MichaelDean

Ah, sorry. Didn't notice the JJ/JH difference 🥲

I'm just about young enough that Spongebob Square Pants was a thing for my immediate peers. And every now and again, I have a listen to the movie soundtrack. It's got a good selection of different artists on it! Motorhead even did a song. I'm feeling good today, so I stuck it on, on my walk into work.

3 hours ago, glassmoon said:

Oh wow @MichaelDean: that is perfect!!!!!  Almost the same bass.  Man, what a find - thank you so, so much!!!!!

No worries dude! I just googled it to see what I could find!

A local and new-ish luthier might do it for you for less than £300, but it is a significant piece of work to make a neck to fit a potentially oddly shaped neck pocket in a less common scale length. The price of a refret alone tends to start at around £180. Add in materials and time - I don't know that anyone is going to make much money from it at £300.

I'd be buying this in your shoes, then list the loaded body on eBay and see what you get!

https://www.jimmyegypt.com/cort-gb35-jj-5-string-bass-black

It'd be really interesting to hear something like a regular class AB Ashdown ABM vs a class D ABM. Same preamp, different poweramp. I'm guessing there wouldn't be much/any difference.

I'd have liked to have done it in an originals band, but before I'd settled down, bought a house, got a cat and started my family. For everyone in my current band, it'd be very hard to cover equivalent wages with doing it full time. I'd need to win the lottery to make it work now.

It'd also need to be the right group of people. In the band where we did a couple of (self organised) tours, I couldn't have coped long term. On our short UK tour:

• We ended up getting a parking ticket on one of the vechicles because I didn't have enough cash, and no-one else thought it was urgent/would help me get the change together
• The drummer put petrol in my diesel car
• The drummer didn't bring his counterpart licence, so I had to drive the van all of the time
• After drving from London (and getting a bit lost in London - hate driving there!) to Brighton following a gig, I couldn't convince one person to have a pint with me at the youth hostel we were staying at

Plus I don't think we were prolific enough to maintain a decent song output. The guitarist was a total perfectionist and nothing else would do, so it'd take MONTHS to finish a song.

I think maybe the one I'm in now would be better at those sorts of things. Not sure I'm tempted to find out right now, especially after writing that down!

To be fair, I wasn't much of a fan of the bass stuff on the P1. I guess they may have had stats on who was using the bass bits from the app and decided not to bother if the number of users was low? I've just offloaded my P1 on eBay. On the bass side, you had to do a blend of dry signal and effected signal with a crossover. So not even proper parallel signals. The guitar bits didn't sound good to my ears with guitar or bass. It was all very harsh sounding, the tracking of the octaver was terrible. I regret ever keeping it in the first place. I just thought I'd get it dialled in eventually, but that never happened. I'm glad it's gone!

@Cheeto726 I've got a HB TE-52 telecaster and it's a really comfortable instrument to play. I can get the action really low. A couple of the nut slots are a bit tall, but I don't spend a lot of time in that area so I've not remedied it yet. I have done some mods (humbucker rail bridge pickup, 6 saddle bridge, some tuners I've had for years), but they were also all budget upgrades. I've not got more than £200 in it all together and it's just really fun. I've also just ordered the SC-550 II Les Paul type guitar to have knocking around. I'm hoping that's going to be pretty great too. 

The consistency of low end guitars has come on a long way and with the HB business model, you (generally) get something a bit beyond the initial outlay and gig worthy. 

I guess after the initial excitement, I'd also be wondering how my wife came across $4k that I can fritter away! The list of things to do in the house never ends!

I'd take a trip to Bass Direct and see what fanned fret I liked the best. I really liked the playability of a Spector NS Dimension, but it didn't sustain like my Dingwall. I'd like to try out the Dimension HP vs D-Roc vs Combustion vs NG and take my pick. 

I love my Dingwall with the 34"-37" scale. I feel like I can play some parts in my current band better on that than I can my 34" scale bass. I still love my Mustang too though. Everything has a time and place. 

You can get it on Amazon. 

We're also playing at the first Bristol heat of Metal 2 the Masses on the 28th of February at Exchange in Bristol. 

Were playing at the Bristol heats for Metal 2 the Masses, a competition where we might get to play at Bloodstock. We're Hora.

https://horadoom.bandcamp.com/album/witch-trial-sessions-vol-1

The EP is now live on all of your favourite streaming platforms!

https://horadoom.bandcamp.com/album/witch-trial-sessions-vol-1

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Its the little thank you or a comment on how well you played at the end of the night that makes you feel special that night. Not so much the drunks that slabber over you and can hardly talk but genuine folks that just appreciated the band. Those are special moments for me and i fully appreciate them.

Dave

Yup. I had a really nice comment about my playing on my first ever gig at 15 and it's really stuck with me. 

I'm playing in drop C in my band and was using CGCFA#. I found the highest string wasn't getting used, so I've tuned that up to a C as well. Now I'm using CGCFC and I really like having easy access to the three octave spread super easily. 

Drop G was discussed on the band chat earlier... For my usual string brand, they recommend a .160 for that. That's just getting on for a suspension bridge support, not a bass string!

I've recently discovered Spotlights and am very much enjoying them

https://spotlights.bandcamp.com/album/seismic

Really need to give my Dingwall a clean around the pickups next time I change the strings. I've been more aggressive with a pick and I'm getting more dust around there. I usually just take one string off at a time also worrying about tension. Then I realised that I've been building a bass for 12 years and that hasn't imploded, warped or spontaneously combusted from not having strings on, so taking them off for half an hour will be fine.

Really good practice last night despite being a man down. Got the first gig lined up and it's a competition! We're going to be playing Metal 2 the Masses, where the winner will get to play at Bloodstock. We've got to have a 25 minute set. We ran through what we proposed over Whatsapp a few times and it was always within 25 minutes, so that was perfect!

I also got to have a go on the guitarists Les Paul. Yep, I want a LP style guitar for knocking around on at home. Might trade some pedals in at PMT and get one of their Antiquity ones. I played one a few months back and it was really decent. Just needed the polishing compound wiping off and a bit of oil on the fretboard.

6 hours ago, Obrienp said:

Another one I had never heard of! Quite a bit cheaper than a BF 2x12 as well but a bit heavier. 

If you're ever near Bristol, you'd be welcome to give mine a go. 

Looks great! I'd like to add some lights to my pedalboard for ambience. Might need to do some research...

My Zilla 212 is a nice thing. It can thump and sound vintagey. It's got neo drivers and weighs in at about 24kg. With a hand truck, I can wheel that, my head and pedalboard to a gig easily with my bass on my back. No pesky high frequency driver to deal with either! I ordered mine as vertical only so it's taller and doesn't have a huge stage footprint. Plus made in the UK if you like that sort of thing. 

https://www.zillacabs.com/bass-cabinets

3 hours ago, Kateplaysbass said:

I've been playing around with it a bit more, and I've found 4 pre-defined patches that would work for the majority of the setlist, meaning I can use it in Memory mode, which is so much easier. 

The hurdle I've now encountered is that, since these pre-sets use amp modelling, I understand I should plug into the Effects return input on my amp head (Ashdown ABM300). Which I did, but got no sound. It works fine when plugged into the instrument jack. I've never used the Effects return jack before, so I don't know if it's faulty, or if I'm just doing something very basic wrong! Or even how much it matters, if I like the sound of it going through the pre-amp.....

Ashdown heads mute the output if nothing is plugged into the input. Stick a patch lead or ¼" headphones adapter in the input and it should work. 

Mine was an Aslin Dane jazz bass copy that I bought from Noteworthy Music in Chippenham. I got a bit of money knocked off for a few dings on it, and I also bought a terrible, but within budget practice amp at the same time. It really had a very heavy ash body. Phenolic fretboard too, which was cool. I kept it for 20+ years before moving it on during COVID. I restrung it and took it to a jam with a friend (while it was legal to do so!) and it wasn't bad, but wasn't doing it for me anymore tonally despite twiddling all of the knobs on both amp and bass. I'm not sure my playing suits a jazz bass tone. Sold it to someone else as their first bass, so I'm hoping it can keep them inspired. 

I have very fond memories of it, but I'm happy for them to be memories. The basses I have now suit me much better.