LukeFRC

it will be both the guitar amp making the high end too high
and the way you are playing. whatever you are playing go slower and practice making everything as quiet as possible with your fingers, a lot of this will be hand position and the way you mute the notes

how on earth does the sturdiness of the the bridge effect tuning over a gig??? :S

I do!
Amp end would be a good idea. Once played a gig and I was borrowing the rather lovely bass gear of a band called glasvagas. He had the signal going through a plastic behringer tuner thing on top the amp. Lets just say rather too frantic playing puller many thing out of position resulting in loud pops and bangs.
Lucky it only took me 4 bars to untangle and plug in again!

hahaha it was your streamer that started me GASing!


(that was to warwick hunt)

my first bass is a status shark pro-active 2 bass.
its lovely and an amazing bass.
problem is I bought my fender P and dont really play it much.
I stuck flats on it to see if i would play it more and it still just sits there unplayed.
every so often I pick it up and love the feel and some of the tones you get out of it. But it gets put down as Im always going to go for the P in the few live things i do now.
Its worth more to me than i would get if I sold it, but im so tempted to stick it on the forsale section of basschat for trade and see what I get offered.
Am I mad? would I regret doing this?

different basses do different things. My status shark sounds great on some stuff and the fender p better on others. If i play the P loads then i dislike the status for a while.
Switching from rosewood with big frets to maple with thin likewise takes getting used too.

What is funny however is my fingers 'memory' is totally different on both basses so when just making stuff up without really thinking the results will be totally different.

my guess would be something wrong with the jack socket in the amp.


also try switching the ground lift switch on the line out, but you've possibly done that.

take the bass and a DI to start. Maybe a wee 15/25w combo The less knickable stuff the better. Borrow/share stuff to start with
Surry aint very far fae london so you can always get the gear when you need it. If you think about it the first point in most bands will be sitting around writing random songs, you dinnae need a big rig for that!

Oh and investigate Irn-Bru for the hangovers!

5 years ago i bought my first bass, a status shark.
Then a wee vox t25 practice amp.
and an owen OD pedal.
SOmeone gave me an old laney pro-bass head.
2 years ago i got a second hand CIJ P
a year or so ag o i bought an old 2x12 tech cab
and 6 months ago i bought a H&K Q600 head.

I find it stagering on just these bits alone i have spent a hell of a lot of money!
Not sold nything bar the OD on here.
At somepoint the vox and laney may go but why would i want to sell the rest. The status doesnt get played much bu its worth far more to me than i could get selling it.

You seen the bit in Austin Powers when he gets unfrozen and goes to collect his stuff?
......

I remember seeing bloc party on later and getting very excited by the bassline to helicopter. At that stage it wasc doing something I hadn't thought you coul do on a bass.
So bloc party's bass player.

I bought a '57RI with Us pups blind without seeing it.
Having got it it sounds more like the p basses I hear on the radio than the US S1 Pbass they were trying to sell me in soundcontrol at the same time.
go listen to the track Jenna at www.myspace.com/retrochamps
its my old band. Thats the bass pluged straight into a computer via DI and Audio interface. How nice does that sound?

I saw the Jetking guitars and thought they looked sexy.
It is lush though. I wonder what it sounds like?

I know what you mean about cutting through lee4
I have a Status Shark 2 bass (the sister bass to your groove) amd although it sounds amazing and lush and organic theres nout like the bassy arragent cutting sound of a P

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='155031' date='Mar 11 2008, 12:35 AM']Or perhaps first to "squeal like a piggy" loses?[/quote]

i should have anticipated that one.
too easy for you BBC. try harder, you dont need to go for the obvious!

you seen the movie deliverance? the dualing banjos?
(in the context of this discussion)

would be a good way to sort out bass chat dissagrements

when whoever wins it gets it we want full 'posing with my guitar pics

Just read this whole mess of a topic and it was quite entertaining untill the end.
I think BBC and others were asking some insightful questions about how we (collectively) approach music.
And big up on Janek for bothering to respond. Even if i think the dental problems clouded his mood.

I just graduated art college. At that point I wanted to be good at art. So i put in the hours. 'Practiced', read, thought learned. And got my aim- a degree and a bunch of art i am very pleased with (www.lfletcher.co.uk)
If i took it any further i would have to put a load of time in. Hours and hours and give up lots of other stuff. But I would be good enough and worked hard enough to make money to support my art.
In the same way C. Ronaldo puts in loads of time on the practice pitch- to be the best. Or Hamilton spends ages in the gym.
Whether you like my art, or ronaldo or hamilton is irrelivent. It is about the artist doing what it takes to make it happen.

I took up bass, and taught myself, cos it was a break from art. something i could be crap at. Something that was fun to not have to try and learn. So I have fun and pick up stuff as I go. Currently Jamerson's playing is amazing to me. I dont understand it. But ill listen and have fun and work it out eventually.

I guess a lot of us are like me (and I guess BBC and a load of the others) that we play music cos its fun.
Janek plays for different reasons, its his livelyhood. We can learn from him but his newyorkjazz world is possibly diffent to our playingthelocalthenworkat8thenextmorning worlds.
remeber to translate between to two.

On another note i listend to some of janek's youtube stuff and the jazz band stuff I wasn't too fussed about but his wee practices were cool. the way he sings along. like he's learned how to make the tunes in his head come out of his guitar. Like macca could. I cant do that yet. When I can i will be happy.

shalome

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='153181' date='Mar 7 2008, 04:01 PM']If I don't win I'm going to leave this forum. You'll all soon miss my well informed, non-provactive, on-topic and intellectual input.[/quote]

whisht you, you've only just come back to enlighten us. You ken messiahs have a limit to the amount of times they can come back.

i like this forum. Im never going to win but it may happen.
Like the day I find someone selling a cheap neck. I keep checking but it's not happend yet.....
one day we will all be lucky.....


man im tired im talking crepe. 11 hours working does that to you

unfortunately iMac speakers dont like bass frequencies so i was disappointed to only hear the folkiness not the bass-ness!

or the nice one from SX for 60 bucks.....

no one has many oppinions do they?

I find its the higher end of the cymbals and guitars that mean i cant hear the bass as well. move away from the drummer. Gutiraists are dim. make sure their amps are pointing at them and not at you. Often if you turn them down the drummer deosnt feel he has to play as loud.
Or if the drummer has a monitor turn that down....

though it does seem a silly idea when you see things like this!
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14108"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14108[/url]

i often wonder. old basses are obviously worth something.
but if you split it up an old neck can be worth pretty much nout, same with a body, and surely it would be easier to pack the two seperatly anyway?
just bolt them together in blighty?

may not work if its a through neck though!