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[quote name='lowdown' post='21448' date='Jun 21 2007, 04:26 PM']Thought about just using Ableton live with a laptop....??? alot easier .... and cheaper...! Worth thinking about.[/quote] Tell me more please (like I need an excuse for another PC). Will the plugins will compare to the Nord/EMU for quality?

I've been trying to put together a disco function band but come up against a wall of opportunists when it came to finding a keyboard player. Found one decent Aussie bloke who had fantastic kit, was prepared to put in the rehearsal time and then he decided he wanted to go travelling... ...so I've decided that I might as well transpose all of the brass, sample and strings parts into MIDI and sequence them to run live. It gives me more control over the sound of the band and hopefully will keep the other musicians tighter also. At the moment I have a Yamaha CS6R sound module mainly for synth and arp sounds. I plan to get a couple of other modules to supply good rhodes/wurlitzer sounds and strings/brass patches. As far as Rhodes is concerned, there seems little out there to top the Nord Electro 2. Have to say that when I heard one being played for the first time, it made me go all weak kneed and gooey inside. Stunning piece of kit! As far as strings/brass patches go I was looking at the E-Mu Virtuoso 2000. Does anyone already have this module? Are there better modules out there? I'd like strings patches that can do whirling build ups ala Brothers Johnson.

All the important ppl are here though Welcome back artisan!

wikkid stuff!

Are there significant differences between the software packages on Mac and PC?

[quote name='obbm' post='21194' date='Jun 21 2007, 07:57 AM']plus some in London expressed an interest.[/quote] [quote name='obbm' post='11367' date='Jun 3 2007, 12:37 PM']Perhaps you London types should hold your own Bash.[/quote] Come on then, are us "London types" invited or not? If there's parking I can bring Urb with me.

Just thought we could start by seeing what kind of software are people using.

[quote name='Rumble' post='21030' date='Jun 20 2007, 09:01 PM']If you had the choice between a P bass [u]OR [/u] a jazz for playing covers (70' to present day), which would it be and why? (I'm thinking Lakland DJ or Bob Glaud) A[/quote] Jazz - more versatile for covers.

You can do everything that has been suggested so far but it all comes down to attitude at the end of the day. If your playing doesn't have emotional content then it will suck. Sit down with your bass sometime and play whatever comes into your head that describes how you feel about anything that gives you strong emotion. Play with total conviction. Listen to your playing and hear how your attack, volume and note choice all vary with your feel. Listen to how certain intervals have a certain emotional flavour - the anger of a dominant 5th compared to the sadness of a minor 3rd. Then play a diminished 5th to hear how the dissonance makes you feel unsettled. When you get used to that, then explore how the transition of one interval into another can have an emotional effect by the tension it creates as it moves towards a resolution. Then you can explore melodies and see how tension is created by the notes in the melody line in comparison to the chord/key being played underneath. Just keep doing that lots but keep exploring and pushing the boundaries.

OK, well we can test setting up a subforum in this thread just to gauge the level of interest. I know G-77 has a Roland G-77 midi bass.

I'm going, along with Urb and Rich [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1930"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1930[/url] Sorry, i didn't see this thread before.

Thats a couple of tube stops from where I work so I should be able to make it.

Any more photos? Please?

[quote name='Muppet' post='20050' date='Jun 19 2007, 09:57 AM']Steve- do you use it like a monitor i.e. facing you, or behind you as in the conventional sense?[/quote] Usually behind me if the stage is deep enough, otherwise to one side preferably angled towards the drummer.

[quote name='AdamWoodBass' post='19991' date='Jun 19 2007, 12:36 AM']I was also looking at Sandberg's rather tastey range of j basses, I quite like the idea of the MM/J config on a 5 string. Plus everytime I've played a Sandberg I've really liked it.[/quote] Have a chat to Peter Brown at Synergy Distribution - you may be pleasantly surprised at how accommodating Sandberg can be to requests for tweaks. They're superb value basses as well.

With 17 people on stage (including a percussionist) it was usually a case of sticking the amp where it fitted. However, having an angled 380w wedge combo made a huge difference to hearing myself compared to the 600w or so 2x 2x10 set up I had before. I swear with the wedge it sounded like the mids and highs were reflected off low ceilings when I listened at the back of some venues! Great stuff! I also always got lots of boom when I placed the amp in a corner which muddied things up so I tried to elevate the amp when I could and give it some space. Really didn't like playing any venues that ran a PA with huge subs, like at the Dome, Tufnell Park. I ended up unable to hear myself because the lows were out of phase with my amp. Turning up didn't help!

[quote name='Alpha-Dave' post='10993' date='Jun 2 2007, 12:22 PM']CrazyKiwi: I notice that Bassworld was a sponsor last year, are we going to be Basschat this year?[/quote] It would be nice to support this event, it will be up to Ped to decide though. Marketing and promotion is his thing. [quote name='Alun' post='10988' date='Jun 2 2007, 12:11 PM']And CK - have you heard Doky's new album Nomad Diaries? Well worth a listen.[/quote] Yes I've heard a few tracks off it and even had the pleasure of a chinwag recently with him too

OK, there's a bit of an update. Bassjamm has decided, for his own reasons, not to take up the mods post. So taking over from him will be Acidbass as he was next favoured.

Bad timing for me Jamie I'm afraid. I've got a presentation to give to representatives from all 33 London Boroughs at a launch the following day and I'll need a good nights sleep.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='19483' date='Jun 18 2007, 09:52 AM']If weight was no problem, a Mesa Boogie Buster 200 combo would worth some attention, they do pop up on Ebay occasionally. Alternatively, anything with all valve construction (eg. Trace Elliot Twin/V4 combo?) would do the job also.[/quote] I should qualify what I'm saying by stating that I own two preEB Musicman basses and I own both valve and solid state amps.

If weight was no problem, a Mesa Boogie Buster 200 combo would worth some attention, they do pop up on Ebay occasionally. Alternatively, anything with all valve construction (eg. Trace Elliot Twin/V4 combo?) would do the job also.

Tinman, I've moved the topic to Off Topic but I'm not aware of any settings that might prevent someone from posting.

Hi nick welcome to the forums

I bought a Warwick Rockbass Streamer Basic from Thumbo's shop in Plymouth on impulse in the days before I had a stingray. It made more than a reasonable account of itself in a side by side comparison with the authentic thing. The only downside was that the bass lacked a bit of warmth - even after I installed an EMG BTC preamp. Possibly I should have put an Aguilar or similar instead but the EMG meant I didn't have to drill the bass.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='18870' date='Jun 16 2007, 05:30 PM']I'm convinced that the "clack" is partly a function of the phenolic fretboards that inevitably seem to accompany graphite necks. Sounds like the glued-in Zon echoes some of the traits of the neck-through Vigier 10/90 necks.[/quote] I'd agree and this has been my experience. There's a lot to be said for a soft wood as a fingerboard on a graphite for taming the high end. Steve Lawson had grenadillo fingerbaords fitted to both his modulus basses. [quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='18870' date='Jun 16 2007, 05:30 PM']As an adjunct to the query about graphite/structurally reinforced necks, apparently Roger Glover once took a Vigier Excess, rested it across two cabs (supporting the base of the neck and the volute area) and STOOD ON IT to prove its resilience to journalist types... Didn't someone once de-string a Steinberger and play Baseball with it, then string it up and play it (again to demonstrate its strength)? (Don't try this at home, kids!)[/quote] I recall someone posting a vid of the same being done to a Warwick. In Christchurch, NZ my bass tutor told the story about the Steinberger rep having one of the first XL2's ever made and he would demonstrate its resiliance by literally tossing it into a corner of the room. Then he'd pick it back up and it wouldn't even be out of tune. However eventually he threw it one time too many and the neck snapped at the 12th fret. Effectively a $2500 bass (back then in 1983 money) which had been reduced effectively to spare parts. How did my teacher know this? He bought the bass and had the neck glued back together with adhesive used on composite boats. I had a go on it and it still had its characteristic steinberger sound but there was no way of knowing how long the neck was going to last.