BassMunkee

Seems to me it's a bit like being a film director, Stephen Spielberg doesn't make his films, lots of other people make his films, he pulls it together and decides what goes where and so on and so forth - (VERY simply). I guess being a producer in music is like that... ...or something.

Any and all bassists who play with their bass guitar under their armpits - like Mark King. Equally - any and all bassists who play with mark king under their armpits.

Heroes - in addition to being one of my very favourite songs and a fine example of Frippertronics in action also has an excellent bassline in it IMHO.

[quote]RASTA: Gwan play dem reggae dub riddim wid tone....cha bumbaclot = No tone fe sure.. for me it's just phat belly gully slinking resonance through a giant sound system...there's a lot to be said for just a note thats very loud and very bassy indeed....apparently the earth resonates in Eb-thats just one note - Don't get me wrong i love 'Portrait of Tracy' (thats lots of notes) with tone, but there is a lot to be said for just the bass, big dub tents aka jah Shaka, a Jazz or precision with tone rolled off and a natural smoke machine and 1000's of festinutters-pure and obese bass tone...they're grrrrreeeattt! Irie What am i talking about-try a SUBDUB night (Iration Steppaz)-footlong with reggae reggae bass food Sauce in Leeds![/quote] I officially love this post.

I occasionally twiddle with it just to remind myself what's it's actually for, but other than that it's always full on. TBH I run through so many effects anyway that it needs to be full on, so I can get enough initial definition.

[quote]Budget Bassist HUGE pedal boards, all you'll really ever need is a tuner and compressor and occasionally a fuzz and wah unless you're im some crazy prog band (damn that actually sounds rather good!)[/quote] Nothing wrong with lots of pedals provided you use them properly, tbh saying "all you'll ever need is..." is a *little* old fashioned. You need whatever you need to play in the style that you play in. Anyway I like effects.

[quote name='woodster' post='275498' date='Sep 2 2008, 03:15 PM']Elites strings - I can hear them deadening as I open the pack. Ampeg - I just don't get it. Wireless systems - Why...? Your amp is right behind you...! LED's on the fretboard - "if my mediocre playing can't hold your attention, maybe my fairy lights will? Basses once owned by 'stars' - Yeah, and it was so good they sold it...! Just a bit of fun :-)[/quote] LED's on fretboards are similar to those lights that you can get that go under your car...

Actually I have used a Behringer DSP2024 and found it to be very good. I think people slag Behringer off "just because". So they are cheap, it doesn't make them bad.

Fields Of The Nephilim: Psychonaut libIII - you know the section I mean. Celebrate. Tony Petit is a cracking bassist, IMHO.

It's certainly a thought, or I could alternatively cut a section off the bottom and then hinge it. All the practicality for standing up, plus the looks when I need them!

Not that I imagine it's overly helpful but I would never buy a bass off of ebay without going and checking it for myself first, and if I couldn't then I wouldn't. Still, hope you get at least some of your expenditure back and chalk that up to experience...

I used to use a Zoom MRS4b - worked very well, saved to SD card, and had loads of features.

Thanks for this - when my new Tbird eventually arrives - (14/11 currently) - I think a Hercules will be in order!

[quote]85% of people who say they don't like rotosound strings are just distasted because they either can't play them well, or can't afford them. 10% are just saying it to be contrary or because they think it'll earn them 'bass cred'. I like their 40-100 gauges[/quote] +1 My strings of choice.

How about Geddy Lee? Oh, sorry, i misunderstood. (I'll get my coat).

85% of people who say they don't like rotosound strings are just distasted because they either can't play them well, or can't afford them. 10% are just saying it to be contrary or because they think it'll earn them 'bass cred'.

[quote]QUOTE (Rich @ Sep 1 2008, 12:19 PM) Surely, given the speed (or otherwise) of yer average steamroller, it's more of a 'walkaway'... Reduced: 84% of original size [ 759 x 521 ] - Click to view full image INSERT FAT YANK HOG HERE.[/quote] Exactly, only goes to prove Rich's comment...

[quote]QUOTE (BassMunkee @ Sep 1 2008, 11:58 AM) Actually, why ARE straps so expensve...? They aren't. Many a good strap is less than the cost of a few pints of beer or a set of strings and last way longer than either ... Oh and the right strap can transform how your bass feels and hangs and thus how well you perform and play ....[/quote] +1 to your last statement - preferably so that my bass hangs somewhere around my thighs, and actually I've had my current strap for about a decade, and it's still going strong, and it wasn't very expensive, so with hinsight my comment was somewhat without merit.

Actually, why ARE straps so expensve...?

[quote]QUOTE (Oscar South @ Aug 31 2008, 04:40 PM) 85% of people who say they don't like basses with more than 4 strings are just distasted because they either can't play a 5+ stringer well, or can't afford one. 10% are just saying it to be contrary or because they think it'll earn them 'bass cred'.[/quote] 100% of this is made up. Distated is not a word. (85 + 10) = 95, I am assuming therefore that I fall into the remaining 5% who don't like them for other than the reasons that you have stated...

1. Boutique basses - just because it's taken one old man in a shack on a mountain 7 years to make and it's composed chiefly of wood from trees that grow only on 1 Pacific Island bonded together with glue mixed from the tears of orphaned seal cubs and nectar from rainforest plants and costs more than my house does not necessarily make it a good bass to play 2. People who own (1) above - just because they can tell people that they own (1) above 3. I own lots of music that can be described as sterile and cold - nothing wrong with that 4. Any bass with more than 5 strings - get a guitar and detune it for heaven's sake and anything with 7 or more - sorry but no, just no 5. finger style snobbery - "oh it's just playing bass properly if you use a pick" b*ll*x 6. Everybody who blindly worships Wooten and Entwhistle and all the others who appear to have ascended to the Bass Pantheon of divinity stop basing your frame of reference on them! Find your own way!!!!! 7. (non-) effect snobbery - effects are perfectly valid, *if properly used* 8. Mark King - because no one should ever play a bass that high (on his body) 9. People who whinge about Thunderbirds "oh but the neck drops!" well boo hoo cry me a river people just deal with it or get a different guitar or fix it but don't whine about it 10. Jazz and Blues are overrated as genres 11. "The Pocket" - I don't like it and I don't want to stay in it thank you very much 12. Headless basses - clumsy and unbalanced Well that should be everyone on the forum covered by now sorry but it's monday and I need to vent!!!! Gerrrrrrr.............

This is my stuff: No fancy cabs, but it's all good. (Zoom 708II courtesy of Wooks). NAD 3020i amp for monitoring Hartke wedge for non-fecked-about-with playing Zoom Studio 1201, Boss rc20xl, Marshall Reflector, Echohead, Vibratrem, GLX Noise gate, Boss SYB-3, Zoom 607II, Zoom 708II Oxygen8v2 Yamaha QY70 Tosh Satellite uber laptop Cakewalk Sonar Powerstudio 660 Various footswitches inc. RedOnionSolutions loop switch and one for the Boss looper Couple of Mission Speakers Aria ProII Bass. That's me.

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='272673' date='Aug 29 2008, 04:19 PM']...the only song I've ever sang lead vocals on![/quote] Nice. Do you know, judging by your avatar and your name, I would never have taken you for a Sisters fan?!

Fields Of The Nephilim - Dust, Last Exit For The Lost, Psychonaut - to name but 3. Sisters Of Mercy - Fix, Lucretia

Quality idea. Round of applause required methinks.