stingrayPete1977

Six years is pretty good ime, most bands explode before that long. I've found doing nothing has worked well for me over the years, the phone just tends to ring at some point and eventually I'll get involved and so it starts again, unfortunately the best bands musically have exploded sooner than the not so good ones, people watching us live don't realise how hard the whole band thing is, playing the songs is the easy bit isn't?! Just chill for a bit, make sure people locally know you could be available and see what turns up.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1420154133' post='2646268'] And these turned out to be the winners, and JTUK just happened to know someone selling a pair of them . After a NYE gig with them, I'm very happy. Plus they give me even more permutations on the car-sized Tetris that I do for every gig (bass gear plus PA and foldback and some lights). [/quote] I presume there is another TKS order on the books now then?

If the money was right I would wear a tutu and play a pink P bass

I like that a lot Muppet!

I'm not going to dial in a crazy slap tone for Bob Marley covers, versatilty is key imo and I am very versatile as is my gear I'm either going to get along with people and they will enjoy my playing or they wont, I've eaten my share of function band buffet food too but never to pay my mortgage, I dont want to do that either, I'm already losing half a days holiday for a wedding gig on monday night with work the Tuesday after.

I know, he was in all week then when I turned up for the last half a day after they knew I'd want to do it (guitarist from Slade they told me!) he had just gone when I arrived, came back just after I left! I was well behaved and didn't try and instruments out either, just looked with my eyes, lol

[quote name='ukulelelab' timestamp='1420205680' post='2646662'] Mine is also old, blue and in Nottingham! [/quote] Cripes that is in better condition than my new Jazz I bought 2 months ago!

Not easy with any Slade song, they have done some great tunes slightly overshadowed by the obvious one! (I wired Jim Lea's boiler, he wasn't in though,Lol)

I've never heard a bad Berg, cool

[quote name='sbrag' timestamp='1420211437' post='2646709'] The last Black Dog Company set list is below. Anything with BDC is our own: [b]SET 1[/b] Some Other Guy - The Beatles It’s Not True - The Who Till the End of the Day - The Kinks I Don’t Need No Doctor - Ray Charles First I look at the Purse - The Contours Poison - Bert Jansch Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane Hammers - BDC Going Down - Freddy King Wrong Thing - BDC Elephant Man - Bo Diddley Roxette - Dr Feelgood Off Day - BDC Not the First Time - BDC [b]SET 2[/b] Bringing It On - BDC Somebody Stole My Thunder - Georgie Fame Midnight to Six Man - The Pretty Things Slow Death - Flaming Groovies Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival Self-Made Man - BDC Richard III - Supergrass Under My Wheels - Alice Cooper Going Back Home - Dr Feelgood Dancing in the Street - Who version Summertime Blues - Who Version Shakin All Over - Who version Teenage Kicks - The Undertones Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks Substitute - The Who Gudbye T'Jane - Slade [/quote] Goodbye to jane, now that is a good tune, consider it pinched but we are miles away from Brizzle!

[quote name='Wilco' timestamp='1420202764' post='2646615'] To a degree, I guess it would depend on what level Fender you have. My experience has been that the MiA's are definitely the best - definitely wouldn't ditch one of those for a Squier. I've had a couple of Jap Fender's & again, wouldn't have ditched those for a Squier either. Between a MiM & a Squier? Possibly, but that would probably come down to individual instruments. [/quote] I'd agree with this, in fact all the Mexican basses I've tried have been worse than the squier ones including two affinity basses I've owned! That said I had a really nice Mex strat but then that didn't sound or feel quite as nice as the USA strat I replaced it with. Other than some shoddy 70s USA basses no USA ones have been worse than anything below in the range, had some Flappy B strings but even then the actual finish and sound were still good.

I've tried Sandberg basses a few times, left me totally cold and the mm equipped ones are like an mm with the battery nearly flat. The finish is generally good but I don't know they just don't float my boat,I was convinced I would come home with a lakland dj5 yet it was the good old yank jazz that won the fight and my money in the end, it's a nice bass all told so they do exist!

I think there are two ways to watch the hootenanny, either live as a background thing maybe with friends chatting having nibbles as it's inoffensive and you can keep an eye on the time etc or just watch it on Iplayer or video whatever and scan through it, that's what I did and it was ok. I gave everything a chance for a minute maybe, it either drew me in or I skipped to the next act.

I wouldn't be asking for confirmation of them liking my tone or not?, volume maybe in a "can you all hear me ok?" But not the tone, I'd select the appropriate tone for the genre in question and more importantly use a playing style that works, if they don't like it fine I'd rather not have the gig than be told what tone to use thanks

People banning active basses, I'm guessing five strings are out too with people like that? Well I'm banning haircuts for twenty year Olds in my band if you are over forty then, there are some idiots out there.

That cab does look beastly to be fair, as long as you dont mind moving it around keep it.

I felt the same way but finding a nice us jazz V has made me realise I do like having one in my arsenal, the dodgy ones with crap B strings just makes me more happy to have this one, its already picking up a few marks and I dont mind somehow it feels right.

The trouble is there are so many versions of each version too, USA std or USA deluxe for example. Personally I think they should have kept Fender as usa models only, then Squier by Fender maybe with fender on the headstock just smaller for mex models, Squier for the higher end squiers, then maybe something like "Affinity by squier" as the entry level stuff.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1420111365' post='2645591'] But I do think you would or should sit down and work out what the things do and how you go about getting your sound. Otherwise, it is just the same as forever tweaking your pedals... When I see people doing that, I get the imrpession that they don't know what they want or how to get it.... A few sessions in the beginning working on those things should eliminate a lot of that. Some rooms are difficult but basically it is turn the amp on, plug in, listen and you are there in a few minutes. Endless din at a soundcheck going through 'sounds' makes me think the band doesn't quite know what they are looking for. But... I do take the point about too many sound options on basses... I want a full default sound with which I'll do most of my gig...and a simple rear pickup sound option .. That's it... and that simple...ONCE you have put the time in beforehand getting the sound sorted. IMO. [/quote] I agree a bad workman and all that

I think if you are used to spinning the tone pot on a P bass you can be overly adjusting the preamp, a little bit is all you need, a 2 eq Ray is similar to a P bass imo, set the bass to whereyou like it and its not overloading anything then use the treble pot as you would a tone pot, I had my treble cut on the bass totally! That said I mainly used my passive Jazz last night with a behringer bdi21 in the fx loop for that channel and it sounded great!

I just scanned it on iplayer, Now I thought as a performance Paloma smashed it, I love Wilko and NWR but it wasn't brilliant imo. I like Clean Bandit for some reason, I'd like to exactly how well they can actually play without the backing tracks or in this case the Boogie Woogie band!

Back home here too, happy new year. There was a music stand in full view but thankfully most of them stayed and danced! [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-12/20141231_235827_zpsaxxakmhf.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-12/20141231_235827_zpsaxxakmhf.jpg[/IMG][/URL] New year slappin' [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-12/20141231_233146_zpsdkronxrm.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-12/20141231_233146_zpsdkronxrm.jpg[/IMG][/URL] More scale length than a Dingwall... [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-12/20141231_234654_zpsuwweh4f2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-12/20141231_234654_zpsuwweh4f2.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Until next year folks

[quote nam timestamp='1419959237' post='2644346'] The Genz Benz NX2-212T I just sold sounded immense,best cab I ever used,just my dodgy knee didn't like me carrying it around. [/quote] My early version neoxT 2x12 will be seeing in the new year at tonights gig, brilliant cab.

Good review Jigster, when I see the big bridge plates on them I always think sticking a row of foam blocks on , it would look good from a distance, making it look like a pre EB bridge which I presume is the idea of the big plate anyway from a design angle? with a bit of drilling you could probably fit a complete spring assembly that comes with the spring plate, 4 thumb screws and foam pads, all it would need is the captive nuts gluing into the body behind the bridge and the four holes putting throught the bridge. John east preamp, file the fret edges here and there and you have a sort of pre EB stingray and a grand spare!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1420018554' post='2644802'] Any decent studio will have way more options than you'd get from an active bass..IMO Companies like Aguilar and Demeter were studio pre amp solutions and many players would take one of those in a rack. What you don't want is a complicated and noisy signal chain and the idea was to get the cleanest purest signal. Once you get there, you can mess with it, but they tended not to want to before it went down onto tape. How much you can and do mess with a signal is down to how much you want to spend on it... and for a session player take, they want your job done and you out of there. [/quote] I see this the same for live gigs, a high end PA has far better knobs and dials than my kit even though it is decent gear, give them a good sturdy clean signal and let them fatten it up or compress it etc, that is their job IMO. I have heard a Ricky into an Ampeg with a floor mounted box of tricks, it sounded epic but mic'd up as per the users request the sound crew could not get it into the mix out front, the guy would not let them use a clean DI off the bass even for a blend and the gig went on like that and I never heard a note he played, great. I used a 1x12 combo with the DI off the back of my head pre EQ and had me in my monitor, slight bass boost on the bass and it sounded great on stage and out the front