bass_dinger

Three spare basses. I tried to go for an obscure make and model, to make it difficult to find spares and duplicates, but I still have 4 Washburn Bantam basses. Dual humbuckers, Dual single coils, dual Bartolinis. Fretless Dual bartolinis. Green. Natural. Zebra. Wacky blue-turquoise burst. Actually, they are a good thing to have - fun to play, easy to use. But I should have got rid of some of them earlier. A chorus pedal. I wonder what it sounds like - I must try it one day. A thick plectrum. I wonder what it sounds like - I must try it one day etc etc

People who wear their basses low, and thus, have to bend the wrists on their fretting hands at a sharp angle. My prejudice is that they therefore cannot play well - and certainly not with dexterity and finesse. Yet I see such players on videos, in huge bands, and they seem to be managing OK. Maybe my prejudice is irrational... Also, I don't understand how mathematicians calculate Pi and assume that it is all smoke and mirrors. I have an irrational prejudice about an irrational number....

When I played, I did so without effects (and indeed, without effectiveness). It felt unnecessarily complicated to add layers of effects to so short a setlist. Indeed, I never even touched the pickup selector or tone controls. Any variation that I wanted, I could achieve with different finger-placement on the plucking hand.

Is this list still up to date, I wonder? I wanted to share the list with someone based in Belgium, but @marcoelwray can't be found. Pilot error on my part? Or has this member left the forum?

I had the same issue when I first started on bass. The Fender model felt huge and unwieldy, but the Washburn was much more nimble. The neck was wider, and I liked the 3+2 tuners on the headstock (3 above, two below). I chose the bass that I most enjoyed playing, and which felt right in my hands.

So, I have decided to upgrade to an audio interface with midi ports - the Behringer https://www.thomann.co.uk/behringer_umc1820.htm which appears to have 8 instrument-input channels. It will replace a Yamaha AG03 (3 channels), chained to a Behringer Xenyx 802 (4 instrument-input channels). I need to use midi cables to join up the three midi devices, that have the following ports: ~ Kurzweil SP76 (midi In, midi Out) ~ E-MU Classic Keys (midi In, midi Out, midi Thru') ~ UMC 1820 (midi In, midi Out) I assume that it will be 1. Kurzweil SP76, midi Out > 2. midi In of the E-MU Classic Keys / midi Out of the E-MU Classic Keys> 3. midi In of the UMC 1820. And if I want the PC to play the keyboard, I take the advice of @BigRedX : 4. That is, midi Out of the UMC 1820 > midi in of the Kurzweil SP76. So, I will need three midi cables? _Behringer UMC1820 – Thomann UK.html

Good point, well made. No Ali Express for me, especially when the real thing is available - and I can try before I buy.

Hi @jery978. Welcome to basschat.co.uk Do have a look at https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/3-introductions/ and tell us a little about yourself.

I do like a Gibson J200 - I was a big fan of the Reverend Gary Davis who used them for his fingerpicked blues. However, I could never afford the real thing. So, off to Ali Express I go. Strictly browsing....

He was aiming at the harmonica player, who got up and started playing during the premiere of the 1812. Tchaikovsky was so grateful to that audience member for his timely intervention, that he wrote the part into all subsequent performances. True story.

"Deer pants" has a nice descending bass line - I always used to play the octave line from Bach's Air on a G string underneath it.

Congratulations on your first bass...

@TrevorRis right - if one has only ever heard a bass guitar on a recording, through headphones or a laptop speaker, or even a hifi, then the sound of a real bass is shockingly powerful. One can mute the notes, play them shorter, not let the open strings ring out. One can even set the amp controls to 'flat' (no cut, no boost). All those techniques will tame the bass sound. However, ultimately, the bass is a powerful instrument. I would worry less about the specifications and the numbers, and more about what instrument feels best in your hands.

That reminds me, I must buy myself an ice lolly...

Indeed yes

Robert @bass_dinger I have bought a new car, and more basses, and retired from work, all to make my attendance more possible. It was a sacrifice that I was willing to make.... Is there a table for people selling their bass gear? Or will that be a separate thread?

Specialist musical instrument insurers would understand a musician's need for specialist instruments that are rare, and expensive. Think of what an orchestra would play - everything is likely to be custom made by specialist makers, or old and irreplaceable. In my case* I have a 30-year-old bass that only rarely comes up on the secondhand market and for which I needed to have a neck made in the USA. Realistically the replacement value is about £1,400 but the resale value is maybe £600 if I can find someone who is interested in it. So I insured it for the higher amount. For yourself, like @Downunderwondersaid, you will need to have your bass remade - find yourself a lightweight body, sandblasting, refinish, rebuild. That will cost more to do than a standard bass, and the premiums would reflect that. My view is that you should cost up the actual price of a replacement bass, get quotes for the work, and use that as the basis of the insured value. *a Hiscox, so, I need to insure that too, for what another manufacturer would charge for such a moulded case.

There goes my plan to buy, store and then sell Hiscox cases, to fund my future musical instrument purchases. Unless ... "For Sale. Pre-RUF Hiscox Case, for your pre-CBS Fender. " Yes, I think that I am on to something. More seriously, RUF sounds like a great fit for the Hiscox legacy, and I am pleased to hear that their product will continue to be available. Thank you for sharing that good news @matrycy.

And there's only one of you, so you're rare too! If you can fit into a Hiscox case, I can store you in my airing cupboard for the next 30 years.

There is a single surprise minor chord in there, toward the end. Fall asleep during verse 3, and you'll miss it. And the right rhythm is important - get it wrong and you'll sound like the Sunday Strummers Ukulele Club. Ask me how I know...

Not me. I have sold a comic collection, and other instruments. I also put aside a piffling £12.50 per month to save regularly for instruments. Christmas and birthday presents, even money found when clearing out my parent's house. It doesn't always work out - right now, I owe the joint bank account £550 for a spray job and body rebuild. However, last week, I found £500 worth of shares which I can now sell. The above process has funded three Hiscox cases (1 mandolin, two bass), electric piano, two Washburn XB925s, an EMU synth module, a strap. So, no, I do not have that problem.

One could instead use an earth pin repair kit. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315722101136?_skw=replacement+plug+pin&var=614139214463&itmmeta=01JZ3AWDX0KBZVACP3MC8BXV3T&hash=item498280f190:g:0HcAAOSwxiBm1tjf&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1eTrMiAGCJNorG0l7hwVVWPKgUQq0m0Wsden2GMNXeci9%2B%2Fdt8F7Yz6zHc0mcLCZwslevuhVCQayf1i1c5PTrfq4nBAXPsmRCsLlhy9nMVT2WsfbI2crLzT2y2Mq%2FMtkMg6MYvmprscq5FlM%2Fo5sc4AyailVWLNHN%2BR8J2lfk6WpJM6DhbDudxDgsXgHua%2FWExvC2yhsJmIjWu4624OriFaFuCeCYgDyDnsFhC8CBj9N%2B9ijt2mzZpelclfsqne56GkDhnXZbGCwkqpF85%2F7pKtmqR%2Bp3FB5wpwdqP2l3jV%2Bw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABFBM3t7x6vhl Its purchase preserves both the pencil and @Marky L, for future and alternative use in the band. I have one in my kit case, should the previous superglue-and-dowel repair to my own adapter fail.

Rhiannon Giddens can.

Hobgoblin is more your folk music shop - they do have acoustic basses (4 string, fretless and even a 5 string which they made for me). But they specialise in stuff that other shops don't stock: accordions, thumb pianos, erhu (Chinese violin), Indian lap-harmoniums, fretless banjos, marimba, chambord, bagpipes, and a couple of zebra-hides worth of African drums. If you haven't heard of it, can't play it, and don't need it, Hobgoblin stock it.

One of the chaps there (John, who has since left) told me how Paul McCartney was a regular visitor to the shop, and he sold him a Hathway mandolin. Paul McCartney asked for a discount, and after a few minutes of negotiation, John said "in the time that we have been talking, you have earned enough in royalties to buy it!". All in good humour, and Paul McCartney paid full price. John also taught Paul McCartney a few chords, which he used in a song that he later released - Dance Tonight.