Bolo

Not sure what episode I'm on, at one point the bass player shouts "I want to write my own bass lines!"

... and continues to play close to root-fifth 😞

LOXX locks forever!

I've tried most others but they all had their problems:

Musicman fell apart and dropped my bass 

Schaller started squeaking and showed wear after not that many uses 

Dunlop same, noisy after a while

Grolsch washers are a bit fiddly.

Zero issues in ten years of using LOXX.

https://www.public-peace.de/maruszczyk-instruments-pes45-antique.html also one in black.

Necrotaph 

We play thrash metal originals.

Why would a noise gate be cheating but a bit of foam or one of those 'bass wraps' (I think that's the name) would be fine? 

There's no commercial recording where the bass is uncompressed. It'd be silly to deny yourself any advantage in creating the sounds you're after.

4 hours ago, BassmanPaul said:

Thinking on this it struck me that the Aplex amp you linked to has 50W output. There are a plethora of amplifiers out there with around that level of output.  The answer to the question posed by the head title is that there are many, many amps available to meet your requirements.

Could you point the way to some?

The best cleaning job on my old SR5 fretboard I used nafta lighter fluid and 0000 steel wool to polish off all the grime from the previous owner.

A couple of thin Birchwood Casey gunstock oil coatings to nourish the wood and a bit of same brand wax for the back of the neck.

When your mind's a hammer, everything turns into nails.

That bass tone on Jar of Flies is one of my favourites ever. And that full fat sound on the live footage is amazing too!

Warwick will have some https://shop.warwick.de/en/parts-for-instruments/parts-for-basses/bridge-stringholders-parts?p=2

Not that many fans of Kustom amps though I'm quite fond of the brand. It'd be difficult for a brand to get their amps to market without any following at all I'd think!

9 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

Which ones?

Mind answering the other question first? Who all can you recommend that make interesting music as multi instrumentalist? That's what started this thread, the cool performance by Brutus.

Now it just looks like you're virtue signalling (I think that's what it's called these days) and reprimanding people for being impressed by a female musician. 

43 minutes ago, cetera said:

Oooooh! Are we back to the 'music is a competition' thread?

 

According to some of the previous commenters apparently.

Not that many people that are front person, drummist and lead vocals competently all at once.

Let's see you do better (really, I'd love to see your videos)

The v7 are now all alder bodies and the v8 are swamp ash, have roasted maple necks and the 'heavy mass' bridges.

On 31/01/2023 at 17:17, Jon the Boat said:

penguins and pangolins

New band name!

In some situations you can put your audiogram in to Sonarwork software, and it'll compensate the output to your studio monitors or headphone.

Hearing aids are standard tuned to optimise voices in relation to your hearing loss, to the detriment of music. Some may have a music program or setting which is better but not quite the same as the output of music specific speakers.

On 26/01/2023 at 20:49, Waddo Soqable said:

The name Post Metal, conjures up the idea of a group of ex striking redundant postmen who "full monty" style decide to form a Metal band.....  

That's a movie I'd endorse!

My band's releases are called 'Thrashist pigs' 'Très Metal' 'Weapons of mosh destruction' 'Thrailer thrash' and the working title for the next one is 'Thrasher island' 

I won't spoil the genre of music we play.

1 hour ago, DTB said:

Exactly my point. The “experts” that control the playlists for what they consider the stupid public or peasants to consume are not musicians and wouldn’t know good music from dross. 

Always have been. Nothing has changed in the whole advent of pop music. It's all constructed of the lowest common denominator.

Main stream is for people that don't like music.

4 minutes ago, nilorius said:

Don't buy one. Your own manual compressor is Your bouth hand fingers.

That is not really accurate 

Tuner goes last on my board. Eliminate all noise to the amp between songs.

A nice little amplifier?

I'd get a boss LS2 or radial Di to mix the preamps together and send that to a fender rumble 800 or EBS reidmar 502 or other 2 Ohm amp.

Way easier to send that to the house desk or adjust your backline volume.

If you insist on dual amping, for which there is absolutely no reason imo, you could get two hartke or markbass units, or ampeg portaflexes. Anything 250w and up in parallel should be more than loud enough.

5 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Has anyone found a decent clear sounding wireless headphone for transcribing basslines 

I have the Marshall monitor II headphones, they come with an app with a decent EQ that could be useful.

As always, wireless is too laggy to play music with but transcribing may be just perfect.