BenTunnicliffe

Paddy got in touch to buy an Aguilar DI from me this month and the communication was flawless, very up front about needing a bit of time to complete the order but offered un-prompted to pay a deposit up front and everything ran exactly on the short timeline he suggested. Absolutely zero issues, a friendly chat along the way so I would deal with him again in a heartbeat.

I'm actually looking for something that does have fairly tame, dipped mids rather than something that is really aggressive in that area. I'm forever pulling out mids so that I can sit beneath everyone else in the band! Thanks for all the recommendations, everyone!

Thanks everyone (Owen in particular). I did actually get this sorted in the end and now have a corner of my house eaten up entirely by a fibreglass DB case that a friend's friend had SPARE. You wouldn't believe it but the man had four of the things, had already sold one, I took the second one but he's keeping the other two. Madness! I'm now looking into monthly hire on a storage unit but at least my bass will be safer on the road! Cheers for all the insight, I was following along.

Hello Folks, (MODS - Before I get in trouble - I wasn't certain where to post a question about pickups as search results bring up threads in both 'Bass Guitars' and 'Other' so feel free to move) TLDR - Can you please suggest after market passive Jazz bass pickups that are noise cancelling/low noise floor and that lean towards warm, dark, thuddy, broad, vintage, woody or that naturally have a slight mid scoop? I've recently become the owner of an early 80s Tokai Jazz which I've tried and tried to get to sing in my hands with its stock setup. I've experimented a great deal, arriving on the right roundwound strings for this bass but it's still humming and hissing and poor noise floor aside, it isn't delivering the tone I want. The Jazz is going to be permanently strung with roundwounds and is a weapon I need to regularly have in the arsenal so I've decided to look into replacing the stock pickups. I'm a PBass guy usually and moving from my PBass to this Jazz I'm immediately missing some low end thump, I would like to hear some more open-ness in terms of woody tone and I desperately need to get rid of some of the hum I'm getting. My local luthier has already tried all the usual shielding tricks etc to solve my gripes so I think gutting the bass is the way forward for the time being. Tone-wise I'm drawing a blank RE my favourite Jazz bass tones but so long as it has warmth, thud and has musical, open highs to roll in/out then I reckon we'll be golden. I don't do the Jaco bridge pickup thing any more, For what it's worth, this the most recent bass sound to turn my head although I'm aware it's not in any way a Jazz bass. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIUC-AiuKbA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MW90a3Q0djE3ajVzbQ== Thanks for the recs! B

Hi Folks, I'm cleaning my bass up including a trip to the luthier and I've decided to polish up the hardware myself purely because I've never seen it 'as new' in the time I've been with this bass. From the pictures, can someone tell me A) What's the metal? and B) What off-the-shelf product would you recommend to try and get these tuning pegs shinin' once more?

Depending when it is in the year, any day except Friday or Saturday is my preference as those are the two days that gigs land on most frequently but I appreciate that is the opposite to people with a traditional 9-5!

Hey Everyone, I recently put together a video of my personal highlights as a studio bass player from between 2008 and 2021. Some of which are still available for purchase on CDs! You can watch the video on Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Some musical theatre reading sessions, folk-pop stuff and even a dash of spoken word in there! Cheers for listening. B

New acoustic cover of Corinne Bailey Rae's 'Put Your Records On' has just been uploaded in full to TikTok / Youtube with me on double bass.

Acoustic cover of Beyoncé's 'Drunk In Love' has just been uploaded in full to TikTok / Youtube / Reddit / Facebook / Tumblr with myself on double bass.

Hi Folks, Today I've announced the run of shows I'm doing with my new project which has myself on bass duties, Maria Lamburn on bass clarinet, Laurie Agnew on drums and Ross Hicks on keyboards. The new compositions we're exploring are all in a Jazz vein and explore the notion of bringing synths into the genre in the pursuit of alien beauty, landing with the impact of electronic music and the fragility of improvisation. Please say 'hi' if you do make it along! Feb 16th - Holyhead Feb 17th - Conwy March 9th - Glasgow March 27th - Bath April 20th - Criccieth April 21st - Blaenau Ffestiniog April 22nd - Caernarfon

I've just dug up some footage from jazz fusion band Antelope's UK tour back in 2015 and found a great snippet of Chris Young tearing it on alto while I'm on bass synth duties (Roland GAIA, Radial DI). This clip is from the excellent venue Bloc+ in Glasgow where the whole night was a storm! The band is now defunct and this tune 'Glass' was never released, along with the majority of the band's repertoire. Watch Video On TikTok | Watch Video on Instagram | Watch Video on Youtube | Watch Video on Reddit | Watch Video on Facebook | Watch Video on Twitter | Watch Video on Tumblr

My Double Bass Solo over a new composition 'Ty Unos' earlier this month with the Jochen Eisentraut trio at The Blue Bell, Conwy, North Wales 14/10/22 (choose your fave social media outlet!) Instagram Video | Reddit Video | Watch on Tumblr| Watch On Facebook | Watch On Twitter | Watch on YouTube

My Double Bass Solo over a new composition 'Ty Unos' earlier this month with the Jochen Eisentraut trio at The Blue Bell, Conwy, North Wales 14/10/22 (choose your fave social media outlet!) Instagram Video | Reddit Video | Watch On Youtube| Watch On Twitter | Tumblr Video | Watch on Facebook|

You're a star, cheers!

Hi Folks, For my own original music's gigs, recording & touring I am struggling to find the right keyboard player. I need a musician who is: UK Based (ideally Herefordshire, Bristol, Cardiff or North Wales but I'm open to all suggestions) Interested in Jazz, World Music, Ambient Music Has a poly synth as well as a synth for lead lines with a passion for programming each Experienced Jazz chops for comp-ing and soloing Willing to memorise tunes rather than sight read Willing to come along for the social media ride (allowing me to film videos etc.) Open to doing gigs that do not pay a great deal but that never make a loss Friendly Importantly, while a fully-fledged jazz musician is fine by me, I am also genuinely open to working with the right inexperienced young player if they're genuinely passionate about the music. The music I write is certainly jazz-adjacent with a need for a keyboard player who can improvise but a key passion of mine is that I am endeavouring to create Jazz that involves synths but in a pursuit of beauty rather than in the pursuit of heavyness or funkyness. Think Weather Report and Joe Zawinul's solo work rather than Herbie Hancock's Headhunters. There is a ban on piano and Fender Rhodes in this group. I have hours of fully-written music demo'ed up, venues in mind, years of experience and I'll personally be doing all the boring admin once I find the right person. I am also hosting a jam through the tunes in Bristol early November if anyone does show interest. Although it has not yet gigged, the touring line-up of the band is drums, myself on keyboard bass, front-line horn and then said keys player on chords + top line counter melodies. Two representative tunes for a ballpark: Little Lions - Il Mare Weather Report - Brown Street Please let your keys-playing friends know by sharing this post and let them know they can contact me via any social media outlet if they have an interest in doing some playing. Cheers!

That bass was very good to me but unfortunately had to be sold when I sold every bit of my gear a few years out due to personal reasons. I think it was recently traded here on Basschat but I didn't have the money to have it back in my hands. A beautiful instrument that I'd want to own again but mainly as a thanks to it for being with me through such a long and formative stretch of my 'career'. Cruise ships, musicals, studio sessions, it did it all!

Thanks very much! It felt painfully awkward to try and capture odd bits across the day but with the industry being what it is these days and there being every chance I won't buy another bass until 2034 I thought it might be worth giving it a go!

Would I be more welcome if I start to share strong opinions on scale length and trade the baseball cap for a flatcap? I don't have enough disposable income to fulfil the GAS criteria I'm afraid! Once upon a time I even visited Bass Direct and left empty handed... Do with that information what you will. Abstaining from adding vinyl records to the studio is an entirely different beast for me though! The 12years/'new' bass thing is only because I bought a gorgeous Overwater in 2010 and was genuinely happy enough with it that there was no call for an arsenal of alternative setups for the live work I was doing all that time. I was the OW's third owner so there wasn't any peel-y plastic to be taken off by the time I had it! The new case smell definitely still lingers even though there are already strands of hay in there after a barn gig plus some serious sweat I can only imagine the poor bass is shocked to be receiving after being all minty in a warehouse for so long.

Saucy bugger. I made a new topic with pics over here!