karlbbb

Very interested in this topic. I've been plugging basses and guitars into a USB audio interface attached to my Mac, and run the Line6 Helix plugin in MainStage allowing me to play along with other music (or music with bass removed via Moises). I'm getting tempted to switch to a physical pedal (like the GX-10) to produce all the sound as needed, allowing me to balance between patches and will also give me the option of getting some variety of FRFR cab if I ever decided to play with people again (and also effectively gives me a guitar rig).

Great meetup with Sam this morning - nice and easy communication and very prompt payment. Nice guy thanks Sam!

Bob collected a bass from me - great communication, easy meetup, nice chap

Now collected thanks

If you're at all technically-inclined, I've been running a self-hosted docker container of MeTube to pull the mp3 track from YouTube vids. Obviously this won't cover all songs but a good start for anything that's on YouTube. As for anything else, well to stay on the right side of the law you'll need to be ripping your own CD collection or buying online - I'm not aware of any tools that can pull tracks from streaming platforms, and it'll very likely be against their Terms and Conditions to do so.

EDIT: Now claimed and collected Hi all, I've got a roughly ten year old Harley Benton B550 (specs here) that's been sat in the corner for over a year. It's in need of new strings, new battery, a bit of TLC and there's a few blemishes and minor dings around the neck and body. That said, all the electronics work fine so it's still a working bass. I'm having a bit of a clear-out/tidy up, so offering it for free if collected from Liverpool but will happily hand-deliver around the North West if needed. Hoping this will appeal to someone as a start of a project bass or something along those lines

Just another +1 for the V7s. I've got a 5 string, 2nd generation and it's fantastic. That said, I'll be listing it on the members market very soon due to lack of playing (in general) and to pre-fund future plans

That's extremely kind, I'll drop you a message shortly. To everyone else, thanks so much for all the input! It's certainly given a little clarity to last night's (non-drunk) ramble. I mentioned things like slapping, learning scales and modes because the general desire is to be a more "well-rounded" player. There's no real need as I'm only a bedroom player with no immediate plans to look for some kind of jamming/band situation, but it's probably useful to improve myself as much as possible rather than let myself stagnate for another 20 years of bass playing. Special thanks to those dissuading me from buying more gear, even a cheap Jazz clone 😁

As I reflect on nearly 20 years of bass playing, I realise that almost all of it has been spent on 5-strings of various quality and pickup layouts etc. I've played in bands in the past but I'm mostly a bedroom player now. But here's the thing... I'm ****. Like, really, still quite a bit ****. I've never bothered to "learn" bass properly, instead hunting for tabs and then being insanely critical of myself that I can't figure out or play every note exactly how it is in the recording. I still can barely slap a single note. Most of my first few years were spent in the 2000s pop-punk era of 8th or 16th root note plodding style basslines. I don't know my way around the fretboard. I can't move around in a song. I'm currently listening to "Inside Out" by Imelda May, and what must be the simplest of walking basslines would take me a couple of days to get all the notes down through sheer, brute force trial and error. The conventional wisdom is that one should learn on a 4. Is this really the case? I have those 4 strings on my 5 string, there's just another one there to add into learning modes and other shapes. Should I be picking up a nice cheap Harley Benton jazz clone and start learning properly?

Been trying to learn Loco in Acopulco by the Four Tops, though the middle section is very funky and I'm not that good 😆 some nice use of the low-B though.

What do you have before the QSC? I presume some kind of modeller or pre-amp?

But with this example rig you'd lose out on an immense versatility! To make it a fair comparison, you'd need to also buy every head your modeler can model, plus every cab available (I don't think the BF SC is an FRFR?). Plus if you have one of the more expensive modellers, you have a vast array of guitar amps to choose from should you choose, again meaning you'd need to buy every amp head and cab combo available. We'd probably be in the £20,000+ range to get all that gear. With modelling being so good these days that professional players fail a blind comparison test and huge acts switching to them in droves, it's hard to begin to a cost comparison of any "traditional rig" vs modelling as they'll always lose. Not a dig in any way, just making a general point of whether it's even fair to try and compare them 👍😃