz know-how. I love jazz so much but really struggle to play it properly.

Mine's about an hour each way from Essex to North london. Sometimes a bit more if the north circular is busy.

I heard that Lenny White's mobile phone rang during Stanley Clarke's solo!

When Bernard Purdie came on stage unannounced (and uninvited!) to sit in with us at the Jazz Cafe in Camden. I still can't quite believe I actually played with Bernard Purdie! Recording two sessions for Mark Lamarr's Radio 2 show at Maida Vale.

Darren just bought my Aguilar GS112NT. Collected it in person. Top bloke, great player too.

Mark bought my Aguilar GS112 cab recently. Hassle free transaction. Highly recommended. Thanks Mark!

[quote name='fenderiko' post='639899' date='Oct 29 2009, 11:41 AM']Also , is it possible that your Amp/DI was set on Pre Eq ? (Pre Eq Button on the amp ) in which case your eq would be flat to the desk but amp still sounding good once you are next to it. hmmm,,,, [/quote] No, it was post EQ. Because the DI sucked out all the low end and somehow boosted the mids I had to compensate with extreme EQing and made a point of checking the pre/post button.

[quote name='Fraktal' post='639821' date='Oct 29 2009, 10:31 AM']Epic fail. Assuming your amp projects a good tone, the "engineer" has no excuse.[/quote] If I ever work with him again I'll politely suggest using a different method as described above.

[quote name='fenderiko' post='639764' date='Oct 29 2009, 09:39 AM']Hi Ray , +1 for all the above. but also your amp not only functioning as an amp but have [b]a very good [/b]DI on it ( [b]why not using Bass>Amp/DI in room no cab > wall>control room[/b] ) so, as any engineer will tell you , having millions cables and reverse pluggings and what not is going to make your sound like hell BUT , Also , it sounded like the control room has only taken your DI sound with no amp feed and once adding the fact that you are using a passive J bass that already have a weak signal and very dry full of mids you would have trouble with sound. when the engineer is quickly rushing to blame my equipment I have a red alarm suggesting that the engineer knows F@%K ALL. - :)you got payed ! R[/quote] I did suggest this but they wanted to mic the cab as well and my speakon cable wasn't long enough to have the head and cab in separate rooms. He did use the DI on the head but it still sounded like crap because of the messed up signal going into it. Yeah, I think the same when engineers blame equipment! And yeah, I got paid!!

[quote name='51m0n' post='639227' date='Oct 28 2009, 04:52 PM']Is your bass active? If the jack into said bass was active, then any amount of weirdness may happen due to the stereo socket in the bass used to trigger the active-ness I would imagine.[/quote] Passive Fender Jazz. Oh well, it was only a session job anyway. The guy paying for it was happy with the result. Thanks guys!

[quote name='Bottle' post='639143' date='Oct 28 2009, 03:25 PM']Umm, not sure you can get away with that, unless the DI boxes are passive types - even then I've not heard of this being done. Just to clarify, does your signal chain looks like this? Bass > DI box out > wallbox > DI box in reverse > jack out into amp[/quote] Yes. That's how it was. [quote]In that case, probably the ground was lifted at one end or the other, or attenuation in line. For this to work, the destination DI need to be the passive type, with no active electronics in the way, because you're effectively using it 'in reverse' to normal operations. The source DI can be active or passive, but an active type would have to be battery-powered, because you have no way of injecting phantom power. Depending on distance, I would have thought that using a matching jack-to-XLR cable for both ends would work better, and avoids the hassle of DI'ing the bass, and ground loops, impedance mis-matches etc.[/quote] Is this the usual way to connect a bass to an amp in a different room? i.e. Bass > jack-XLR cable > wallbox > wallbox > XLR-jack cable > amp Are there other/better ways to do it? [quote]PS and this is a 'well-equipped' studio? [/quote] Well equipped, yes. But if the engineers don't know how to use the gear properly what good is it? It's actually a college where they do training courses for studio engineering, Cubase, Logic, Ableton Live etc. Thanks

I was doing a recording session at a well equipped studio, I was in the live room with the drummer and my amp was set up in a separate room. My bass was plugged into a DI box which was plugged into an XLR socket on the wall in the live room. In the room with my amp there was another DI box plugged into the XLR wall socket and a jack cable from that DI box to my amps input. Sounds pretty normal, right? Thing is, the sound out of my amp was awful. No low end and loads of midrange. I then plugged my bass directly into the amp and it sounded great as normal. Plugged back into the DI - awful. There must have been something in between the DI boxes affecting the sound, or the DI boxes themselves? The engineer said that he's never experienced this and suggested it's probably my amp (Aguilar AG500SC). Hmm...

[quote name='silddx' post='638525' date='Oct 27 2009, 09:45 PM']Mmm, but the string is longer at its termination points, so surely the (theoretical, ie. mine) potential for elasticity is the inverse of what you suggest?[/quote] Yep! I would normally agree with you but it's just not the case for some strange reason.

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I can see the logic in what you're saying but... I always strung my Jazz through the body then one day I thought I'd string it through the bridge to see what difference it would make to the tone and sustain. The first thing I noticed was the string tension. The strings had much less tension in them when tuned to pitch (using the same set of strings too). So much so I had to make a truss rod adjustment! So, in my experience, through body stringing [b]does[/b] increase string tension.