Linus27

I bought one of these as a recommendation on here that they work really well for fretless and it has really transformed my tone. It's super hard to describe but it's just sort of sprinkled magic dust over it, it just sounds so much better, tighter, more balanced and a nicer voice. Mine is on all the time.

I wanted to build a mini rig to go with my Gnome Ipro 280 and looked at a lot of different small cabs. I'd read reviews from owners that the Gnome cabs are quite boxy and break up easily. I'd personally not tried them but I was put off by these reviews. I did consider a MarkBass Traveler but this was still a little too big for what I was trying to achieve. In the end I went for the TC Electronic 208 and I could not be happier. I'd read a lot of good reviews on here and elsewhere and not actually one bad review anywhere. I have now done a few gigs with mine and it is simply brilliant and pairs so well with the 280w Gone. The footprint is tiny, they are super light to carry and are about £190 new so great value. Just to add, my other rig is a Barefaced Two10 with a MarkBass LM IV but I am so impressed with my Gnome that I am super tempted to get rid of the LM IV and pick up the 500w Gnome.

Mine has to be Bill Evans and Miles Davis. Here they are together performing an amazing version of, 'On Green Dolphin Street'. I'm also going to have to add Lisa Germano, the super talented violinist who played with John Mellencamp, Simple Minds and many other artists.

To be honest I really don't know as I haven't tried, I've only ever double tracked in a studio setting but I don't think you are far wrong with what you are thinking and splitting the channel.

An absolutely fantastic track. I'm not really a Prince fan but I love this track (Simple Minds also do an awesome cover) as well as the Purple Rain album, Girls and Boys, If I was Your Girlfriend and Sexy MF, all brilliant tracks.

I have thickened my sound up in the past by adding a smidge of Octave and a smidge of drive. It doesn't need much, otherwise it sounds affected but just a bit of each will thicken the sound. Its also a very common recording technique to double track the bass and leave one clean and the second with a bit of drive to make a lovely warm, thick tone. I was shown this back in the late 90's by Mark Wallis who recorded It Bites, Travis, U2, Primitives albums etc. and have recorded this way ever since. Sting also did it in the Police but he doubled up with an electric bass and a double bass. More recently, I recorded with a fretless Precision with flats and then double tracked with a fretless Jazz with rounds. Created a nice kind of cello sound. So a smidge of Octave and a smidge of drive will add a nice thickness to your tone.

Any fretless bass that has a lined fretboard Rickenbacker's Single Cut Basses Danelectro Longhorn Fan Fretted Basses Anything pointy like Jackson's, Hamer etc.

Just don't get a fretless, it's so much more prone and noticeable on a fretless. My fretless Fender Precision and Stingray both have it but my fretless Jazz and maple neck Precision don't. Interesting that the two necks that don't were both custom made necks by Jon Shuker. A fretless Ibanez Musician that I'm borrowing also doesn't.

Something I got send a while back which does have some truth about it. "In 100 years, say 2124, we will all be buried with our relatives and friends. Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, or preferably in the hands of an unknown collector. Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father? After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories. If we paused one day to analyze these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was. If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people. Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy. And we waste it day after day with greed, greed and intolerance."

We played a special gig in Camden last year. Very much out of our area and not something we would normally do but our singer worked in London, he booked a back room in a pub, put on a few other acts and made a special night of it as a lot of his work colleagues said they are interested in the band and would love to come and see him play. Guess how many turned up? Just 1. Sadly, as we all get older, people get other commitments like jobs, mortgages, holidays, kids etc. so everyone has less time, money or energy or even interest to leave the house.

Wow, absolutely stunning and so very special. I didn't even know that Stingray's came with binding either but it certainly adds to the look. Do you run it with flats or rounds?

With Blur it's pretty much most songs. I don't think Damon Albarn can hold a tune and the music sounds like a 6th form student band. Alex James is a great bassist though. As for the rest then yes, you are right about those songs but I have heard other songs by all of those groups/artist and was equally unimpressed.

Meatloaf. Blur Royal Blood The Kaiser Chiefs The White Stripes Artic Monkey The Strokes

Nickleback I get but Keane????

I see you bought @obbm one. Dave's a great guy and you'll get an awesome little head that will have been well looked after. Enjoy and let us know how you get on.

I'm using a Warwick Gnome through a TC Electronic BC208 with my Ibanez EUB and it sounds great.

Not a huge Incognito fan but I do like a handful of track. This is definitely one of them and that Jazz bass tone is phenomenal.

What sort of time period are we talking about and what sort of genre? Was it a song in the charts or a Jazz record etc.?

Red Red Wine by UB40.

Sadly it's the world we live in. There are some wonderful, amazing human beings out there but there are equally some complete and utter tool's with toilet paper for brains. They walk among us and we sadly come in contact with them now and again.

I really like those guys, great music.

Really sorry to read this Ray and Lewis. As others have said, Basschat is the best place to sell.

I just remembered that whilst mixing an album back around 1999, I went to make coffee in the kitchen and The Corrs were in there making drinks. I think they were in the studio doing a song for a Pepsi advert. Also, when we then went to master the album at Metropolis Studios, OMD were in the next studio along.

That must have been awesome, were you All Shook Up about it 🤣