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I've bought a Bass frem Clarky and all was good- as described, good comms and meeting etc. And cheers for the lift!
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Popular Subjects for Lyrics Other Than Love
SumOne replied to Mykesbass's topic in General Discussion
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.
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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).
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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.
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Sold. Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop Millennium Overdrive £120 (+£5 postage via 1st class recorded delivery) Good condition and perfect working order, with original box. Velcro on base.-
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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).
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£619.....Ooof! https://www.thomann.de/gb/hotone_ampero_ii_stage.htm?glp=1 Looks good, but it'd better be at that price.
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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!
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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.
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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).
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Playing in a band to a small/uninterested audience is still the same thing though isn't it?
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Sure, it's not for everyone or every situation. For me, I generally think it's worthwhile for honing a stage show and for the enjoyment I get playing with a band - regardless of the audience or pay.....time was the main caveat I mentioned though.
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If the band have the evening free and it isn't a big cost to you (e.g. long travel) then I'd tend to look at it as good practice - a step up from a dress rehearsal even if it's not a big or interested audience. Cheaper than hiring a practice room. Set up/pack down, getting the sound right for different situations, putting on a show/stagecraft, discipline of ploughing through/masking it if something goes wrong and fixing things on the fly are all things that can only really be practiced playing live - even if it's to a small crowd. It didn't do the Beatles any harm just putting in the live hours in Hamburg to often uninterested crowds: "Between August 1960 and December 1962, the Beatles played over 250 nights in the seedy seaport city, and venues often demanded they play four or five hours a night. The shows were not glamorous. They played for audiences of “inebriated seamen and bored wh0res,” often antagonizing the audience, and afterwards crashed on bunk beds above the clubs. Early on they were even reduced to playing background music at a strip club."
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'what's the best preamp pedal' and 'how do I get that edge of breakup tone' (I'm probably guilty of asking both)
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Generally written by someone that happens to have the same gear and wants the price/demand to stay high for when they offload it!
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Ibanez EHB 1005 MS £630. Reduced to £560 Bought new from Andertons earlier this year. 3.5kg. (7.7lbs) 35" - 33" multiscale. With Ibanez gig bag, black Schaller straplocks, Ibanez box, manual, finger ramp. Good condition, perfect working order. Neck is perfectly smooth - no dents or scrapes to that or the fretboard and pretty much no fret wear. Electrics all good, sounds good and plays nicely. Glowing fret marker stickers have been added. Some small cosmetic things but nothing affecting playability: A paint chip where neck meets the body (it's just the grain of the wood making that dark line in that part of the neck), light scuffs to the end of the headstock, and a tiny chip to above the bridge pickup. I've just removed some stickers and they've left a lighter colour than surrounding areas, (see where neck meets body, above the Ibanez logo, and circle above bridge) they aren't very noticeable - I've tried to show them at their most obvious in the photos, I expect the ligntness will fade over time or with some rubbing and wear getting to them. Collection preferred from Chichester (or thereabouts, I'm at Worthing soundhouse each Wednesday evening) or I tend to be in London each Monday. Or I can post for £20, I have the Ibanez cardboard box and an outer box. -
Latent Lemon Brassmaster Germanium Fuzz £155 £120 + £5 postage via special delivery. Mint condition, perfect working order. One of the best gnarly doomy bass fuzzes you can get......I don't play in a gnarly doomy fuzzy band though so I can't really justify keeping it right now. "The Latent Lemon Germanium Brassmaster is true to the original 70s Maestro pedals by using the correct components together with high spec close tolerance modern parts with the added tone and mojo of germanium diodes and transistor in the fuzz/ring modulator part of the circuit. The Germanium Brassmaster has a big furry underbelly and loads of delicious full-phat fuzzy bass goodness! The germanium version also sounds great on drop tuned guitar. It Dooms. Controls: Brass Vol : Fuzz circuit volume. Sensitivity: Fuzz gain. To bring out the octave/harmonic effects, and gated fuzz, experiment with low Sensitivity settings. Also try with tone rolled back on the bass/guitar. Bass: Direct clean volume control. 'Brass' switch: Setting 1 for regular tone. Setting 2 adds a hefty mid boost. 'Harmonic' switch: Setting 1 for the normal full fuzz. Setting 2 removes the low frequencies from the fuzz to accentuate the upper octave harmonics. Top quality components: Alpha/E-switch footswitch, Lumberg power socket, Hammond enclosure etc. Latent Lemon designed circuit boards assembled by hand using through hole components. Separate footswitch pcb for easy servicing in the future. Hand built to last in Hastings, England. Power: standard Boss style 9V DC power supply. Approx. 180mA current draw."- 1 reply
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Boss Waza Air now available for bass. Personal Amp System.
SumOne replied to dave_bass5's topic in Amps and Cabs
Edit: Small amount of pricing competition going on with Gear4music, DV247, and Bax have the Bass version reduced to £349 (Andertons are still trying their luck at £399 though and making out that it's a sale!). -
Yeah that Bass Driver bling is a bit annoying, partly as I find the dials a bit trickier to see and there's reflections/glare, but mostly because it doesn't match! In fact, I'm not overly impressed with the Bass Driver. It's fine, but the much maligned ODB-3 costs about half as much and has similar controls (low, high, blend, gain, level), the ODB-3 is higher gain though so worth having both. BB-1X is always on, ODB-3 for more rawkus stuff.
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Full House! That's basics covered. Next stop will be some more exotic top shelf material.
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'might as well keep it as does what you need and much more' is fine until you consider cost, size, sturdiness and complexity . If you only need tuner, and simple eq and drive, then a quad cortex is perhaps not the best choice.
