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    I bought this speaker cabinet about six years ago before lockdown and have never gigged with it. The band I bought it for decided to call it a day so it has been sitting idle in the spare room since then. I'm playing double bass now and don't have need of a beast like this! It's in perfect condition and comes with a cover. It seems to be unavailable at the moment despite, I think, being a really versatile addition to a bass rig. It's highly portable an has an incredibly deep sound for it's size. Collection only please from West Oxfordshire, or I will be happy to drive 30 miles to deliver it or hand it over for a tenner. Spec is as follows: TC Electronic RS112 Bass Extension Cabinet Features: Power handling: 200 watts Enclosure: 18mm plywood side panels, 18mm rounded carved hardwood corners Surface treatment: "Anti-skid" dual component surface Porting: Rear porting Woofer: Eminence custom 12" Tweeter: Eminence 33mm voicecoil, titanium diaphragm Tweeter adjustment: L-pad (off - 0dB) Connectors: 2 x Speakon (input or link) Handle: Top placed Impedance: 8 ohms (fits in TC 3-cabinet building block system) Here's a link to a YouTube description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN-d6peDohI
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    Hi Everyone, thank you very much for the advice here - I'll certainly follow it up. I'll let you know what I end up with. Cheers, Paul
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    I have a Squier Precision Bass - I think it's a Classic Vibe 50s bass (tele bass) with the early single coil pick up. I use it as a back up bass or when I'm booked for an outdoor gig and I'm not sure of the conditions - you know what I mean. I love it, it's a joy to play, but the pick up just seems to lack something and I'd like to try an alternative. Seymour Duncan do four different types but I can't decide which one to try. Looking at the specs, I think the Hot Single Coil P-Bass might be the one to go for - has anyone got experience of these? Opinions and advice welcomed! Paul
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    I'm selling my TC Electronics RS212 Cabinet with cover. These days I play mainly double bass so I want to convert some assets into an acoustic bass rig. It is in perfect working condition. This is a superb speaker, it has a powerful warm sound and can be very loud. I used it for regular (monthly) gigging for about four years, hence the moderate wear and tear. It has never been thrashed - my preferred sound is always to have plenty of headroom. The cover is an original TC Electronics one. For sale at £360. Collection from West Oxfordshire, or I can meet up somewhere up to 20 miles.
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    I'm selling my Fender USA Fretless (original) Precision Bass. The serial number is S866248 which I believe would date it at 1978, but the date on the end of the neck is 01-08-1983, so I imagine that the neck was made earlier and the bass finally put together on 8th January 1983. I have owned it since 2015 and soon after I purchased it I had the neck re-shot at The Bass Gallery - it now has a gorgeous low action with no 'fretless' pitting. The neck is absolutely straight. It weighs 10lbs (4.5Kg). I changed the black pickguard for a tortoiseshell one made by WD Music with a new Fender Vintage Style Wiring Kit, but the original, with the original serial number, is included in the sale. On the original pickguard, one of the pots has been replaced at some point. I also changed the pick-up for a Fender Custom Shop one. Once again the original pick-up is included in the sale. This guitar has a deep warm tone with a pleasant treble overtone and plays like a dream. The original pick-up is extremely deep and bassy. Being nearly forty years old, it has some wear and tear which is evident in the photos. It has a black Fender case which has one broken catch but is otherwise fully functional. I would like £1600 for it, and would prefer pick up only please from West Oxfordshire - I think it's best for the purchaser to see the guitar before making a final commitment.
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    We dress up, play 50s and 60s rock and roll with singalong 60s pop songs added in. We shamelessly work to get the audience singing and dancing. I get my kicks from seeing everyone having a good time. Seeing everyone waving their arms in the air and singing themselves hoarse to 'Daydream Believer' is my idea of performing heaven these days!
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    I joined my current band three years ago, and before that I'd never done backing vocals. I had to go away and learn it, there was no easy way round it. One of my best achievements with this regard is to sing unison vocals to 'I Saw Her Standing There' with the lead singer, although I'm not doing the 'return to the root between notes' bit! Now I do a lot of singing, including harmonies and extensive BVs. It gets better and there's no alternative to practice. One of the hardest songs, I find, is singing the 'sha la la' bit of Brown Eye Girl while playing the bassline, heaven knows why - I manage it, but it's touch and go. There's a weird clash of rhythms between the bass line and the vocals. These days I love singing and playing, and yes, I do simplify the basslines to make the vocals work. I think that's the right thing to do; if you fret the right notes, even fewer of them, it'll sound OK, but if you sing out of tune it's pretty obvious! The view we take in our band is that, as a four piece, if we all sing we have eight instruments to our name and that's creditable.
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    [quote name='mikel' timestamp='1476601542' post='3155454'] The Police, one of the best live bands I have ever seen. Saw them at the old Mayfair in Newcastle, not long after the first album came out, they were pretty much un known. Blew me away. No modern technology, no in ear monitors, no backing tracks. Just three good musicians with great songs playing off one another. Great harmonies, lots of jamming.and light and shade. Rekindled my love of music and inspired me to take up the bass. [/quote] I was at that gig - it was amazing.
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    I visited a friend in France a couple of years ago and he arranged for me to join him in a gig. I didn't have a bass so he lent me this, an early 60s Eko. I suppose it's not necessarily a cheap bass any more. It had a finish rather like an accordion, and it had a dull thumping tone that was curiously satisfying.[attachment=220949:IMG_20140619_125144769.jpg]
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    We ask for a minimum of £250. If we're playing in a pub for the first time we'll accept £220 on the basis that it's £250 for subsequent gigs. We've found that if we hold out for this amount we'll get it so I'm sure lots of bands are getting that amount. This is in Oxfordshire.
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    There's something about the sound of bass - how it brings warmth and depth to the music - it's the best seat in the band. I'm not much of an 'at home' player - I've always gigged and actually done very little recording in my life. I always make good progress with my playing when I'm learning new songs with a band, and I don't seem to have the motivation to do it on my own at home without that purpose. I quite envy those who will just get a bass out at home and play along with stuff. For me, gigging is everything. The chance that the band will get in the zone - when the drummer and I look at each other and we know that we're really flying - those sublime moments are worth all the hassle of lugging the gear out, setting up, hauling it all back out to the car afterwards in the rain, creeping in at 1.45 am so you don't wake the wife... I hope your gig goes well in July - and may you get the bug for it!
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    I switch between fingerstyle and pick. I play about 75% fingerstyle. I also use my thumb for one Beach Boys song. I like the sound of both, but I like the added percussive effect of the pick in some songs. I sing a lot of backing vocals, and sometimes the pick helps when the syncopation of the vocals is different to what I'm playing on the bass. I don't know why this is, but it works for me. For instance, I can sing and play 'I Saw Her Standing There' with a pick, but not fingerstyle. My maxim is to make the sound fit the song - that's our job, not to show how flash we can be. For most of the time we're playing well within our actual ability and that's fine if it supports the music.
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    I'm really sorry i didn't make it this time - I'd had a busy few days and needed to catch up on the domestic front. Keep me in on arrangements though.
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    Hi LD, well I live between Oxford and Witney (this is becoming an old Joke!). Welcome to BC!
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    Well done Steve. I'm on the same path as you. I took my Grade 5 a year ago, and then my Grade 5 Theory in June, and they were fantastic milestones for me. I'm 60 now and want to achieve Grade 8 before I'm 65. There's no reason why I shouldn't do it, but the gap between Grade 5 and 6 seems huge! Right now I'm struggling with playing fast(ish) steady quavers. I think the biggest challenge by far is using the bow. My wife is learning the violin and was chatting with her teacher about the fact that although most people are right handed, with string instruments all the dexterity is required in the left hand. Oh no, said her teacher, definitely not - EVERYTHING is in the bowing! I'm left handed anyway but have always played stringed instruments right handed, so no wonder I'm struggling at the moment. Keep up the good work, and the posts - it's encouraging to hear from others out there taking the same journey.
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    Just bought a TC Electronic combo off Kev. Great communication - very friendly, and the combo is great. Many thanks Kev; in the true spirit of Basschat! Paul
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    There you are my friend - this is a witty and friendly place.
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    Hello also from just outside Oxford. Welcome to Basschat.
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    Done
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    Nothing much going on last night, so I took a photo of my basses on the settee - sorry if it's a bit arty farty but it was fun to do! [attachment=210962:basses reduced.jpg]
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    I recently wondered whether I should retire my main instrument, my 76 Precision to preserve it, and buy a replacement gigging one. But then I wondered who I was doing it for (the kids' inheritance?). It's valuable, yes, and beautiful, yes, but it's real beauty is as a functioning musical instrument - and boy I love the way it sounds! I look after it well, take it out of the case after everything else is set up, put it away straight away after the encore (hopefully there's an encore). We're both getting a little tatty, but we've been gigging together for 35 years now - that bass and me. I've no intention of giving up the music and the P is going to keep going to the end of the road alongside me. it's never actually spoken to me because I'm not completely mad yet, but if it could, I'm sure it would want to be there with me on stage. By the way, if it does speak to me, I may keep quiet about it!
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    I've always called myself a musical tart too. As an amateur for 45 odd years I've played in rock bands, barn dance bands, a soul band, folk bands, a jazz band and my current band is a rock and roll band. I was in the soul band for eighteen years and the barn dance band for over twenty years (that was by far the most lucrative). For these two I used a Jazz bass, and a Precision for all the others - that's all I've felt I needed. I'm sixty, still going strong and intend to keep going as long as any band will have me!
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    It's such a relief to read some of this about skilled bass players just not doing solos. I'll feel a lot better, I think, just deciding that I'm going to stick to the song's bass part, and if a solo is expected, I just play that with a few embellishments, as Happy Jack writes. I also take on board the advice about humming or whistling a tune and then practising playing it. Cheers folks - it's great to be able to communicate with other bass players about this stuff.
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    Hi All, Thank you very much for the helpful advice. I love the term 'dusty end of the plank'! I think you're right about lots of practice, learning the melody, and practising with the band. I realise that I do all the work on my solos on my own, so when I get with others, I just become all too aware of, and phased by the audience. The band is an audience - a discriminating one, so if I work with them it may help. I'll keep trying, and keep it simple. I suspect that, like all musical skills, I'll improve at it indefinably and become more comfortable with it.
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    Hi All, I play electric bass in a rock and roll band, but I also play double bass. I'm having classical lessons (got to Grade 5) and I'm doing OK. I get together with a bunch of friends locally to play jazz standards. We're all amateurs, but we put on a decent, if quirky show two or three times a year - 'jazz' uke, double bass, drums, some violin and three lady singers who do great harmonies - one is my other half. It's good fun. Here's my dilemma: I'm good at playing along and accompanying songs, I could do it interminably, but inevitably I end up with some solos through the night. I always seem to mess them up - I just freeze. I've worked them out beforehand, practised at home, but I can't seem to free my mind up when I'm exposed with making tunes rather than being an accompanist. In my 45 years as an electric bass player, I've never really soloed - perhaps I'm one of life's accompanists, and pretty happy in that role but given my experience I feel I should be able to do better. What's the secret of playing a simple but effective solo - any advice welcome?
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