Dad3353

It sounds as if you need both an Imperial and a Metric set of Allen keys, as Fenders (and other basses/guitars...) could be either. Luckily, these are not expensive, and, if buying decent quality ones, will last a lifetime. Any help..? 

Can only a Danish prince play 'Hamlet'..? 

When did the 'one rack unit' requirement come in..? The original brief was for a pedal, no..? A mini-mixer comes close to that, and it just as simple to set up and use, I think. 

21 minutes ago, Jack said:

You could use something like a Rolls PM351 or PM50 if you want wired. Rolls is nearly always the answer for this kind of audio routing thing. 

 

Otherwise I think you're looking at a mixer (either a normal one or a little line mixer like the Rolls MX54) which then runs into any normal wireless IEM system.

Similar functionality from the Behringer Xenyx 802S, £63 + postage from Thomann. An Xlr feed from the desk into one channel, bass into a second channel. Send the bass back to the console from the Fx Send, and listen to the mix you want from the headphone socket. Job done. 

1 minute ago, BigRedX said:

Everything from your fingers and strings right through to the speakers and cabs has an influence over how the instrument sounds.

 

My response is to eliminate the as many of them as possible, and to reduce the influence of as many of the others as possible to make it easier to control the sound I and the audience hears.

Maybe I'm just lucky; the sound I hear (I can(t know what each audience member hears...) suits me just fine, either when playing bass or drums. I'm just not that 'precious' about it. It sounds good, that's all I need. 

4 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

But your amp/rig is tone shaping. 

So is the room I'm playing in, and the atmospheric pressure of the day, and whether I play towards the bridge or the neck, or my mood, or ... whatever. 

I've never really understood, nor 'bought into', this idea of 'tone shaping'. I plug the bass into an amp/DI/console/whatever and play bass. Too simple..? Probably, with the disclaimer that I'm a drummer. (And 'No, I don't 'tone shape' drums, either. I just play them. Tone is in the fingers.')

The drummer on the original recording was Tony Allen. Anyway, the question has come up before, with...

There are so many compositions that have real meaning ('If I Had A Hammer', 'Blowing In The Wind', 'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' and hundreds more...). Personally, I'd much rather play stuff with real meaning than innocuous, bland, 'filler' stuff, whatever culture it's originally from. To me, human is human; the rest is simply coincidence of birth time and place. I see no problem here. Peace. 

31 minutes ago, itu said:

And I feel the same about those ancient surf basses...

Human morphology has not evolved much since 1950. 

22 hours ago, FretsOnFire said:

Wasn't sure in which section to post this but

 

In the times in which I don't have my amp to hand just a bass and a pedal for rehearsals and gigging which one pedal would cover everything I'd need?

 

This might be a silly question but I've been looking at ampless and I'm confusing myself 😂

If you're amp-less, how are you planning to hear your own bass..? From the rehearsal/gig stage monitors (if existant and capable...)..? With ear-phones, fed from the pedal..? Wired, or wireless..? How will the other players and (if relevant...) the FOH for the audience, hear the bass..? Standard practice for FOH is a feed from a DI box, which the bass plugs into. Is that all that you require, even for rehearsal..? The question needs fleshing out a little, I think. 

26 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Especially if that something is a belt 👍

22 minutes ago, Mcgiver69 said:

Guys remember that Purafied audio is giving their everything bundle for £2 That's 7 high quality plugins...

Done; thanks for the 'heads-up'.

3 minutes ago, Jackroadkill said:

... How anyone can go belt-less is beyond me.

Not many of my trousers have carriers for wearing a belt. I rely on their elasticity; it can be embarrassing if this starts to fail whilst I'm carrying something in both arms, for instance. 

Our Eldest held down the role of Principal Guitar in a successful Rock/Ska/Punk band (Kiemsa...) for a few years, and has never held a car licence. It fell upon his conciliatory father (myself...) to fulfil taxi duties, to such a point that I ended up carting most of the whole band to gigs, all over France, in the 7-seater Renault Espace I had at the time. I hired a horse-box-sized trailer for the hardware (PA, lights, all the back-line and stage props...), and operated the FOH and lights for them during the gigs. Do you have a conciliatory father/neighbour/partner/buddy willing and able to do likewise..? 

31 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Rehearsal last night with the latest band that I've been recruited to. We're doing a one hour set at a beer festival tonight and we have a fairly sketchy grasp of the songs, so that should be fun. It's a very odd set list, which sadly includes All Right Now but there's a lot of unusual and unknown (at least by me) songs that should ensure that no follow-on bookings ever happen.

Break a leg. 

11 minutes ago, rushbo said:

Here's a picture of a gentleman from China, knocking one out in his shed. 

I'm not sure what the esteemed and not-at-all AI generated luthier here is doing, but I'm sure it's boutique. 

 

He's fettling. 

...

17 minutes ago, Blondy said:

 

Blondy's photo...

3 minutes ago, markbunney said:

... i really struggle to practice & rehearse if I can’t play along to the original version.

Can you not change the key of your playback system..? Any track in Reaper, for instance (other DAW's are available...) can be transposed up or down, without changing tempo. Worth looking into..? 

23 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

Mornington Crescent?

11 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

That's an unusual looking bass. Any details welcome...

One from this stable, it would seem ...

Shuker Custom Bass ...

Here's our well-deserved Round of Applause...

3 hours ago, Russ said:

... The video/audio sync does seem to drift a little as the video goes on though, which is weird ...

It may be a bit of a 'Dahu hunt', looking for the cause. I have noticed many times a 'slipping' of synchro, on my own and many other more professional videos, which I attribute to You-Tube itself, and for which there is no cure that I know of. It's not much of an issue in your video; it's more troublesome when trying to match what a drummer is doing, especially after twenty minutes of drift..!
As for the video itself, I'll admit to not being an uber-fan of whatever brand of metal this is, but it certainly respects its genre. I have several audio systems here, and even through the 'big speakers', it's very difficult to distinguish the bass notes, as you're tuned down so low. This is not criticism; it's part of the genre. I expect, 'live' through a decent sub-equipped FOH system, the walls would tremble adequately. I'll admit, too, that I could distinguish little of the lyrics, but, that, too, is part and parcel, and anyway, I'm old, so...
A Good Video, then, all the better for being your first (of many..?). Good Stuff, well done. 

Douglas

Ooo look..! A bee..!