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J.Bs 'The Grunt' Great Bass sound from Bootsy.

I might be proved wrong (usually am!) but I expect these sort of things will get more popular for a few years and then the novelty will wear off - like 3D cinema. Or, there have been concert films for ages but it's never really become much of a thing to go to the cinema to watch them.

It looks great with the GK-5 (does then cost about £1k though!). Assigning different sounds to each string (and each range of notes on a string) is a great party piece - especially to turn your Bass into a drum kit. And being able to trigger other synths opens it up to make just about any sound. .....but yeah, latency/tracking low is an issue. If Nate's playing (with a mute) can get 'a little inaccurate' and needed 'many performance takes to get the tracking just right' then there isn't much hope for me! I kind of feel that £1k and perfecting a different playing technique could be better money/time spent by playing a keyboard (you can get a great synth keyboard for £1k). Also, tracking aside, a keyboard is always going to also be a more practical way of playing in a piano/synth style of playing multiple notes at the same time with both hands, having things like pitch wheel, accessible controls to change parameters etc. I love the idea of playing synth via Bass, and love synth Bass sounds, but I dunno - I think it's something that a keyboard is always going to be better at, in the same way that playing a keyboard to sound like a Bass guitar is never quite as good as playing a Bass guitar.

Nice! One of the things I prefer about Precision vs Jazz is their one-piece pieckguard/control panel - it seems a nicer design to me than the usual Jazz thing with a seperate chrome control panel and different pickguard. Without going the custom Tiny Tone route (which would be good, but being custom I guess gets expensive), does anyone know where I can get a one-piece plastic one just off the shelf? Something like this to go with my USA Sunburst Jazz: It seems Fender produced them for a while in the 80s and 90s https://www.talkbass.com/threads/fender-jazz-bass-with-a-one-piece-pickguard-american-traditional-90s-mim-etc.857688/

I'm not sure about that, it's what people like to say, along with 'I'm not into genres, just good music'. Yeah, everyone likes what they personally think is good music, that kind of goes without saying - but it's subjective and it's like saying 'I like good food', you'll still often want to know if you're going to get pizza or a curry - and what type of curry, and you'll probably have some food you generally prefer over others. Catagorising food, or music, or films, or books, or styles of art etc. is useful to the consumer. I don't thing it's generally b/s made up by music journo's for their own benefit, or even by artists/labels for thir own benefit. Reggae (a name made up by an artist), has sub-genres and offshoot like 'lovers rock' (named after a record label), 'dub' (named after recording technique or dubplates), '2 tone' (record label) etc....I don't think they set out thinking 'I'll make up a new genre name' they were just making something slightly original/different and so it naturally gets called something different as a useful way to communicate the sound, it is just how music evolves.

Those genres have been around for most of your gigging years though!

'I just like good music' is all well and good, but there are over 100 million songs on Spotify alone (about 600 years of constant listening) and 60,000 songs added to it every day, so you need some way of focussing in on finding what you want to hear and genres/sub-genres are a reasonably simple way to do it. Even if we were limited to a few genres like folk, rock, pop, country, blues (it'd be a boring world if we were!), Country alone has been sub-catagorised into long list of sub-genres (at least according to Wikipidia). Alternative country Americana Cowpunk/Country-punk Gothic country Roots rock Australian country music Bush band Bakersfield sound Bluegrass Old-time bluegrass/Appalachian bluegrass Traditional bluegrass/Neo-Traditional bluegrass Progressive bluegrass/Nu-grass Bluegrass gospel Bro-country Canadian country music Christian country music Classic country Coastal Country Country and Irish Country blues Country en Español Country folk Country pop/Cosmopolitan country Country rap/Hick-hop Country EDM Country rock Cowboy pop Cowboy/Western music Dansband music Franco-country Gulf and western Hokum Honky tonk music Instrumental country Lubbock sound Nashville sound Countrypolitan Neotraditional country New country Old-time music Outlaw country Progressive country Rockabilly/Neo-Rockabilly Psychobilly/Punkabilly Gothabilly/Hellbilly Southern rock Southern soul Sertanejo music Talking blues Traditional Country music Truck-driving country Cowboy/Western music New Mexico music Red dirt Tex-Mex/Tejano Texas country Progressive country Western swing Phonk and Bronx Drill are just a sub-genres of Hip-Hop, partly characterised by location and sound/lyrical themes (Phonk uses choped beats, Drill tends to be dark with street/gang lyrics), the sub-catagories are probably quite uesful for people really into that music.

Chris has just bought a pedalboard from me and as with our previous dealings all was good. Thanks!

I've bought a Bass frem Clarky and all was good- as described, good comms and meeting etc. And cheers for the lift!

There's a lot of different lyrical themes, love and heartbreak are what trend to sell pop records though. Reggae: Being a rasta, fighting injustice, weed. Hip Hop: Making money, being the greatest. Punk: Fighting the government/system. Stoner/Doom: Weed, evil/menacing stuff ending the world. Death metal: Horror. Funk: Getting on up/down.

I reckon the sound is mostly about where the pickups are placed. And of course, fairy tone spirits. I think engineers liked P Basses partly as there's less hum (which could be particularly bad in a studio full of wires etc). And they have a more predictable sound. If someone gets to the studio with a Jazz, perhaps they'll go for more bridge or neck pickup than the previous session musician, causing more work for the engineer for it to fit with the studio drums etc. than if it was only P Basses that ever got used. As far as flexibility, P Basses are the go-to for Soul/Motown and Punk. But I think the Jazz Bass is arguably more versatile, being more of the go-to for genres like Reggae, Funk, Fusion.

Thanks....that has got me thinking! If nothing else, it's guaranteed to get Bass players asking what it is. I know it seems petty, but I bet it weighs a lot. (As seems to be the style at the time! Heavy = Quality).

1979. Doesn't seem the best year for Basses, unless you like them heavy! I'd probably go for a Ramones/Clash style white P Bass.

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At the age of about 16 I was briefly into Happy Hardcore and Hard House.....luckily it didn't take long to get more into stuff like House and Techno that I still like today. Still though, I'll give it it's dues - I had some excellent nights out at Happy Hardcore raves and there's something to be said for music that only appeals to 16 year old ravers. Almost punky I suppose, in an annoying cartoonish way.

True, it is said a lot, but that's basically because that is the main reason to have/not have a 5, so I think is perfectly reasonable reason to sell a 5 (a bit unnecessary to mention when selling though I suppose).

£619.....Ooof! https://www.thomann.de/gb/hotone_ampero_ii_stage.htm?glp=1 Looks good, but it'd better be at that price.

One Bass is fine, I like getting really used to just playing one. Lots of famous players seem to have stuck with one or two. I don't see much point in having loads that are similar all set up in a similar way,it's a bit like a stamp collection. ....although in an ideal world I'd like one for each special task: one for slap (stingray with low action light and bright roundwounds), one for Reggae (Jazz with tapewound), one for soul (Precision with flatwounds), one for punk (Precision with roundwounds), and perhaps a fretless, an acoustic, and 5 & 6 string multiscale ones. So I would end up with about 10!

The flip side is a lot more people attend than you expected, and an 'influencer' type walks in an posts positively about you to thousands of people. I'm not sure everything I listed can be done in rehersals - experiencing/learining about different sounds/setups for different live rooms, getting good at set up/pack down and learning to bring along the right gear for each eventuality, getting more comfortable and confident playing in different venues and in front of different people and all types of situation, and of course - playing live as a band and learning good stage presence and audience interaction. I dunno, I think that's all valuable experience that can't really be replicated in a rehersal room (that you have to pay for) and the positives generally outweigh the negatives. Each to their own though, there's no right or wrong answer.

Perhaps it's just in my head, or not setting things up properly, but I've never found the SA C4/Spectrum to do it for me quite as well as the as the feel (perhaps a tiny delay with digital?) and perhaps randomness of an analogue filter. Recordings of the Spectrum version of the M82 sound prety much indistinguishable form the real thing, but I don't find it to be the same experience to actually play - it doesn't have quite the same feel and response, and not the same 'on-hand' experince of making adjustments. Then again, I would also recommend the SA Spectrum/C4 as they can do so much. But if there was one very specific filter sound I was after then I'd still go for the specific analogue pedal. (For me it's the M82 for quick/responsive almost precusive stuff and slap/pop, and the 00Funk for the slower/squelchy sounds).