EBS_freak

For a wedding gig, Im wondering this too.

So theatres, then.

Nah, it's a flex. You've come onto a bass forum, had your post ripped to shreds and attempt to elevate yourself by talking of the venue sizes that you are reputedly playing at. Flex. If it wasn't a flex, you wouldn't need to state such things. You do know that anybody can google your name, and derive the required to raise an eyebrow? Anyway...

It's kinda compulsive viewing... but all whilst being slightly awks.

This is true. Next time there's a BF thread, check in.

You aren't looking hard enough.

Is that a flex? That's a flex, right? Yeah, attempted flex.

Umm, I don't want to be the A hole here... but this is somebody's wedding day. If you don't know what you are doing, it's only fair that you have a dry run and get all this stuff sorted before you even attempt to play a wedding. It's not fair on yourself - as setting up and sound checking is a big enough stress as it is - and it's certainly not fair on the bridal party who I presume are picking up your bill. If you are using fx, chances are, there will be variances in gain that will impact your levels. All this needs to be sorted out before the gig. There's no wedding gig that requires fx on bass... so if there's a chance you'll muck it up, don't run fx until you have had the opportunity to rehearse and do the necessary prep using the fx. Setting levels at home doesn't work - you need to do your setting at gig volumes.

Interesting. Tell the truth now... you de-fretted it didn't you? Cheap bass that you wanted to make a fretless out of? What you should have done, is reshoot the neck, refret, stone the frets, crown and polish - and show how you can take ANY neck and make it boss (as long as the truss rod is sound, theres enough meat on the fretboard and the neck itself isn't twisted). Oh and a new nut for good measure. Presumably you have still got the neck - so it would make for good Youtube fodder. If you learn how to do a decent fret dress, you can make your 100 quid plank play like a million dollars. Still, if it makes you happy, job done.

Anyway, any pictures of this neck?

Anyway, any pictures of this neck?

Ped without a Vigier just seems wrong. Coronavirus is proper messing up the planet.

For me, this is the benchmark on Dylan's Don't Think Twice, It's Alright... and Josh Cunningham's guitar solo is a right ripper. I remember when this album, this came out, I reached for the guitar to transcribe his solo. If you have never heard of the Waifs, go check them out. No nonsense pure musicianship.

Someone from Essex that doesn’t appreciate White and Gold? frankly I’m shocked!

How about now?

Tempted? Or still no?

Yeah, it's all doable - it's all dependant how much you are prepared to pay for it. For example, black hipshot is just power coated. If you are looking at a specific colour, I'm sure that Hipshot will take you some unfinished hardware for you to then send off to your local power coaters so you can have whatever colour applied to it, whether it be matte, or gloss etc. Hipshot are super, super accommodating in all my dealings with them.

It has. It's all powder coating - but white hardware looks pretty naff in most cases. Jack White telecaster

1:18 - I remember breaking a string once... and I attempted to play on. I swear I copped Fieldy's tone A1

I can almost see the drummer who has spend their gigging life behind one giggling.

That's my point. A lot of them aren't even mediocre.

I call BS. All of the strad violins were built from wood harvested from my ickle English garden in bloom.

Not without an amp!

I read that last post with intrigue. Is an instrument that creates sound by passing a piece of metal through a magnetic field ever going to be technologically advanced?

All this talk of Davie. If Davie was a smoking hot girl, would all these white middle aged derogatory comments be so present in conversations? You know as well as I do, it would all be a load of heart eyes emoji, marry me comments and rubbish like that. I think people have a problem with Davie because he is a better player than them, makes a mint doing something that looks like fun and isn't classed as a "proper job" - and has a certain level of celeb about him. I say fair play to him, he found an avenue for his skills and exploited it. Anybody who says that they wouldn't want to have all the musicality and technique is either in denial or just an outright liar. Put Davie on a gig and he would smash it - without having to slap a note. The slap thing, it's a catchphrase and a gimmick. And catchphrases sell merchandise. He's got the thing completely sewn up. Me? Slap? Yeah, I can do it - and do it well. Do I do it a lot? Not really - because most of the music that I play doesn't tend to require it. Do I like slap? Well, the answer to that is yes and no. It depends upon the song. I tend to gravitate towards songs rather than techniques. It's like all these things, technique is largely about building up muscle memory. Put in the hours doing it, the chances are, you'll be able to do it. A lot of people won't put the hours in though.