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[quote name='cheddatom' post='156751' date='Mar 13 2008, 02:39 PM']EDIT: How long is a bass chat thread?[/quote] Same as a piece of string - twice as long as half it's length!

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[quote name='clauster' post='153175' date='Mar 7 2008, 03:57 PM']Mine IS a bass.... 'twas a late 80s Warwick Thumb and it virtually pulled the notes from my fingers. It was effortlessly easy to play and it just wouldn't let me play a duff note. Fantastic stuff and I'm still gassing for an 80's thumb over 18 years later.[/quote] I think it's the same for me - but a Streamer, Barbican Guitar Festival - mid/late 80's, absolutely stunning, and yes - felt the notes were being pulled from me too. (Also got to meet Mr J Entwhistle) And at the same show one of the Ashbory basses - VERY odd, but a great sound. Nearly bought one several times. Only about 78 ever made.

[quote name='2wheeler' post='156634' date='Mar 13 2008, 12:06 PM']I had a sudden rush of courage yesterday evening and took my bass to the local Jazz jam night. I stuck to a walking bass line through "Straight, No Chaser", got lost a few times but got through it and had a very good time most of the time. First time ever in a jazz jam. First time ever playing bass in front of an audience. Not last time! Loved being part of the music, seeing the audience "getting it". Huge respect to the experienced players who make it look so easy. Huge thanks to York's Black Swan jazz jam players for encouraging me and being very kind about the whole thing [/quote] Well done!! And great to hear others encouraging you. First time is always scary, especially in front of an audience, even worse when there's other players there too. I love jamming with others but don't get chance to do it much these days.

[quote name='Motocross_nick' post='156377' date='Mar 12 2008, 10:41 PM']Thanks for the info man, so overall you'd say the pod is better and worth the difference in price? theres a podxt here for sale on the forums for pretty cheap, thinkin bout getting that and then buying a cheap midi board after. Or would it be better to go with the live straight off do you think?[/quote] No idea about Midi - never used it. I've posted a feature request to Line 6 for the option to ditch some of the fx and replace them with others via a firmware update or utilising the USB port in some way but they haven't come back to me yet. I bought the POD as I'd had a bonus that I wasn't expecting come through, I was going for the Zoom B2.1u actually. Overall the build quality of the POD is better than the Korg, it's heavier - being made of a thicker gauge steel and the knobs at the back are metal, although the 2 knobs either side of the LCD on the POD are plastic and a bit weedy but generally gives the impression it's built to last. You've also got the software downloads with the POD that really help. The Korg pedal has a longer travel and therefore is a bit easier to accurately fine-tune your sound, especially with the LED display alongside it. The presets on the POD are a bit naff, but Ped recommended going through and checking out every combination of cabs and amps - which I'm [b]still [/b]in the process of doing: some I love, some I really don't. I wrote a simple spreadsheet with amps down one side and cabs along the top and mark them out of 10 - it's on this forum somewhere as a pdf. As I said I'll try to get the comparison done over the weekend and post it in the Reviews section.

[quote name='Motocross_nick' post='156336' date='Mar 12 2008, 09:17 PM']hey, has anyone here got a korg ax3000b? if so how are the preamp models on it? if they turn out ot be naff il get a line6 podxt, as this would be my main use but the korg is so much cheaper and has the expression pedal. cheers, Nick[/quote] Got one on loan but I bought a Pod XT Live instead 3 weeks ago. There's some things on it I really like - slow attack, one of the synth vcoder-type sounds, but I prefer the modelling in the Line 6 and there's certainly a lot more of them to choose from, and the knobs on the Korg don't look like they'd stand up to much, but I really like the led display rows next to the pedal so you can see exactly what setting it is on in the dark. And it has more pretty red lights. The POD has a USB port if thats important to you (is to me!). The pedal on the POD can be asigned as well, and there's a big expansion pedal board as well some here have got. I took photos of it as I got it out of the box and keep meaning to do a review - so may do that this weekend and a comparrison.

[quote name='Jase' post='155482' date='Mar 11 2008, 07:10 PM']Credit where credit is due...it had Dave Brubeck on it ...Bilbo was a smidge right Joking aside, it has some huge artists on there, I've heard a few of the tracks but I'm no jazz expert. If you're into it...job done in my book![/quote] Must have missed that one - my appologies.

right - home now, its Classic Jaz - The Ultimate Collection. Doesn't have any of the artists you mentioned. See [url="http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/Product.aspx?ProductID=3151"]http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/Product.aspx?ProductID=3151[/url] Is it good?

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='155366' date='Mar 11 2008, 03:44 PM']It's no wonder jazz has such a bad name - these £2.99 compilations do so much harm for jazz its unreal. 4 cds for 3 quid? Let me guess: Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Dave Brubeck, Peggy Lee - all on wax cylinders - am I right? Not necessarily bad artists but these reciordings are almost always obscure outtakes, early left overs, dodgy live cuts. - Its like judging all Sci-Fi on the basis of 'The Mouse On The Moon'. DESTROY IT!! DESTROY IT!! Buy a copy of 'Jazzwise' and look for something that takes your fancy![/quote] It's Classic Jazz, traditional stuff. No idea what - I'm not a jazz fan but it's ok. Only listened to CD 3 so far. Mix of vocal, instrumental, slow, fast, medium, all sorts. I really don't like modern stuff - all seems a bit messy to me, but then I'm no expert. I'll let you know what's on it but it was more to get a feel of the genre rather than for the artists themselves and I'm not going to spend £12 on a CD I may only play once and decide I hate it. My wife loves Ella and Nina Simone and has loads of it and I like some of that. Does that help? Edit> Anyway, some of it is really nice to chill out to on the way home after a stressed day at work and then stuck in traffic on the A605 in the eternal roadworks and really helps me to wind down - I find that unexpected but very pleasant.

Got bored reading every post after page 13 and jumped straight to the end. I wanted to pick up on some things others have said and stick my own oar in. It's a shame this seemed to degenerate into a slanging match. I'm a crap player and I know it even after 26 years - but that's 26 years of nearly no practice or discipline and sheer practised laziness. I now very much regret that and find it badly hinders what I want to play, so I've started - at 45 years old - taking lessons again. And the first thing Nick pointed out was to do with my technique and something I'm now working on (thanks Nick) and has made a difference. Someone on another site also said when reading music (or in my case - looking at the pretty dots in a somewhat bemused fashion) have your bass neck in the same sightline as the music and not - as I've always done - at 90 degrees to it. So I've dropped the height of my music stand a bit and the neck nicely goes over the top of it - all in one line of sight. Again - it's made a massive difference so I don't have my eyes off the music for more than a second, but something I've never thought of. A pro athlete practices for hours often on things nothing to do with their discipline. F1 drivers spend hours in the gym or on mountain bikes to keep all levels of fitness up. The army practice all kinds of scenarios - even pretty unthinkable ones - just so if it happens they know what to do. These people practice over and over doing the most mundane routines. Scales bore me rigid but I'm starting to look at them again. So that when I come to need them - as with the other disciplines here - I can do it almost without thinking about it. I have stiff joints in my fingers - on the left hand caused by a surface grinder accident many years ago, but I found that playing fast helps to loosen up my fingers so I can play slower stuff better but I only do it when I'm practising (or showing off to the kids/wife). (Who are usually very impressed). (Except my wife!). (Who knows NOTHING!!). I wish I could do 10 hours a day! If it's a chosen career and passion then all your energy surely must go into it - I'm in IT, so I go on courses and study stuff to be better at it. Must admit technical playing for the sake of it not always my cuppa (didn't 'get' the playing on the video either - I lasted about 30 seconds) - but neither is Jazz, and I've just bought a £2.99 4-CD set for the car to try to get my head round it and to try a different style than blues. I'm also trying slap for the same reason. I'm always open to learning new stuff but I think I'll always come back to simple blues and R'n'B (that's proper R'n'B - not the stuff they pass off for it in the charts these days!) Lets learn from each other and - as I've often heard/said - chew the meat and spit out the bones. Wouldn't it be a dull world if we were all the same, liked the same things, produced the same music, drove the same car/bike, had the same bass, etc. Be thankful for variety and creativity in whatever music it takes. In some parts of the world it's actively repressed. It takes people who push the boundaries, stretch the limits and go places we only dream of to show the rest of us what's possible. Without them much of what we in the 20th / 21st Century take for granted would not have been possible. And they got derided too..... I'll get off me soap-box now.

@kevthebass - I use the fx send/return on my Ohm GA140 occasionally. I have to pop the jack out a bit on the amp though so it only hits the 'Return' part of the socket. I don't use it like that live though as I'm worried it'll fall out, and I have to watch the volume. I'll have to make up a proper lead for it some time. I really like the amp/cab modelling which is what I bought it for primarily and have a couple of combos I like. Still don't have a clue where I'd use the synth stuff and would happily bin them for a different set of stomp plugins (L6 are you listening?). Have started playing with the fx properly now and 'discovered' the 'String Theory' preset, which I didn't like to start with but blimey it's good when you have the house to yourself and can crank it up a bit! (also helps that I live on a corner and the study is on the 2 outside walls!) Even my 14-year old daughter was impressed (Teenager impressed, that is!)

All I got my Bass POD XT Live last week, and as Ped advised to to someone else I wanted to go through and log all the amp/cab combinations that I liked. To do that I created a spreadsheet with the amps down the side and cabs along the top and put a score out of 10 for combinations I liked and ignored the ones I didn't. Have put a pdf of it here - it may help someone. I found it useful. Hope this is the right place for this. (tried this on the L6 Forum and it won't accept a pdf) EDIT - Should mention this is the BLANK one for you to use not my scribbled on one.

I've given up trying to install Line 6 Edit on my XP laptop - stupid having to use old versions of Java and introduces a security risk. Works flawlessly on our home Windows 2000 PC. I've put a spreadsheet together that lists all the amps down one side, cabs along the top and I'm scoring the combinations out of 10 on the resulting grid for future reference and Line 6 Edit is perfect for this. I'll upload the spreadsheet sometime for anyone else who wants to use it. I will be trying my XTLive with Linux soon once I get the drivers and software downloaded and a free evening. [url="http://www.tanzband-scream.at/line6/"]http://www.tanzband-scream.at/line6/[/url] for those interested.

[quote name='tonybassplayer' post='145880' date='Feb 24 2008, 09:58 AM']I feel I have to register a complaint to the fine ladies and gentleman of this website forum. Until I recently joined I was more than happy with my Yamaha TRB that had been my main bass ( just have a cheap 5 string spare for gigs ) for over 6 years. I also have a Fender USA Strat that has sat happily virtually unused in my wardrobe for the last twelve years and as a little family we were happy. UNTIL NOW !!! I now spend half my life on this forum and the other on Ebay looking for bargain Precision's, Jazz's, Geddy Lee's, uprated pickup's, SX's ( never even heard of them three months ago ) The Strat ends tonight on Ebay ( currently £331 but more would good ) to try to feed this GAS frenzy Where will it all end ?? Not sure but one thing it has done has rejuvenated my playing and enthusiasm for improving as a player. Keep up the good work Regards Tony[/quote] So it's not just me, then? My GAS has started up with the purchase of a Line 6 Bass POD XT Live. My wife's ever so pleased... Might have to sell the Pacifica now! (If my 14-year old daughter will let me as it's 1/2 hers.)

Dillsfretless - Dunno about you, mate but I've leaned a heck of a lot here! Some good sound advice that I'll be taking away. I'm not a good player especially after 26 years of just noodling and sheer laziness on my part, but at 45 I start lessons again tonight to improve and almost start again. I'm from the less-is-more camp but want to be able to do some slightly more fancy stuff, however (sob-story) following an accident many years ago with a surface grinder and nearly severing a tendon, my middle 2 fingers on my left hand don't spread as far as they should and have a tendency to stick together. In the last 2 years it has become more pronounced so I'm doing some excersises to improve that but it does affect my playing. I seem to recall one of Van Halen's songs (can't remember which one - Jump I think) the whole bass line is bottom E. Nothing else. But sounds fantastic.

right then - nearly 1am. New toy has been switched off and I'm going to bed. The XT Live is great. See what you all mean by naff defaults although one or two are ok. Synth stuff I'd probably never use apart from sound fx in a play or something. The downloads on the Line6 web site are very heavily repeated though. Don't know if people have problems uploading but the same patches appear up to 10 times or more. Anyway - long day of playing tomorrow so beddy-byes time.

My XT Live has arrived!! Digital Village - only ordered it lunchtime yesterday too! It's sat on my desk blinking at me seductively. Can't wait to get it home and have a tweak!

What I want to know is - what's "Fedner guitarse" mean? (And looking at his post I don't accept it's a typo)

[quote name='nottswarwick' post='144052' date='Feb 20 2008, 10:33 PM'], but the bass player (forget his name) is a well recognised unsung bass hero, and a classic example of tasteful rock bass work.[/quote] Phill Rudd. Stood at the back, pounded it out. I saw AC/DC a few times when I were a lad. Best was a Wembley on the Back In Black tour - real cannons on stage with thunderflashes in them! Great stuff. EDIT - Yup - Cliff Williams it was. My memory failing me!

Never really been into slap but having a go anyway and quite like the tone but still not getting it right. I might have a look at those books though and see what I can do.

Like the AX3000 but finally decided to opt for a long-term top-end unit and have ordered a Line6 Bass POD XT Live! Should arrive in the morning. Feel like a 6 year-old again - can't wait until tomorrow now!! Be even worse when I get it home!

JUST ORDERED MINE! ARRIVES (hopefully ) TOMORROW!!

Hey - Mine too (45)! Happy birthday to us!

Looking forward to it.

[quote name='Evil Laugh' post='143494' date='Feb 20 2008, 12:40 AM']Interesting... Am looking at an X3 Live, just wondering what people's experience is of the online editor. I'm still confused as to whether or not it's a separate purchase. [/quote] Free download from their web site - [url="http://uk.line6.com/software/index.html"]http://uk.line6.com/software/index.html[/url] - search under Bass POD Live XT and scroll down about 2/3 of the page Go to the [url="http://uk.line6.com/club/"]http://uk.line6.com/club/[/url] and there's access to loads of submitted patches too. I'm ordering mine tomorrow I think.