hiram.k.hackenbacker

Just been online with SonoBus for the first time. As a former user of JamKazam, I have to say this is much better and user friendly. Full rehearsal this next Tuesday, providing the drummer can get on line by then.

That is a right result. I’ve played a few and they were much much heavier. Enjoy 🤘

Dare I ask how much it weighs?

@triplebass - I take your point, but it's been like it for years. Many years even before this....

Wembley Stadium played. Drops mic. Leaves room 😎

Mrs.H and I are currently at HRC Dominican Republic and there is a dismal selection of basses on offer here. The first one I saw was in the main concourse and is probably one of a thousand that Gene Simmons has played @cetera. The second was on display in the HRC shop and isn’t a celeb bass - just a bit bizarre. I’m still not sure what’s going on here.

Nope. Picked up my JJ Burnel Signature from Shuker HQ and gigged it that night.

Yep, same here. My festival days are well and truly over. I think my last big one was V in Chelmsford, so some time ago. I just cannot be ar$ed doing battle to get a halfway decent view and then giving it up to go for a two mile trek for a p!$$.

I don’t understand why you would think he would have changed. Was he subject to some kind of revelation about the trauma he out people through. Guys like this do not change.

+1 the most recent comments. The only thing he cares about is money - building instruments and customer service are not even on his radar. If you truly want to help the bass community, be Letts’ complete undoing; which in truth, you should have started a long time ago. This softly softly give him another chance bo!!ocks does not help anyone. It probably has the opposite effect.

Probably sounded a bit harsher than I meant, but I am staggered that you gave this guy another chance after all the grief he has caused you, especially in light of the fact he’s still doing business and making (let’s be honest) $hit YT videos. You need to see him for what he is and what he will always be.

Sorry, but I have zero sympathy for what you’re putting yourself through now.

No, as @Dad3353 suggested, the guitar isn’t doing that. I’m sure I have a video of us performing it somewhere.

We'll have to agree to disagree then. To my ears, there are two distinct keyboard parts that yes, are playable by one person. Quite how you play the bass line on a keyboard as well as playing those two parts at the same time is beyond me, and I started my musical life as a keyboard player. NB. We don't use any backing or samples of any kind.

Well, it depends how accurate you want to be I suppose. Before a note is sung, there are two synth parts and then there’s the bass on top of that.

Yeah, sorry confused myself there. Doesn’t make any difference.

Do you think that be part of the issue? Also, do you play it on a 4 or 5 string?

Material Girl has been in my 80’s band set for…..well, forever. If your keys player reckons she can play the synth bass bass line plus the actual keys parts at the same time, I’d like to hear that. We have a dedicated keys player, a sax player (who uses his EWI this track), plus me and it sounds ace. You’re going to sacrifice something going for a brew whilst she makes a pigs ear of this one. Again, I’m prepared to be proved wrong. I’d like to hear it, but would I like hearing it? You have more patience than I. I’d be long gone.

Greetings @RobD from Wickford, Essex. Where are you at?

Yeah, I’m with your there Paul. I don’t use any of that stuff either. What I do like is once Apple Music has finished a track I have picked, it then cherry picks stuff of the same genre it thinks I might like. I can’t be messing with it whilst I’m driving around the city, so it let it do its thing and it’s quite good at it. I went through the whole night just listen thinging to what it threw at me the other day and hardly skipped any. Far better than what commercial radio has to offer these days.

That’s exactly how I feel about Spotify. I’ve never been a paid subscriber, so maybe it’s different for those that do. Apple Family subscriber here, so we get Apple TV, Music and storage. Apple Music makes my life so much easier. Whatever I do on one device syncs on all the others automatically.

What on earth are you doing going up further than the 12th fret? Rookie error that 😎. Seriously though. A short scale may not necessarily help, unless you also have short arms? A narrower jazz neck, typically ballpark 38mm nut width, but crucially with a shallow neck depth would probably help you more. I haven't played your model of bass, so I don't know how deep the neck is. Best bet, get yourself down to a store that has loads of basses and try some. See what works for you best.