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  1. ahpook
    Having just tried it out, I put my thumb over he top of the neck when I'm playing the thin strings down near the nut, the rest of the time it's behind. But then I'm not an actually really good bass player, I'm like Geddy Lee
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    "I wanna go where there's a Western show" Nicely and rockingly done.
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    Could you record the bass direct and then re-amp it ? You'd only need to have the bass loud once (theoretically) as you'd have the take the way you wanted it before you used the amp, rather than having to have the amp loud every time you did a take. Might be a problem if you're recording a 25 minute opus, but for a short song you might be able to get away with rattling the furniture for just a short while !
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    This was what crossed my mind. If I have ideas I only really send out a basic drum pattern, bass and just enough guitar to give an idea of what the chords are. Everything else I leave to the band or people I'm working with. Also, I'd feel a bit deluged by 24 ideas. If I'd come up with that many ideas (if only !), I'd be inclined to send them out in groups of 3 or 4 - much less daunting for the recipients. Not everyone can come up with parts they're happy with quickly. It can take some time to mull ideas over.
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    I've been using this one (well, a different brand name, but still the same model) for quite a while. I don't if it counts as 'mid-level' but it does me fine. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0719H8T8Q I bought it to handle the SMT components in a pedal kit and it worked a treat for that and also for larger jobs like wiring pots. I bought a selection of (cheapish) tips as well.
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    Knew it !
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    I think they do more than one show at the same time, so whilst you're listening to 'Smoke on the Water' on Planet Rock, they put their posh voice on and introduce some Mozart on Classic FM.
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    Even if you don't use Reaper, their ReaPlugs VSTs are excellent. It includes a multi-band compressor. https://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/
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    I was waiting for the slapping, praying it wouldn't happen. Hoping to be confounded. Just this once. Just....prove me wrong. But no. Maybe next time ?
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    Here's something from my youth. Great song, but what's going on here ? Have they all got stiff necks ? Maybe they were painting the guitarist's living room ceiling the day before and have got sore necks from all that overhead work. Lens seems a bit grimy too. Producer got bored and went off for a snog halfway through. Hell, it was the 80s. It was indie.
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    "Well Peter used to dress up in all that weird theatrical stuff, so I'll put this orange fishing hat on....there, check me out lads....I'm arty" "Belt up tiny drummer and get inside that piano"
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    Ba-Boom Tish !
  13. ahpook
    Mine too, it's a sublime bit of bass. Cool bit of playing. Nicely done 👍🏻
  14. ahpook
    Well said. It quite often kills the thread too.
  15. ahpook
    Discussing playing for free is as good a way of getting the Basschat blood pressure up as suggesting kit share.
  16. ahpook
    To paraphrase Beavis and Butthead "This video tells a story" "That sucks"
  17. ahpook
    Total silence no, I've only experienced that a couple of times - fair point that it's hard to come by. The gaps then, then things that make sounds end and begin.
  18. ahpook
    This thread has made me make more of an effort to listen to more music. And appreciate silence more as well. 👍🏻
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    I do too, now I've fiddled with the playback speed in YouTube
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    ahpook replied to Jus Lukin's topic in Amps and Cabs

    Somewhere between Bexleyheath and Horn Park ? Ayfangoo. Play me off Johnny.
  22. ahpook
    This is why, although I turned 50 this year, I've held off going down the custom route !
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    For you, no....but if the Moodies don't know they'll be wasting their time, and they're not getting any younger.
  24. ahpook
    Hang on, I think that's the lost chord isn't it ? Best give the Moody Blues a shout
  25. ahpook
    My 'dream' bass would most likely be a neck-through jazz bass, with the neck profile of on my 86 Jazz bass and maybe a musicman pickup at the bridge instead of the single coil. Being a dream bass there would be a way of having the neck pickup passive and the musicman through an active MM EQ. Bound dark wood neck and white inlays, finished in black with matching hardware. Fun to dream EDIT: Forgot to mention the string spacing at bridge would be 17mm
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