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Him and Dirk Lance are by far my biggest influences on bass. I remember starting to play and thinking I could never play stuff by RATM!

I'd try a cab with 12" speakers first, I got a lightweight zoot one before and didn't get on with the sound, much prefered my old warwick 2x10 (which I played loads of shows with and practiced for a few years with).

Didn't bobpalt or whatever his username is sell that on ebay? Was it him? I remember the bass for certain and was tempted by it.

I'll try all these various things and see what happens and report back!

I am going to try to get rid of some bass next time to stop the boomyness, I always had quite a middy sound, but will put more in. There is barely room to fit on the stages, let alone move amps back though, haha. With it kicked back and pointed at me, I am not really sure why lifting it up would help.

I didn't know where to put this, but anyway, I am sick of never hearing the bass on stage, I bought a kickback combo recently as I thought that would solve the issue, but it doesn't really, most venues I play won't put the bass through the monitors, and if they do, it's not much. So, I guess it must be my sound, it's a lot worse when the guitarist uses his mesa instead of his engl, must be something to do with the frequencies we use clashing. Anyone got any idea of what to boost or cut? I want a funky but versatile sound, as our set is quite mixed.

Sold David my Markbass amp, which I will miss a lot, and everything was good, fast payment and good comms.

Okay, well clearly, I was lying, all amps have gain controls, and Michael Jackson didn't touch kids.

[quote name='endorka' post='541807' date='Jul 15 2009, 11:29 PM']It may be that I am missing something obvious, but is this not what the gain control is for? For each of my instruments, and some are indeed "searing", while playing them as loud as they will ever go, I turn the gain on the amp up from zero until it starts clipping, then turn it down very slowly until it stops clipping. My amp helpfully has a light to indicate when the preamp is clipping, but in the absence of this you can use your ears to listen for distortion. Doing this process means the signal from the bass is normalised with respect to further amplification stages, which simplifies setup considerably. Jennifer[/quote] Not all amps have that though!

[quote name='silddx' post='541094' date='Jul 15 2009, 10:57 AM']You've given yourself away now.[/quote] Yes, I care about the music, not about looking at people, you got me!

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' post='541086' date='Jul 15 2009, 10:51 AM']And this debate isn't about what the members of a band wear when they're in a recording studio. It's about what they wear when they are playing gigs and doing publicity photos. S.P.[/quote] Sorry, but it is! The music is the same, whatever the situation.

[quote name='silddx' post='541078' date='Jul 15 2009, 10:44 AM']If you go to see a band live, would you be happy if they just had all the house lights on and no stage lighting? Is what your home looks like important? or just that it protects you from the cold and rain?[/quote] Yeah, I would not care, been to house shows and played them, didn't think there was anything wrong with the atmosphere there! My home is not related to a band playing music, there is no connection whatsoever.

[quote name='silddx' post='541068' date='Jul 15 2009, 10:35 AM']Why, is what people look like unimportant then?[/quote] I can't say I look at pictures of bands when listening to their cd's in my car!

[quote name='silddx' post='541065' date='Jul 15 2009, 10:30 AM']Why is it "unfortunate"?[/quote] Because it should be about the music not what people look like?

[quote name='silddx' post='541049' date='Jul 15 2009, 10:20 AM']Yeah, but you're in Peterborough [/quote] Northborough and Deeping! I refuse to say I live in Peterborough anymore.

I find this thread quite funny, there is no way on earth that my band would arrange beforehand what we are wearing, people will get home from work, or get up in the morning, put on clothes, then show up to a gig later and play in said clothes.

Just wear what you want.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='539253' date='Jul 13 2009, 12:27 PM']It's only a matter of time before people start uttering the word Sandberg....[/quote] Sandberg..... [url="http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_guitars.asp?brandname=Sandberg"]http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_guitars...ndname=Sandberg[/url]

I really didn't get how to play slap bass when I was playing for the first few years, but now I can do it easy enough, and it really just took getting better in general, and then just persisting with it.

Yeah, Sandberg!

I think since a lot of people know the low price you paid for it, that some might have issues paying more then what you paid!

My aged california didn't have the dots either, but I e-mailed Sandberg and they sent me some across.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='535891' date='Jul 8 2009, 06:06 PM']You can now string through the body, (was this an option before?).[/quote] You could do before too, my S1 P has through body stringing.