Prime_BASS

Gossip - standing in the way of control.

No Doubt or Gwen - I'm just a girl

jet- are you gonna be my girl

The Knack - my Sharona

Wheatus - teenage dirtbag

some of my personal favorites

I think Junes issue will appear in stores at the end of this month. As for mays issue, 90% of the stuff in the first few pages I already knew, from here.

Do I really need to pickup next monthes? Is alexs column a good read?

[quote name='Musicman20' post='843953' date='May 21 2010, 11:17 AM']I think that was it, the first thing they said to me was harp on about money, and then it never happened for 4 months. They have cancelled the future gigs as well now as no bass and the vocalist is still not ready.

I really dont like leaving cabs worth £500+ in a room I know little about. Gigs would have brought out the big guns But it never got that far. Im glad I had nothing there as id have to go and get it and bump into them. I think the drummer loves being loud, thats it.[/quote]

I'm no singer so maybe I'm just being foolish, and some people ae different. But I still managed to learnthe words, bassline and lead guitar to Stevie Wonder, Superstition in 1 night. Not perfect but well enough to play any of those parts live on stage. But that's just me.

And same my rig is only worth £800, but I left that and my Orange guitar amp at a function room. I stayed to watch lock up and arrived the next morning before they were open.

And unless the drummer is a total wimp and the kit is crap, small and has no projection there is no need to mic it up. My band barely mics up at gigs let alone rehearsal, but our drummer is a beast. Only would be usefull if they were recording while rehursing, but there'd be so much bleed in a close setting like that, it would sound aweful.

The statement "we earn quite good money" implies the fact and will attract a lit of bass players who wish to earn monies off this gig, and "quite good" what's that enough to live off? A few extra hundred? Or a tenner every month or so when try actually get a gig.

Then they are totally hypocritical and say they arnt interested in the "mighty (pound) dollar". Well excuse me don't advertise the availabilty of good money and expect a 15 year old kid who just wants to rock his socks off.

To me they are being completely misleading. I would lack effortto lug hear around after being told I would make "good money" and after four months recieve nothing.

I realise a lot of people understanding of "good money" is different but I work for nearly minium wage, that's not good money.

I've only been gigging since last December but have since always played for free, and have played along side a band I consider proffessional. They were cool chaps, played, gigged a lot and got paid, and even though it was operated out of the back of a transit, if I was paying them I'd be happy.

Also dealt with otherwise of the spectrum on a free gig, meddly type deal. The guys showed up late, complained and spent 20 minutes effectivily plugging in and tuning up..... Not cool.

Plus 1 though to TimR.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='842815' date='May 20 2010, 09:05 AM']At the end of the day a retailer can sell a product for whatever they want to, but it's frustrating, as a shop needs to make a certain mark-up to survive. Last week I was asked to price match Thomann on a Boss Me-50B at £173. Roland have ensured that shops advertise all their products at the same price online, which has worked well, but the retailer will still reduce that price.

We have had to stop doing Yamaha keyboards because of silly pricing. We were lucky to make 10% profit on a £2000 Clavinova trying to match the likes of Normans, etc.

Good news for the buyer, I have to admit. Worrying for the likes of me.[/quote]

I understand your point, as my parents own their own business and are always being undercut by others. Although we enjoy a healthy business thanks to it's location and great reputation (bobbersmill transport cafe : Mill cafe, nuthall).

If there was a local music shop nearby I would always go there first as I hate some sites un willingness to state weather something is in stock and delivery time.

I would happily by that bit extra to be greated by a fellow musician who is happy to help. I liked foxes when it was there you could pull the guitars off the shelf and jam, drum and guitar centre all the basses are hanging high so if I wanted to try I'd be looking at a full day of shopping in that one shop. Great stock but some staff don't seem to have a clue and I can't get to anything.

If you have PA support you don't need a back up amp, as Long as you have a dedicated monitor for your signal the sansamp para driver should do.

I'm quite happy with my OTB and compact, I've already broke light fittings on low volumes.

Unless I can find the effort to buy and then lug around my dreambass rig, I'm more than happy for now though.

I'll maybe get another a midget or another compact in the future, just to kill myself in my room.

75% of my non food shopping is done online. In particular, music goods. The closest music store is still a £3.20 bus ride, unless I want to walk for an hour and half, and then it's overpriced and doesn't have items in stock. The strings I usually use they only stock 5 string packs, and they are £32 in there. So then I take a 20 minute walk to the other side of the town centre and still get charged £25 a pack. On eBay the sam strings are less than £20.

It's not just though, there used to be a foxes music 5 minutes away, I needed a hard case for my epiphone dot studio, they took my name and number and told me they would order one and to come next week 3 weeks and 3 visits later still no case. I went online I paid the bit extra that GAK had advertised and after 2 weeks it didn't arrive and they sent me another one no questions, later the other arrived.

Online stores offer a better value and a broader range. How can I go local when the nearest local one is longer 20 minute car ride.

This whole episode is ridiculous. They'll never hold down a decent enough time period of decent cash coming in with the way they behave.

Maybe they should come to one of our bands practices, and see how to
PLAY in a band.
What happened to the original bassist? Did his back give way after having to lift the PA more than his own rig?

I hate douches like those though, your not proffessional until your earning from it, and quite obviously they weren't.
I sometimes wonder what goes through thier minds when they are spending 30 minutes faffing around doing nothing.

Anyway G, you are better off without. I know it must be hard though especially when you are being promised good monies and you are wanting to get to it.

Stories of this kind of customer service is always nice. Keeps customers returning, increases custom (I'll be going there from now on haha) and as a result we can all continue to recieve the fantastic service that they provide.

I just gave one finger a try, seems relatively simple as long as you are fast and accurate. Not able to dampen so great with my thumb, I have shakey hands.

Maybe you should upload another two clips. One the standard 2 finger style, and another 1 finger, as a comparison.

On first impressions though, it lacks fluidity but adds in punch. IMO.

I just use what my mum has in the bathroom, but it's been accurate so far.

I wieghed my old power jazz that was 9.4 Lbs I think, only reads to one decimil point however. Still I thought that was heavy.

I'll wiegh in my other basses and maybe my whole bass rig as a comparison, and my own wieght.

Did what he said, and thebass arrived sooner than expected. And I love it.

Great guy to deal with.

I have one, it's reliable and reasonable priced. Can't go wrong.

There is an Dunlop 6 band I think but it had no level control, and then a 9 band.

Geb 7 is the best compromise on controls over price.

Intonation again?

Could be some kind of fret issue, dead spots on the neck, my jag has a suitable tone difference on the 3rd fret 4th string, just sounds off and noisy compared to any other note.

[quote name='squirebass' post='838557' date='May 16 2010, 12:33 AM']As a matter of interest what do you think of my modded Squire Bronco? She sound very much like my Standard Jazz bass.[/quote]

my guess it would with 2 jazz pickups. Lol.
But did the short scale add any more thumpy bass, that jazzes tend to lack?

[quote name='Moos3h' post='837937' date='May 15 2010, 09:43 AM']Sod the bass...big cabinets with 15" speakers (with bucket loads of Xmax) and big power to drive 'em.

I can bring down small towns with my two Fanes [/quote]

lols

I love 15 inch drivers.

I have usually given my eq a low mid boost on a 2x10 combo, which gave me a big punch, but since switching to my current rig, all I have to do is dail in the volume and gain, set it flat and the compress it to about 2:1.

I have no experience with this yamaha attitudebass but I can see it has a neck bucker and a P split coil in the mid. It can be that bright of a bass. Correct me if I'm wrong but all I see the bass having is a huge low thump. You would benifit from a jazz type bass as IMO the usual jazz bass growl and treble fills a lot more space in a mix than any P bass would.

To save money though I would probably use the P pickup solo'd, to try and get more Mid frequency, which will punch through and give you a percievdd 'big' sound.

Obviously all this is conjecture and opinion.

Voted other.

Black and White look to plain, brown tort is best on oly White. The best suited would be red tort.

Although I had a spark of genius when I remembered the pick guard on a customised OLP guitar. It was 4 layer ply, B W B the top layer was a dark grey/silver pearloid. I'm sure White pearloid would match it well, especially with the block inlays.

Second thoughts I'm now looking for the grey pearloid gor my jag

[quote name='jake_tenfloors' post='837988' date='May 15 2010, 10:56 AM']I'll bring everything in my sig for everyone to try

Jake[/quote]

cool, I've always wanted to hear how a sovtek muff would sound rather than the Pi and the bass blogger I'm familar with.

[quote name='nash' post='834405' date='May 11 2010, 04:57 PM']so i'm covering on bass for the band Uberkate is in. [url="http://www.myspace.com/bedfordfalls"]Bedford Falls[/url].

it's been 2 years of not playing bass in a band and playing guitar. now i can't play what i want to play as smoothly as i want.[/quote]

it'll come back.

I find if I keep noodling and doing some solos I like doing on guitar then I keep my guitar technique up to scratch.

But I just can't leave my bass alone. I love the full, thick tone even just flat through a good guitar amp on a bass, guitars now all seem thin.

Previously I had an OLP guitar and it was better than any ther kids squier strat, good quick neck, low frets, low action and in my opinion looks better the squier standard strats, probably not so much now days, squier has gne u where as OLP seems to have gone further down on the quality scale.

Offers something different for the beginners.

I think a lot of people buy them with the intention of upgrading them, but if you get a bad one it's pointless, all you'll be lef with is a body. But sometimes if done right you can end up with a crackng bass fr still a fraction of a EB stingay.

Ok seems a a fair few can't make the weekend of 5th 6th.

So another weekend further in the future should be called.

Any weekend is fine by me I'm lolucky enough to have it off every week.

It may probably do for people to note what they will take, for example I'll take my rig, so a few more people can try a compact out, and the OTB.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='571864' date='Aug 17 2009, 06:11 PM']It's not a Shaftesbury, they had small enclosed tuners & I've only ever seen Fireglo coloured ones.

My first reaction is perhaps one of the late 70s Fujigen-built copies but I'd expect checked binding, which I don't think this has, and it would definitely have a serial number. There were quite a few non-specific Japanese brands - Fresher & Fernandes both did similarly spec'd examples - but it could also be a Brazilian-made Giannini.

I think I'm tending to lean towards Giannini at the moment - the truss rod adjuster might confirm this - Gianninis I've seen have a single rod with long brass nut, as opposed to the recessed allen keys used on most Japanese copies.

It's possible there might be some identifying marks behind the scratchplate on the pots/pickups, or even written inside the cavities.

Jon.[/quote]

trust this guy, he has a lot of knowledge on this.

Indeed, it would have some serial somewhere underneath something.

The VM precision and jazz basses are very very good for the money and are fantastic compared to the squier standard. You won't realise it now but you will benefit greatly from starting on a vintage modified jazz/precision bass.

If you do get a dog of a bass it will be harder to play, sound not so good and in all you'll not enjoy learning, which will make you not want to carry on playing.
A great bass like the VMJ is a joy to play, even when straight from the store, and it will be so much more fun, enjoyable to play. It will encourage you to keep it up.

For the price difference you may aswell.

A precision, usually comes with one split coil pickup, and generally has a thumpy tone with great bass.

A jazz will usually come with 2 single coil pickups, has less thumpyness and can either be smooth or growling, will IMO have more treble compared to a P bass.

Although not important for a beginner, the jazz will give you more tonal option than a P would. Things like the difference in neck thickness is something you have to decide your self. Personally it doesn't bother me as I have very thin and long hands, but sometimes a jazz neck has been too thin for me and it's been uncomfortable to play.

If you want a good heavy sound then the classic vibe or vintage modified squier P basses are both great.

Get out there and play them all, then try and get one here for a fraction of the cost probably setup amazing aswell.

There is also the 1000 watt version which will give that but extra clean head room, but the 500w is still stupid loud and very clean. Just today I've broken a few more light fittings, and I keep it just touching dirt, but still very clean.

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