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I also got a call this week to stand in on a monthly jazz jam, and received favorable comments back, a boost i needed I did start a thread on here a little while back about being disillusioned with these gatherings, but its like swimming you cant learn from the bank you need to get in there and maybe have a couple of scares along the way. Now my confession - I turned down the chance of future jazz gigs this week with a combo that work regular with good guest players invited in, because I didn't feel my walking is up to that standard expected by these guest players with reference to voice leading etc. The punters may not notice but jazzers will. This is down to practice and time spent perfecting the art, or lack of it and listening to jazz standards which i do not. until i have to. So i would like doff my cap to Bassace who i have seen playing , be it a few years back, but he does have his s ~+*t down, and thats where i need to be. So having now been re-enthused by this thread I will take my own advice and say I will do the gig, whats the worse that can happen. So yes back to P J I Agree with Bassace you will need an iPad and download real and unreal books and ireal pro will save a lot of time and you can transpose and save them to a set list. In UnrealBook on your iPad you can photo chord sheets or music from elswhere and save a PDF to read which can be handy rather than have loose sheets about.

I think it is a characteristic of flats and string size, 85 to 105 the larger E just doesn't behave the same as the next string up and being a flat doesn't have the harmonics a round wound has from the wrap vibrating over the pole pieces. I have La Bellas on my P and the A string sounds amazing the E is good but is shown up by the other string. have you tried La Bellas clear wrapped nylon coated strings, I have these on my Status Electro they feel smooth but as they are rounds inside they still have some harmonic bite and tone

All of the above but from photo and crap around panel start with some contact cleaner or WD if you don't have that and spray a jack plug with it, and wang it in and out of each of those jack sockets several times. wipe the jack on a clean rag each time will show you how much dirt these collect. This goes for amps with jack sockets as well, air movement created from you speakers sucks dust into jack sockets and dirty the contacts, the contacts can also get weak over time and lose their finish and then tarnish and create high resistance in the scratches the jacks make. so try that first and if no joy and you have a meter handy set to ohms or Contact the setting that buzzes when shorted and check the closed contacts are actually making. I have owned one of these (great cabs) and the cross over relies on contact when no jacks are plugged in to that part. If you are bi amping ( using two amps one high one low ) you will be running two cables to woofer and the 8"'s and this is not an issue but sounds like this could be it

Fag yes, but that looks like someone left their pipe in there

First thing is to establish your target audience If this is weddings for example then you will need numbers from the 50's to the 2020's as you will be playing to Grans and Gramps as well as 3 year olds staring at you from 3 feet away. So we would make sure we start with a balance of 50's rock n roll - 60's pop - 70 disco hits - favorite 80's and 90's chart hits and so on. choose say five numbers from each era to start and work up from there, Don't fall into the trap of what band members like - its not about you. But of course if the band is playing local pups only and not family parties then I wouldn't bother with Steps or Agadoo 😕

Pop over to the exhibition and take the hardware off Pauls 😁

I never saw the attraction - the rise of punk in the charts was a distraction from good dance music so despised them As for the bass being smashed not an original rock n roll statement - but some people do blame their instruments and maybe he was annoyed he couldn't get it to sound like Mr Watt-Roy had recorded for him

selection of wood for construction on most mass produced basses is not conducive with good tone and sustain in my opinion. It is more by luck that some in the batch are better than others which is why it is important to always try several, not always possible in your local music store. I will always play them acoustically If they sound good and you could practice on them like that at home then they will sound good plugged in. You could spend some money on it but having been there, I feel you will end up passing it on later with the extra investment you have installed. Things I have found to work - Badass bridge - check bridge saddle screws are evenly tensioned ( not on one screw and leaning on the next saddle) - Check and tighten neck joint bolts - action and set up is correct along with string choice good luck with sorting the issues your local guitar tech maybe the best route before spending money

Gig damage is a worry, guitarists are clumsy need to watch them, but horn players are worse. Don't put your bass out until everybody is up and ready to go, is my approach now

Yep Twin wheel base Transit, No mobile phones or SATNAV then or any petrol stations open after about 11 o'clock

Lets see your collection then Owen - photo per chance I always feel you either own or have owned every bit of kit i have ever wanted. As i haven't bought anything from you for a while It would be nice to dream about what could come my way in the future 😄 don't knock um about too much

Reminds me of the first major band i was in The Leader says we are pooling some gigs to get an old Ambulance with aircraft seats fitted so we can all travel together. Its what you did in the 70's 😁 Within a couple of months he bought a new PA and ripped the seats out to make room for it and the stage risers and lights etc.

Yep everything he said in that video

mmmmm well drop me a PM when you guys are ready to pass on your old MB fusion 500

I have the Bach for bass by Josquin Des Pres. I need to spend more time on it but great ear- hand training My question to those above is that Cello and violins are strung in 5th's i believe and as the bass is in fourths wonder how much more difficult the intervals are to play on bass than the cello or Viola etc for which these were written. Some of the pieces are near impossible as they do not fall under the fingers , which is why i guess the practice on them does you good any cello / violin players out there that can comment

I asked Alexa If Spaghetti was invented by Louis Pasteur she then went into a long drawn out educational delivery on Pasteurization etc etc. why don't you ask her if she can belch a good beer or curry burp ☺️

Now you got me looking at Handbox again 😂 and notice they now do an M bass 500 twin channel basically the same as my old Mark bass LMK for under 380 pounds

Having read all your comments I was waiting for an amp engineer to weigh in with what is what. this is my amateur inaccurate memory of what happens I tent to agree with your sentiments that old Mosfet gear has heft, but are we talking about its ability to react quickly that is what we need I used to own an old mosfet Carvin Probass500 the spec sheet was very comprehensive and listed every trade secret in the listed design spec The THD was something like 0.5% at rated output - the sound to noise ratio was about -85dB my Mesa D800+ has a THD of 10% and sound to noise of -73dB The old Carvin made a point of the slew rate of the amp, basically the in rush current when you strike a note and how important this factor was to the design of a good bass amp and to the bass player. The old valve and mosfet SS amps had large transformers and capacitors that delivered this, it was sat there humming away waiting for you to demand all that energy , a Class D has to wait to see what you want from the amp ie a thumb strike or pluck and then go draw the power from the mains and then amplify it quickly and hope you happy with the result. I think what we want to know is if we need to bust some kidneys we have the power to do so. Headroom and weight. and yes my old Markbass LMK was a very early Italian job and as good as anything i have owned before or since. So why dont amp manufacturers state all these facts these days so we know and have the figures to back up what our ears tell us

well spotted. thanks my little Kyser bottle is almost out

The only questions left to mull over are If you are doing larger venues will your band also have decent PA to give you PA support. so you don't need two 8X10 with 2kw amp Headroom is often mentioned and is important so factor in extra dB so you don't run out of steam on those transient attacks, and damage your cabs. is often best to buy good efficient speakers, Loads out there, then 500 amps may well be enough.

Thats my fear - I did find myself a 4th out a few times whilst practicing thinking this sounds wrong and realising i'm on the E string not B and back the other way notes were no longer there for me that were before. I think the problem would be greater playing an old familiar set in auto pilot then you crash and burn when you have to totally re think numbers on the fly. muscle memory is a powerful thing