nige1968

Root notes are going to be your bread’n’spread for jam nights (hey, get me with the mixed metaphor), but you can probably help flag the changes to keep folk together. So little chromatic runs up/down and ending phrases on the fourth or fifth of the next root (whichever sounds righter).

To go beyond, and apologies if this is stuff you’ve been doing since childhood: learn to harmonise the major scale, and maybe the modes too. Both much easier than they sound and can help you find new places to go.

21 hours ago, Rib13Bass said:

Evertime you go Steve Harris and point the bass neck at the crowd, your leg will knock it out of tune

No good for metal, then? That's a first for BC, I think.

On 30/05/2023 at 18:57, Guest said:

When I first heard this on the radio I thought the chorus was “How’s about a date?”

 

 

Did nobody else hear “Ars* About Face”? One of my dad’s catchphrases so maybe just me, then.

FMII rather than FMIC?

4 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

No idea nige, it’s not correct for a 65 and it’s one I’ve never seen on anything ever before, very strange 

No me neither, but even if they did you'd think they'd get the company name right.

I claim no expertise but I'm not sure there ever was a 'Fender Musical Instruments Inc'.

The rest of it looks OK for a Fender reissue but that red tint to the board doesn't look like the original dark rosewood, even allowing for the rest having been refinished.

On 10/01/2024 at 16:47, Reggaebass said:

Anyone ever seen a logo like this on a 65 L serial number Jazz , I’ve never seen it before 

Just to join the pile-on: shouldn't that be Corp rather than Inc?

To answer a completely different question, it’s really about the type of internals and the tuning. Tips:

FWIW, our cajonanisto plays a Schlagwerk which sounds OK for a fish box.

I found the ring got scratched so I moved it to my right hand, where it has remained happily ever since. Think I read somewhere that wedding rings for men are a fairly recent innovation so you could find bass-playing a just-plausible excuse to save a few bob.

Ick.

52 minutes ago, Rayman said:

How does the Ohm thing work?

 

Exactly what to choose will depend on the kind of places you're playing, but here's an idiot's guide (ie written by an idiot -- apologies for any egg-sucking unwittingly foisted on any elderly relative)

First, amps

These are classified by the power stage output. Class A and AB are your traditional ones with massive heavy transformers (and allegedly more of a subjective quality known to bass players as 'heft'). Class D amps are more recent, often featherweight amps with a decent output for the size. These seem to be taking over the 'everyday' market.

The power of an amp is usually expressed as, for example, 500w at 4ohms/300w at 8ohms. That would mean the amp delivers 300w to an 8ohm speaker, or 500w to a 4ohm speaker.

Ohms refers to electrical resistance (aka impedance). In general, the higher a speaker's resistance, the more electrical power is needed to move the cone.

If the amp above has two outputs you can connect two speakers in parallel; in this case, two 8ohm speakers give 4ohms total resistance (thought I knew why but it turns out I don't). What you can't do is connect two 4ohm speakers to this amp -- that would give you a 2ohm total resistance, drawing twice the current the manufacturer has specced for, and things would likely start melting and burning.

So to cabs

Amp power isn't the same thing as loudness. While more power will push a speaker harder, much depends on the efficiency of said speaker, and how many of them you have. Fortunately, speakers can be made much lighter by things like clever cab design or lightweight (neodymium) magnets. Markbass, Barefaced, Vanderkley and Bergantino all have a good rep in making lightweight cabs; GRBass makes them from carbon fibre. Alas, lightweight does not equal cheap.

If you run a low-powered amp into a high-impedance speaker, you risk overheating the amp (bad).  Equally, running a high-powered amp turned up full into a lower-rated speaker will create unwanted distortion and risks blowing the speaker. Therefore, you ideally want a speaker set matched to your amp's power output, or slightly less, so that there's enough power available to create a clean sound at the desired volume.

If you're still around, here's the tl;dr: Unless you're playing the Albert Hall, get yourself a class D head and a lightweight 1x12 8 ohm. Enjoy the continued feeling of being able to stand up straight without it hurting. Hope it helps; otherwise someone who actually knows what they're on about will no doubt be along soon.

Wow. Even a cynic like me can still find something to be disappointed by here.

I'm not sure the real thing would ever have fitted into that box. Did you try soaking the plastic overnight, in case it expands into a functioning XR18?

https://harleybenton.com/electric-guitars/

59 minutes ago, Jason Karloff said:

What i always find is when I'm trying to figure out a tricky section, is i play and fail 20/30 odd times. Put down the instrument and sleep/forget it. 

 

Over the course of the nights sleep or day of not playing, the pathways if that's the right word get rewired. 

I pick up the bass and i can do it. 

How all that happens i have no idea. 

Maybe i just need a good nights kip hahha

Fascinating organ, the brain. Conscious processing is single-core (serial) but unconscious processing, which is thought to include rewiring during sleep, is multi-core (parallel). Too much conscious processing is great for filling your head with random loose ends (experiences) but it's only when your mind is elsewhere that the clever stuff happens. YMMV of course. No slight intended to octopuses, who do things way differently but still learn to do crazy stuff.

This one is deceptively simple. Even Flea has admitted to finding it difficult to play at the correct speed, to Kiedis's great surprise.

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Love the RevStars. Hoping for a bass version one day.

23 hours ago, mojobass said:

No love for this?

Loads of love, of the deepest, purest and sexiest kind. Just not much money.

Quite fancy one of these, but fear I'd look like mutton dressed as lamb.

27 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

New Model Dads Army

Or even Ageing Model Army

Pop Will Eat Himself

Sorry, we've had that one already. OK, The Beach Blokes.

Grand-père Ubu

Daddi Minogue

Dad Can Dance

(edit: this is the stop posting without reading thread, isn't it? Soz Bloney)

Lady Dada

10 hours ago, Doctor J said:

Gary Human

Manor Threat

Stiff Little Mingers

Manned Heat

or Canned Meat