Teebs Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 9 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said: I hope the bass that Scott Pilgrim is throwing - is a Chinese Rickenbacker copy, rather than a reeeeel one. Aaaaah! I see! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 17 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said: I hope that was a Chickenbacker! 😮 It is now. Six pieces for a tenner. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky 4000 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 1 hour ago, lowdown said: It is now. Six pieces for a tenner. Mmmm, chicken... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfoxnik Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 4 hours ago, drTStingray said: I think you're wrong - he's running an on line bass education business. Call me old fashioned but I think educators have a responsibility to be reasonably accurate and not to confuse personal preference with education. The click bait thing is quite wrong as you needed to watch at least half the video to get to the bit where he rules out pre amps. So I think some of you are being too kind to Scott. It is a business he's running. I too was impressed with Scott's video response to the thread about extra charges (or at least he'd gone to the trouble of doing this) - after about 10 minutes I began to feel it was actually being used as a marketing opportunity. Astute business thinking but no doubt the thread was closed to avoid people making too many comments on it!! You might be right on this - I'm certainly not wedded to the idea that only my point of view is right. But on balance, I think that the overall contribution to good bass education that Scott and SBL is making is a positive one. When I started out learning the bass in the late 70s, I'd have loved to have access to the learning resources like SBL and Basschat that are available today. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 On 07/04/2019 at 17:50, Ricky 4000 said: There's only so much you can keep saying about the bass! 😃 He’s right, shut the site down 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 12 minutes ago, Frank Blank said: He’s right, shut the site down 😁 We tried this morning! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 13 hours ago, Grangur said: If you listen to Scott, he says about students who come to him, talk about tone and think that adding an onboard pre-amp is "the answer". He's right it's not. But he also says he never plays his active basses in active mode, which rather hints that he has a downer on active preamps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangur Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 7 hours ago, tauzero said: But he also says he never plays his active basses in active mode, which rather hints that he has a downer on active preamps. He does. All Overwater basses are active. Even the Scott Devine sig is active, but his own Overwater doesn't have any pre-amp. He has it wired passive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteb Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Regardless of his views on active bases, this is Scott doing what he does very well - an excellent interview with Gail Ann Dorsey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Pointless clickbait non-information with personal preference dressed up as fact. The secret to a great bass tone is to listen to the arrangement of the song and then find a sound that enhances that arrangement further. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FDC484950 Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 18 hours ago, peteb said: Regardless of his views on active bases, this is Scott doing what he does very well - an excellent interview with Gail Ann Dorsey Isn’t that an active MusicMan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drTStingray Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 34 minutes ago, FDC484950 said: Isn’t that an active MusicMan? Yes - and he does comment somewhere in the interview about not liking them (quite discretely)!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drTStingray Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 On 8 April 2019 at 20:09, silverfoxnik said: When I started out learning the bass in the late 70s, I'd have loved to have access to the learning resources like SBL and Basschat that are available today. Absolutely right - there was virtually nothing available other than your listening and playing skills!! Occasionally you might find a piano arrangement including the bass part!! I owe a lot of my more recent knowledge of more complex stuff to more recently available Hal Leonard, Stuart Clayton (he does good video stuff as well as excellent books), the late lamented transcriptions in the old Bass Player Magazine - and SBL. And Standing in the Shadows of Motown and Jaco, Louis Johnson and Flea instructional videos. There's a vast amount available to bassists these days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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