Frank Blank
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3 hours ago, Maude said:
Great bassline though.
It strikes that rare balance of being complicated yet still serving the song perfectly, it is, as you say, just a great bass line.
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3 hours ago, Ricky 4000 said:
I wonder, Frank - Did you go for the instant gratification of playing the verse riff down by the nut, or the long game of playing it properly at the 7th fret? 😁
Oddly enough for me I did start off playing it down by the nut (I play higher up the neck usually) but my tutor soon had me up on the 7th!
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Foolishly I decided to transcribe Pump it Up by Elvis Costello at my last bass lesson, and I’ve been practicing it ever since, blimey Bruce Thomas was some player.
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5 minutes ago, Dan_Q said:
I fell in love with the looks of one of these in my local PMT a couple of weekends ago- it was a beautiful olive green colour 😎 nice to hear they play and sound as good as they look.
They really do!
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21 minutes ago, intime-nick said:
I go direct from wireless into an XR18 (with IEMs & no backline) & have done so for the past 8-9 months at quite a few gigs.
I split my input into two channels (one for FOH, one for IEMs), insert the stereo Sansamp guitar effect Into the input channel and run a cab sim on the IEM side and none on the FOH) and it works for me with pretty much zero setup time (as it’s all racked).
I also use the inbuilt parametric EQ, compressor and noise gate on the separate channels - it basically replaces the Helix LT I was using as a glorified non-changing pedalboard and now I have no cables, no buttons to press and it sounds the same at every gig and I couldn’t be happier
The XR12/16/18 as a bass preamp is a great idea imho.
I realise this doesn’t have much to do with FRFR (apart from possibly using the PA) but I did use a Yamaha DBR15 as a stage monitor for a while using a similar setup (via an aux channel on the XR18) - it was only for the rest of the band to hear and now I just send the bass via their own monitors and the drummer has it via his IEMs and his P&D drum throne.
This is really helpful interesting info thanks.
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19 minutes ago, jrixn1 said:
I use an MS-60B which has digital presets.
I can’t find an MS-60B online?
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1 minute ago, LukeFRC said:
Dawson’s have a massive new shop in Leeds which I popped into as I was passing ... I saw for the first time a helix pedal...
flip me it’s gianormous! It’s bigger than some bass amps
I was amazed at the size of it, good job I wasn’t piloting a Harrier at the time, I’d have attempted a landing on it.
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1 hour ago, EBS_freak said:
I don’t know why you wouldn’t just go XR18.
Hmmmm, I’m not sure about the controls being on an iPad. Is my desire for knobs (steady) and switches dinosaurism? I use iPads but it seems...
...oh, hang on, I control Logic from my iPad, doh.
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1 hour ago, EBS_freak said:
Listen to me Frank 😉 you know it makes sense - stop thinking like a dinosaur!! 😛
I’m thinking exactly the opposite way mainly down to you!
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9 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:
@Frank Blank - Personally I would build a mini board (I use a pedal train Nano) and have two preamps going to the QSC. I’ve done this a few times. You could use a Boss line switcher for input or output or some other a/b pedal if you only wanted one lead to the QSC.
Thing is, you love the fish man sound - so keep it. It won’t do what you want for the other bass so a small board with 2 on will cover both. You can then delight in the joy of trying loads of preamp pedals. Personally it’s one of my fave hobbies - I love trying preamp pedals out. Got my eye on a subway next and it will no doubt continue ad Infinitum....
Actually I like this idea, but I’m worried that I like it for the same reason you do, trying out loads of preamp pedals. Anyway, so if I were running two preamps, how would the chain go, bass > pre 1 > pre 2 > line switcher > QSC? Excuse my ignorance, I’m a proper newb to this. Also you say “...if you only want one lead to the QSC”, I thought you could only use the line b input for instruments?
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*waves*
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I hear (of have heard) bad reports about the quality of Behringer gear?
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22 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:
@Frank Blank maybe consider something like a XR12 - you can dedicate a channel to each bass, each with individual gain and EQ and compression, overdrive etc... to build your core tone for each instrument... whatever you need.
The amount of processing you get in that small box is just staggering, if you can’t make that work for you...
The Behringer XR12? We are (as you suggested earlier in this thread) then we are heading towards mixer/IEM territory. I was unsure about this route but after discussing it with my musical partner, who is interested in this route, it seems we might head this way. So could I, using such a piece of kit, put both basses through but switch between them with a foot switch? And could we (as in my duo) put my basses and my partner’s acoustic through this and then send to the desk from it and then monitor from it via our powered wedges or IEMs?
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1 hour ago, charic said:
Anyone fancy pretending to be in a band, taking an assortment of child's toys instruments and just taking the free food and drink he's offering while we get drunk on stage (with him giving us the booze ofc) and playing on the toys?
Like this..?
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5 minutes ago, Muzz said:
The Radial Bassbone is made for that sort of thing - not particularly cheap, but IIRC there may be one in the FS on here...
Cheers @Muzz! Just looking at the Bassbone OD, it appears to do exactly what I’m looking for.
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8 minutes ago, Osiris said:
Me too. I tend to be a bit hamfisted when it comes to jobs like that but if it's pretty straightforward then I might give it a go, pending a successful test drive that is 😀
I’m afraid I’m very much the ‘straight to the luthier’ type, I’ve never lifted a bonnet in my life.
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3 minutes ago, Osiris said:
It may have been that they were a little over zealous with the gloss on the one I tried but it sounds like it's not common issue, so if it can easily be resolved with a little wire wool...
I was wondering about that, taking the gloss off the neck. I prefer a Matt finish.
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Having finally settled on an FRFR set up that’s is, by far, the best amplification solution I’ve ever used, I have now bumped into the next hurdle, which, to be honest, I should have considered before buying the preamp. I play an acoustic fretless bass through a Fishman Platinum Pro and into a QSC K12.2 and it’s exactly the sound I’ve been after for, well, decades really and that would be fine only I need to play my fretted four string through the same set up. Playing live or whilst rehearsing I alternate between basses, obviously the settings on the preamp need to change yet the Fishman has only one channel and obviously I don’t want to be altering the eq back and forth as the basses change. Are there preamps with the ability to save different eq settings and switch between them? Or is there another solution to this? I am hoping the only answer isn’t a Kemper or a Helix but as ever I’m open to persuasion @EBS_freak...
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40 minutes ago, Newfoundfreedom said:
Still, if you get another chance try plugging one in. I think you'll be surprised at how "big" they sound.
That’s what freaked me out so much, they have such a beefy tone, I was genuinely shocked. So much so I began playing along with Hanson, PMT Southend, there.
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1 hour ago, Osiris said:
How do you guys that own, or have played the Gretsch find the finish on the neck?
I tried one in my local PMT a few weeks ago and although the neck profile felt slim and comfortable, it was really sticky and there was a noticeable resistance to my left hand as I was playing up and down the neck. I'm not sure what the neck is finished with but it put me off the bass straight away. Is this normal for this model? Or was the one I played a duffer?
The one I played had none of the neck issues yours had, I think you might have found a duff there.
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12 minutes ago, Bleat said:
I sold my black Junior Jet, and without a doubt was the most playable and best sounding bass I have owned. It is also the one I have regretted selling most …. 😒
I am actually trying to scrape the money up at the moment to buy another !
What do you play now?
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But will it be as good as Orienteering With Napalm Death?
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I realise it’s a crap reason but I just dont like the look of these sort of bridges, never have, just a personal taste thing I think. My only real preference is to replace it with something black! I might make it a stealth project.
Can someone tell me what makes up the £8k difference in price between these two basses?
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