silverfoxnik

^^ Totally agree with this.. I can remember going through a similar phase in the 80s too.. In fact, drummers had the same challenge - if not more so - when drum machines became such a dominant factor in writing, producing and performing music during the same era.

@ChunkyMunky - we did that last year in fact.. Ended up being as inconclusive as a series of UK parliamentary indicative votes! Happy to do a Version 2.0 though if there's any interest in the idea..

I'm up for this idea @rodfunnell Will have a chat with others involved to see what's possible /doable.. But any ideas or suggestions here would be great too.

Great photos - looks like a really good day! Congrats to the organisers for another successful Bash.. 😊👍

Sorry to hear about your situation @Salt on your Bass? Having had to handle a couple of disputes in recent years with courier companies, I'd say it's cheaper - though not necessarily easier - to deal with it yourself.. However, if you have any legal cover in your home insurance policy then it'll be worth investigating that and then trying to go down that route. Best of luck with it!

Interesting video - was the last piece an original composition?

You might be right on this - I'm certainly not wedded to the idea that only my point of view is right. But on balance, I think that the overall contribution to good bass education that Scott and SBL is making is a positive one. When I started out learning the bass in the late 70s, I'd have loved to have access to the learning resources like SBL and Basschat that are available today.

Done!

For anyone who read the other recent thread here about SBL in which Scott actually posted a 30 minute video clip explaining his business methodology in some detail, his use of controversial headlines like this one about active pre amps, is designed to get YouTube clicks and to get people talking.. Seems like a pretty successful strategy to me. He's a bass player running a very successful business about Bass playing, not a high priest ordained to tell any 'ultimate truths' about the bass guitar and everything related to it.. Theres a big difference between the two IMO.

Just watched it and thought it was pretty good overall.. Unless my ears are completely deceiving me, I think Scott made a fairly honest comment about active eq, saying it gave you a 'different' tone, not a 'better' tone. Obviously, he's strongly in favour of passive basses so he's biased his comments in the video that way which, to bass players who are newer to the game, is probably a little unfair as they need to work through that themselves in their own time and their own way IMO. But I do think Scott is making a useful point (despite his inherent bias) if you take the whole of his comments about tone into consideration. The video is helpful because it stresses how all the elements in the signal chain contribute towards achieving a great tone and that its particularly important to understand how to use the various eq tools you have at your disposal to their best advantage.. So for example, if you have a powerful active eq circuit on your bass, powerful eq controls on your amp and even more eq options in your pedals and FX units, then it's very possible to over use all those tools to the detriment of achieving a great bass tone. That's a simple yet valuable observation that's worth pointing out IMO, along with his comments about changing your strings and how you use your fingers.. The only other thing I think about the video is that Scott left out compression as one of the important elements in his list.

About time I added to this virtual wall of shame, or glory, depending on your (or your better half's) point of view.. So, my list is: Hondo Ricky copy (1977) Encore fretless P Bass (age unknown) Squier P Bass (Chinese build, age unknown) Gibson Thunderbird (2004) BC Rich Eagle (1984) Ander Van der End JB5 (approx. 2001/2) Fender Roscoe Beck 5 (1998) Theres also a short scale Encore P Bass in the loft that belongs to my son, so that doesn't really count here. But there are some instruments of a more 'Slytherin' nature too, namely a Washburn 6 string acoustic and a Faith Venus 6 string acoustic which do count when it comes to the ongoing domestic 'Space Wars' saga here at Silverfoxnik Towers. Last but not least, there are about 25 other basses that I own, but they're just kind of in my head, if you know what I mean.. 😉