stingrayPete1977

Yeah that would work but I don't think they're losing many sales from it, Fender ones don't line up, my USA Jazz 5 certainly can't because the string spacing is adjustable!

They aren't always in the same position in each bass though, the single coil on a Ray HS isn't going to fit in the bridge position of a Caprice for example.

I used to play live bass for a singer song writer who wrote and recorded his whole albums himself, all played to a high standard, the live shows sometimes had 3 guitarists or just him on guitar, sometimes acoustic sometimes electric, sometimes we had a drummer sometimes we didn't and it would be a cajon player instead, sometimes we had the female singer that did the studio session if she was around, if not Dave sang his version. It's all good, he has a whole new lineup these days and the songs still work because they are great songs. If anything I go and see bands live to hear the songs played differently to the cd, I'm going to see a band on friday where the core member is an epic banjo player but you never know what you'll get until the night, I've seen him with a harpist,cellist,violinist, guitarist,bassist,drummer,percussionist and upright bass so far in various formations of no more than 5 players normally 4. Always good but never the same twice, that's live music for me

They are symmetrical if you look closely, no one makes pickups with different poles to suit different nut width, fingerboard width, bridge spacings and then the infinite positions you place the pickup under tapering together strings. Plain covers is the only solution.

I heard once that the sign of a good song is when it can be stripped right back to just an acoustic guitar or a piano and vocals yet still be both recognisable and memorable, if purely removing some of the driven tone on the bass live makes the gig not worth doing I'd be worried about the songs.

The rcf and qsc have been talked about throughout the thread, if someone tries putting 1400 watts through a sound lab from Maplins expecting it to replace an Ampeg stack they'll have a nasty surprise. I don't really see the difference, a rubbish bass speaker could be replaced with a rubbish PA speaker with similar outcomes, most people interested in frfr are already using a nice bass rig so they need to expect to require a nice P.A. speaker.

That's Al Gare, he's always good.

Anything with a horn section loud gets right into the centre of your brain too doesn't it, the sound crew were probably deaf from years of doing the sound for rock and roll bands with dinosaur amps

The loudest band I've seen (after metallica in '93) was velvet revolver, jeez my internal organs haven't been right since, they were all wearing in ears.

Body count were great too. Tracy Lauren lol.

Rage against the machine are right on the edge of the genre imo.

Most of the Rock bands and Metal bands wear in ears, I don't think we can blame ebs for that.

Nah he doesn't know stinky poo! Lol

And there's the reality, three nice mics would improve our band but as the only member of a four piece band that doesn't sing I've drawn the line at that!

I think it's related though, full range amp and full range PA equals full range goodness for everyone.

Do you think Flea needs 7 large bass cabs when he wears in ears? They are there to create a wall to hide stuff where the dj guy stands and to sell GK cabs to dinosaurs

Can you post some links where and when your band plays so I can avoid them? Thanks

It was JTUK's regular gig but we haven't seen him around here for a while

Carole King for me, her writing credits are ridiculous, great grasp of writing a pop hit but with an under pinning of technical knowledge, great pianist and lesser known guitarist too.

You lost me at "the drummer doesn't drive and lives 90 miles away", if it's going to be a £250 per person function band then maybe, £40 a piece down the tickled trout then it's never gonna happen imo. Onwards and upwards

Same here, Stingray-desk.

I can't get on with P basses or passive basses, I've decided to just accept it and not try again. Active jazz basses are awesome

He's been mentioned already.

I'd say they are targeted at the 50+ year old guy with spare cash regardless of their ability.

If you look at the Fender stuff it's not really a big deal anyway is it? Neck and body with a lick of paint, relicing done with a stencil. Plenty of people paid nearly USA money for a Mex Jazz because it was painted pink and had $12 worth of stacked pots on it, the mind boggles.