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[quote name='SlapbassSteve' timestamp='1363052839' post='2007728'] For function work I'd recommend a Markbass CMD of some description. Personally I use a 121P ([url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/mark-bass-mini-combo-cmd-121-p/4276"]http://www.gak.co.uk...-cmd-121-p/4276[/url]) with an extension cab but 151P, 121H or 102P models are excellent too, just depends whether you'd prefer a 15" speaker, horn tweeter or a pair of 12's. Either way MB stuff is practically weightless compared to other amps with similar output, and very compact, also great at sitting in the right place in the mix... I'm starting to sound like an advert... [/quote] I'd agree. I use a TC Electronics RH750 and their RS212 cab for the work I do but for compact and great sounding I'd completely go with the Markbass rig, tons of punch and cut. Lifting it is like lifting a cab made of marshmallows, which I also see as a bonus.

Keep it coming! Enjoyed Esperanza a lot.

It's fair to say that there is no right or wrong way to do anything in a studio environment, click or no click have both worked for my band and I in the past, depending on whether the track's pulse/groove/whatever negates the need for a click. Sometimes you need it to pull everyone in line - I find it works well for our rhythm section (me, keys, drums) to record to a click on certain tunes and do guitars later, other times it's nicer to have a more 'live' feeling track where we all play together, no click. It's definitely a myth that it somehow creates a sterile feel or whatever, if you think about it even if you're playing with the tightest drummer ever to live, most of us will introduce our own little rhythmic imprints and inflections at are intrinsic to our playing. We ain't robots, even if we play along to robots!

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1363031871' post='2007385'] I can't think of any . It would go against the whole Fender design aesthetic - I am reluctant to describe it as a philosophy - in the same way that it would undermine Alembic to produce a bass with a bolt -on neck . The significant point is however , that most bass players and bass makers broadly agree nowadays that a bolt on neck is best . As with most things , Fender got it right to begin with , thus negating the need for change . [/quote] It's a bit of a broad statement to claim bolt on to be 'better' than neck through design, even if the former is my choice! It's definitely the current trend in bass construction so perhaps it's more like bass makers are claiming it to be superior because it sells?

[quote name='D.I. Joe' timestamp='1362952460' post='2006764'] Fenders are generally only as boring as the person playing them. [/quote] I like this! Might nick it and start using it round the forum claiming it as my own turn of phrase

It's the bass player's bass from Alien Ant Farm, only my favourite band when I was 11 or 12! There is a story behind the building of this, I don't think it was made by Fender at all but ended up with the stamp on it. EDIT - apparently it's a custom shop, which makes me totally wrong!

Hej hej! Good to have you on the forum, I'm in Sweden about three or four times a year gigging!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1362927726' post='2006273'] I did too, but some folks on here can overreact. Sometimes I think we could have much more interesting conversations on here if we could keep cool and not resort to personal attacks for the lack of anything intelligent to say. [/quote] I fear my sarcasm might have got a bit lost there! I've got no time for people like that at all, he was an obvious troll with no idea what he was talking about and I won't miss him. People basically never do personal attacks on this forum, it takes people like him to bring it out of everyone else, it's just inevitable and to expect people to engage in normal conversation like we would do with other forum members I think is naive.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1362917249' post='2006110'] He had name of Inti at first then changed it to, I think, anitloco, then disappeared. [/quote] Banned in the end. A shame really, I thought he was terrific fun and not at all a cock.

You cannot listen to these things in isolation and conclude that the playing is sloppy, that absolutely isn't the way a a record is made or is meant to be judged. Someone posted up a John Deacon bass line in isolation a month or two back saying the same. The fact is that the bass take is reliant on an entire ensemble recording, not itself, a bass part is rarely a self-contained thing. So the idiosyncrasies of the band are what make a record or live recording, not individual parts. I think people regularly misconstrue what it actually takes to record a great track, it's rarely about perfection, it's about the sum of the parts working together towards the best possible sounding track. The mistakes in dynamics and timing are simply the human part of the performing and recording process, the idea that we are by our nature imperfect and it should be accepted as such. The isolated parts of a recording are not for consumption because they aren't reflecting the fact that when you play with more than just yourself in your bedroom rehearsing you will have to adapt to the limitations of your environment, whether these limitations be technological or human. Once you accept this it's far easier to enjoy recorded music for what it is, which is totally honest musicianship.

Should be interesting! An old song and a new song that really press your buttons. Here's my two for this week, old first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBEomCtCujw And new (this will totally divide most of you listening wise I'd guess): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY0o68XLaUc

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1362783374' post='2004914'] Played three of these today - fantastic necks on all of them, so easy to play [/quote] I'd be really interested to play one, they aren't my kind of thing at all but I have a bad habit of resting on my Fender laurels and maybe I should get out a bit more! Played an Elrick for example a few months back, not my thing at all - or so I thought - picked the thing up and man it sounded unreal. Like a Warwick somehow but just better. It's the look of them I personally can't get on with but everyone is different I guess.

Have we honestly got through this thread without this getting mentioned once? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mln0RciE2o0

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1362689282' post='2003492'] Interesting that no-one has yet suggested "the tone is all in the fingers"... are we all getting past that misnomer? [/quote] I think it's kind of half true, in as much as if someone picks up my bass at a gig and uses it with my band (something that happened recently), they're not going to sound like me and vice versa. It's as much to do with the idiosyncrasies of individual's styles too. Adding effects and stuff makes things even more different.

[quote name='rednose200' timestamp='1362692691' post='2003589'] Made about 83 I think. Green isnt the most desireable colour either. Played one once. Was awful. Not all the same though. The best Fender P/J is the Aerodyne by a million miles. Thats what I would look to. All best. [/quote] I'm I'm correct I think the OP meant the newer spec Mexican made one with the actives and block inlays posted above. I tried one a while back, thought it was excellent!

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1362692764' post='2003591'] I'd say that if the bass is worth playing then it doesn't need a decal and if you want the decal then buy a Fender. [/quote] +1. Took my Japanese Squier P when I gigged in Sweden last, had a guy come up to me from the audience after asking me what year my bass was from, he thought it was a 60's P and he knew his stuff, he just couldn't see the Squier logo from where he was sat in the auditorium. I showed him it was a Squier, he asked me why I was playing one, I told him it sounded good. I know he did too because he told me before he found out it was a Squier!

I couldn't own one. It would almost be akin for me to buying a diamond-studded Rolex, the crucial difference being that 99% of people in the pub actually have no idea about how much it cost anyway. Looks-wise it's the height of bad taste for me too, just like the diamond Rolex would be.

I highly recommend Status Hotwires. Not at all interested in their basses (graphite = wrong!!) but their strings are superb, I've got my P-Bass strung with them and they're excellent. If you're looking for/used to lower tension, stick with Thomastik. Expensive, but then you'll never actually need to change them.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1362512790' post='2000629'] The interviews written about him show he was very particular about His sound though. [/quote] Definitely, but limited to what was essentially stock Fenders minus the frets + his Acoustic rig to get what he wanted from his bass for the most part I thought. I know he was fond of brand new strings too.

I'm using Status Hotwire flats on my P-Bass at the moment, they're excellent value for money and to my ears sound a bit better than the previous D'Addario Chromes I was using, I'd really recommend them. My next P will likely have Thomastiks on it. [quote name='Myke' timestamp='1362509621' post='2000514'] Doesn't Pino use them? When he's grooving with the R&B peoples? [/quote] For almost everything now, all of his P's are strung with Thomastiks or La Bellas, he drop tunes with the La Bellas with the hip-hop guys as he reckons the tension screws with the neck of the bass apparently! It's possible he uses rounds on his Jaguar bass and I'm positive he uses them on his fretless Musicman.

Jaco likely won't have cared about upgrading his instrument providing that it played well, after all he was rather good on the old electric bass and if something ain't broke then why fix it? Likely he didn't need the hassle. It's also not entirely true that he didn't include at least one or two mods on his instruments, he was known to use P-Bass necks on Jazz basses so that he could get a stretch on with his left hand, something about him cramping up on jazz bass necks.

I could use them for basically anything right now, old or new material, original or cover work, I'm really starting to come round to the idea of using them all of the time. I still like rounds though as well.

The Chromeo one is so cool, I am a massive fan as well!