neepheid

3 minutes ago, chris_b said:

 

If this bass feels right, sounds right and you want to pick it up and play it, why would there be another bass?

How long have you been here?

13 minutes ago, LSS said:

I noticed that if I touch the poles of the top/neck side split pickup it buzzes, more so when my finger not also grounding onto a string
Bottom/bridge side split pickup does not
Any ideas, please?
I dont think my wiring is wrong (both were already wired together when I got them), and I am used to soldering
I seem to remember seeing that this meant that poles were not grounded?
But not sure it makes sense why one split is OK, other not

Correct.  Just been through this rigmarole with a bass with chrome covers on the pickups - they would buzz every time I touch the covers.  Had to ground the covers.  No idea why one side of your pickup is OK, so belt and braces, do both sides.  I would use shielding copper foil (or slug tape) to put a strip across the bottom of the pole pieces, then make sure that's grounded.  That should make the buzz, buzz off

Might as well chance my arm while I'm here - anyone got a spare bed I could borrow for the night before?

Changed my mind... PSYCHE!

Yes, I will be there, would be bloody rude of me not to seeing as it appears to have been organised around my calendar and availablity

The gear (or the answer to the question "how much bass gear can you fit into a 2011 Mitsubishi Colt?")...

G&L CLF L-1000

Yamaha BB1200

Sire D5

Sire Z7

Greco LGB-700

Reverend Triad

Epiphone Les Paul (not so) Standard

Epiphone Thunderbird '64

Squier Jaguar H (with Ibanez CAP double humbucker from ATK200/800 etc)

Gear4Music rat bass (with Lace Aluma-P)

AND, if it ever materialises...

The results of my £150, all new, "giggable" bass challenge - the "ratlet" as I have christened it.

Debating whether to take the Markbass combo, or the TC Electronic BH250 and the Markbass NY 121 cab, for some toneprint shenanigans if nothing else... ach, why not both?

1 minute ago, dmccombe7 said:

We played that one before you came in OR we'll be doing that in set 4. 

Dave

 

That does actually happen!

Actually, I thought of a better line - "the only requests I want to hear are "ONE MORE CHOON!""

Yup, crack on.  Path of least resistance and all that.  You don't need to worry about phase etc - the two parts of a P bass pickup are wired in series (as in sequentially) and it's a single pickup bass so there's no other pickup to fight with.  So just install the pickup the way it wants to be installed, take the two wires and wire it to the volume pot as before (black > earth/ground, white > hot).

Requests?  Aye, if we've got it, you can have it, we're not an effing jukebox!

An example of every long scale, 4 string, 3 pickup bass ever made.

Weird one last night with Nine Lives at the Balaclava in Fraserburgh.  When we went in, the place was reasonably busy.  Started off OK, but then it went through waves of being busy then dead, then busy again, like groups of people were coming in for a couple of drinks then bogging off, but repeatedly.  Very strange!  Also a drunk guy who was shouting very loud "encouragement" at us, including one time when he yelled out "YEAH, BABY!" which sounded like he was possessed by Austin Powers which nearly had me corpsing.  At the end we were playing to one table of folks who came in super late, like 2 songs before the end.  They were enthusiastic, so we played a couple of extra songs for them, and even had one of them up with us for a sing song (because you can have fun like that when it's quiet).

On the plus side, we added three new songs to the setlist and they all went pretty well, both in the playing and in the audience reaction, so that's good.

As for gear, it was the double, triple threat of the Reverend Triad followed by the Greco LGB-700 into the usual Markbass toan cubes.  Sorry, shoe fetishists, no footwear pic, but it was a pair of slip on Vans in a red/white gingham pattern.

1 minute ago, ahpook said:

Well, this bloke clearly doesn't know what he's doing.  His bass is the wrong way round and everything!

Exactly - who cares if a bassist uses a capo?

If that group of theoretical people is greater than zero, then ask how many of those people's opinions matter?

Are we at zero yet?  If not, then ask yourself why these opinions matter to you.

13 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

Has anyone ditched pedals entirely.

You're asking this in this thread?

Just play it however you want.

9 minutes ago, Sean said:

After longer than I can remember searching for something other than the two semi-active originals bands I've been in for ages, I've got an audition in a couple of weeks. 5 cover songs, nailed them already and will continue to embed them every day until I go.

 

"Just bring a bass, you won't need backline, the sound guy will sort everything for you."

 

It's OK to take a DI + comp, right?

 

 

Absolutely! You'll be prepared if the promised sonic nirvana doesn't materialise, but you don't have to use it...

Obviously it's 3 pickup Greco LP shaped basses, innit?

The vast majority of pictures here are of the top of the pedalboard (understandably), but I recently did some work under the hood - changed my PSU to a Cioks Sol and made a power pass through to a side mounted power socket.

3 minutes ago, Bassman68 said:

Done

But what are you trying to achieve?
There seem to be female Bassists all over the socials…

Kinga Glyk, Mohini Dey, Cici von Strangelove, Rhonda Smith, Esperanza Spalding, Daisy Pepper, Ida Nielson….Just off the top of my head, all seem to be doing very well for themselves?
I don’t think male dominance has held them back in the industry?
Talent is talent as far as I can see?

Mate, those bright lights you mentioned aside, it's a sausage fest out there.

I use electronic trickery - specifically a cheapo Hotone Harmony pitch shifter.  It's a little warbly (especially if you go further down than -1 semitone), but it tracks well and I find it perfectly acceptable for live work.  Wouldn't record with it.

Back in business tomorrow night with Nine Lives, at the Balaclava in Fraserburgh...

I've only ordered computer bits from them but had no issues.

Oh wow, I got really confused for a min there, thinking "I'm sure I already did this" - finally figured it out - the thread's duplicated in Bass Guitars

Still waiting

Week 15 now, allegedly (second week of April).  I dunno what's going on - is it the supplier/manufacturer giving Bax the runaround, or is it just Bax giving me the runaround?  Trouble is, I've got my heart set on this exact bass, I've bought parts specifically with this bass in mind.  But I'm starting to get the heebie jeebies that I'm getting mucked around here and am starting to look around for something else.  But finding a reverse P, pickguardless P bass is going to be tough at the kind of price I need for my £150 challenge to be viable.  They have appeared occasionally on the second hand market (on FB marketplace a couple of times) so honestly I'm thinking the next time I see one in the wild I'm going to try to snag it, then cancel my order with Bax.

Well, in case you didn't see it, I'm back in business.  A protracted hair pulling session later, I now have a bass which can be made silent with the volume knobs.

I'm guessing this belongs in here then... Greco LGB-700

Still got the Epi LP, but it's had a black and gold makeover (and a return to passive world with a pair of DiMarzio X2N-B pickups with series/parallel push/push pots on the passive tones)...

Done