chris_b

As an Electronics Engineer you should find the technical information on the Barefaced website an interesting read.

[quote name='rjs1909' timestamp='1453848186' post='2963506'] I feel that Jamerson overplays a lot of the time. [/quote] I voted Stax, but Jamerson overplaying? Nooooo. He was a maestro; the inventor of "proper grown up" bass playing. His note choices were complicated or simple but always the peak of melodic and rhythmical playing and always appropriate to the song. I've been a Duck Dunn fan since I first heard Green Onions (I know that was Lewis Steinberg) but Jamerson was the first genius of the electric bass. I remember hearing For Once In My Life for the first time and wondering how that could be played on a bass.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1453878241' post='2963629'] The media and recording industry are doing their best to kill gigging. [/quote] Actually a lot of gigs are being killed off by the supermarkets undercutting pubs and noise related laws which are being rigorously enforced by the Councils.

[quote name='probablypike' timestamp='1453877769' post='2963627'] I've heard that for the first time since recorded music was widely available, artists are making comparatively more money through live gigs than ever before. [/quote] That's probably because they can't make any money from recording any more.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1453853764' post='2963568'] You also missed out the "have a wide range of interests because life's too short to spend it entirely on playing bass". It's a big wide world out there. [/quote] And I've been around it several times and lived and worked in 4 countries on 2 continents. As for bass playing. . . the gig is the buzz and the bass is the tool that enables it. Every day playing a musical instrument is a day that should be savoured.

If I had to stop gigging I'd probably stop playing bass and buy a piano and play that at home.

I don't do multiband gigs so maybe my world is different to yours, but I don't understand all the "engineers want this" and "engineers want that". I only get FOH occasionally in functions and festivals and the guys are usually good. They're flexible, will let me DI from the amp, with a post signal and will talk to me about the sound I want. I've never been dictated to about "what my sound should be".

Charlie Chandler at Hampton Wick or Chandler's at Kew.

The Night was recorded in the same year as December 63 (Oh What A Night), 1975, and that was Don Ciccone on bass. So as the lines, playing style and sound are pretty similar on the 2 songs I'd say that it is definitely Don Ciccone.

IMO quieter is better, but most bands are too loud. I'm too loud, but I play loudly in loud bands and the venue's hardly ever tell us we're "too loud", so what do I know. I spent years trying to rein in noisy guitarists and drummers and failed. I was like the idiots that drive in the fast lane at the exact speed limit. I gave up that "them and me" sh*t and joined the party. My ear plugs are protecting me from any further damage so I just get on with playing in the band. Last Saturday's cover band was very loud and next Friday's Americana band will be very quiet. I love the variety. As a bass payer I get more favourable comments on my playing than I did when they couldn't hear me. The bands usually get rebooked, so the conclusion I draw is that a good sounding band is better than a bad sounding band band. . . at any volume.

I have 3 basses and they are all 5 ers. I have never seen any logic in the "the original was recorded on a 4 string, so that's what we should use" argument. Play what's comfortable and what works.

Could have been Don Ciccone. He was the 4 Seasons bass player at the time.

I had 6 months off. When I started again I excluded Off Topic.

I don't mind a player with 1000 watts or a half stack. I mind when they can't get a balance, decent sound or play [i]with [/i]other musicians.

There are many reviews on Talkbass.

It doesn't matter that matchsticks are softer. All you have to do is to make sure that the hole is filled with the wood then the pressure of the screw will be enough to hold everything together. You don''t even need glue if the filling is big enough.

Let us know what your band thinks. On my first gig with my CN212 the band were gathered around in the interval just gawping at it.

There's nothing odd, revolutionary or new about Single Cut basses. My first bass was an SC and it was made in the 60's, a Framus Star Bass, small body. [url="http://[URL=http://s293.photobucket.com/user/chris_b_photo/media/CopyofFSBme2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm45/chris_b_photo/CopyofFSBme2.jpg[/IMG][/URL]"]http://[URL=http://s293.photobucket.com/user/chris_b_photo/media/CopyofFSBme2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm45/chris_b_photo/CopyofFSBme2.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/url] Most SC basses with their lumpy, shark and big blob top horns don't look pretty to me. My ideal SC is the Rob Allen Deep and Anthony Jackson Fodera.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1453113899' post='2956384']Bear in mind with flats, they last for ages so although initial outlay may be £40 or so, it will last you at least a year [/quote] Lozz. . . my Lakland/GHS flats have been on my P bass for 4 years and I wasn't planning to replace them, ever!

You'd better do that outdoors.

As always, not nice to find out some has passed. His legacy is the music, which was great and that film. . . which dented his reputation for me forever.

On the other hand. . . . buy a decent bass amp and the pre should be every bit as good as the SansAmp.

Matt, One simple option could be to use an ordinary SS or D class (non valve) amp and put your SansAmp into the return socket. You'll be bypassing the pre on the amp and using the power section. Dad beat me to it.

A P bass is a "one trick pony". But what a trick. It's the best in the book, which is why it is still the most played and recorded bass on the planet. A 2 pickup bass, such as the Jazz, has as many "tricks" as the player has the ability to find. There is nothing special or better in an active bass. It is only duplicating the controls on the pre amp but putting them on the bass, for convenience.

Hi Matt, I'm curious to know why you've decided to take this route when you don't seem to know how or even if it will do the job for you. A power amp just makes noise. Unless you're getting into big arrays of cabs, that's about it. Bass players usually go to power amps when they need a lot of power or to run more cabs than the average bass amp. I've never had to use a power amp and I've played in arenas. When you get larger than the average pub there is usually a good PA to go through.