bassbloke

Watching Nova Twins and I have serious 80s Japanese bass guitar and pedal board envy.

That's the exact issue. Really noticeable on the E even though I play with a reasonably light touch.

Hi, Has anyone replaced the stock individual saddles with alternatives or fitted a single piece bridge to their ng-3 or combustion? It's the only issue I have with an otherwise amazing instrument.

https://www.thetubestore.com/12ax7-tube-reviews?12ax7-tube-reviews=undefined&goto=ts12ax7 I stuck some Tung Sols in my GK MB Fusion 500. I definitely notice more gain and midrange.

Future Nostalgia. Actually, like most modern pop artists, she has a couple of albums and endless remixes.

The album is full of good bass lines. I had a lot of fun playing along.

The seller is in Chesterfield, which has a very striking cathedral.

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I bid up to £200. Someone paid £286. Reasonably good deal, nothing amazing

Guitar Center are renowned for shockingly badly set up instruments. I've seen US fenders rendered unplayable because of the action. On the flipside, a lot of bass players are just brutes. We did one gig where opening band bassist begged for a quick go on my customised jazz. He absolutely butchered the poor thing

Get an active jazz bass. Bridge pickup covers some of the stingray sound, neck pickup covers p bass. No band is going to take issue with a stingray and jazz as your tools of the trade

I bought a Dingwall NG3-5 'unseen' last year on the basis that I'd tried one out when buying a second hand pedal, I had won an outstanding employee award, needed to spend the money in a shop willing to accept BACS/SWIFT transfer and Andertons were still online only due to Covid. Apart from, last 'new' bass I bought was in 2003. A US Deluxe jazz 5 I picked up for silly money in the States - USD900, which due to Exchange rate and tax rebate worked out less than £600 Everything else has been second hand from Basschat, Ebay, or FB Marketplace

Depends on the music style, song, tuning and the instrument to an extent. Until I bought my Dingwall, D standard was the lowest tuning I was comfortable without my bass sounding rubbish. I was in a prog metal band that write in either D standard or Drop C and was reasonably happy playing my parts of a standard tuned 5. A lot of 70s pop and rock songs are in Eb and they're simple enough that again you can play on a standard tuned 5. I think Eb is def my fave tuning though.

A savvy artist would ensure their songs are associated with both.

A huge part of the sound of an 8 or 12 string bass is the natural chorus effect produced by the octave pairs. It's a fantastic creative tool. I haven't used mine live or recorded with it, but I've reworked a number of my bass parts for the day I might. I approach bass parts completely differently with more open strings, ringing notes, muting, etc... Also, you can play Big Bottom on one.

Now I obviously don't know the context and I am unlikely to attend such an event, but if someone asked me list the top five artists I'd expect to hear at a Donald Trump campaign rally, it probably wouldn't include The Village People.

You mock, but Joey DeMaio of Manowar plays something not too dissimilar. Sounds shite mind you.