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Piers_Williamson started following NBD - Fender CS Reggie Hamilton V , Pick ups, trim controls and getting older , Band Names ...and the... and 5 others
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Once upon a time I had an active Lakland five string that I thought sounded really 'naselly', other than through an old fashioned valve rig. For better, for worse, I sold it to a fellow basschatter in Spain, who was in raptures about my (ex) bass. Roll the clock on a few years and I was very fortunate to acquire two Wals (at 'player' rather than 'e-bay merchant' prices). I thought both sounded quite 'bassy' 'til I started playing about with the pickup trim pots. Then I discovered that if I cut the bottom end and turned up the pick-attack pot I could make both sound like a Jazz and/or a Musicman. I wondered whether as a (getting deaf) 60 year old one's sense of enjoyment of the sound of a particular bass can be adapted a lot using active basses? (I own three passive Jazz basses as my reference)
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There is a band called The XX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_xx Does XXXX plus the XX comply with the Rules? (Not quite but close)
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Love Shack B52s
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I watched this yesterday, went back to the 'Shadows of Motown' score, and my jaw dropped, particularly with the bridge section. what an astonishing phenomenon Jamerson was, and Julia Hofer is a pretty understated player that covers some great tunes too.
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Mouldy Old Dough was apparently the 42 best selling single of the whole of the 1970s in the UK...so there you go!
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Does this count as 'novelty', or 'Slade on anti-depressants'?
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I do wonder how much it weighs, and are both basses 'on' all the time?
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This is the place we use. Fairly near Paddington Station: http://www.westbournerehearsals.com/index.htm Pretty friendly and the gear is ok
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So a nerdy question......I use both a (reassuringly expensive) Noble and and a Cali 76 as my signal chain (on a passive vintagy bass), and plug it into what ever solid state power stage is on offer. I also have a Handbox R400, which I just plug straight into, because I assume that the pre-amp stage of the R400 does pretty well the same job as my Noble. What do you think the difference is?
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Perhaps the owner practices in a salmon smoke house?
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A Player's Capstan bass rather than a Player's bass?
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We are going to have to start calling you Reggie Risk now 😬
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Technically I swapped my Mark King (for an early Wal) and my 5 string fretless epic is up for sale at the Gallery at the minute. I am a leftie though Jazzy, so they wouldn't have interested you! I did it with a heavy heart though! I still have the t shirts 🙂
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Without hijacking a marvelous thread....Jazzy I am now almost an ex-Alembic owner ☹️ Beautiful, beautiful basses....but a bit impractical and too precious for playing gigs where they might get damaged. So a question for you....if you were playing, say, a vintage Jazz or Musicman through your rig, can you recreate some, or all of the same flexibility that Alembics have on-board...through the pre-amp/super filter?