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No - make sure phantom is off on that channel though

Ideal three bass sounds you want... something that can sound like a precision, something like a jazz and something like a stingray. Plus animal based wallpaper to match at least one of your basses

Three thoughts... An active stingray-a-like and a passive jazz sit utterly differently in the mix and you would have to set your amp/eq way differently. Often times the uncomfortableness you have is you not hearing the bass exactly where you expect it in the mix... even if it sounds fine to everyone else. For example, for years I was so used to the low mid P bass sound in the mix I couldn't hear Jazz basses when I played. Active vs passive alone is enough to throw you, but Jazz basses tend to have a mid scoop, Ray-a-like tend to have a lot of mids... are you changing your amp to suit? If not, that's why you're fiddling with your eq! It's a sparkly blue Flea bass... having bought a Sparkly blue jazz off you in the past I know it's your style and you would be utterly mad to sell it. My dream bass was a Warwick JD thumb... I bought one from 1985. It ended up sat on the wall for four years not being played much before I admitted to myself I didn't love it with my playing to pick it up over my other two basses. So it went. It was a good move. It sounded utterly amazing like really amazing... but it didn't fit with the sound I get out of my fingers, and wasn't going to be picked up and played.

soooo 2019 mate!

* that's * what's fun about worship bass - the sense of being able to experiment and mix things up. (unless you go to a church where you have to play it to the letter) Reading this thread I think a lot depends on if you have a keys player, I haven't in the churches I've played in, and when I have they have mostly been very good. You also find out that non-professional sound people can be scared of bass.... I had one situation with a digital desk where everything under 80Hz was boosted, everything 100Hz-2k was -18db and the top end was left alone, that's where they thought the bass guitar lived in the mix ?! and more than a few times I've played and later found out I may as well not as I wasn't audible in the FOH.

not sure where you're shopping. If you look secondhand a decent passive jazz will set you back way less than that. here's one: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/392744-fsft-lakland-skyline-44-64-custom-colour-£575/ and another https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/388826-fender-japan-jazz-1984-7-black-rosewood-red-tort/ and a relic if that's your thing https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/383458-now-£700-limelight-custom-guitars-63-j-bass-heavy-relic/ and that's just on a quick scan on here. I think that a lot of the cheaper end basses probably don't make it on bass chat and are on the gumtree/ebay/facebook groups instead. And that's before even suggesting a Good Squier, or even something like a Bass Collection, or Sire even, could scratch that itch for you without shelling out the big bucks. I've gone on a similar-ish journey to you... I've had neck through basses with fancy preamps in and a very cultured tone... and actually the sound of a simple fender style bass just works in the mix in the way that some custom basses won't. BUT you'll find the Shukers will do things that a jazz won't. I guess the question is - Guesing you use the other Shuker live... what does the single cut do differently that the main one doesn't that justify's you keeping it? If there isn't enough, then a change is good. Mind you - if I were going to spend £1200 on a jazz bass - I'ld be buying one from Jon Shuker...

take a banjo?

You must have?!

Church we used to go to was an old 1720s building that had been abandoned and then renovated - one of the decisions made was to put a big glass wall down the back third in order to put a cafe space and bit of a second floor in... big stone building.... glass wall.... in case you are wondering it was The C on the A string that resonated most

OnSong is good

Yep, musically it's often a kind of indie-rock style somewhere between U2 and Coldplay for example... this isn't Sunday morning, one of the local churches that puts a woman's conference, their Sunday is similar

it all depends on the church... it could be everything from a venue that holds thousands and the most polished band ever (and you have to play exactly what's on the music), through to a joyful but atonal mess of not-very-good-musicians. You could find out the drummer one week has a PHD in jazz drumming and the next week is a 14 year old who started learning 6 months ago. Be prepared for a massive variety of musical skills, and more importantly listening skills. I've found that as the music is often in chord charts, the way a lot of worship leaders on piano and guitar think about them is via the lyrics rather than via the medium of musical bars we would be used too... for instance the music finishes a bar at the end of the chorus, but the leader may truncate the bad and jump straight into the start of the verse... this is a challenge that you get to practice your interpersonal skills with! When I started playing church was great way to learn, I got a sheet of music 30 min before playing and had to just nail it- which was a good discipline. Unless it's gospel be prepared to play a lot of simpler less flashy basslines, and sometimes just hold everything together. The big no-no is the crazy flashy thing, or big fill that you don't pull off. If you can pull it off ok, if it fits, but if it's not perfect then it will distract everyone. So don't do anything if you can't actually pull it off... in practice though this creates a lovely dynamic between your playing and your practicing - e.g. I used to read stuff about Jamerson, practice at home and then very quickly be able to introduce what I was learning into my lines on a Sunday...

I’m thinking stripe down with the badge in it - kinda like one of the martini race car teams livery

ahhh it was longer than a year ago... I knew about that one! A friend of someone on Finnbass bought it.... The story here is - about 5-6 years back I tracked down a fella who had one of these, I think it was a random speculative email as I don't actually remember how I found the guy... anyway, likewise he had a 1x15 that I didn't need and that wouldn't fit in our flat that he wanted to sell with it. So that didn't happen.... After staring at @attackbass's helix rig for a silly amount of time, and having forgotten everything about him other than he went to a heavy metal church linked to the CoE, he ran (and the church) helped run the local foodback I hunted on google and sent a speculative email to the person I thought it might be... turns out he did have it, and did want to sell it.... we even managed to get it delivered via his mum and dad and my mum-in-law and visits around Christmas! So really random tracking down of a random person... me guessing that I could trust a vicar who spends his working life helping the poor, friendly in-laws and an awesome amp. It basically can do super clean. It can do fat and clean-valve, it's got a powerful eq system, and the "tube growl" which is a really natural compressor of some kind... it's just really really musical and fun to play. I'm coming from a Walkabout which is one of the all time classic bass amp designs, and it's utterly different in a really nice way, less harmonically rich unless I crank up the gain and the tube growl, more 3d and with massive headroom and clarity of note. If you keep the filters off, and the eq fairly flat you can hear massive differences between pickup positions on my Lakland 55-94.... on the Walkabout they tended to sound all variations of the same sound (if that makes sense).

! which shop was that? and for how much? they can't have had it online where google's bots could find it

I kinda lucked out with the amp the first time - this is pre me finding basschat but somehow I rang Mike Walsh when he had a shop and I think he must have sold it to me below trade price! (Thanks @Cosmicrain)

Oh it’s sideways it’s a Hughes and Kettner QT600

So about 9 years ago I sold my first ever bass amp - I replaced it with a Tecamp Puma, hellborg pre and ashdown poweramp thunderfunk 750b GK rb1001 roland d-bass 210 combo Mesa walkabout combo (for the last 4 years) and then finally after years of looking trackers down someone who would sell me another one of the amp I had originally ... and it’s immense - it’s like coming home

if you look on there back it gives the RMS output in volts at 4 ohms... that suggests if they are giving RMS output it's actual output rather than "burst power" that a lot of amps will use for ratings... so it might sound louder than you expect

Yes - I just realised that! Whoops - currently googling Superlux models

I wonder how close the behringer clones are?

Thought I would chime on on this thread - I’ve got up to £40 to spend on a set of phones for silent practice from my hx stomp... the Edifer version of the Phil Jones headphones are in budget... The Sennheiser HD 25-1, Samson SR850 (as meantioned by @Bolo) the Superlux HD681 (as per @timhiggins recomend) are in budget too - anything else I should put on the shortlist? also have works set of audiotechnica M20 at work that are pretty good

illegal immigrants aren't they Jazz basses? blooming Americans coming over here, taking over our contryside with their imported baselines

Are Duncan’s in a PJ good for metal?