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Had the pleasure of selling my Fender USA Marcus Miller V to Steff - what a great guy, clearly a superb player and with exceptional taste in cars as well as basses! 😄 Steff, it was lovely to meet you and I hope you enjoy the bass - happy gigging and don't overdo it over Christmas - ha ha !! Best wishes David

+1 for the KZ10 which I've been using for a couple of years now. Great Video and great bass playing - I found this comment in the Youtube comments section interesting: "a completely computer formatted show with metronome loop and voice countdowns. Even the audience participation on Let the Good Times Roll is formatted to eight bar patter and eight bar audience singing. Zero left to chance. Even their “walk out” is timed. The drone note is “in the can” and I have a feeling the background vocals on the first song are partially canned as well. I listened to Ben giving a lecture on his methodology and it was basically focused on discipline and preparation. So this makes perfect sense. Decisions are made, sequences are worked out and rigidly adhered to. He’s a gifted singer and a brilliant musician who also has a degree in business and marketing. Perfection is the goal. I have no problem with any of it." Maybe I should be less surprised at how "tight" some gigs are! That said, I heard "Ghost Note" at Ronnies a few months back - no in-ears in sight anywhere and an incredibly tight and funky set ! Show less

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Love this !! - brilliant !

Thanks - that sounds like a really interesting role. Hope the automation doesn’t cut you out! The stuff that basschatters do never ceases to amaze me! ………so back to the original question, do we know who the actual bassist is (assuming it’s not programmed) or is it a whole variety of players?

@LeftyP love what you did there! Must have been an labour of love (scuse the pun!!) Our “cafe church” event went pretty well. Most challenging for me was “a Christmas Overture” for which the words were adapted to fit our theme. There are some bass “stabs” with quite tricky timing (for me!) but I got there eventually. The original song is here: Sounded great in the room but lousy on livestream!!

Well to answer your question @Stu-khag I’m not sure which episode as the Mrs deletes them after watching!! That said, my point was a general one about the nature of the bass bits - and they come in at odd points throughout each episode - I wasn’t thinking of the theme tune. So do you work/contract for the BBC then?!

So having been stuck at home during Covid, me and the Mrs got hooked on “Bargain Hunt” and it’s now on permanent “record”. What’s this got to do with basses I hear you ask?! Well has anyone else noticed the well executed and quite funky sometimes, bass riffs during the programme? I could swear whoever writes it is a bassist! Does anyone know who’s involved?!!! from a sad BH addict! (Well it’s cheaper than GAS!)

Anyone remember the techno disco “Show me Love” by Robin S. Well here is a cover by the very talented Charlie Moreno (track is his band “Powafunk”) His bass lines a super creative and quite difficult (for me!!) to replicate!

Sorry to hear this Trevor, and hopefully you’ll find a new “home” where you can use your talents. First time I’ve posted on here but I’ve enjoyed reading your contributions. I’m the main bassist at a large church in Essex. It’s a full band, and I usually play a 5 string Fender PJ or JJ although with the curse of GAS have used loads of different basses over the years!! Signal goes into TC Electronic Staccato head with post-EQ D/I and although using IEM I like to also hear the low end via a Vanderkley cab. We control our own in ear mix via “Visi Listen” and use OnSong but I’m nowadays only using it for the occasional prompt. The stuff goes out on livestream with mixed results!