adamg67

I'm pretty sure I've hit my limit now, I can just about claim to tell the difference between a £700 (second hand) bass and a budget one, anything more than that would be wasted on me. I seem to be happy with 3 basses at a time as well, it may go down to 2. I'm another that thinks that as far as looks go the more you spend the less you get.

Or amp and cab sims versus real amps and cabs.

There are a load of band name generators online, and they seem to do at least as good a job as people do. I liked "Boomerang Highway" last time band name picking was being done, but the rest of the band didn't - it was an omen of things to come

Pulled the trigger, it's arriving tomorrow.

Ah, Basschat, the permanent enemy of my bank balance. I feel like I need one just to find out what you can do with it, even if I'll never use it in anger.

A while ago, I bought an Xotic Bass RC Booster preamp from BC. A little while later I bought a Darkglass Vintage Ultra v2. Not related, except that out of all the things I've bought recently, these two pedals both developed faults. The LED went on the Xotic, and the blend control on the DG has gone bad. I've contacted Darkglass a couple of times, once via their contact page and once the page one their site that supposedly lets you raise a support issue with them. I have a few of their pedals including a Hyper Luminal and a Harmonic Booster that I bbought new. I told them the Microtubes was out of warranty, but asked for help finding the right part to replace the blend control. I havn't heard anything back at all, no acknowledgement that they've received my message, nothing at all. It's just been ignored. I contacted Xotic because I didn't know what part I needed to replace the LED. They replied literally within hours asking for a pic, I sent one, they got straight back to me with exactly what I needed to get. I pasted what they sent into ebay, and within a week I had a new LED soldered in and my pedal worked again. Xotic 1 - Darkglass 0.

This reminds me of stuff I was reading recently about whether different types and makes of tone cap make a difference. This is from Jason Lollar, of Lollar pickups: This is similar to the point that @Ricky Rioli made above - there is no way the player can play the same thing exactly the same twice, so unless you can take account of the differences in playing each time it's not a good test. If lots of different tests like that with different instruments and players show the same kind of tone for eachg wood, then that would be evidence. Do different people who claim wood makes a noticeable difference all say it makes the same difference? I don't know, because the difference it makes is meaningless for what I do, I mean, I pick fretboard wood for looks FFS (I've got a paduak and two ebony fretboards, they look great).

Terry bought my iRig BlueBoard, and it was a very easy and pleasant deal. Thanks!

I've got a Hotone as well, the Omni IR, which is a cab sim / cab IR loader - so probably like a standalone pedal with just the cab sim bit of the Ampero. It's really good, I ended up buying some STL cab IR models for it and with those and the original bass cabs it's got a fantastic range, and has DI out. It's the last pedal on a pedlatrain nano "fly rig" and I have a few different things that can go in front of it, but actually I like it on with nothing but a compressor and a clean preamp (Xotic RC Booster or Darkglass Harmonic Booster).

I'm really not, and I don't believe in any of the things I put forward about what's a bassline and what's not, I just put them forward to show that there might be other points of view to your absolutist one. What I really think is that none of it is that strictly defined. There are melodic bass lines and melodies played on the bass and trying to defining exactly which is what is just silly. You can't be "right" about whether something is a bassline or not because there are no facts or rules, just someone's opinion. And Seven Nation Army can be a bass line if it likes. Or not.

This is a bit OT but... ropes are interesting, and a lot of people (me included) never coil them. A lead climber shouldn't ever climb with a rope straight from a coil, you have to pay it out into a pile. It's not like that thing with sailing where you see the coil pay out neatly, because the coil of rope has been chucked in a car, tied to a backpack etc so the loops get chance to move relative to each other. Once I discovered them I switched to using a rope bag, which is just like a small tarp that you can squish up into a bag, or even just a carrier bag will do (some people use a cloth "bucket"). When you've finished a route, you tie the "bottom" end to the bag, then pay the rope into the bag as messily as you like (called "flaking" it in by some people) and tie the "top" end to something as well so you know which is which. When you need it next, tie in to the "top" end and climb away, and the rope will always pay out smoothly. In a coil, the loops of rope are parallel and can move past each other. If you flake the rope out into a pile the flakes of rope will go across each other and so can't change order, and will always come back out in the reverse order. If you use the wrong end you're stuffed but rope bags come with loops to tie the ends to so you know which is which. I'm guessing @Leonard Smalls among others will know what I mean. I used coils for years - coils are a neat way to carry your rope if you don't have a rope bag - and then rope bags for years. With a coil, once or twice I was lazy and didn't flake into a losoe pile before climbing, and I soon learnt that that's the best way to get knots. Rope bag, I just flipped it open, tied on and climbed. Coils are not all they are cracked up to be. Having said all that, rope bends a lot better than cable does and I coil all my cables, but only to save them kinking, I don't expect the coil to pay out nicely. I did say it was a bit off topic.

The bass in Come Together is pretty melodic. In fact it's more melodic than any of the other instrumental parts, and so is less of a bass line than the bass part in Dean Town, which has the same amount of melodicness as the other parts.

If you want to convince people, just stating the same thing again and again isn't usually the best way. You could maybe refer to the definitions of bass line and melody, but then you'd find that the definition of bass line is pretty much "what the bass is playing".

I was just pointing out that other people call it a bass line. You might want to get in touch with them and put them right as well.

https://www.talkingbass.net/dean-town-joe-dart-bass-line-tabs-tutorial/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bass/comments/5ika4m/is_dean_town_by_vulfpeck_considered_a_difficult/

Same here, they have new and second hand as well.

Just use a good cab sim, no mics needed

I came across this earlier, I know Dean Town might be a bit overposted but that’s the first time I’ve ever heard a crowd singing along to a bassline, any other examples out there? Seven nation army doesn’t count, it’s not a bass (and its not a bassline either)

That would work if I knew what frequency I wanted Handy, I will keep a link to that. Just popped the 500k push/pull in there and that works nicely, with the tone up full it's a little bit richer than with no tone circuit, with the tone rolled off it goes nice and middy. That's the bridge pickup, the neck pickup is nice and bassy so between them it's a good range. Cheers for the advice

As the owner of 2 Maruszczyk's and a Sandberg (which is all my basses), I have to agree that there's not that much point comparing them directly. They are the same price point, and people will sometimes be choosing between one and the other, but there's plenty of information and opinion around so that people can do that for themselves without needing an "A is better than B" discussion.

I am wanting to brighten it up a bit, I have a feeling the previous owner swapped things over to make it duller and I'm just reversing the mods they made.