bazzbass

some lovely things in there, best of luck

it's done, move on

just jammin with another musician is better than playing on your own, even if they aren't wanting to form a band.

Play with others and things will fall into place, hopefully.

go to open mics, it's a great way to meet other musos,and most won't have a bassist so you could sit in, or at worst, talk to them afterwards with a view to jamming or joining up with them

the whole "only turn 1/8th at a time" is not correct.I think the advice stems from being given to beginners typically, thus turn a little bit at a time as they wouldn't know how much it needs.

If it needs a whole turn, do it, why do eight 1/8th turns?

Ease off the tension and give it what it needs.

Of course, you have to know that it needs a whole turn or not , that's experience.

our gig Saturday went alright,so we are told. We missed it, I developed trigger thumb, our lead guitarer got an infected prostate and was peeing blood, then the day before our other guitarer got an infected root canal.

Our drummer was OK and filled in for us with one his other bands,he is in 5 or 6 lol

booker wasn't happy, oh well, scrub another venue off our list hehe

20 hours ago, steantval said:

Personally my back line is Markbass verses a large stack of really heavy Trace Elliot stuff a few years ago.

my backline WAS Markbass, verses a SMALL stack of really LIGHT Trace Elliot ELF stuff 

how times change, AGAIN hehe

and if you only play originals, you don't even get paid much.

we're gonna try live streaming as a way of performing live, people can leave a tip if they like us.

Anyone tried this yet?

If your amp and cabs have speakons, use them , coz 1/4" over 6 feet across a stage is asking to be tripped over and kicked out.

20 hours ago, sirmuppet said:

 Seems to only be when you start it up from cold. 

well, let it warm up first, so be it

route all the body wood under the pickguard?

TNT130BW.......legendary. kept me going throughout the 80s and 90s

thrown down staircases, never failed me

when you are playing a cover, break it down so you understand what chord notes the bass is playing. After a while, all these riffs and runs will start to pop into your head when you're jamming.

I mean, it only took me 30 years to get to this point hehe

I play my bass at home thru my Yamaha HS5 monitors, via a Radial J48 DI into a small mixer

for guitar, I'd add a Joyo American for $50 and be done

I bought two Elf 10" cabs to go with the Elf amp, and the last three gigs I took only one cab, due to laziness, and it was more than enough. The sound guy loved the Elf's DI so I had PA support at one of the gigs. Carried the room just fine at the others, small clubs.

4 hours ago, BreadBin said:

Lumping them in with the punks did them a massive disservice IMO

to be fair, they themselves said they were punk, but they clearly had far too much musical ability to be punk, fart oo much

At the price point BF are at I'd expect better quality, even my 70s Peavey TNT had bullet proofed covering......

1 hour ago, spongebob said:

Stranglers 77 - 82 were simply outstanding.  

yeah they were awesome in that timespan.

sadly I never saw them live.

I was on my way to have lunchtime pizza with some friends in a busy tourist beachside area.I parked my car and saw a music shop I didn't know about.

Had a few minutes to spare so went in,said hello to the owner. And there it was, an SX short scale P bass. $200 brand new.

Ummed and ahhed, then left to join my mates.

After our meal I went in and bought the bass. 

I was only going out for pizza, HONEST

An ELF 500 watt @ 4 Ohm amp. 300W @ 8 Ohms I'd be DONE. For ever.

to be fair a dimmer switch interferes with everything hehe

I've been using EBS flats for 5 years, CONSTANTLY swapping pedals in and out and I have not had one bit of crackle or pop. And I mean I swap pedals a LOT on two boards. I don't doubt your experience, my guess is they have improved from the first design.

EBS flat cables are better, take up less room on your pedalboard. They come in different lengths

Fender don't make em, Hipshot do. They make one to match most major tuners. Their website has all the different models and which basses they fit.

these Diago Twistlocks are the solution. Strap only comes off if you want it to. Oversized,can't come off unless you want it off.

looks interesting, how does it sound?

that's about a tenth of the original pedal's price. I get the whole "if everybody bought the knockoffs then the originators will die out" argument, but if it lets someone try it out rather than wait til they had a spare $350 sitting around,then so be it.Some will never have that much to blow on one pedal,I understand that. There are enough people like me who like to reward the inventor, to keep Tech 21 et al in business. Buy what you can afford and upgrade when your finances allow.