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Well, if that cheapo really is 7lbs dead with the neck and standard tuners (and if it isn't it's going straight back) then I guess I've got some wiggle room with the neck weight, as it's unlikely a cheapo neck'll be very light, and I'll be fitting Ultralites or somesuch anyway...I note Gotoh do Res-O-Lite cloverleaf tuners (the GRL510C-9) which are almost HALF the weight of Ultralites (36g!), but I can't find them in the UK.
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Really? Have you tried them? -
Still, it's a lot easier to sit at home and post hoohah than actually get dressed and leave the house... 😀
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Two notes from the above (which looks great, I'd be there quite a lot) - Ozric Tentacles? Are they still going? Blimey Charlie, I'd be tempted. And, of course, my new favourite Sabbath Trib name, Children of the Gravy... 😀
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I'd also say that any business where the clientele age averages more than 65 is on the slide without new blood anyway...
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Ooooo, yer all posh: for a good while (maybe 30 gigs?) I've been using a pair of £62 Lekato MS-02s - super light, tiny and handy, battery lasts hours (never got down to even half the charge lights on them with 4-hour gigs (start to finish)), 5ms latency, no dropouts and even a stereo option that, as mentioned above, I've never got to use...you'll need an XLR to 3.5mm jack adaptor, but that's it...
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Y'see, I did apologise for mentioning the t-word...it was only as a comparitive example, yer Honour... 😐😀
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Hokay, so apologies up front for anyone I'm boring to tears with my neverending search for lighter and lighter basses, but I'm also looking at the Frankenstein approach to putting something together, given how good the Squier Sonic P is sounding after I'd finished with it (replaced bridge, tuners, pickup and EQ). Soooo, I've found a Paulownia-bodied P-bass for buttons (it's apparently 7lbs on the nose including 'normal' tuners, etc, so I'm thinking I can get that down a chunk with Ultra-Lites and an Aluminium bridge), and I'm thinking a replacement neck to elevate it a little - I thought this about the Sonic, but it turned out to be good enough not to bother...I doubt this one will, tho. To the point (hurrah!): anyone have any guides as to what's a heavy neck and what's a light one? Or are they mostly close in weight? I'm looking at a Northwest Guitars jazz neck (amongst others), should I be paying attention to the weight, or am I overthinking the whole thing? Cheers, Muzz
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It's not the speaker size alone, it's the speaker plus enclosure which sounds the way it does; I had a Schroeder 1515L for years, and while I loved it (very honky soloed, on a stage very present; not tons of low bass, but then that's my taste), I'm gonna say it sounded like no other 2 x 15 I'd heard before or since, and that was down to the enclosure design. Technology has moved on a lot in the last few years, and a wide range of drivers can sound any way the designer wants without relying on/starting with cone size, so cone size itself is moving into the personally-observable and personally-preferential areas of things like, erm, tonewoods... Sorry about the t-word...
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That very much depends on the mixer - some will let you do this, some won't. I've worked with both; it does add another layer of faffing before the gig (tho this can be reduced by saving scenes, etc), so it's all about On The Day. Another example of this is stereo monitor feeds: my inear setup will do stereo, but I've yet to convince a BL to give me two channels and send them to a stereo out...
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It's generally called 'the occlusion effect'. the two easy fixes are a room mic you can mix in, or there's a whole lot of newer IEMs which allow ambient sound in, like these: https://acscustom.com/uk/products/ambient-series/evoke2/
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Ahhh, Dobbies...one of those dinosaur venues with a power-mad Conc.Sec. and everything*...you can get a reaction out of the crowd, but with pliers and gritted teeth. For the majority who don't know the place but will know many similar (still), there's total silence** for the bingo but they talk through your first set unless (metaphorically) grabbed by the collar, and the general vibe from the management is 'Why can't you be Matt Munroe? I liked him.' Last time we were there I gave Herr Conc. Sec. the hairdryer because as soon as we'd finished some fool on their side hit the smoke machine onstage about eight or ten times as we were packing down, it was four feet deep and you literally couldn't see the floor, I nearly walked off the edge. I lost 75% of my sheet, went to his table and gave him a bollocking, he tried to laugh it off till I pointed out if someone did fall on (or worse, off) the stage he'd be hearing from lawyers (and I'd taken pictures) about breaching H&S, and he shut up. We haven't heard back from them, but to be honest it's no loss. * Where you're referred to as 'The Turn'... ** The sort of silence only encountered in the bleak chill of deep space or Northern Club Bingo sessions, it's uncanny, unnerving and something I think CERN should have a look at...
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Cancelled. Friday night, turned up to the pub for 7:30pm as agreed with the owner at 11:30am by text, to find 30 or so people still eating and drinking in the band area of the pub. Duty Manager (amazingly, the actual Manager was nowhere to be found) told us they'd had a funeral/wake group come in about four, and they were still there. Apparently there'd been a cancellation text to our BL about 4:30pm, which he hadn't seen. I mean, I get it: that's 30 meals plus probably 120 drinks extra, or pay the band. Turns out they'll be doing both...the BL's furious and he'll be all over them tomorrow. Still, an early night, and we'll get paid (BL's enthusuastically litigious)...eventually.
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Yeah, it's all relative, but 3.67kgs isnt lightweight for me any more, I'm looking down around the 3kg mark these days...it's a shame...
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I still love a BB, although these days the weight has taken them away from me... 🙁
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There's a place we play I call The Weasel Dust Palace, which turns into a club (we basically play on the dance floor, it's a nightmare packing down around people who immediately invade the band space once the DJ starts) as soon as we finish, and recently they rebuilt the sound system with 18" subs in the walls and a generally bigger system. The DJ is the owner's teenage son, and the sound level as we were packing down last time was unbelievable - you could feel the air moving the hairs on your arms - I had to put my inears back in (unplugged) it was so loud...
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The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!
Muzz replied to Baloney Balderdash's topic in Bass Guitars
Au contraire; I used to go to a jam night where a chap would turn up with a fully Xmas Lighted Status to plod some serious straight 8s all evening - you just have to have the confidence... 😀 -
Last time I used a rehearsal room rig it was an ancient Peavey...it was great for the room, but you couldn't have paid me enough to move the thing... 🙂
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Sky Arts ,Worlds greatest Basslines .28/11/25
Muzz replied to martin8708's topic in General Discussion
Sky Arts trails programme about bass(ists), but for general consumption, not the 1% of the audience who are bassists... The 1% who are bassists: -
3.4kg? I want one...I thought they'd be 8, 8 1/2 lbs...
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Completely agree - see my moan/rant about last Friday in the Who Did You See Live Last? thread...tho the main ars*holes were two blokes in their sixties...
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My other half and I go to gigs pretty regularly, but always at the bottom end of the price/venue market - luckily, there's some really good bands out there touring that you can see for £20 or less. She/we have a group of friends who are even keener on live music, and they loop us in on stuff we might've not noticed. Whenever a ping comes through to hershe'll ask 'Do you want to go to see xxxxx?', my first response (in order) is 'How much and where?' We've found Twickets to be a great resource for cheaper tickets, too: for example, we went to see Larkin Poe last Friday for £20 each, when the cover price of the tickets was £38 I've moaned before about big stadium stuff and how much I don't like it (at one point we'd walked out of about five or six on the trot as it was a pointless exercise), but the smaller gigs are newer bands, they're hungrier and more enthusiastic (and generally not creaky old geezers) and the experience is just so much better. We'll look at a gig, then go listen to the band and decide if we'll give them a try, we've discovered some great new (and new to us) bands this way. The Picturedrome in Holmfirth is my favourite venue; good sound, rarely too loud, free parking, you can find a bar that isn't four deep, and I don't think we've paid more than £25 to go see anyone there. The price of tickets is what you pay for giving Spotify a tenner a month to listen to anything you want, while the artists get very very little of that. Then there's Ticketmaster/Live Nation, who have sewn up all the big venues and cranked up all the prices...again, the artists see a small percentage of that...
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Yeah, it didn't help him all that much; we played it down at the time, but he was very frustrated at school because he assimilates things very fast indeed, and then was pretty much coasting (and was bullied badly for that), which didn't help again with his first year at Uni, when suddenly he had to change his methodology and his coasting plan didn't work any more, and his reduced ability to concentrate and slog through a subject he's not gripped by was an issue. He's adjusted OK though (he'll be doing his Masters next year, and is making terrible noises about a PhD after that), but very high intelligence isn't, as you say, the boon some might think it is. Wisdom is the most useful side of thinking, but no-one's born with it, and it takes years of experience to accumulate... As they say 'Intelligence is knowing tomatoes are a fruit, wisdom is knowing they don't go in a trifle'. I spent most of my time with him growing up focussing on that side of things...
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My lad did a Mensa Test (the proper one where you book in and attend, not something shonky off the internet) at 12 (he'd been mithering me for a while, so I took him down one Saturday), and that's always described as an 'intellgence test'. He got his results back (with an invite for Mensa membership) and scored 162 on the Stanford Binet, which is pretty much off the scale, so on paper he's very very very intelligent indeed. In the real world, however, I wouldn't trust him to sit the right way round on a khazi three out of four tries, he's as daft as a brush 90% of the time. There's definitely a limit to the usefulness of some 'intelligence'...
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Larkin Poe Friday night at the big Academy, and one of the most accomplished gigs I've ever seen. Wasn't over-familiar with the material, bu it didn't really matter, just a joy to see that level of effortless-looking musicianship. The sound was very good, and I didn't even need my attenuators for most of it (obviously the levels went up towards the last four or five songs, so I slipped them in for that, but I hadn't needed them prior), especially for the half-dozen bluegrass songs done around a single mic with acoustic instruments only...which brings me to a bugbear of mine: people who pay good money for concert tickets and then yak ALL THE TIME. I moved twice, once away from a pair of old farts propping up the bar not even facing the stage who were clearly half-deaf, judging by the volume of their conversation: there's a bar just outside the concert space where they could have had this essential conversation AND still heard the band, but nope, despite a good deal of shushing (especially during the very quiet bluegrass section) from various people they just battered on oblivious. My other half stopped me going over to them to point out (in short sentences) their massive lack of consideration, we just moved, unfortunately by a couple who were clearly on an early date, sadly the bloke couldn't stop himself parping on every ten seconds, to the decreasing delight of his paramour. I was taken by the arm and we moved again, and all was well. TLDR: if you like something very, very polished and accomplished from Nashville, Larkin Poe get a big thumbs-up from me...
