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    The Bassplayers' Bassist

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

    How difficult would it be to create a knockout contest using the polls? Flea vs Entwhistle, Macartney vs Nate watts, Jamerson vs duck dunn. Start with 100 bassists and eventually we get to the winner (obviously Jamerson).

     

    I think knowing the final answer in advance is going to make it a bit less exciting, haha! 

     

    It's a shame we can't include a wider selection but it's interesting which names regularly feature that are not on the list, so maybe next Xmas we can do a more refined list (or @Dad3353 will help me figure out how we can broaden the poll).

     

    What I do love about our poll, though, is that's there's perhaps no more thought-through a group of musicians to be asking this particular question to.

    The Bassplayers' Bassist

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Al Krow

    2 minutes ago, dudewheresmybass said:

    burton, geezer but I don't see Harris there :sad:

     

    I know, I know...but which of the greats would you cast aside to make room for Steve H?

     

    And how about posting a clip of his best bass line ever to make up for his absence on the poll (limited to 30)?

    The Bassplayers' Bassist

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Ok I'm gonna fess up that I'm (pleasantly?) surprised at how popular Macca is as a bass player (he wasn't in my top 3).

     

    Tbf his post 1965 James Jamerson inspired playing is in a different league to some of his more plodding early Beatles stuff, but was he that good as a "standalone" bassist that he's currently coming in 2nd on our poll?

     

    I suppose the equivalent would be our lead vox saying he wasn't an amazing vocalist either - I mean he was no Aretha Franklin.

     

    But I guess it's the combination of singer-songwriter-bass player which puts him into the stratosphere, and a combination which very few others (Geddy Lee?) have managed to scale.

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    The Bassplayers' Bassist

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Al Krow

    2 hours ago, binky_bass said:

    Jean Baudin and Yves Carbonne need adding please! Maybe Michael Manring too... 🙂

     

    Oh, and Bill Clements too, because the man's a legend for using the bass to say FU to disabilities. 

     

    2 hours ago, Skybone said:

    Geezer Butler

    Roger Glover

    Cliff Burton

    Peter Hook

     

    I definitely make that 4 from both of you...who would be your top 3 (including the ones already on the list)? 😅

    The Bassplayers' Bassist

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Bolo said:

    Cliff Burton and Rob Trujillo please 

     

    3 hours ago, Stofferson said:

    Geezer Butler please 

     

    3 hours ago, lowdown said:

    Anthony Jackson

    Marcus Miller

    Rocco Prestia

     

    3 hours ago, BreadBin said:

    Norman Watt Roy should be in the list I reckon 

     

    2 hours ago, JoeEvans said:

    Robbie Shakespeare? Bootsy Collins? 

     

    About to add this lot in so hopefully they will get your respective top 3 votes!

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    The Bassplayers' Bassist

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    44 minutes ago, tauzero said:

    No Victor Wooten or Mark King?

     

    20 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

    I'd vote for Jack Casady, Phil Lesh  and Ashley Hutchings, were they to appear on the list. :rWNVV2D:

     

    Added 😊

     

    39 minutes ago, chris_b said:

    Nathan East, John McVie and Duck Dunn.

     

    But on another day it could easily be Wilton Felder, Reggie McBride and Hutch Hutchinson.

     

    Well let me know which day it is...

     

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    The Bassplayers' Bassist

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Al Krow

    For a little bit of Christmas fun, thought it would be interesting to do a poll of our all time favourite bass players.

     

    Probably impossible for many of us to name just one, so I'm going to suggest we each get to vote for up to three legends. 

     

    I've got a list of 15 down to get things going, but if one of your top three is not on the list - no problems at all: just name them and I'll get them added on. UPDATE - apparently a max poll list of 30 is possible, so the list is now closed. Sorry for those of you who's favourite 3 bass players are not on the list, but hopefully at least one or two of them will be up there.

     

    If you fancy sharing what your favourite bass line is by any / or all of your three favourite bass players, even better! 

    Boss GM-800 Synth launched

    in Effects

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

     

    Not really, they don't work well on those, specifically the spacing is a bit of an issue (less than bass, more than guitar) but also the same reason as a bass. Purely down to frequency. The roland GK systems have the best tracking you can get, they have researched it more than anyone else and they cheat a bit to get the frequency, but ultimately you don't know what frequency something is until you have seen enough of its wave to work out its time. For a bass note, low E is 41Hz, so one wave every  1 whole wave every 24ms or so. Roland do faster than that which is impressive, but even then there are other frequencies as well to cloud the issue so they pick the note they think it is and then bend like mad to get it to be right on subsequent data (which is why the GKs always sound better than anything fed from their midi ports).

    Obviously going to the low note of a guitar, the low E is 12ms so way better, and an octave about that, 6ms, you kind of got rid of the issue.

     

    I have played the GKs on bass and guitar and frankly it is just better on the guitar.

     

    The SY / VG system gets round that by not even trying, it just uses the wave coming in and modifies it. So no lag or anything.

     

    Thanks for that Woody. Coming back to @BigRedX's point, the sequencer on the SY 200 (and I'm assuming therefore on the SY 300 and 1000) is pretty good in terms of low latency for the reasons Woody has set out. Dunno if it would get 90% of the way there for what you're wanting BRX, though?

    Boss GM-800 Synth launched

    in Effects

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

     

    The Guitar synths always did, just the VG system used cosm processing, the GR system used pitch to note, and that always is going to have a delay.

    Not so bad on a guitar, always a bit slower on a bass (in fact, twice as slow on the e vs e on guitar). Not so bad for synth swells and stuff, but for staccato notes, you have to predict that delay and play early, which is easy enough to do but does require a change in technique.

    Or just play it higher, in which case, use a guitar, then you can do the bass on it with the synth

    Sounds like it could work decently on a Bass VI? 

    Helix Floor/LT/HX/Stomp/PodGo owners' Club - Tips, Ideas & Patches

    in Effects

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Muzz said:

    Apologies if I've doubled up on anything, but 89 pages is a lot to hoick through - has anyone got any tried and tested synth patches for the Stomp? 80s stuff for covers, mainly, things like The Way You Make Me Feel, etc...

     

    Aww mate...you've handled 369 pages on the Yamaha mega-thread, 89 pages should be a walk in the park for you? 😅

     

    Here you go, some earlier chat around pages 56 and 57 of this thread on synth sounds:

    On 24/11/2020 at 23:27, PatrickJ said:

    Checked out Dr Tone this evening but didn't really rate his Synth sounds...

    This guy however - much more the sort of thing I am after

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lz02CvQ42U&ab_channel=ChadCarouthers

    Also this guy is using a HX FX in this video for some of his synth effects

    Scott's Bass Lessons - Top 10 Synth Bass Lines (But it's not Scott!)

     

    Consensus back then was that it wasn't Helix's (or indeed most multifx's) strong point. The exception on the multifx front being the cheap as chips Zoom B1-4 and its siblings and you'd be better off with a Future Impact or C4 for monophonic synth or Boss SY-200 (or the SY-1 if you don't want presets) for polyphonic. 

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    Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

    in Effects

    Posted

    On 22/11/2023 at 19:53, Sibob said:

    Put together a couple of pedalboards over the last couple of days:

     

    A kinda secondary ‘fly-board’ to my main board:

     

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    This is somewhat in flux as I figure out the spacing and what I can manage to fit. The OC2 will likely change for an MXR Octave Deluxe, love the OC2 for recording, but for live use, the MXR is huge sounding. The Flashback has a Chorus toneprint on it, my OCD would like a Corona Chorus in there (or some other 1590a bass chorus perhaps, basically not a ‘Delay’ pedal), but it would just be chucking money after something to do exactly the same sound haha. The COG 66 will almost certainly be swapped for a Fuzz, and pretty sure I can fit a 1590B pedal there, so plenty of choice. 
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    Second board is one for a metal project I’m trying to learn some tunes for, may as well get the sounds right to practice them to:

     

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    The MXR compressor is supreme, these Studio Compressors are exactly the same as the Bass Compressor, just a different box. And the Fuzzrocious Cat Tail (with Clean Blend) is just awesome into the v1 Sansamp.

    Powered by a small Diego thing. I want to get a EBS 4-port power daisy chain….just because the ones here really stick out.

     

    Both are Pedaltrain Nanos.

     

    Si

     

    I'm still on that endless perfect dirt quest - the Fuzzrocious Cat Tail (with Clean Blend) has been on my radar for a little while. Any clips of what it sounds like in a band mix Si? Also where did you get that particular model from - the ones online don't seem to feature quite such compact housing?

    Which wireless?

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted

    33 minutes ago, urbanx said:

    Nice!

    I'm just aggrieved to spend £500+ on a system when I have £180 of wireless already, even if it's useless :(  That's getting on for 'new bass' territory.  

     

    You didn't see the landing! 

    Seriously tho, really?

    Our guitarist who is pretty static has lost his plug in one a couple of times while playing live, it's put me off. I really chuck myself about while playing, but always look after my gear. 

     

    Haha - with you on the £500+ system - definitely been a discussion point on this thread! There's very decent 'mid range' stuff, but whether they are 100% as good? Well I'd love to put my (£140 new, I bought for less used) Nux 5.8Ghz up against the Shure GLD16+series and see if there's any difference, I've certainly not been disappointed with the Nux so far.

     

    I think the barrel jack point maybe quite relevant to what you're saying though: one of my older gigging basses (which also cost less than £500 second hand, as it happens!) wasn't holding a lead in that well let alone a wireless bug, so I've got a new barrel jack fitted to sort.

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