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Thanks dude! I'm in London.

Hi guys,

I have an old bass, and have no room for it. I got it when I was a teenager, 16 years ago. It's worth precious little money and is too beaten up and be-stickered to be given to a musician's charity.

I'd quite like to pass it on to anyone who is young and can't afford a bass, or is otherwise disadvantaged.

Strings are old, and the 12th fret is missing! Otherwise plays solidly.

Picture attached!

If you know anyone who might like it who is otherwise bassless, let me know.

Thanks!

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No wave from the Scroggins sisters. Best ever song.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCGdZnPzX8E[/media]

Where do you guys get your CD packaging printed? We're looking for somewhere that does nice digipacks or handsome inlays on properly weighted paper - we're making CDs to send to industry people so we want them to look as professional as possible.

Thanks!

We're looking to do a bunch of shows in London, but our music is very Sly Stone/Fleetwood Mac sounding, and we don't want to slug away in grimy indie rock venues like Monto Water Rats etc. Which are the really cool pop venues in London at the moment?

[quote name='ZMech' post='1352522' date='Aug 26 2011, 02:54 PM']:o watched the first half before lunch, was loving it. Just came back to stick it back on, had to reload it, and now it says 'this video is private, sorry.'[/quote]

Huh.

Here's Sky Plus Pro's versions. Higher res, but they're horizontally flipped...

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1352137' date='Aug 26 2011, 10:42 AM']The 'what is the best bass for metal' war still rages on.[/quote]

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda"]Hiroo Onodas, the lot of them.[/url]

Hello!

Been busy.

Playing bass again now, though!

Hope all is still well in Basschat Towers – a quick read through the forum shows that you guys have finally agreed to agree to disagree on previously-contentious topics including jazz, picksnfingers, fendervsnotfender, other band members being irresponsible, fast slapping, bands that aren't yours being famous, underrated bassists, overrated bassists, Badass II bridges, awful venues, and whether you can teach groove. It's a regular bodhisattva moshpit in here.

Colin Greenwood playing lots of lovely little lines all over this video, with a lovely Precision:

It's hot. Several times a week we go into a windowless room and jump about for two hours. It's pretty unbearable.

Does anyone have any recommendations for fans and freestanding aircon/dehumidifiers to keep in your practice room?

So, some quick maths. Assuming I want to play through the bass amp for 3 hours:

Amp: Little mark II - stated output power of this is 300 W RMS @ 8ohm (my cab is 8ohm)

As you shouldn't discharge battery beyond 50% (to keep battery in good nick):

I need 600 W RMS (per hour).

The inefficiency of the inverter needs to be taken into account. I haven't fully explored this yet but going with his worked through calculations assuming 90% efficiency then the inefficiency factor is 1.1.

Therefore 600 * 1.1 = 660

So we need a battery that can deliver a 660 watts per hour for 4 hours.

Battery capacity (Ah) = Current in Amps (I) * Time (H)

Need to know current drawn by our system which is done with the following: I = P/V

660W/12V = 55 Amp

Therefore our battery capacity needs to be:

3 * 55 = 165 Ah

So I'd need a 12v 165Ah battery to get a reasonable session at a reasonable volume?

Is this terrible maths?

Hey Alex,

Thanks for the swift response! I've had a quick Google, and there's a bewildering array of all three things you mention above.

Would I have to use a (minimum) 500w continuous inverter to power a 350w head? Any idea of how long a battery would last churning that out? Any idea how long it would take to charge?

Hey guys!

I'm hiring a garage to keep a set-up acoustic drum kit. The garage has no power supply. The dream would be to be able to stick a bass amp in there as well and use it as a two-person practice space.

I've seen buskers playing through amps, so I know such tech must exist somewhere.

What's the best way to go about this? Some potential thoughts I had:

1) Petrol generator? - expensive, noisy, smelly. Can't imagine this working, but if any of you guys've got success stories, I'd love to hear them.
2) 'Chargeable' amp? - plug into the mains at home for [i]n[/i] hours, play for 3 hours, take home and re-charge. Do such things exist? How much are we talking?
3) Rechargable battery with 3 pin plug socket(s) in it? - is there a battery I can charge, bring to the garage and just plug my current bass amp into it? Maybe also even a Line6 POD too? This would be the dream. Do such things exist? How much do they cost? Can you get a good couple of hours of rock out of them?

Any knowledge in this area would be greatly appreciated.

The (possibly apocryphal) story behind the bassline is that someone suggested they have the two parts, and the session bassist really pushed for it, because then he'd be paid double for the session.

Never read anyone on here ever bag on Mani or Peter Hook. The occiasional 'not my cup of tea' but that's as far as anyone's gone.

I've definitely read criticisms of Enthwistle here.

[quote name='Russ' post='415517' date='Feb 20 2009, 04:24 PM']I'd expect the ones he plays onstage to be seriously tweaked (better pickup, hardware, etc), but that they will still look like the production instruments.[/quote]

I don't see why that would necessarily be the case. The vast majority of upgrades make an indistinguishable difference in a live setting where the main issue with the sound is the venue and the mix, where noone in the crowd is going to have magic ears, and most of them are drunk. As much as I like the gear talk on here, frankly if the pickup sounds passable (as even my Yamaha Pacifica does) and stays in tune then nothing else really matters. Certainly the case with the the Peppers, who aren't a big 'texture' band. I think the notion here that everybody who makes a living playing bass has extraordinarily modified instruments is a bit wide of the mark.

That bass OldGit linked to really is ace.

Hey all,

Got an e-mail from a band's manager asking if I want to try out playing bass with them. They're from the BRIT school fame factory place and I've had a listen to their Myspace and they sound ace. Unfortunately they're a) based in Croydon which will be over an hour's commute each way twice a week and all young lads without jobs etc who are 'mainly playing weekends and evenings [b]for now[/b].

I'm very flattered to be asked, but of all the bassists in London I'm not sure I'm a great fit for them; location, free time, age and indeed ability-wise. So I'm wondering if this guy has contacted every bassist in London and I'm just getting my head unduly turned here.

Sounds exciting, but there are a lot of provisos...

Whaddayareckon?

[quote]Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko[/quote]

Nice!

I'm not massively into my house and minial - I tend to like things a little 'breakier.' Will check out the above, though.

I like Boards too. Will have to check out some of those other names.

Have you heard of Jojo Mayer? He's a session drummer who play jungle on acoustic kits. Great stuff. I agree that making bass sound nonhuman can be very enjoyable.

Electronica, acoustic artists, glitchcore, sample-based hip-hop, stripped-down Rock'n'roll, synthpop; oh yes indeed, if no-one's let a bass guitar anywhere near it I'm happy as Larry.

Favourite sans-bass artists:
Fourtet
White Stripes
Acoustic songs by Neutral Milk Hotel
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Venetian Snares
Bon Iver
The Cool Kids
Dälek


Share your awesome music-with-no-bass-that-includes-no-upright-bass here!

I believe it was the Chief himself who correctly described metal as 'Music to paint Space Marines to.'

I don't necessarily think that's an insult.

Want to look like unbelievable badasses? This is the look for you: