SimonK

Having a gig in the diary and knowing what date you are working towards has always been the most important thing for the bands I have been in. You get crazy efficient when there is hardly any time left!

Ha - did that this evening, although better than breaking my whirlwind cables that are getting so expensive you can almost buy a bass for the same price!

I suspect if being an "artist" is a spectrum, there is just something about bass players that make us a little more down to earth than other artists. Certainly whenever I've been in festivals/gigs etc., being someone who goes on stage and plays something does put you with a different group to other people doing stuff at the gig. While I might not consider myself an "artist" in the same way as the mentally unstable singer/song writer who doesn't get sarcasm, I do find myself in the same general group...

I think there is a distinction between the bass player being able to hear themselves, and the bass sitting well in the mix. When I play I like to hear a lot of bass so that I can hear what I am playing, and thus am often disappointed when I wander out to FOH to hear that the overall mix doesn't have as much of me in it as I like to hear. But that just reflects that the FOH mix is trying to achieve a different thing compared to my monitor/where I'm standing mix. Looking at some of the above there seems to be some people answering "how to get the bass sitting well in the overall mix" question and others the "how do I cut through enough to hear myself" question.

I tend to forget that my Bass itself has pretty good EQ options that can be adjusted on the fly. If not cutting through I would just fiddle with the onboard EQ while playing with the band to find something that works. Once you know what that is just dial it back should you ever be playing bass on your own!

I've got a Warwick which needs the intonation adjusting but am scared of German reverse screw threads if you fancy having a look?

Do they? I've never seen it mentioned explictly although maybe I don't use decent amps?

While I seldom need an excuse for a new bass, I think this one might just be a case of practicing some more to get better technique!

I've just started using a five string also for church/gospel music. This last Sunday was the first time it really "clicked" for me, due to having a load of songs in the key of D. I found using the D, E, F# and G# on the fifth string worked really well. Also saving the low D for every now and again just introduced a lovely low end thunder. Although I had my Stingray 4 string on the stand just in case, it didn't get touched for the first time in many years... thus said I still can't slap cleanly on the five string due to the tighter string spacing.

I'm not a huge bass pedal user, so not mentioning guitar pedals everything that has ever been on my bass pedal board are the following, again using the * to indicate something in use as I still own all of the below - seems I have never sold a bass pedal! Includes pedalboard and power supplies, but not patch cables: Aguillar Octamizer Boss CS-3 *Boss GEB-7 Boss TU-2 Boss TU-3 *Boss TU-3s * Bright Onion momentary kill switch *EHX bass big muff EHX big muff pi (original russian version) *Genzler Magellan Pre Hartke Bass Attack (preamp pedal) *Keeley Compressor Pro *Line6 Relay G30 MXR bass envelope filter MXR bass chorus *Pedaltrain Classic Junior TC Electronics Ditto stereo looper *Truetone 1 Spot Pro CS7 Truetone 1 Spot

When I first got my fretless many years ago I was quite worried about my intonation, but over time have learned to just trust my ears and also slightly slide up to each note (also helps getting the mwah). As an upshot as long as each string is within a couple percent I often don't even bother tuning, albeit do have an always on tuner on the floor and do occasionally glance at it for reassurance.

Is it lined? I have a non-lined fretless and find I can tolerate fairly out of tune strings without a problem so long as I don't play the open note!

Managed to use a pick and the fuzz pedal this morning on Our God 🤘. Sadly we didn't have an electric guitar today but I tried to make up for it!

...or the tank like build quality... The new Trace amps are really Peavey, a company who I may never trust after this which possibly explains the title to this thread (a lost art!):

So I'm guessing the idea is to download songs in ChordPro format from SongSelect, and then add into your JustChords database? Are you able to increase the font size, scroll using a bluetooth footswitch, change keys on the fly (or at least relatively easily) and annotate?

Does JustChords link into SongSelect?

On Sunday I was the only person in the band without a tablet/phone for the music, albeit the singers were just using simple pdfs on their phones. The guitarist suggested I should think about getting "OnSong" (I have an ipad), so I was just wondering whether anyone here have used this and what they think about it?

Given the topic title I thought this belonged here as well as it is what I thought when I watched this - some people are just born to play!

..coz it's called an amp "head" not "tummy" (and you don't have to bend down to adjust things).

Should add that one of these and direct into the PA works pretty well!

This ⬆️ It's stupid threatening legal action for recording/playing a song you wrote. So long as you have proof you wrote it, just wait for any hint that they are making money from it and then claim the royalties without having to worry about recording or playing it yourself!

Ta-da!!

Was this the amp in Blackburn that was on Gumtree for £120 - if it was you got a good deal as I would have had that if it wasn't for the fuel costing more to get it! RE a matching 4x10, should be able to find one for under £100. There are a bunch of very optimistic people trying to sell them for crazy amounts, but if you look at the other thread you will see I have found plenty similar cabs for under £100 (I think I've picked up two 4x10s in the last year for £90, one with a head as well). Worse case scenario is to buy a couple broken ones and combine the speakers.

I'm going to be left field, and say amp wise I don't think it really matters what you use for an "acoustic" sound as almost anything can be turned down. Indeed I often think that bigger cabs work better at lower volumes as you get better sound dispersal. BUT when I played in an acoustic group for a couple years, and on occasion sit in for acoustic gigs now, I always use a fretless as I think it gives a much softer and less aggressive sound. So I would say the bass you use matters more than the amp.