FinnDave

I agree, probably an excuse to sell instruments at an even higher mark-up! My daughter is very much a left-handed person in everything she does - except when playing the guitar! Can you get left handed double basses? If not then how do people cope if they swap between a left handed electric bass and an upright?

That would work for the jam, but it'd take a while to get all the crumbs up.

I am sure the Gene Simmons supporters would approve - better clarity and definition to your cake eating that way.

Yes...but fork or fingers?

I think (meaning it's my opinion, which you are free to agree or disagree with) that the key word in the thread title is 'studio'. In the studio, it is easy to get a great sound using fingers. But unless you are experienced at playing live, a pick is easier to get good tone with. I suspect he's more having a go at 'studio bassists' than live musos who play finger style.

Platform 5? Had some great nights in there with the lads, used to be a right rough place, is it still? Remember Hurricane Higgins blind drunk and still beating all comers on the snooker table, juke box full of Hendrix and Lynerd Skynerd, helping hopelessly drunk chap to his car and then saying 'goodnight Father' as the local Catholic priest wove his way into the traffic...proper home from home that was, 40 odd years ago.

Any idea what it was called back in the 70s? My local back then was the Junction, a Holts' pub right next to the station.

I think we should start calling them pickplates. Or scratchguards.

Blimey, I went to school in Cheadle Hulme and college in Stockport! Don't often get back there these days, but did co-present a programme on a Macclesfield community radio station last year, with a fellow bassist I've known for over 40 years.

I think you'll find that a great many people in this country refer to them as picks. I also think there are more useful ideas in this thread than a pedantic insistence on the use of an archaic term (and yes, i am usually this bloody minded when I've been drinking!).

Yes, very happy, though you're only seeing part of the picture. The RM 800 I bought here last year is my back-up amp, I also have an RM800 evo. I use the evo primarily, through either a BF Super Compact (1 x 12, 8 ohms) or for larger venues, a BF Super Twin (2 x 12, 4 ohms). Whichever I am using, I use a Sansamp Bass DI and go straight into the power amp section of the RM800, bypassing the entire pre-amp. I just find it simpler, and easier to get consistent results, especially if I am also DI'ing not the house PA. Whereabouts in Cheshire are you? I spent quite a few of my younger years living in Bramhall, that's where I first started this game, in fact!

I'd define a 'practice amp' as one you use to play alone when learning parts, so any small combo would do, the quality of the tone is irrelevant. I use a small Peavey combo, it's more than enough to play along with songs from my laptop played through a bluetooth speaker. I wouldn't choose to use it when playing with others, I'd take my small gig rig (Rootmaster 800 head & Super Compact cab) for that.

Well, he's got a point...and thinking about it, I get a good sound in a studio playing finger style, but live, it sounds better with a pick, live benefits from the attack and definition that a pick gives you.

(After dinner) I've just read the thread title properly and reckon he's spot-on - fingers in the studio but pick on stage. Studio technique does not translate well to the stage.

I prefer playing with fingers, but much prefer the sound out front I get with a pick. After decades of finger playing, I am finally a committed pick player. Many people agree, and say I should have been committed years ago!

I was actually agreeing with hm until you wrote that!

Yeah, all the sh!t the disillusioned chuck out after hearing a decent cab for the first time!

Promotor says we're definitely playing and she's already told them about the calendar being wrong.

First time I've seen that, I'll have a word with the promotor! Thanks!!

It's relatively local for me, but I don't play double bass, never have done and don't want my will power tested! I also have a gig in the evening on Saturday, so need to conserve some energy and hearing! Of course, if anyone is heading back from the bash southbound along the A34, they could turn off at Abingdon, head for the Brewery Tap and have their hearing damaged for the second time in one day!

They do look interesting, how long do you find the wooden picks last? I'm funny about picks, I'll happily spend 100s on a new bass, change strings until I find the right sound, but use my 50p Dunlop picks long after the tip has worn away! I try to keep fresh ones for gigs and full rehearsals and use the worn ones for hone practice, but they inevitably get mixed up.

I use 2mm Dunlops as well, purple with a pic of a tortoise on. No flex at all, like you, I can't be doing with anything that flexes