bobbass4k

Boss dd-20, I will never stop trying to convince everyone to buy one, it sounds amazing, no noise whatsoever, crystal clear in repeats in digital delay mode, and it's very versatile, very easy to use too, tap tempo, LCD, smaller than the DL4 and uses a standard power supply, and if you look around a bit you should get one second hand for around £100

The dd-20's criminally easy to use, the LCD makes it much simpler and intuitive to use than the dl-4, I swear by mine, but it might be too much for your needs (it does up to 23s of delay)

DAMN IT, why don't you live in canterbury?

Just ordered me a dare strap, I didn't think my bass was adding to my scarily long list of back problems that much, but the rather painful muscle spasms I had while playing the other dayseem to disagree take care of your backs people!

Big +1 on the unibass, but to be honest I never use octaves to "fill space", just dirt did the job for me when I was very briefly in a 1 guitar bass and drums band, a good dirt sound will fill out the mid/high end, and a good riff/groove with varied/improvved fills will keep things sounding interesting

Why are all the bands I'd want to join in london?

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='596883' date='Sep 12 2009, 10:22 PM']He might have been well regarded as a teacher but to me, to insist there's only one way to play is a completely blinkered approach! What he should have asked you was `where do you want to go playing wise to leave the plateau and what needs building upon'! Its all common sense really! I've just started teaching someone who had one lesson from another `highly revered' local teacher - his approach to someone just starting out (first ever lesson!) was to tab out the blues scale!!!! Twot![/quote] I realise I probably should have given it another go, and not all teachers are like that, but I think self teaching is a very rewarding experience, I would hate having my playing scheduled, as it is, if I don't feel like playing for a week, I don't, If I want to play for 16 hours straight, I do. After the first year or so of playing through books etc, I mostly learned by learning/figuring out and playing songs I actually liked and wanted to play, instead of the stodgy generic instructional stuff I'd been playing from the books, and that enjoyment of actually doing it is what still keeps me playing, I know quite a few people who are actually very talented at various instruments, but gave up because they were forced to have lessons which they found boring, still, as i said, to each their own

To be honest I never got along with teachers, like you, I kind of hit a plateau after a couple of years, so I went to a very well regarded bass teacher, I quit after one lesson, he made me play his way, he made me wear my bass at a certain height, rest my thumb in a paticular place, attack the strings in a certain way, I may be biased, but there was nothing wrong with my technique before that, i never had any physical problems because of my technique, never couldn't play anything beacuse of my technique, but he insisted his was the only way, I quit and never looked back, to me self taught is the only way to go, but everyones different

Are the gaps between the slats big enough to get patch cables through?