Low End Bee

[quote name='Mog' post='1046501' date='Dec 3 2010, 04:18 PM']anything by the ramones....[/quote] this is how i lerned everyfink i no on the base gitar

[quote name='Clarky' post='1046045' date='Dec 3 2010, 10:00 AM']Says who? [attachment=65601:kev_and_...f_berlin.jpg][/quote] Is that a Bolton era Sam Allardyce?

What I really hate is turning up at 5pm as instructed and the sound person turns up at 7pm as has happened a few times. Not at least making a note of your settings so he can go back to them is really terrible.

Bill W may well not have been a 'great' bass player. But he may well have been the best bass player for the Rolling Stones. A better bass player may have cocked up the band 'chemistry' for all we know? This is my hope in my band. I know I'm far from the best player. But I think I'm the best player for the band.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1044819' date='Dec 2 2010, 11:05 AM']Great link. Y'know, I love this song, and I think that the groove after the first chorus is one of the greatest moments in modern music.. BUT! Wyman's line is... weak. IMO. I often wonder how much [i]better[/i] it would be if someone like Willie Weeks had played bass on it. Can you imagine?? Flame away... [/quote] Flame on! Only bass players would really care.

I use my Sansamp DI because I like the sound and I know my settings well. However if you're paying for it you should have it done however you want. Maybe mic and sansamp and hear how the seperate tracks sound to you and then make the call as a compromise?

Pick all the time for me. Part of our bands sound and I enjoy it so much more than I do when playing fingerstyle. Not to say I don't try new pick techniques. I'm a dab hand at disco octaves with a pick now. Slap just makes me feel ill so I've no inclination to try it.

I put it first because I read it somewhere and am easily lead. Seems to work fine. Tuner>noisy stuff>wobbly stuff. Seems to work.

Sansamp DI. Saves a lot of time. Our producer loves it and he's won a grammy and everyfink

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1043910' date='Dec 1 2010, 03:15 PM']I've got a Chevin A1000 I bought from Flanker during the summer which has had no use since I got it ... and clearly now won't be getting any for a while. I can pass that on for £160.[/quote] I'll bring some grapes around and have a look soon?

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1043892' date='Dec 1 2010, 03:06 PM']Rack-mounted?[/quote] Erm. Cheap would outweigh other considerations. I'm not normally a rack kinda guy. Apart form lady bits that is.

I was thinking the same thing. I'd really like a cheap 300w 'ish @ 4 ohms power amp that I coud just bung the sansamp into as a backup.

Long Jack Silver isn't up to it and I'll now save myself for the full band experience. Have a good un tonight. Poxy weather I was looking forward to this.

[quote name='flyfisher' post='1043576' date='Dec 1 2010, 11:35 AM']Probably due to the then state-of-the-art rotational accuracy of the gramophone player [/quote] Listen. Those wax cylinders rotated very accurately if I wound the handle in time.

I've got two Precisions. One with a standard neck and one with a jazz neck. I get a bit of left hand fatigue if I use the Jazz necked one long before I would on the standard one. Teachers don't always know everything.

I can't live without the forum chamfer on a Precision so why do I want one of these so much? They look great.

I used to have this problem a lot back in the days of black & white and horseless carriages. When I was trying to learn a song by playing along with the record and I found it was out of pitch or speeded up to a stupid key like Bb, I would just play small sections of it and then try and replicate it in a sensible key. Used to take bloody ages.

[quote name='canaQ' post='1042509' date='Nov 30 2010, 04:10 PM']I dropped the pickups into the body, will see if it makes any difference. I can't understand why it vanishes in the mix, my other MusicMan clone (with only a bridge pickup) cuts through real fine (on my Rickenfaker I used the bridge pickup too). Maybe I just couldn't get the settings right on the amp, will try it the next rehearsel again...[/quote] Just tell your guitarist to shut up. He's probably the problem.

[quote name='canaQ' post='1042450' date='Nov 30 2010, 03:18 PM']Just wanna jump in here... I received my Retrovibe RV4 last week (I got the white one), and it looks really awesome! On my practice amp at home it sounds really, really good (as you already said, a very high output!) but when I took it to my band rehearsel I was a bit dissapointed. I couldn't get the sound right, it just vanished in the mix. Also it had an annoying high sound with it, maybe because the neck isn't set properly (haven't got any buzz, accept when I play at the neckpickup the strings hit the neck)? Any ideas how that could be?[/quote] Mine needed a little tweek on the truss road and some bridge saddle adjustment. Maybe yours needs a bit too? Vanishing in the mix? Try adding a dollop of treble and use the bridge pickup. Maybe drop the pickups into the body a little to stop it sounding too 'woofy'? Hard to advise you as I'm cutting through fine in my band mix. What other gear are you using? Not sure what you mean about an annoying high sound? Is it hum? I don't think the control and pickup cavities are shielded particularly well so I'm going to get the old copper tape out soon and change the pots. Still very, very pleased with this bass. It's got a great rock sound.

I was in a 6 piece. We were on the verge of making it. Ginger said I didn't have the legs for the gig and Sporty was jealous of my looks. TV Spice was written out of the bands history.

[quote name='purpleblob' post='1042050' date='Nov 30 2010, 10:21 AM']I really don't get what all the fuss is over people who play ERB's or equally over those who prefer to stick with 4 strings. Surely the tool used doesn't matter one bit, it's the music one plays that matters ?[/quote] Don't ruin it all and bring music into the debate.

[quote name='BobTheBassist' post='1041647' date='Nov 29 2010, 09:10 PM']You think 5's are ugly. Take a look at this. [url="http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_trip.html"]http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_trip.html[/url][/quote] Vile

4. I could probably get away with 3. I don't feel any need to go to the low B in my band. Plus I think 5 strings look pug ugly and unbalanced.

Thanks Dougal I'll give Tweeters a bell. I know Panic and Survival well Chris. Our drummer is coming from down south and he gets a nosebleed north of the river otherwise I'd have gone for them.

[quote name='KK Jale' post='1039498' date='Nov 28 2010, 01:16 AM']I'm cursed by sunburst. I almost never buy new, and whenever I find a great-playing, great-sounding instrument at the right price, it's... sunburst.[/quote] Me too. My sunburst Precision was the best sounding, lightest and cheapest of the 8 or 9 I tried. The sunburst is well done and I gave it a b/w/b scratchplate and use DR black stings which improve the looks. I've finally grown to like it after 3 years. White would be my preference followed by CAR.