chris_b

Only replace a bass if the new one sounds better.

For me the pinnacle of bass playing had been reached by 1973. Clever playing and "circus bass" techniques are impressive and are quite interesting, but are ultimately useless in my playing environment. My 9p.

Marc, What music are you playing, how loud are you intending to play and what's your budget?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1436606437' post='2819435'] TH500 with a SL112 ...but I would definitely add a 2nd SL112...no doubt about it. [/quote] +1 Out of the 2 choices I'd do this. I use TH500's and I had a GB STL9.2 which was very good but I kept the TH500 because it worked better with my Bergantino cab. I know nothing about Genz cabs, but it sounds like the (unnamed) extension cab isn't a matching GB, so I'd probably give that a miss. 2 112 cabs sound very good together so I'd always go for a modular 212. Have you listened to these rigs? Have a listen and see which one you prefer. PS Fender's ownership of Genz seemed to have no impact on their products. GB continued to design and manufacture top class gear right up to the end, so that should not have any bearing on your decision.

I put a Bergantino AE210 and Gen1 Compact together. At front room levels it sounded very, very good. Call Alex and ask him.

Ringo is another under rated drummer. He changed the way most drummers played and performed but he wasn't the "force of nature" that Baker was and others became. You can list as many great drummers as you like. You're only disagreeing with [i]my [/i]definition, not what Ginger Baker was or the influence he had on rock drummers. Before Baker there weren't any "rock" drummers. After Ginger Baker . . . . . you can't count them.

Cream had broken up before the likes of Led Zep and Deep Purple etc were formed so Bonzo and the others were following and building on what Baker started.

In his prime Baker was a great drummer. The trouble is he hasn't been in a band that could use his skills since Cream split and that's a very long time to be fed up, frustrated and broke! Add a lack of social skills and this is what you get. Cream totally changed what was possible with 3 musicians and, along with Jeff Beck opened the door to what would become Rock. Ginger Baker forged a new path in rock drumming. Don't look at him now look at him back then and judge his playing against the drummers that were "tip tapping" their way politely around their kits. He blew most of them into the weeds.

I don't know this bridge, but I had what sounds like the same problem with my Wal. The B string wouldn't go into the slot on the bridge. What I had to do was to lay the string away from the neck with the ball end where it should be by the bridge slot and then rotate the the string around on to the fret board so it slipped into the slot. That might not be explained very well, but whatever you do you shouldn't damage either the string or bridge. There will be a way that they slot together. As a last resort email Warwick, but don't follow any advice about drilling or filing your bass.

Spell checking was always switched on as far as I could see. It was working on Talkbass but not on BC, which is why I thought is was a BC problem. Anyway, I switched several instances from US English to UK English and didn't intentionally change anything else and this morning it's all working again! Poxy PC's. I hate them. Thanks for the help.

How heavy is your 5 string bass?

I practice numbers sitting down. My hands don't know if I'm sitting or standing. I've been doing this long enough to be able to play any which way after it's in my head.

Chaps, Are you replacing a floor/rack tuner or another clip tuner? Did you try any other clip tuners before you bought the TC one? Cheers

Thanks for the info. I'm trying to work on it.

I can switch spell check on and off for emails via Firefox but it doesn't seem to activate at all on Basschat!

Chaps, I don't seem to be getting spell checking on posts. Has anything changed? Can I put it back on? Cheers

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No you're not missing anything. I don't see any benefit in playing a PJ. I have 2 and don't use the J on either. I understand why people think that a more versitile P bass is a good thing, but then I don't understand why people don't appreciate a P bass for the unique thing that it does. If you think your P bass is missing something, get a better one. A Jazz or any other 2 pickup bass seems to be a much better platform for getting a versatile sound. I added a J to a P bass and it didn't improve the tone half as much as I was expecting/hoping. In the end it was a waste of money and effort. My Lakland gets a much better and more impressive range of tones. Just my 2 p.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1436178946' post='2815554'] My rig is a Tecamp Puma 900 and brace of Bergantino AE112s. I've used it without problems for quite a few gigs, and one day I may play a venue big enough to need the master volume turned past 10 o'clock. Just thought that some advice based on actual experience might be helpful, though I realise that that doesn't conform to BC standards. [/quote] I have a few stupidly loud gigs so I just added a third AE112. I already had a 2 ohm amp so I knew it would easily run at 2.6 ohms. This is for an SRV type guitar trio. Do you play that loud? Most people I know don't. These days I'm using a CN212 and an AE112, while I'm looking for a CN112 to go with it. 2 AE112 cabs covered all my other gigs for about 5 years, so the Puma and Berg cabs will be fine.

Early Jamerson and all Babbitt bass lines are pretty straightforward. You should be able to work out a lot of the Motown bass lines. Most people need help with the Jamerson "golden period", but I'd work up to those. Duck Dunn was on Stax, not Motown, but you should be able to work out his bass lines pretty easily.

After rather a long time on Basschat I've seen that all anyone needs to criticise is an opinion. But life is like that, isn't it? You get to know whose opinions are worth listening to and whose aren't, but expertise generally isn't a prerequisite to telling someone they're doing it wrong. I tend to tell people I prefer [i]xyz[/i] rather than your [i]abc[/i] is crap. That way you can discuss differences in opinion.

No lessons. . . . but search YouTube for Stax, Chess, Pye International and Checker records. They are all great songs and pretty easy to pick up.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1436188911' post='2815710'] Can't be more vacuous than Metro, can it? [/quote] It always was. . . .