Richard R

Very nice. What is the rotary position switch for? I rather like that as it's a bit unusual.

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They need two bass players as the instruments aren't plugged in and the only sound is what is picked up by the vocal microphones 😉

OK. This is the version we did in lockdown last year. Excuse my expression - I did ask the video editor to just crop to the instrument, but she didn't ☹️

If anyone fancies introducing a new song to their church which definitely has space for the bass player to improvise then you're very welcome to one of mine we introduced last year which was quite well received. The line I play on the recording is pretty simple (to make sure got it right), but others have put more runs and fills in.

If TalkBass implement the same captcha the answer there will be "US" 😉 Must have arrived here with site upgrade at the end of last year.

Replacement of essential broken gear is OK. Hope the new one arrives quickly!

We still get a mix including CCW, old hymns and stuff like Graham Kendrick and Stuart Townend. Old hymns I enjoy as essentially the bass can play the melody and it's a finger workout. Some of Kendrik and Townend is hard work!

I wasn't going to make that joke!

5 string: for those of us with opposable thumbs 👍 😉 Plus you find you hardly ever play an open string at all.

Yep, I am. But with cryptic posts like that @RhytmEarl will fit right in with the DOI 😁 Welcome aboard by the way.

I'm still in. I keep looking at a Godin A5 Ultra fretted, but thankfully I cannot even possibly justify it.

Much more elegant than just screws! In the interests of future generations, are you going to write on "Inserts by AJR Guitars"? Otherwise in 20 years people are going to be arguing that "Mike Lull never used inserts so it's a fake neck". Or some such rubbish 😅

I may need to go and lie down somewhere having just read that post.

Unfortunately I know exactly what days without playing bass are like - too full of tedious work-stuff. 😞

Next refinement then, make the analogue pots digitally controlled so that settings can be saved. As if this bass wasn't complex enough!!

I like "position 7" - no sniggering at the back! Sounds great in all modes - @Andyjr1515, please pass on thanks for Mike for recording them. @mhoss32, I am still in awe of the bass in this build, especially that neck pattern, but now we've heard the preamps too! Very, very impressed.

Welcome aboard Max. Search the forums, plenty of advice and threads. A 2 min search came up with these threads: Post a bit more about yourself in the intro, and then ask in the theory forums. You'll get lots of helpful suggestions. And if you post back other resources you have found then even better 😉

Welcome aboard! Lots of love for Yamaha here, whole threads about them in fact. Is your band gigging again? I've lost track of covid restrictions in Scotland.

Welcome aboard! I like the idea of free- form jazz reggae. Weather Report In Jamaica 😎

Welcome back! 🇫🇷

Aha, the great "pianist left hand" conundrum 😀. There are probably already a dozen threads on this over the years. Piano playing in the same register as bass can be completely mask the bass, both being stringed instruments at the same pitch. So fkr example if the pianist plays a thumping C chord on every beat of the bar, or a heavy boogie-woogie line, there is almost no point in the bass player doing anything. Root notes are already there and any interesting lines get drowned out. If the FOH engineer is on the ball s/he may have rollled off the piano or ducked the LF under the bass so that you can hear both in the mix. But that's not always easy to do well without making the piano sound a bit honky-tonk. So in ad hoc bands or where the pianist isn't used to having a bass player, there's often a tension/negotiation between the two instruments. Orchestral pads are usually easily distinguished from bass notes and sit back in the mix anyway. It's all good fun 😁

It will be great. A very clever idea which I'm sure will now be copied by lots of people on here. Who wants two boring dots on the fretboard at the 12th fret when you could have a silver feather, for example? (And if you're suitably pierced could wear a matching one in your ear and see if anyone ever noticed 😅)

Welcome aboard! This site tends to go in for gentle taking the mick and strongly raised eyebrows rather than arguments. But others may of course violently disagree. 😉 Not off the UK shores it isn't!

Welcome aboard!