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definitely try a thumb pick, it works for me!

it depends how you look at it. Some of my very old recordings have a rubbish mix, which is quite frustrating and makes me want to go back over them. Most of the stuff I've done for the last 10 years sounds great! I play all of the songs differently now, and it'd be nice to record them the way I play now, but I'm not too bothered about that as I see it as capturing a moment in time I've not long finished an album with one of my bands. I think it's great but the rest of the band are already frustrated with it. "Not enough acoustic guitar, too much electric, too fast, too shouty" etc etc. As far as I'm concerned the album is a perfect capture of what we were doing at that time so I really have no problem with it. I would say "maybe the more you record the easier it gets to tolerate" but I guess Lennon had plenty of practise

surely that would play like a knife through butter? I guess a bass that plays like butter would be great as long as it was colder than room temperature

Is the sound you have on your first recording similar to the sound you had when you recorded the parts? Or do you think he played with it a lot in the mixing stage? The mix sounds like a bit of a rush job to be honest, no offence intended, so while the above is all good advice, it may well be that this engineer is going to leave your sound alone in the mix, in which case getting a different sound at source would be a good idea.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1459942657' post='3021055'] Can I have sex with a raw badger and eat my parents instead? [/quote]

it's just a bit of fun isn't it? Like "Would you rather eat a raw badger OR watch your parents have sex? You HAVE to choose one"

You know the "I sound like me on every bass" argument? Well I think it's mostly balls. If you mostly play folk on a P with flats into a clean amp, and then I ask you to try slapping on my J with rounds through a distorted amp, it's not going to sound like the same bassist at all. Maybe a lot of us bassists like to just have one sound? In which case, fair enough! But I have loads of sounds. How could I possibly say "it always sounds like me" when actually it always sounds different!?!

I've never played a bass I wouldn't be comfortable playing. The bass I choose to put in the bag is the one I think will sound best for the task at hand, so I guess it's tone over playability for me, but yeh, I've never known an unplayable instrument

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1459793497' post='3019721'] My favourite bass performance is on Aretha Franklin's Border Song. I think it's Chuck Rainey? [/quote] Wow, I'd not heard that before, thanks!!!

This [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9eED6Krl14[/media] I think it came from you or one of your threads. I love a lot of bassists but I've yet to find a performance to excite me as much as this

looking good Matt!

It took me ages to get 3 fingers sounding "fluid" and consistent. I've lost that skill now. I'm just not interested in going that fast any more, and I actually realised my two fingers are much faster than I thought.

what's an aggressive offer? A generous one might have more chance of success! I play a load of beer festivals, folk festivals, punk festivals, indoor and out. They're all usually fun. I don't think we've got anything massive though. We'll probably play to audiences of 500 or so

maybe build yourself a manshed or rent a room somewhere?

I play whatever I want in 4 originals bands, and write my own music when I get time. It's pretty fulfilling! Good advice above to set up a small recording studio. I used to have this upstairs at home and got loads of my own music recorded. I never did anything with it, but it was very fulfilling. Since starting an actual studio I've not had the time!

I play 6 string basses with standard tuning (High C) and switch between them and guitars all the time. I play lots of chords and write lots of stuff on guitar which I then move over to bass but I've never considered tuning the high C down to B. Maybe I'm just used to the different shapes?

not sure on that one sorry!

yeh, quite a big difference in the high frequencies It still sounds like the kit's a bit distorted... no point in me making any comments on the sound unless you can get hold of the stems from the engineer?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1458733657' post='3010249'] ...and you annoyed the crap out of your colleagues for a couple of years. [/quote] yeh but that was more to do with my awful sense of humour and love of smelly food

This came up on my facebook from Tape Op magazine and I was so impressed I thought I'd better share it here. It's a recording of a full band in a room using one stereo mic, and it sounds great. Not my kind of music but still, very impressive [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcf6kqvsXu8[/media]

I used to want to be able to play really fast so I practised a three finger technique on my right hand while at work for a couple of years. It worked but now I have no desire to play that fast any more

well that makes it much more listenable! Nice one!

I don't want to explain my technique, it's very unorthodox and I'm sure I'd be banned from basschat. I can play "normal" bass too, but I play a lot of weird heavy music which involves abusing my basses