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Bass is becoming cooler at the school I work at, but it helps with things like Rap and Dubstep promoting the bassline. New technology is also meaning that bass is better recorded and more audible, so that the full thunder can be fully appreciated!

If you can do it, I salute you!

Just finished a run of shows at the local theatre. Some friends in the audience tonight dared me to slap one note in the first song of the second half. Of course I obliged, especially as the song was a sensitive ballad. They didn't hear it.

I've had a mountain of reports to do today, and after getting distracted by Basschat again, and having read Lo.'s excellent post on Motown listening I tried an experiment. I started with Jackie Wilson's Beautiful Day on youtube, with the aim of reaching any Donnie Hathaway track but only via the suggested videos that come up on the right. I've accidentally discovered all sorts of stuff today, Marvin Gaye I've not heard, Northern Soul, ahem, Barry White, Stylistics, Al Green. Still no Donnie Hathaway, but then I didn't finish the paperwork so tomorrow looks sorted!

During their collaboration with Phil Collins on his recent album, the Funk Brothers involved mentioned that the Motown engineers used to take a feed from the headphone amp, which they'd typically crank to get the required level. This would obviously affect the sound, although how much this affected (effected?) James I don't know. On the Stax recordings of the same era, they got the whole job done with 8 channels. 7 mics and one reverb. I think this goes a long way to explaining the immediacy of those recordings and why you had to have soul to be involved!

Good stuff. It can be a very enjoyable experience and a completely different way of enjoying playing to gigs and sessions. You are welcome to the 517 a week I have on my register, if you fancy it. (You have to do GCSE music, BTEC, music technology ncfe and key stage 3 as well. Just a heads up...) Now, basschat, please stop distracting me from the 3 classes of year 7 reports I'm meant to be doing!

[quote name='Big_Stu' post='1140268' date='Feb 24 2011, 06:47 PM']Apologies for posting a link that I've posted before but when I first heard [i]this [/i]bass making [i]this [/i]noise I had to have one, FF to 2:55 if you can't stand Nod's voice. When he had it whining on the bent notes in the dusty end & the chord intro to Spirit In The Sky it gets me every time. [/quote] That was great, I'd always heard Slade were a great live band but never thought to look them up on the 'tube. Here's one guy I've never heard mentioned on BC and he was my absolute hero in my teens. My dad gave me a tape of I've Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama when I was 14 and it neatly straddled my love of Soul music and Rock'n'Roll. You couldn't escape just how much heart and soul was coming from Janis but I loved hearing a rock'n'roll band with a properly funky bass player. Brad Campbell (and an insane head nodding stage presence) [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gsqBEPSrd0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gsqBEPSrd0[/url]

For practical reasons staying in standard tuning is perfectly logical, but there's something about those slack strings that neither a 5 string or standard tuning replicates. A fine excuse to get another bass if I ever heard one! (plus at least 2 plexi stacks...)

[quote name='Roland Rock' post='1132666' date='Feb 18 2011, 07:51 PM']Jerry Jemmott is another favourite of mine. Perhaps not as technical or intricate as some others, but his sense of timing and groove really do it for me.[/quote] +1 Jaco would agree as well, and Tower of Power would sound very different if Jerry hadn't been about. Check this out [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Loy55z4GpA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Loy55z4GpA[/url] Not only does Jerry have cool in spades, he's playing with Bernard Purdie, Cornell Dupree and King Curtis. Makes my heart beat faster!

[quote name='risingson' post='1130346' date='Feb 16 2011, 10:18 PM']Thanks Harry, the tracks sounds great too, the bass sits really great in the mix![/quote] Thank you

I'm really enjoying mine. A while back Higgie described his as being just "there" and I know exactly what he means. There is a 3D quality to the sound and plenty of low end despite the size. I was using an old American Hartke 410 (which still sounds very good indeed) but the Aggies rattle ribs much more easily. I used to play with a very loud drummer indeed and never got the Hartke past 11 o clock on the dial. Whilst I haven't had the chance yet to meet up with him yet and rag the new ones I have AB'd the two rigs side by side and the 12s are really loud indeed. In terms of tone I'm finding I'm having some unusual issues with some of my old settings on the bass I use in that the tone disappears compared to the Hartkes, but this maybe due to the fact I changed heads at the same time as well, and it could be this causing the problem. However on my 2 favourite settings it's my old sound turbo'd and I find all the articulations I use speak through with real weight to them. You have to be careful that the sound doesn't get too thick at volume. I bought one with a tweeter with resale in mind but I really like it and have found myself using it all the time. I did lend my rig to a friend for a rehearsal and he went straight out and bought the exact same rig to go with his fretless Alembic. He now sounds like the world's biggest double bass! Hear mine in action at [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkv5hudteY8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkv5hudteY8[/url] if you want, there's no drummer to get in the way! Hope this helps. Harry

Covers Bands= He who pays the piper calls the tune. Mustang Sally I quite like, but only if it attempts to get close to Wilson Pickett's version. Sex on Fire, Summer of 69, any Abba, just thinking of the money...

First Bass Owned: Encore PB3 'Go To' Bass: G&L ASAT 'Your' Bass: G&L ASAT Somehow relieved that so far most people seem to have the "Go to" and "Your" the same on this GAS-tastic forum!

I was taught start with the rhythm. The notes come a distant second!

This guy really knows his stuff [url="http://www.bassesbyleo.com/"]http://www.bassesbyleo.com/[/url] Welcome to the G&L fan club! Yours looks a beauty.

Doesn't it just depend on what you need to do? Are we going to argue whether a pick or fingers is the best way to play next? I've stuck with one 4 string for over a decade. Playing in an originals band in standard tuning that was what I required. I now do mostly pit work, and I'm thinking a 5 would be a great idea, as I'm getting sick of peculiar leaps in runs from reading the piano part. Right tool for the right job.

What's with all the black rigs? I got this as dragging a 4 10 to the flat up two flights of stairs was doing me in, but they had to be Boss Tweed. Old Horse Murphy was moving these on so I grabbed them and ran! [attachment=71918:avatar.jpg]

Finally got round to uploading a song my partner and I wrote for her mum's marriage. Hope you enjoy it! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkv5hudteY8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkv5hudteY8[/url]

How much you want; henry, ozzy?

A band is as only as good as it's drummer. How many so-so bands have broken into the big time as soon as they've swopped to drums? And vice-versa.

Frustrated bass player! I play in time and in tune, am punctual, don't smell that bad, gear sounds ok, I read, am house trained and can observe the social protocols required to rehearse and gig, but I live in the cultural vacuum that is Herefordshire, where the live scene and artistic input is basic and at the absolute opposite of what I'd like to be doing. Trying to get a band together of a decent standard and keep it going is a nightmare. I love living here, but I need a regular gig that isn't pit work or ceilidh bands!