Dave_the_bass

Not giving advice on what to buy!

If you have sky DO NOT buy Denon. The 5.1 (hdmi or optical) is in compatible with the amp!

If you don't have sky; get a denon avrx-2000, you'll notkknow how you lived without it!

The most expensive bass I own cost me £250. I've gigged that quite a lot, but it's not got the right sound from my new band.

My tanglewood was circa £180, brand new, and has been gigged soo many times that it's probably only cost a few pence per gig.

Tonight I gigged with my yamaha. This is a total budget model yamaha that I picked up at a bargain price of less than £90. It's a beautiful bass to play and has a lovely full sound. It was my first gig with this bass; but it definitely won't be the last.

I'm unlikely to ever gig an expensive bass as I don't think I could justify the price of buying one!

We hitting the stage in Nottingham this coming Friday support Eventual Fate.

It's free entry!

First band (us) about 9pm.

Rock n' Metal DJ taking the party in the wee small hours.

How did it go?

I'll be setting foot on stage for the first time in 2 years in a couple of weeks. Hoping I can take some good vibes from your gig going well

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My current car (A3) is all black inside and with slightly tinted windows... a black gigbag in the back seat footwell becomes invisible, and it looks like the car is empty
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This in my Focus only the rear windows are a dark tint.

My gig bag disappears.

Originals band with a developing set:

As a band we hit a rehearsal room once a week to get the songs as tight as possible.

Me and the guitarist, occasionally with the singer, meet at someone's house once a week to craft new ideas in to the bare bones of a new tune.

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What a strange lot you all are [size=4] - I have plenty of info now now about which cars it[i] will[/i] fit in but no one has actually answered my original question lol[/size]
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I provided very useful information about a car I have listed for sale in the marketplace.

I always put my bass in the foot wells behind the front seats in my focus or my volvo. They travel snug and secure with no moving about and no heads or cabs that could slide in to it under heavy braking.

I can't really comment on any of the cars mentioned, but as they're the same size as the Focus I'd assume that basses would fit the same. My bass does fit in the boot but I don't think I'd comfortably get any cabs in at the same time.

When it comes to basses. I heartily recommend yamaha for an incredible bang for buck ratio.

Mine was sub £100 on ebay and I find it the perfect animal. I wander in to music shops and play fenders, spectors etc. And think "that's lovely, I'll buy that when payday comes around". When I get home I play my yamaha and realise that the bass I'd just chosen is only marginally better than the bass I own, and certainly not hundreds of pounds better.

As a result my gas is instantly cured by owning a bass that punches far above its weight.

Mods: sorry if this is in the wrong place. Feel free to move it.

Everyone else:
My band are booked for a gig (middle band on a three band bill) but the venue are struggling to fill the other slots.

If you fancy playing a gig at a decent venue in Derby on a Tuesday night then drop me a pm and I'll put you forward to the organiser.

If you're a new band looking for a first gig yhen this could be a good opportunity to get in to a venue that can be quite fussy about booking bands they don't know.

Hopefully someone out there fancies it.

Cheers

Dave

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Cheers Gary, you've just given me one more thing to fret about.........
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Play a fretless, you can offset the fret count!

[quote name='ricksterphil' timestamp='1408771035' post='2533328']
Interesting stuff and I like the we blink thing for tickets (I presume it's Eventbrite or similar)

The skill of self-promotion is key....and social media platforms make this possible if you're prepared to put the work in.
I guess if a band can build up a big enough following it's easier to demand more cash to play if you know you'll get 100 or so through the door
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It's music glue.

My gut feeling is; it's a setup that will work well for newer bands in the local area and out of town bands that have a good following in the area.

The bands that it will definitely alienate are the out of town bands that are on the brink of making the push to the big time but have a minimal following in the area. This venue has always had a steady stream of bands/artists that fall in to this category and they used to get paid a good fee to play with the rest of the bill being made up of good local acts that usually draw a crowd.
Now; that out of town band will end up playing for expenses or less to a packed out room whilst the two bands below them split the remaining £400 - 500.

I'm definitely interested, but:

1, I don't have the spare funds at the moment.

2, Last time I tried a wide strap (4" I believe) it really dug in to my neck/shoulder area

As a result:

Has anyone in the Midlands bought one so I can go a visiting and test it out?

Local venue, for us, has just introduced a variant of the ticket scheme which seams quite fair!

When you sign up to play a gig there, no matter where on the bill you are, they ask you how many tickets you want in your allocation. They then give you a direct web link to pass on to fans, friends, family etc.

For every ticket sold on that weblink you earn £1.

For us, as a new band, low down on the bill it means we'll get a few quid towards expenses.

It encouages newer bands to promote themselves and get paid. The more well known bands will stop playing there as "promoting the gig is the promoters job".

From looking at various videos of the suggested pedals I'm really keen to try out that tech 21. The only place I can find in the uk that has them in stock is effects power supplies.

Looks like it'll have to wait a month until I'm down in that there London and I can go and try it out.

If I were "normal" I'd agree with you both. To clarify a few things.

Current cable situation is:

1 cable from tuner to tuner out
1 cable from footswitch to mute socket
1 cable from final effect in chain to amp
(Possibly) the cable from the amp control switches

The effects in my signature represent current ownership, I'm currently shopping for more (and assembling plans/components for a self build idea)

There is a possibility of using one of the three effects loops for some pedals depending on how things sound.

I know that sensibly I should just get obbm to manufacture me some nice cables and buy a t-rex fuel tank or similar, but the neat freak in me likes the idea of one connection between front of stage and back.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Firstly; my apologies if this is in the wrong section, I couldn't decide between here and effects.

Now, on with my quandary:

After many years of being a "why do I need effects pedals" player I've become a "ooh, pretty lights and knobs make interesting tonal variations to my core sound" player.

I'm slowly and steadily amassing a collection of electronic devices to stamp on at various points in the bands set.

It's reached the point where I need to look at pedal boards and, because I'm a fussy bugger, I've decided to go down the diy route.

To cable up my, soon to be, work in progress pedal board I've been looking at either

A, a dedicated power supply taking up valuable real estate on my board and running a myriad of (colour coded? ) cables between my amp and board

Or

B, running a Pedalsnake between amp and board.

From general reading it would seem that the Pedalsnake is the sensible option as I could use my existing supply system and just relocate it from the front of the stage to the back. However, I can't find any "real world" peers (you lot) that use one so can't find any proper views on them.

Any help?

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For many years I pretended that you couldn't buy new strings unless they were on a new bass.
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This needs a like button!

Just to add, and I'm by no no means affiliated, there's a 105q in the effects for sale forum.

[quote name='deepbass5' timestamp='1408189810' post='2527952']
I would second the upper freq only comments great when bi -amped top end only I use the CE3B works fine for the couple of songs i use it on but would now try and find a pedal that does dual chorus and Flanger with a selectable high freq setting so maybe the MXR mentioned above is worth checking out.
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The first sight of a bi-amped rig in my house may result in me looking for a new house and paying child support!

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1408188480' post='2527932']
I found that in order for chorus on a bass to work well, the guitars have to back off a bit, create a bit more space than usual. Plus the losing of some low-end on the bass seemed to make the chorus work better - or at least heard better.
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That's useful as the main tune requiring chorus is an open finger picked melody with lots of spacey bass runs over the top.

We might leave a bit of sonic room for the singist, we've not decided!

Hmmm, there's a CE3B in the for sale forum.

Really doesn't meet the style brief, but, at that price I could spend some cash re-housing and true bypass modding it for less than the tech 21.

Argh, I need to go somewhere and try some chorus pedals.

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I prefer to use a detune effect rather than chorus as to my ears it's a more subtle enhancing effect but I'm only using a Zoom B9. Tech 21 offer a pedal that has both chorus and detune, it looks pretty retro, comes in at £175 and gets a good review from Premier Guitar (including 2 sound samples) here [url="http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Tech_21_Bass_Boost_Chorus_Pedal_Review"]http://www.premiergu...us_Pedal_Review[/url] and user reviews here [url="https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/6489537782185846076?q=bass+guitar+detune+chorus+pedal&client=firefox-a&hs=11b&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&channel=fflb&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.73231344,d.d2k,pv.xjs.s.en.pILta_SWMTQ.O&biw=1366&bih=637&tch=1&ech=1&psi=hSPvU-XqFoWk0QXy-YDwAg.1408181532848.3&prds=hsec:reviews&sa=X&ei=ICXvU_esEYK3O67XgfgO&ved=0CGAQ9AIwAA"]https://www.google.c...ved=0CGAQ9AIwAA[/url]
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Ooo,now that sounds nice. Love the Jaco setting sample; it's pretty much the sound I had in mind.

The tech is definitely a contender, although it doesn't really make the grade in the style department

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Do any chorus pedals come with a crossover, allowing you to apply the chorus sound to the upper frequencies, leaving the lower ones to pass through unaltered?

The most useable chorus effect I've had was the one in the Peavey Bassfex, that allowed me to do this by placing the chorus module after the crossover module and then running the signal into a stereo power amp feeding a 2 x 8 cab for the higher frequencies with chorus and a 1 x 15 cab straight. The actual chorus effect in the Peavey was nothing special on its own, but because it only affected the upper frequency range it was far more usable in a band context than any pedal I'd been using previously as it didn't suck the attack and bottom end out of the overall bass sound but still sounded like chorus.
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This is one I'd been wondering about. All of my pedal have separate low and high frequency controls. If all else fails I'll build myself a split and blend loop pedal with as 2 way crossover in it so I only send the higher frequencies to the pedal.

After my recent foray in to dirty pedals for a couple if my bands songs I find that I "need" a chorus pedal for some of our other tunes. (Expect a flanger topic in the next few weeks )

So, what do we recommend for a chorus pedal?

My actual brief is fairly minimal but important.
1, It has to sound good without turning my low frequencies to mush.
2, (as I'm a bit of a tart) it needs to compliment the retro look of my other pedals (aguilar and dr green)

Budget wise:
I don't want to get in to stupid money, but, the right sound, closly followed by the right look, is more important than cash upto a few hundred quid (just don't tell the wife I said that )

Rough guess:

Take wires from existing switch to new jack socket.
Small patch cable to a separate on/off stompbox.

Not knowing the wiring in your wah; this "should" leave your wah working as it does today and extend the switch part of it external.

Hope this helps