chris_b

"The audience are not coming to hear your bass, they're coming to hear you." Everything in one sentence.

Asked who? I've heard that Barefaced are of the opinion that the 12" and 10" do not mix well.

I think it's aimed at anyone who hasn't worked out how to get the best bass sound. IMO there are a lot of those around at all ages and levels of playing. The simplest things are always the most effective. Good advice to everyone.

Love it.

There have been posts where guys have reported their amps falling off the cabs. I guess that's a possibility for any light weight amp. There will probably be some vibration in even the best cab, and that's why I put approx 2" of foam under my amps. I started with my Mesa 400+ (with its 16 something valves) and just carried on through SS and D class. My amps never wander about, so I believe they're not being vibrated, much.

As Bill says, if the cab is vibrating enough to throw the amp off, then you're wasting a lot of energy that should be going into creating your sound. And while I know amps have to pass tests for various levels of vibrations, I treat my amps as delicate things. I wouldn't want any amp I own to be shaken around as much as this. So you need a cab that doesn't waste your tone and volume in this way, and you need a vibration resistant foam between the cab and the amp.

I always choose heavy gauge strings. IMO the heavier the better sound. My D'addario NYXL's are 45 - 130

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This is why my heart sinks when people start threads about modding basses!!!!

Some good options in valve and solid state amps.

Blind Boys Of Alabama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY5s8K3Bloc Seth Walker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ2qIidZTcc Jonny Lang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olk7mNK-VyE Buddy Guy & John Mayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaFMC8ODHf0

I've played with his drummer, Craig, many times over the years. Great player.

Ray and Leela https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVmWhDYR8Y Etta James https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8KAaspYh4U Jeff Golub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFqq51tUD_U

Just restring it and see how it goes. You won't damage anything. If you are moving from a low B to a high C, you probably won't have to change the nut. The tension of all the strings is within a few lbs of each other, so swapping a B for a C should be OK.

Russell Jackson was a big influence on me too. He was the first guy I saw with replacement pickups in his P bass, Bartolini's. I bought a set from Chandler's the next week. They were a huge improvement to my sound.

I have TI flats on my Mike Lull PJ5. I tried @Happy Jack's Fender Precision with La Bellas and they sounded good, but not good enough to make fork out for another set of strings. The heavy duty La Bella 1954 flats look interesting but the TI's are still going strong, so I still have no inclination to change them.

So is the memory foam strong enough to support the bass?

These straps look interesting. I recently discovered that my Harvest strap, thick, wide, very comfortable, heavy leather, weighs in at 1lb. So my weight limit for a bass wasn't 9.5lbs! I've been carrying 10.5lbs! These are all small margins, but when you have issues, believe me, every ounce counts. Looks like it is a 1" strap in the middle with 1" of memory foam either side. Does the memory foam support the bass or is it just for padding?

There was great music being made in the 80's. Released in 1987, this signalled that Little Feat was back on the road. . . . Let It Roll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY48CYcNuKA Released in 1989, my fist encounter with Delbert McClinton. . . . Live From Austin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHhDx7SWjnk

Etta James https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZrbCMFnli0 Joe Louis Walker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_k-Jwmmw3Y Terry Callier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDMb-lmUF3o Boz Scaggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuIh5xnrJE

Keb Mo. . . .

If you want to sound like Joe Dart, get a Jazz. That's the bass he uses on gigs.

I've just been sent a couple of video clips of the first pro band I was in, playing live on a European TV show. the singers were pretty cheesy, but the band was good. I was just a few months out of school and they were recorded in December 1968! No, I'm not putting them up here!!!

Nice. I love his stuff.