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Barbara Streisand - amazing just ask Alexa play Barbara Streisand, duets i didn't even know she had done

The answers are all covered above. Unfortunately when changing to 5 string it takes some experimenting to re find your sound. I played 4 strings for about sixteen - eighteen years and always used Rotosound solo strings, then shops were only stocking Elites so went with them but still stainless, when I changed to 5 string and wasn't so happy with them, I started using half wounds and pressure wounds including Status which were good and eventually discovered Nickle strings which i still prefer, and today use D'Addario nickles on my Shuker, SIT Nickles on my MBass, and Newtone string on my E-C Ale Antia. My next set will be a custom set of Newtone for my MBass because they feel and sound good. But who knows they may not on that bass ? Note. I did once take a 5 string set with me back to Mr How at a bass show because the B string didn't ring at all, he gave me a replacement set which were fine, this was the second time I had a dud string in one of their sets, so it is often the string but you wont get any manufacturer to admit that, its all about what you did when putting them on, which of course it can be.

Not bass related but great to chill to and watch nature pass by, reminds me of hot summer hols

I loved this post from AxelF Just look at all those bass Apostles sat round the pit, taking it all in, beautiful.

About as close as I can get ( widdling)

Depends on your line up. we were just Guitar, bass and drums and female singer. So often had to play an amalgam of what was on the original. Guitar would have to play the guitar parts and pick up on brass and string fills, I would cover Bass and maybe Keyboard part if guitar is playing important other fills, Sometimes I would find I am playing a completely different line to the original bass but it works as a whole. As above some songs work for your line up others not. Some we thought would never work amazed us. Just agree on what exact version you are doing and ensure everyone has a copy of that.

Yah - you get what you pay for 🙂 great keys from her wow thanks.

Padauk a favorite of mine - I have to say, but thats it

OK Well i have spent the last three days making a 1/2 scale bass out of none tone woods, well woods i personally wouldn't choose to have a bass made out of. pictures attached. Looks quite nice but sounds stinky poo. some of you may point out, but it has no pick up or E.Q. So this just goes to prove If you use none Tone woods you had better concentrate on getting a good Pick up and pre-amp in the thing. otherwise ya lost. This is for my two year old grand daughter as she destroys Kiddie acoustic guitars by standing on them. Here is the sales pitch. Lime body ( basswood ) to you. actually an old chopping board. Nice English aged Oak top , from my Fathers wood collection Pine neck, with Light flamed Oak board and matching head stock. Padauk bridge and bone nut, left overs from a Shuker build course. Only had three old machine heads so its a 3 string bass. So that's it, If you want a real bass get someone who knows what he is doing and ask for some nice tone wood.

i have been to a few Gigs like that, can't hear the Bass for the kick drum, could be the sound engineer hates bass players i suppose

Some MD's in my experience are out of their comfort zone, and more worried about showing their inadequacies to their peers. Those in the band that feel they have the monopoly of being musically correct. So they concentrate on obvious things like volume and dynamics, they never seem to address individual sections not playing in time, or explaining why we are called the rhythm section. What ever bass you buy, if you have to plug into the mains you are not a real musician. Apparently. Don't get me started 😡

who zips up the last one in. Like a few bands i've played in, the sections are never playing together.

wonder who was still in the band the next week

Dead Kennedys - large underground following

I am genuinely surprised at how many people are sighting Pups and pre-amps where good tone comes from, I am open to that but have tried to improve basses which don't speak well by adding new pups and changing EQ,s but still not turned them into a good instrument. I use John East pre-amps because they primarily give me flexibility playing live when jumping from number to number in a set, without turning round and changing amp settings. Not because the make the bass sound better, that, i believe is in the wood and construction. The only exception to that was because John did me a deal on two pre's one for a bass with scratchy pots that needed replacing anyway and the other was for my M Bass as i wanted a para mid and the top end hi and hi mids didn't speak well. It did help it breath better in the top end, but the bass never got the gig over my Shuker, But interestingly 8 years on it has improved so much with age and gigging, it now sounds better than ever, and is now the last i would sell. So to me even though I am sure Marleaux select the best quality tone woods, after construction basses all need to be played so all those woods can work together in harmony, some more than others I guess. Hope its not just that set of SIT strings i haven't used before ?

If you play in a Folk band, then it is acceptable to have a bass made from Oak, Elm or Beech. It'll sounds crap but you'll probably get away with it due to all the other odd sounds from whistles and squeeze boxes wafting round the pub garden.

New York Dolls - no fluff in sight

Then someone goes and raps a nice piece of tonewood in carbon fiber so you can't tell what its made from and it sounds great But is it better than a solid resin one, I need more basses, to prove these theories beyond doubt.

No Bass wood then, must be the pickups