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    Who are we kidding - does great bass tone REALLY matter?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, Beedster said:

    I think there's an emotional/subconscious level at which all tone matters hugely, perhaps not fine-grain tone but certainly when the differences are audible (i.e., good rig compared to bad rig). Whilst it matters to us bassers in quite an explicit way, I think it's more implicit with audiences. I hear a great tone and to me I know/think it was a great tone; audiences would perhaps experience greater positive emotion throiugh listening to the music but not identify the tone per se? 

    So yes, tone matters to us all. This opinion might however be my executive brain trying to explain the fact that my emotional brain keeps buying rigs :)

    Actually this is making me perhaps modify my thoughts, I am not a specialist in any field really but I am savvy enough sometimes to just know when something (perhaps something I am not knowledgeable enough to comprehend or single out) is wrong...

    ...audiences would perhaps experience greater positive emotion through listening to the music but not identify the tone per se?

    ...Hmmmmm, yes, thought provoking.

    Saying hello to the main band?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 2/7/2018 at 11:25, matski said:

    You've probably never heard of Leszek Mozdzder, but he's a quite well-known jazz pianist in Poland. A few years ago I was working with a charity helping disabled people and we had organised a big event featuring a concert and LM had agreed to participate (as long as his travel and hotel expenses were covered :facepalm:).

    Anyways, the day before the event, a makeshift rehearsal session was arranged but as space was quite limited I had to stand quite close to the piano. Until the pianist's manager came and asked me to move further away, as I was invading his creative space or some such twaddle.

    To add insult to injury, this guy was supposed to accompany a girl with Down's Syndrome who had been flown in from England especially for the concert but when concert time arrived he refused to play alongside her and her father had to step in instead. What a bell end.

    There was a piano that needed p***ing in.

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    Bass players still poor relations in a band...?

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    What these people fail to understand is Bass is King. Guitarists have to do all sorts of flouncy virtuosic nonsense to get their sorry point across, there is nothing like standing at the back locked in with the drummer and fully realising that the reason that audience is dancing is nothing to do with the 6 string hair farmer but all to do with the deep, satisfying groove you are laying out there.

    Guitarists? I’ve s*** ‘em.

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    Precision Bass E String Tension Issue

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, mcnach said:

     

    On 2/4/2018 at 18:02, LITTLEWING said:

    One more thing to try that a lot of people don't do - when new strings go on you MUST (after tuning to concert pitch) push each string down with moderate pressure immediately after the saddle on the pickup side to create a 'witness point' and a break angle that end. This will complete the nut to saddle singing length. 

    The other thing that kills an E string is inadvertenly running one's thumb up and down filling the windings with crud. Keep that digit behind the neck as much as possible.

    The luthier who sets up my guitars showed me this, the benefits of such a seemingly small action are immense.

     

    Reggae and ska

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Frank Blank

    Floyd Lawson and Vivian Weathers who share the bass playing on Linton Kwesi Johnson’s first three albums...

    Dread, Beat an’ Blood

    Forces of Victory

    Bass Culture

    ...especially the last two. Simple, austere, sparse playing but just perfect.

    Saying hello to the main band?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Having worked in the music world for fifteen odd years (as a tech rather than a musician) I found that bands on their way up tended to be the ones full of themselves, the vast majority of the big names (in my limited experience) were cool.  Behaviour like this is also facilitated by the obsequious sycophants that surround them. My career as a driver/tech/roadie was an interesting period, I have been thrown off tours (once in the middle of the US) for speaking my mind yet also my services were requested sometimes precisely because I was straight about things. Generally I suppose a-holes remain that way, cool folk remain that way regardless of the level of success or the business they are in.

    Aerodyne Error?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    Just now, Marc S said:

    Yes, I think I'd contact the seller, to arrange a refund.
    Then take a look at that Mustang P/J on here, or perhaps the seller has one in stock? Try for an exchange?

    I have a Chowny Pro on order to satisfy my electric SS bass needs and my main bass is the Taylor GS Mini-e Bass, but I’m thinking about starting up a heavy dub band in the next few months and now I’m wondering if the Aerodyne might be the very bass for that project?

    Aerodyne Error?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by Frank Blank

    I think you all have very valid points. I did buy it, initially, because I love the look of it and I love the weight too, and, thinking more about what @visog said I can be fickle sometimes and throw all my toys out the pram over very little. I think I need to apply a little adult reason and give it a proper chance.

    Aerodyne Error?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    57 minutes ago, visog said:

    I have to say it appears not to the bass' fault but your reaction to it. To sell it without playing it is a very weird response to a musical instrument. (An investment maybe less so.) Play it... it could be 'the one' for you.

    You also shouldn't be spending £1k+ sums when you're obviously prone to fickle, possibly arbitrary decisions, "a week after purchase I discovered I should be playing a short scale"...

    I don’t think that’s a fickle, nor arbitrary, decision. In fact it wasn’t a decision at all, it was a discovery on playing a short scale for the first time.

    Aerodyne Error?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    I have it up for sale right now as a week after purchase I discovered I should be playing short scale. I haven't played a note on it. I think I'm just going to have to take a huge hit on this one and put it down to experience.

    Saying hello to the main band?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    28 minutes ago, LITTLEWING said:

    Towards the end, singer thanked us by name and then amazingly SLATED US ROYALLY in front of everybody for being rude and not going to say hello to them!!!!

    I would have found the MF afterwards and spoilt his day royally in whatever manner came to mind.

    Aerodyne Error?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Elfrasho said:

    1k?? Jeeez...  Great basses but not 1k+. 

    Look great though and are super light! 

    The do look great and are very light but also cost £1083 at most places...

    Damn.

    Aerodyne Error?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    Someone just put me out of my misery, I've spent 1k+ on a spanking new Aerodyne and the only real comment I've seen on here compared it to a Mondeo.

    Shall I just take it down the end of the garden, Townsend it and make a fire?

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