Bridgehouse

Lol. My bad

Amen. No pedals (apart from Preamp/DI with maybe a touch of compression) - and amp eq set flat. Slight tweak of the eq on the bass or the tone depending on the song and I’m off. No tweaking mid song or any of that faffing.

Which is kinda what RMS is supposed to do...

Much as the knob twiddling is interesting - I tend to use a bit of tone and a bit of eq on the bass to balance for the room/song, but keep the amp flat. In fact, with a DI pedal I set and forget.

Yep. Always been a sceptic. Mad, I know - but now I’ve tried, I can’t un-try.. just like fretless...

Thought I’d share a few thoughts about my bass journey - mainly because there’s a lot of things I wish I’d have realised earlier on in my playing. The new ACG 5 string has been a bit of a revelation. Combined with the recent fretless acquisition it’s made me realise that I’ve been far too conservative (small ‘c’ !) in my outlook and approach to playing. I’ve attacked the playing side of things and the technique stuff with aplomb - but I’ve cautiously held off on fretless and 5’s for fear that they would be a step too far and knock my confidence or intimidate me too much. Since acquiring one of each I’ve realised I was way off the mark. If anything they’ve boosted my confidence and opened up a whole new world of playing, technique, style and enthusiasm. I don’t see either as being mutually exclusive either - I’ll continue to play fretted, fours, whatever.. but the whole experience has really opened up the possibilities. If you’ve stuck to fours, or been too worried about trying a fretless, then I say do it - I’m so glad I did! And on that note - I’ve been discussing a fretless 5 build with Alan.. lol

“Ideal gift” For the mother in law

There are downsides - you should see some of the stuff I have to buy her! Though it does look like a Stomp is on the cards for the festive season tho

True - I’ll give you that But there’s some serious talent in the foos that isn’t DG as well!

That looks like Safari reader view to me...

Much as he’s most of it, I don’t think the Foos are completely a DG solo act

Mrs B pipes up tonight ”So what bass related tat do you want for commericalmas this year then? I suppose you want one of those little Helix Stamp things?” ”If you say so, dear..”

Crooked house?

“Have you had your Oats?” etc..

Sort of north cambridgeshire

Lol. If you find yourself further south a bit then we could meet up. And if I’m heading your way I’ll let you know

I’m Peterborough - that’s quite a way!

The output from a Trace Amp has special “Trace ooomph” built in, a bit like special sauce

I do a lot of that before I play live. And also wonking as well In fact, many in the band often complement me on my winking - “He’s a complete winker”

So no w*nking before playing then!

We dodged a bullet there then..

I’m surprised the most notable bit of my discourse on the new ACG was how Mrs B reacted!

George Michael.