Bobo_Grimmer

Hello dude, I know that a few of the older stoner rock bands use bass amps with their guitars. That's what we do too. The sound is great. Check out Kyuss, masters of reality ect.

[quote name='lapolpora' post='463296' date='Apr 15 2009, 06:48 PM']I've never tried using the earplugs with bass yet as I don't gig on bass that much. As it's an amp making all the noise and not your physical self I'm surprised - I'll try it myself and see if I notice the same thing. I'm just about to get a pair of those ACS earplugs. They work but reducing the db level rather than blocking out sound. Other horn players I know who have them speak highly of them. I'll post back when I've receive them and have gigged with them and let you know what I think. They take about a month to be made so it wont be until the end of May. After trying everything else (including the obvious one of trying to get the band to play quieter) I thought I'd give them ago after I got thinking about all the (tens of) thousands of ££ I've spent on instruments and studio equipment over the years but only a few quid on protecting my ears.[/quote] cheer's dude, I look forward to hearing about the ACS plugs. (I'm really thinking of getting some myself.)

I've been reading some of the older threads about Ear protection and i think it's a real important subject that should always be in our minds so i thought i'd start yet another (but on a slightly different note) I've been in battle with my ER20's for a long time now. i need to be using them because i'm only young and i enjoy music production just as much as live playing and for that i really need my ears. The ER20's are very good and take the level of everything down but keep it all level and clear. But.... While i have them in the bass seams louder. I understand about head room but this thought of the bass being too loud roll's around in my head while we play and it distracts me from listening to what everyone else is playing and prevents me from relaxing into the groove. So normally half way through a jam i'll stop and be throwing them aside in frustration. Does anyone else find this sort of thing while using ear plugs? Or am i just weird? P.S. I did think that maybe it's the protection that i'm using that might be the problem. I've seen on , [url="http://www.musicradar.com/gear/all/drums/drum-accessories/er-custom-hearing-protectors-199201/review?src=nl&attr=150409"]music radar[/url] , some custom hearing protection but they are a little expensive.

[quote name='martthebass' post='462062' date='Apr 14 2009, 01:01 PM'] Have any of you guys got to the point where you think your bass gear is better than you are (or even worse - could be)? Don't get me wrong I love to play on a really nice bass but when you go to the odd jam night and someone plays the hell out of a £100 bass does it make you feel like leaving your £1000 baby in the gig bag and hacking about on the 'house bass'?[/quote] For me, being a lefty, it is a little easier, but i know what you mean. Down here in Bournemouth people in pub's and club jam nights are terrible. You get a whole league of "musicians" stood at the bar judging you for what your getting out of that flight case or wheeling in from the car. Pisses me off and makes me not want to play sometimes. What i think of now is that we're all here to play and enjoy the music that we're creating. Who give's a fluff what that kickin riff is played on/thro? When i first started Playing bass i felt so bad. I was real lucky to get some money left to me, about 1500, so i went out and got the best i could with the money. Then i hated getting my new gear out of the car because some of the snooty look's you'd get and horrible heckal's as you enter the pub and start playing, and then they see that i've only been playing about six months. That's one thing i've battled with for years. Am i really good enough to play this stuff? Who and what is Good anyway?

He he This made me giggle. the same thing crossed my mind...i know people that have a thumb rest. [quote name='dlloyd' post='411725' date='Feb 17 2009, 10:35 AM']I played with BEAD tuning for a few months a couple of years back, and switched back to EADG when I realised I'd effectively removed a string and added a thumbrest.[/quote] [quote name='warwickhunt' post='411732' date='Feb 17 2009, 10:46 AM']I say leave it EADG and when you need that low D grab the E string tuner and give it a twist; anything below D just play higher up! I'm a simple kinda guy. [/quote] Yeah i kind of agree here too. I have a cort 5 string and i just keep going back to the 4 strings. I like the sound of the B E A D i think i'm going to have to try it out. I play Eb Ab Db Gb tuning on my acoustic 4 string. I like the looser feel of the stings i guess. (I do most of my writing on my acoustic.) I have a right handed neck on my jazz and that's Tunes DADG. I think the reversed head stock helps the low D. I play a lot of chords and i do find the D a little annoying sometimes but i just twist the low D back to E quick, play the section with the E and then Drop it back again.

Oh Oh! New trace Vid on youtube, [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ2YjTHbmoU"]Trace Elliot[/url]

Yeah I like to hear what he has to say. I was thinking about what he says about the bassist locking in with the bass drum. Made me giggle cus i have no chance with our drummer i find it hard to pin him to a beat. "stop all that jazz buggery" i say. lol

Im running a little late for work but i have to put this up...Yeah just before i pop off to work, I thought i'd share a couple of interesting thing's i've just found. The first being and interesting phone interview of two parts by one of the music radar people talking to billy about his first bass heroes, his love of singing, and how he almost joined Van Halen and, part two, - Billy on Mr. Big, Bx3, his new album, and his upcoming Yamaha bass I'd never herd of Bx3 befor. Oooooooh MusicRadar Podcast: Billy Sheehan [url="http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/musicradar-podcast-billy-sheehan-134807"]http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/mus...-sheehan-134807[/url] The other link is to youtube to a vid of Bela Fleck and the Fleck tones. It's a real cool scribble of music and i think, for a bass player it's really great. Makes me smile whenever i hear it. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlpFA5BbuU&feature=rec-HM-exp_stronger_rn"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlpFA5BbuU...exp_stronger_rn[/url]

Oh dude, i've been there too. I used to be in a band a few years ago where 'this' has to happen 'that' has to happen. Drummer taking loads of drugs and never turning up, our singer trying to tell us what to play. Me being the only one that drives! I used to say look! we're sposed to be doing this for fun. i work hard all day so i can earn enough money to keep the roof over my head, spend money on music stuff's and have a great time with some friends jamming. What's all this nonsense!. We did still play some awesome gig's but in the end we all split. I learn't a lot from playing in that band, maybe not musically but about people. I also played in a blues band for a year or so. All the guys and girls were almost twice my age. I found that i was learning a lot off them but still i never got a say i was told just to play and i don't enjoy being told to shut up just because i'm the young doesn't know anything bass player. God dam! I wish They could see me now Bast.... Hem....sorry.... Rant rant...... The band i'm in now we have no rules per say we all agree or we don't do it. we enjoy playing together and that's it. I come away from jamming now Feeling great. I look forward to playing all the time now.

Lefty all the way! Hum this pic was from a while ago. The amp to the right was A peavey JSX and at that time i don't think the matched cab was out. I think the cab might of been one of the Supreme™ XL cabinets but i'm not shore. It had a little playboy girl logo in one corner, if that helps.

Here's my idea. I'm only 24 and i've been lucky enough to have played with a few different types of players and have seen qute a few local gigs ect. What i'm not feeling much of in new young bands now is 'feel'. To me music, as i'm discovering, is a way so express emotion. it's not something that can be 'this way' or 'that way' it's not black or white. Feeling is what the younger musicians are missing or not fully grasping maybe. We get so much info on technique and the right and wrong ways to play stuffed in our faces that alot of younger players completely miss the point to music. Or I may just be another young person.......remember just because you've played a guitar for 35 years does not make you a good player? Then the question arises What's a good player? ect ect.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='448693' date='Mar 29 2009, 02:30 PM']hiya bobo, welcome aboard. Where did you source that BFC from?[/quote] :)Thank you. It was a lucky find on Ebay. 250 quid i got the cab for. I couldn't believe it! That was early last year. I used the 8x10" before that.

Hello everyone. I'm a musician that love's all music. I'm a bass player that enjoys jamming with people and having fun. I'm a bit of an effects fiend too. I'm left handed and so it can be real hard to find basses. I don't really restrict myself to styles or genre i just play whatever come out. The past few month's I've mostly been playing my Jazz bass thro an RAH1000 and BFC cab. The band i'm in at the mo i've been with for about a year now and i'm having a great time. I also record and Produce music. I love to find out new stuff and talk to more muso's. So there's a bit about me, speak soon, Shawn Peace

Hi guys i'm new to this site, joind today after finding an ah1000 picie on a google search, and i have to say there are some great TE's on here. I have an RAH1000 With the matching BFC cab. i also have the old 8x10" too. I've just had my amp serviced and the guys in essex have told me that this RAH1000 was a prototype and the designers have said that it shouldn't have really been released! does anyone out there know any more info on this model of TE? I'd love to find others with this amp as i'm sterting to think i may be the only person that still has a working one! Anyhoo i love TE amps and i don't think i'd ever use anything else.