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    Horrible Basses

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    [quote name='silddx' post='951699' date='Sep 10 2010, 11:59 AM']I wish you had not posted this link [url="http://www.loewenherzbass.com/english/models.html"]http://www.loewenherzbass.com/english/models.html[/url] I'm just about to have lunch! They are truly disgusting aren't they.[/quote]


    Agreed. The top one looks like someone's been sick over it. :)

    3-tone sunburst Fenders just sound better: Discuss

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    There is actually some scientific evidence for this. Exctract from a recent paper in the Journal of PsychoAcoustic Research:

    "Group A were exposed to fifteen minutes of a three-tone sunburst Fender playing Mustang Sally, while Group B were exposed for a similar length of time to the noise of a pneumatic drill breaking through concrete slabs. Electronic probes monitored the pain and pleasure centres in the subjects' brains. Repeated tests revealed that the three-tone sunburst fender group's pleasure to pain ratio was on average 7% higher, and in some cases up to 15% higher, than the pneumatic drill group. While this result is clearly statistically significant, we believe that more research is required, especially as there is some theoretical evidence to suggest that the fender advantage could be increased to almost 20% if an Ampeg SVT head were used...."

    Bless me father for I have sinned

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    [quote name='bubinga5' post='949037' date='Sep 8 2010, 01:30 AM']are you not in a band Golch.maybe try and get involved...[/quote]

    This. I also play a variety of instruments to different standards, and for me at least, bass guitar is the instrument I play [b]with other people[/b]. For solo playing, there are other instruments that I find more rewarding (in my case keyboards, accordion and melodeon), and for me the bass really only comes into its own when played as part of a group, but in that situation there's nothing I'd rather be playing.

    Improvisation on Bass - Completely Pointless

    in General Discussion

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    [quote name='silddx' post='949155' date='Sep 8 2010, 09:35 AM']More lofty prejudice.[/quote]


    Kettle, kettle, come in kettle, this is pot. :)

    I wouldn't do it myself because I'm not nearly good enough, but listening to John Wetton improvising out of his skin with Crimson (LIVE) was one of the things that got me into bass. I'd cite the live version of Schizoid man recorded at the Concertgebouw in Nov 1973 as my fave example, but there's loads of others.

    The Tell: Pagan Rock in London this autumn

    in Gigs

    Posted · Edited by Earbrass

    [b]The Tell[/b], London's very own female-fronted Pagan Rock band, continue their ‘It’s Thursday so this must be E1’ gruelling mega tour :)

    [b]THU SEPT 30th[/b]: The Rhythm Factory [url="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&g=&q=rhythm+factory+whitechapel+road&btnG=Search+Maps"]http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sour...tnG=Search+Maps[/url] (nr Aldgate East tube, on Whitechapel Rd) - due onstage @ 8.00 for a 30 mins set.

    SAT OCT 2nd: The Birds Nest (Deptford) [url="http://www.fancyapint.com/pubmaps/map_1586.php"]http://www.fancyapint.com/pubmaps/map_1586.php[/url] Think we're first on, but no idea what time.

    SAT NOV 13th: Roadtrip Bar, 243 Old Street EC1 - due onstage at 10.00

    Thanks for you attention.

    As you were

    One bass only

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by Earbrass

    [quote name='Rayman' post='938156' date='Aug 27 2010, 03:19 PM']Anyone else just have the one?[/quote]

    Very nearly. I have two, but they're the same make and model and they're usually kept about 100 miles apart. Having two is just a way of cutting down on the stuff I carry from place to place.

    What to buy?!

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    [quote name='skej21' post='946991' date='Sep 6 2010, 10:47 AM']Why? That is totally lost on me I'm afraid lol[/quote]

    There was some ermm, "spirited" discussion of whether any amp in the history of space could possibly compete with an Ampeg SVT.

    What to buy?!

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    [quote name='skej21' post='946909' date='Sep 6 2010, 09:10 AM']"Upgrading" to a heavier, bulkier amp with delicate valves that are more likely to break if i'm lugging it about 3 times a week, is not my idea of a good investment.[/quote]

    You should have been here last week. :)

    BC ultimate

    in Bass Guitars

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    [quote name='throwoff' post='922465' date='Aug 12 2010, 11:00 AM']Right. I have been reading through this place for some time now and it seems to me that if we all HAD to play the same bass starting right now it would be the following -

    Squier VM Jazz
    Badass Bridge
    Wizzard Pickups
    John East Pre

    Who on BC would accept this bass as their one and only if forced to give up the rest of their gear?

    Also what is the BC amp? I was thinking little bastard but not so sure.[/quote]

    Bit posh for me, but as long as it weighed no more than 8.5 lbs, and I could remove or bypass the pre-amp, fine.

    Shure SM57 and SM58 comparison.

    in Recording

    Posted · Edited by Earbrass

    [quote name='charic' post='922464' date='Aug 12 2010, 11:00 AM']Im sure there was a difference when I looked at the freq response charts for each...

    Cant remember though![/quote]

    Maybe that's just down to the grill & foam linings, though?

    Agree that dynamic mics are better for miking cabs / drums, or screaming through at gigs. I'd go for a condenser every time for recording acoustic instruments.

    The ***Dream Bass***

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Earbrass

    [quote name='Stag' post='920018' date='Aug 9 2010, 08:28 PM']OK... my dream bass has turned up for sale at a dealership.[/quote]

    The thing about dreams is that, sooner or later, you wake up.


    [quote name='Stag' post='920018' date='Aug 9 2010, 08:28 PM']I know ill never ever want another bass after it ...[/quote]

    Of course not.

    :)

    What are you listening to right now?

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    [quote name='arsenic' post='914332' date='Aug 3 2010, 09:46 PM']I first met them in 2003, and the other half a few years before.

    Currently up to 12 studio albums and a best of.

    Hunt down a copy of the Vampyre Erotica and Beltaine albums - or better still get along to see them live, Candia has a great voice live - great band and great people.[/quote]

    Cheers, I'll try to do that.

    James Jamerson

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    When there's a thread in praise of a player or genre that I don't like or in which I am not interested, I generally don't bother posting to disagree with the general sentiment. There's no real point, as it's all just a matter of taste and opinion, and I've seen too many threads descend into pointless name-calling and bad feeling just because people like different things.

    However, when people start to take the absence of any dissent as a sign that the player or genre in question is unversally held in high esteem, it is perhaps worth reminding people that other points of view exist. I do understand that many people here find it surprising that a bassist could fail to rave over JJ's playing, but then again I was genuinely surprised, when I first came to this site some years ago, to find that Motown was taken even slightly seriously by people calling themselves musicians. I think that just shows how we can all get used to talking to people we agree with, and quietly forget that there are a lot of other people out there that think differently. I can't honestly say that I [b]don't[/b] rate JJ as a player, it's more that I've never really listened to him because I have no time at all for the kind of music he played. I don't think that makes me 'daft', just someone with a different opinion and different tastes.

    I think it just goes to show what a diverse bunch we are, with very diverse tastes, which is somehing we should probably celebrate rather than fight over.

    Just my 2p.

    OK, back to the JJ lurve-fest. :)

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