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Better than pictures, here it is sounding absolutely wonderful whilst reviewing some EBS bass pedals: http://www.iguitarmag.com/magazine-editions/guitar-interactive-issue-36/edition-videos/dv_ebs_black_label_edition_pedals_review/

Still a great lil piece of kit!

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1440712256' post='2853310'] Lovely finish. So is this custom car-type two-part paint? Like Candy Colours or something? [/quote] It is indeed 'flip-paint'. People tend to call this TVR flip paint, though of course it's not just TVR cars that use it. The effect can be controlled radically by not only the colour flip paint itself but also the undercoat. In order to get the weird pink/burgundy mist finish here, the undercoat is a sparkle red! Yes, I will be taking more pictures!!

Good morning folks, Firstly may I apologise for being away from this thread for a bit, I know you are all waiting for information from me. I fully intended to be able to spend lots of time working on a description of the cabinet as well as being involved in the testing through independent review. Unfortunately, as life has a habit of re-directing my energies, I've had to contact Phil to say that, at least for the foreseeable future I will have to pull out from being able to deliver the write-up to you. Indeed, for now I'm even finding it difficult to 'just be a musician'. Hopefully these ups and downs will be temporary and I can get back to doing what I should be!! I will of course try to keep dipping in and offering any experience with the cabinet as requested, though I won't be on BassChat in an active capacity certainly for the next month or so. That said, I have to sell a load of kit, so at least expect to see that... This is a brilliant thread and really enlightening. BassChat really is the best

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1440588385' post='2852146'] But what I do remember is that my main goal for learning to play was so I could write my own songs and preform them in a band. Obviously I learnt the guitar by playing other people's songs but not in the way I see described here - painstakingly picking out the relevant musical lines and reproducing them. I had the sheet music and songbooks for some bands that I liked, and had learnt how to strum my way through the chord progressions for the songs that I knew. A school friend showed me the blues pentatonic scale and as far a I was concerned that was pretty much everything I needed to start writing my own songs. [/quote] Funnily enough, more or less the way that I and countless others learned to take our first musical steps too! I wouldn't say you were much different and I mean that in a good way! My point though is that you will have known what the sound of the pentatonic scale was, even subliminally to know how to use it. Being able to place it on the guitar neck just means that you can utilise it faster with a pattern too. - and that's a good reason for learning riffs too as it helps to understand how to create new sounds in your mental library and at least in the beginning being able to fast track it by relating the sound to a pattern on the neck or a familiar bass line you've learned already. I hope that makes sense!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1440505433' post='2851317'] I really can't see the point of learning something you don't have any need to actually play it. I'd sooner be writing some of my own. Far more interesting and productive. [/quote] Maybe I can help you then! - Take yourself back to when you first started learning to play the instrument. What did you do? You mimicked the songs you loved - you started learning those first riffs and mastered the first few notes around the bass neck. Using riffs is a great help for students. The reason I also suggested making a note of what scale or for example mode a riff is in or uses is very helpful. A student can begin to understand what a particular scale sounds like or indeed looks like on the bass neck. To put it another way - and I do like a good analogy... When you were born, how did you learn to speak? Yes, you mimicked those around you - learned words, phrases, facial expressions from those who already 'had that down'. You only learned to read and write after that. Using that knowledge you have an even greater understanding that will enable you to create your own bass lines. For me, saying that there's no need to learn something (a riff) if you don't need to use it, is a bit like saying "I don't need to know what all those other words mean, I only use these ones." Doesn't that strike you as a strange thing to say?

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1440406090' post='2850303'] That's what I thought when I read the first post but reading the replies, that's far from what has been posted I was expecting tunes like: Another one bites the dust The Chain Superstition (The keys part everyone plays on bass ) Money To name but a few. A riff is a repeating motif that the song is based on. Isn't it? [/quote] I was intending that the list should be just well known riffs rather than whole songs yes!! The ones you mention are for sure right at the top of the need to know list TimR!!

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1439994258' post='2847365'] [i]..... [/i]Whether or not you think that that would make any meaningful difference is probably best decided by an angry four hundred page thread. [/quote] I'm a bit late to the discussion but I am happy that I got here eventually, otherwise I would have missed this post that has definitely won the internet for August

Ok so I went with a new black guard. The Fender US type looks like a perfect fit and had a cutaway for the truss rod adjustment. Whilst I'm there, in going to replace the pots as I think they've seen better days. This bass is gonna get lots of use. Have I been really lucky or are all Mat' basses stonkingly good? I mean - "really good, why would I spend more on a P bass" good!!

Sorry, just felt the need to say that.

Free the BassChat 12!!

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1439986442' post='2847253'] I'm not sure where this thing about the mid prominence of the Basschat design is coming from, I've heard it and so have Stevie and Dood but it doesn't show in the measurements and didn't show in this test either. I'm hoping to get back to the measurement room with Stevie to work out what we are looking at. [/quote] I think - no, I am pretty sure I know what it is we are hearing. It's not 'mid peaks' we are hearing, more mid presence. Its a lack of deep (sub) lows and rounded off top end that gives the sense of a prominent mid range - especially when the lil' chap is placed on the floor and we stand over it. The effect I have found to be similar on the odd cabinet I have reviewed that allows the ability to turn off a tweeter. This appears to be less prominent on a cabinet that has a naturally baked in scooped tone (either through speaker, cabinet design or both.) So, I'd suggest that this speaker is actually doing a good job of reproducing frequencies throughout the mid lows, mid range and low mids, but it's natural roll off gives the impression of having a mid boost. This would seem to support my feeling that this speaker would be great as a mid-bass driver in a multi-driver set up. This is of course outside the remit of this project. Thumbs up for the sensitivity through the mid range though. I do like that this cabinet and speaker combination offers a really nice fatness all the way up the G string of my bass, rather than the notes disappearing in an EQ's scoop.

Right then! I'll be reviewing an RM800 next week I hope! How are you getting on with yours Merton?

[quote name='Raslee' timestamp='1439584062' post='2844258'] Absolutely [/quote] See my post above!!!!

[b]I've added the Spotify Playlist thread link to my signature should anyone want to contribute![/b]

Did anyone mention Smoke On The Water, Wishing Well and You Really Got Me yet? The first bass line I ever learned was (no surprises really) by Queen: Another One Bites The Dust

I enjoy listening to this playlist!!

[quote name='gapiro' timestamp='1439468445' post='2843085'] Is anyone actually making a spotify list for these ? I'm going throw in Rio - Duran Duran (E) [/quote] I do already have a Spotify thread for 'greatest bass lines' yes! http://basschat.co.uk/topic/246416-spotify-best-bass-lines-evaaar-playlist-get-involved/page__hl__bass%20lines If you have Spotify you can freely add to the growing list of awesome bass lines! This post is more about single riffs for everyone from complete beginner to advanced playing, I think anyway!

Absolutely, I'm leaving this peach was it is but I think I'd like a new guard on board at least.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1439548299' post='2843740'] You've had quite a result there. But where is the Bass Doc when we need him. He's another we sadly miss. [/quote] I mean, the bass has signs of wear. It's not A1 condition, but none of the dings etc are near the playing area so it still feels comfortable to play. Everything has a lovely 'worn in' feel. So, if I went for a black guard, would black hardware be too much? Or keep it to nickel/non shiny chrome hardware? Yes, we're losing too many good people!!

Thank you guys! I am so so pleased with this bass! I'm going to look for a black U.S. Plate with the slot for the truss rod adjustment on it. Yup I think it'll look cool!!

You are absolutely right! I've wanted that aged Maple/Ash combination for a long long while! It's a super little machine! Well, I've been 21 many many times now, so I'm having to accept that although it looks and I feel like I'm 70 at times HA I am getting dangerously close to the afore mentioned figure

Recently I spotted an old Fender P bass I used to own back for sale on eBay. I loved that bass having stupidly sold it some 25 years ago. I decided that I would try to buy it back but sadly all failed and I missed out on it. I probably spent too much time thinking about it and well, a big birthday is round the corner. I thought about investing in a 'Birth Year' bass and really, it could only be one particular instrument. However, the price tag for such an instrument I just couldn't stomach despite knowing exactly what it was I was after. I think around the same time I started checking out other precision type basses. I'm a big fan of Japanese Fenders having owned a few. I thought that maybe I should just buy an RI and be done with it. But what I really wanted was an old battered and bruised P bass, naturally aged and zingy with woody tone. Well, thanks to some posts on BassChat as well as video reviews on Youtube I discovered a range of Japanese basses that had me at low E. Yes, the late 70's 'Law Suit' basses, especially those from the Matsumoku factory. I wondered if the reviews I were reading about the basses were realistic or just enthusiastic owners, but I kept going back to one particular model over and over! Yes, out of all the law-suiters, I found the Aria Pro PB models especially enticing as they had Ash bodies and Maple necks and a faithful reproduction of 'that look' we all know and love. (Mainly as it would make upgrades very easy!) So I tracked down this beauty! I appreciate it's in the eye of the beholder; genuinely after tuning this bass up I have done very little to the actual set up of the instrument. it is AMAZING! For the money, it makes a complete laughing stock of 'the real thing'. This all original bass is nearly 40 years old and it is an absolute joy to play, really. I've played it every day since it arrived a couple of weeks ago... I might just get another!