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Wow that Ray is stunning! Love the dark green and gold though too.

If you don't already I'd say ask/persuade your band to switch to IEMs asap. With the availability of cheap systems these days, the ability to hear yourself and everyone else perfectly, and adjust your own mix on the fly from your phone is an absolute game changer. Suddenly you can hear every nuance of everyone else's playing as well as yours, and you can lock in much tighter, bounce off each other, and just generally enjoy yourself so much more.

And when you make a mistake, your body will make you automatically beat yourself up about it, but only allow yourself one beat to do so, then force it out of your mind and move on. It's the same mindset you hear professional sportsmen talk about, one mistake can ruin your whole game (gig) if you let it; the measure of a real professional is not someone who never makes a mistake, it's someone who can drop an absolute howler and then immediately put it out of their mind, move on and play brilliantly for the rest of the game before scoring the winner in stoppage time.

Yeah, though to be fair you might be able to replace several of your distortion pedals with it!

I've not played with the Lomenzo, but if you want to distort just a specific frequency range check out the Source Audio Ultrawave.

We're looking for a drummer for a pub covers band in the south London area (London Bridge/Greenwich/Dartford kind of areas). It's a 5 piece male-fronted band playing Killers, Arctic Monkeys, RHCP, Muse, Foo Fighters etc etc. Our drummer went home to Ireland at the start of lockdown and doesn't know what he's doing this year - it might be that we need someone to stand in for 6 months or so, it might be that he never comes back and we need someone full time. We're all between about 30 and 40 and are very relaxed and easy going - we're playing for the love of it, but are keen for the band to sound as good as possible. Age is much less important than finding someone who's easy going but dedicated. We also play with a click. Give me a shout if you want any more information

4 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

My thoughts entirely! I can't even begin to think how much effort this took, but the guitar tone is not good.

Obviously should have used his maple neck guitar

My, that's a tough listen.

23 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

Great ! Now I have two answers after reading all the comments. I'll be a bit harsh, but this is the plain truth.

1. Almost all posters can't read : I wrote that the tone comes from the wood, not the species of wood, as the only fixed and identical parameters are everything but the wood. And I never spoke of tonewood.

2. Almost all posters have hearing damages or problems as there's a huge difference between the 4 basses involved even if the player is Machine Gun Joe he is consistent enough to hear that it's obvious that all basses sound different, even in slap (and I do hate slap as I wrote too). And it comes from the wood, which, here, is the only variable.

I feel a bit sorry as I was expecting more from this than the usual comments.

I also never wrote that I could predict the tone from the wood as there are, as many said, too many variables in the wood itself, but it derailed immediately in that direction.

That's why you have to try a bass or any instrument to know if it suits your tastes, whatever electronics it has or whatever wood is used even if the wood matters a lot as proven in the video !

Take care BC'ers.

Step 1) Pick a highly contentious topic that has been done to death already, and with vast swathes of people heavily entrenched on opposite sides.

Step 2) Give the thread a suitably condescending title, suggesting that anyone who disagrees with your position is a moronic fraud.

Step 3) Throw a hissy fit when when not everyone immediately sees the error of their ways and dares to continue to disagree with you.

Step 4) Suggest that most people are disabled and lack your skill and nuance in relation to a field that everyone here is extraordinarily passionate about, again because they dare to disagree with you.

Step 5) Who knows, is there a point to all this? Can we please put this thread out of its misery?

 I've used Thomann 3 or 4 times over the last couple of months, all for bits and bobs that were under the £135 mark each time and they've just arrived as they used to. I appreciate some people are having problems with couriers, especially since they're now collecting VAT and fees on items over that mark, but to be honest most of that seems like the usual general incompetence from the couriers rather than Thomanns fault. 

1 hour ago, walshy said:

You may not have the source to back it up but you are absolutely correct. The way the timber was allowed to grow, stored and worked makes a huge difference to the end product. Be it a bass, dining table or Timber frame house. Each is selected for purpose and fit for the job. Old wood, allowed to grow properly without the ‘need to harvest to make money’ is a different beast to the new crap available now ( look at the growth rings)   I have lots of ‘source info’ for this. It’s my job. 

 

Haha one straight out of the Trump playbook there of good faith debate there. Completely representative I'm sure. These damn generation Z trees....

I guess like a lot of people this was my first introduction to him

That lick at 2.05... The genre leaves me cold but damn...

I've used the Evidence Audio ones for a few years now and have put together probably ~50 or 60 cables throughout numerous board rearrangements, teardowns and pedal swaps, and I think I've only ever had one not work. I've never experienced any stop working over time once they're installed. I've no dog in this fight, but if you're after solderless they've worked brilliantly for me.

I'd say give a Source Audio Aftershock a go - so many brilliant sounds in there you'd be hard pushed to find at least a few that didn't work for you. As with all SA pedals the library of community patches is fantastic so there's absolutely no need to do any detailed pc editing if that's not your thing; if it is, you can tweak away until you achieve perfection.

Mine also arrived on time and with no issues. Good to know that the sub-£130 something stuff seems to be back to normal.

I ordered a control cavity cover from Thomann Tuesday morning and have also just had a text to say it's due for delivery today - other than the sender being listed as 'German' what do you find sketchy about it? I'll also be extremely impressed if it gets here this quickly!

Oh hell yeah!

Oh man, if you run IEMs (or even if you don't!) you should be all over this! Someone will be prising mine out of my cold dead hands!

I went for Bartolinis and an OBP-3 when I changed the electronics in my Stage 1. Have zero experience of any of the others you mention so not very useful I'm afraid, but it's given me exactly what I was after.

I wasn't happy with the stock setup as I found I was boosting the bass a lot to get the tone I was after; with the OBP-3 I went with the 18V option but find with this combo I'm running it either completely flat, or with the slightest hair of bass boost. The switchable mid freq is great too, and a useful upgrade from the stock 3 band eq, though obviously not as flexible as a semi-parametric mid freq control (is that the right term?) that you get with some other preamps.

Having changed both at the same time I can't tell you whether it's the pups or the preamp that have made the biggest difference I'm afraid, but that combination is doing it for me.

6 hours ago, TJ1 said:

where does the bassist fit in musically?

 

In my experience, usually making sure that the drummer doesn't start at 110BPM and hit 180BPM by the end of the first chorus, that the singer knows when to come in, the guitarist knows when the middle 8 is here, and the keyboard player gets to the gig. Oh and that the PA is working, and the guitarist has a lead to plug in with. As well as (as has already been said far more eloquently than I could) making sure that people are up dancing rather than sat in their seats. Other than that, we're pretty expendable.

23 minutes ago, Fternolad said:

I,ts a pity that the writer of the article has convinced himself that life outside of London does,nt exist.

Classic example of people only wanting an echo chamber that reflects their own beliefs back at them.

In my opinion the biggest issue with society in this country (and probably others too) is the prevalence of 'news' media that is so heavily biased one way or the other - such that people can read only content that is edited towards their beliefs/prejudices, and go through life believing them to be indisputable facts.

Critical challenge is essential, and I believe everyone should go out of their way to seek out and read (factual and well researched!) material contrary to their current opinions.

Wow that neck is absolutely stunning. Just wow.

Damn that quilt's like 5 tog!!

Stunning chops! GLWTS

I can see about 3 lbs of wood they could remove in the upper left area...

Damn they are two fine looking basses! Gorgeous colour combos. Congrats!