Beedster
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1 hour ago, dave_bass5 said:
Yeah, i get that.
I have a full mix in my IEM’s and do quite often need to ride a guitar fader or two. I also have an iPad with Mixing Station sitting on my keyboard so i can keep an eye on things, but its more things that i don’t need to be worried about.
Ive been on and on at them for a couple of years to try and sort their levles out, but its still not even enough for me to not worry about it.
A soundguy a few years back said he generally has to tell guitarists to turn down and bassists to turn up. Think that says it all 🤔 -
I’ll have ‘em then Steve 👍
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Frankly if no-one’s gonna take this I certainly will, so if you want it more than I do, you’ve got ‘til 7.00 this evening 👍
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hi mate, hope all's well, nice to have a new band, result to have a good singer!
My tuppence worth. As is the case with amplification generally, it's a good time to buy the (tried & trusted) old, big and heavy PA gear, while in the used market the lightweight/smaller stuff can still be quite pricey. Unless you want to be doing this again in a year I'd also suggest getting more power than you think you need in case the bigger gigs do come in, or in case you find yourself playing in rowdy pubs (you can always turn a powerful PA down after all).
Having said the abkve, we play through a relatively small and lightweight Bose setup which we picked up used for not much more than the budget above (albeit without a mixer) and I'm always amazed by just how much it can pump out.
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Neck & body are standard Fender/Warmoth/Allparts/Might Mite fit BTW. I've used Fender, Status, and Warmoth on the body, each time bringing something new out of it 👍
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Re splitting the bass
Neck & tuners with built-in Sims LEDS on the note/(fret). £500 ovno
Body, Sims Quad PUPs/electronics, passive tone circuit & all hardware £900 ovno
Note that the neck LEDs require 9v battery power supply from the body, there's no power in the neck itself 👍
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1 hour ago, Bluewine said:
I'll start.
I'm really ok with a month off. I'm not worried . Our summer schedule is starting to fill up with some good gigs.
The reason we don't have any gigs this month is, we've slowed down by choice. We use to play around 70 gigs annually. We've cut back to about 50.
Here's the main reason, we no longer play late night bar gigs. I'm not sure why. However, I turned 70 today and I've really played enough bar gigs for my lifetime. Give me theatres, festivals and special events.
Daryl
Happy 70th @Bluewine, you’re doing bloody well to be gigging like you do my friend, hope you enjoy many more years of the same 👍-
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That’s a great deal Steve, nice one 👍
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Thought I'd post a quick reminder of trade options, happy to talk cash terms also of course
On 29/12/2023 at 18:50, Beedster said:Trade/PX-wise I'll look at pretty much anything EXCEPT an electric bass! Of specific interest would be
- Double bass (not EUB)
- Acoustic fretless bass
- Gibson 6-string acoustic guitar
- US/Canada-built Mandolin
- Good quality audio/hifi
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There is a disturbance in the force however, th eusual 'man buys bass, man sells bass, man regrets selling bass, many buys bass back at a loss cycle has been broken?
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1 minute ago, philparker said:
It may also be worth checking to see if you can lower your action just a little bit. My action is quite low anyway, especially on my bass that is used mostly for orchestral (I have one set up for Jazz and one set up for Orchestral) and on a recent service and check up by Martin Penning, where he used my bass as a demo model for two prospective buyers (for a new model, not mine) he managed to lower it slightly more again without having any issues.
This is good advice. There's a lot you can do on a DB to reduce tension (well, a lot a decent tech can do if you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself). Absolute and relative positioning and length or bridge, after-length, tailpiece and tail-wire can all affect perceived tension and action. Crtainly loighter gauge strings will help but may introduce a new set of problems around tone, volume feel etc 👍
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12 minutes ago, dyerseve said:
Maybe some kind of Stockholm Syndrome going on here...
It’s potentially in the same space, although I was being entirely speculative above.
But you don’t have to look far in life to see people keeping feuds alive long past the point at which any resolution is either possible or even the goal of that feud?
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8 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:
100% this. I'd look for a way to move on. I struggled for about a year to recover a debt I was owed. Did everything I could, and in the end, it never came to anything. I've had to write the debt off and move on.
I'm concerned, like the rest of the guys here, that you're exposing yourself to more heartbreak, upset, and disappointment. I think we all hope that isn't the case.
I’ll be a little more Freudian, consciously or unconsciously keeping this alive is rewarding the OP in some way, I’ve seen a lot of similar cases professionally although usually with more problematic and ostensibly harder to let go objects.
Lawrie, your advice is the absolute bottom line here, he has to let it go, the distraction, the time, the stress, and the effects of all of these on his life will cost more than the (in reality) small amount of money involved. It will be the best outcome for him and his family.
The luthier also needs to take a good long look at his life - ideally with professional help both in terms of business and behaviour - and have the courage to either right his wrongs properly with money not promises, and/or walk away from this ‘career’ and find an honest way of earning an income. It will be best for him and his family in the long run also.
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8 hours ago, EddieG said:
As per his request I've emailed him this evening with a proposal for an instrument that would bring matters to a close. The proposed costs come in under the outstanding amount and isn't demanding an Alembic or Ritter level of luthiery, but it would fulfil the needs I have for an instrument now, and is in my opinion extremely reasonable.
It’s as if you want to keep it all going another 10 years?-
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Interestingly Chris Wood records his Hofner miced/unplugged, none of this is helping my GAS
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Chris on his Hofner
Good interview here https://bassmagazine.com/issues/issue-12/chris-wood-beautiful-danger/
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Some P/Js just look wrong. That looks SO right 👍
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34 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:
Without wishing to derail the thread, I love both these bands. I heard the Wood Brothers on the radio once and it was one of those moments where I had to stop the car and write down the name of the band. The tone that guy gets out of a double bass is incredible.
Like Chris, I love this bass.
More Chris Wood content here, we should perhaps leave this thread to Jay's Hofner 👍
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Chris Wood, bassist in Medeski, Martin, & Wood, and The Wood Brothers. If you like a bit of jazz fusion, the former is worth a listen, a bit of contemporary bluegrass, the latter. Luckily I love both so his playing ticks a lot of boxes for me, not only a great technician, but very inventive and creative in the way he approaches a song. Tone he squeezes out of his upright is pretty special, but his electric playing on occasion sounds beautiful. The Hofner always struck me as an odd choice, not one that's usually associated with a virtuoso player, which CW most certainly is. But given he could probably choose whichever instrument he feels best translates his imagination into musical form, he must see something pretty special in his Hofner 👍
And despite having pretty much got rid of all my electric basses, I'm very keen to own one - even for a while - just to see whether there's some mojo there 🤔
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I very nearly applied but I'm looking more for an originals set-list focussed on issues such as contamination of the food chain and the abuses of Big Pharma. Guess the search continues 🤔
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19 hours ago, Happy Jack said:
Thanks Jack, quite extraordinary how inexpensive lighting is these days, I looked at the link and thought "Mmm, where've I seen that?', nipped into my eldest daughter's bedroom, and there it was, just tested it and it does the job really rather nicely with a lot of options for intensity and tone. IIRC it cost £9.99 👍
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To my mind there's something rather iconic about this photo that wouldn't be the case if it was any other electric bass....
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Good timing, could I take them @Subfeeder?
ON HOLD Warmoth PJ Bass in Transparent Purple with Sandberg PUs, Noll Electronic, HipShot Hardware - *SOLD*
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All too true, despite the significant uplift in quality over most Fenders below CS level Warmoth instruments really struggle in the used marketplace. Your bass is probably worth at least twice what you’re asking 👍