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After having played drums for a few years. I was recently inspired to take up bass (I'm TOTALLY diggin' it). I'm wondering if there's an amplifier that might work for both bass and e-drums. which I could use for low-volume jams with other musos and practice at home. I have a e-kit that I've been monitoring through headphones and a small 15W practice amp for my bass (this amp doesn't cut it with

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The four string bass guitar starts it out with the phantom voice. Then I join in along the way with the Ugly Stick. for lack of a better term to call it at the moment. Specialists in Live Sound FOH Engineering. Vintage Instruments. and Tube Amplifiers

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I want to build a bass from premade parts (i.e. body. etc.). I would like to use a P-bass style body with a Jazz style neck. It seems that most all bodies that I can find are already routed for pickups. etc. Does anyone know a supplier that has bodies with only the neck pocket? Your Custom Shop will actually have a resale value. The parts bass won't. OTOH. my Warmoth P-Bass with Antiquities

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hi y'all. i want to use existing parts to make an extension speaker cab for higher frequencies in my bass rig. (about 1k on up) i only wish to use one speaker. i have a passive three-way crossover i'd like to use. it has both a pos. and ground outputs for mids and highs. should these mid and high outputs be wired to the one speaker in series or in parallel? Conservatives are not necessarily

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The grapevine says a club owner who booked us for next month sometimes has issues about paying bands if he doesn't think the music drew enough of a crowd. Swell. My view on this is that the club is a short walk to the river. where a body would vanish quickly. so the club owner should reevaluate his practices. Clearly. this may be an impractical approach on my part. My other idea is that we

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I want to buy a new bass. and I would like to know which models have a low (very low) action and along with a thin. and not that wide scale. and not that wide scale. and not that wide scale. I have this bass and I give it 2 thumbs up! Action is great. The only thing is. it's a little top heavy. The right strap cures that. Mike Have you tried a different strap? thick leather Levi's that

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I played a used BBG5S last night. and was pleased to find it had wwwwiiiiiiiide string spacing (normal?). Is this common for the entire BB 5 string series of basses? The Yamaha web site doesn't have this important data. Yamaha is the only mass production company I know of that uses Standard Spacing on some of their 5's and 6's. Definitely on the TRB 5/6 and the Signature models.

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I have a 4x10 cabinet and 2-1x15 cabinets. I have used the 4x10 and one of the 1x15's and I have used both 1x15's together. They are all rated at 8 ohms. These days I either play through SS amps or a PA. Most amps are rated at 8/4 ohms. So using any two of the cabs prodeces 4 ohms. No problem. But I was considering using all 3 of them together which would produce ? watts. Would it be safe to use

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Is there a way to protect a bass against deteriorating? My main concern is rust. and other unwanted stuff on the metal. I've played bouble bass exclusively for last few months. and can't see myself playing a bass guitar in the near future. I have a pretty good bass guitar tho. But it's a Korean J-bass copy. and has really low resale value. For me. that bass is as worth as a brand new Mexi Jazz

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Played a gig with West Eats Meat at the "Trinumeral Festival" (translation: 666 Festival) in Asheville. NC. For those that don't know. Asheville is like a miniature version of San Francisco. compressed into a mountain town the size of maybe Syracuse. I'm carpooling with the Drummer. We're scheduled to go on at 8 (which means 10). so we leave around 5. Destination: a new club that a promoter

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What's the best way to develop technique for muting strings so they don't ring out? I'm having trouble doing that with my left hand and I've had to resort to trying to use my right hand to mute strings instead. When I try to use my left hand fingers to mute strings. it gets in the way of the notes I'm actually trying to play. Please help. It should be a combination of both actually. The

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any more horrible. he heads into a reprise? This is just SO wrong. what might you expect from the Clown Prince of Rock and Roll? Actually the band is top notch. John Jorgensen on mando ect. Doesn't quite match up to Dolly Parton's version of "Shine" as hit material. but this is still fun. We see Dave still has his famous sense of humor. And I must say.

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Received from Billy Bragg's press office. Watch yourself if you are putting your own music on Myspace! "Someone who we work with was bright enough to read the small print of the MySpace terms and conditions and found that once an artist posts up any content (including songs). it then belongs to My Space (AKA Rupert Murdoch) and they can do what they want with it. throughout the world without

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I am looking for a bass effect pedal for live work - which I can use to enhance the bass sound to make it sound more like a 6 string electric guitar playing a distorted chord - or at least something that can really pad out the sound when required Basically we're a 3 piece band (bass. guitar)and want the option for the bass to fill out certain areas of a song - like choruses or under a guitar

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I have read the archives but still would appreciate an explanation of what a compressor actually does. Is it a digital signal enhancer or analog processor? Does it remove the dynamic ups and downs of the volume? Brian May had built a device in the early Queen days where he'd hit a button. the playback tape head would move along with the tape until he hit the button again. So he'd set the

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in its simplest form. a scale can be played in 1 octave. in one position. Alternately. one can play it in intervals of seconds. fourths etc. and in different positions on the neck. Or start the scale on the second or third scale note. It may also be possible to mix intervals. say thirds and fifths. Using this kind of thinking. are there specific exercises you do to try and break up the "monotony

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He is one of my favorite musicians. I had the pleasure of meeting him twice and seeing him perform with Ringo four times and once with Eric Clapton. Always electrifying. He played the tastiest organ and piano licked you will ever hear. He looked ill and very tired when I last met him about a year ago. I saw him perform "Nothing from Nothing" on some talk show. Phil Donahue or the like. After

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Time for a change on my daughter's Mike Dirnt P. I shall probably use a Rotosound Swing Bass 45/105. as we are both familiar with them on my Status. The Fender OE strings use a .100 E. This is our first and only Precision. but a browse of Fender's catalogue indicates that most of them have a .100 E as OE. So. what do all you P Bass owners recommend? Rob. I'll bear it in mind if I get the

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Specialists in Live Sound FOH Engineering. Vintage Instruments. and Tube Amplifiers I really enjoy Mahavsihnu. and need to pick up a few discs to "rediscover" them. The book could be interesting. 1) new instruments. 2) advancing recording technology. 3) expanding conciousness of the world's spiritual and musicial communities. the "grass" roots acceptance of non prescription pharmaceuticals...

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i saw Violent Femmes last weekend. and brian ritchie pulled out a one-string bass. It was a stick similar to a bamboo. no frets and sounded close to an upright. It looked like a 2 string bass to me. I saw a thing like this at the local art fair. It wasn't a bass and the guy called it a "strumstick". I'm sure you could do a bass version. He's no longer with us. He died quite a few years ago.

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I don't understand WHY people rave about these. Mostly bought a DI for my EUB. and it works fine for that. but on the electric basses... I'll pass. I prefer the sound of my basses going straight into the mixer. then out to headphones. Maybe because I'm not recording and mastering? Maybe because I like things simple? The basses just sound more open without it. and it's easier to get a good

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consider this scenario. I want to substitute the G7 - as the V of a 2-5-1 progression in C - with a tritone. So I pick a Db7 chord. When it comes to creating an impro line around this chord. as a first choice. a lydian Db7 scale? and again what are the scalar possibilities available. other than the lydian approach? From G it would read: G Ab Bb B Db Eb F As you can see it includes the basic root

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everything is original except for the pickups that are active EMG's. The sound of the EMG's certainly is good but i would like to replace them with Fender Passive pickups. Second hand is to expensive. Pickups These two pickups can be blended to create a variety of tones suitable for all styles of music. Fender? reproduces the pickup that was introduced in the early 60's. the Original Jazz Bass

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I have been playing a lot on my fretless 5'er (my only bass) the last year. The TI flats are also one year old. They still sound great. but I have nothing to compare to. How often do you change yours? Conservatives are not necessarily stupid. but most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill Man... I ordered three new sets of strings from them Monday. and they e-mailed me

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While doing some research on lightweight bass guitars. I came across this article on Ovation's website: It states that Nikki Sixx played an Ovation acoustic/electric bass on Motley Crue's "Red. White and Crue" tour. The first question I had when reading this was "why?" - why would Nikki want to play an acoustic/electric? Does he maybe have a bad back? The second question I had was "how?" -

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any of you guys aware of a switch system. that allows for example 3 amps to switch into 1 speaker...? i think you need a powersoak unit. and something like a loop switcher? specially built for speaker ohm's? You might think about using a combination of 2 or more A-B switches and a breakout box. depending on what you want exactly. Do you need something to switch quickly or just casually between

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I'm new to the group. I have posted a thread and got good response. So here goes..... Been playing for a while. Still feel like a turd stuck in the drain. I really need some honest opinions regarding my playing. I'm up for any criticisms. Lay it on me! I'm not trying to plug my band. (for God's sakes. listen to the mix and my sound!) Our best demo IMO is Stolen Moments (remix) My beef would be

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you guys that can play 3 sets without cheat sheets. how does one go about developing a musical memory? You play the same damn songs week after week after week. Then add a couple of new ones a week until you have 4. 6 sets worth of stuff. I can't believe you'll still need cheat sheets after 20 or 30 times playing the song. The real problem with most of the guys who gripe about not being able to

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So I finally sprang for Behringer's BTR2000. Zzounds had it for $59 US and I just couldn't pass it up. I bought this unit mainly for my home setup. and the fact that it has a built in metronome makes it a perfect addition. All in all I'd have to say it's a great little unit - not quite as quick to respond to input as the Korg DTR1000 I have in my gigging rig. but considering the price

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Hiya.. i'm after getting into a cruise ship gig. Does anyone please know ao any good reputable UK agencies that deal with this sort of thing ? i've had a quick look and seen quite a few but i dont really know a great deal about this sort of gig. does anyone know of any that are any good. maybe that they've used allready and could confidently reccomend.. any help would be appreciated. Be

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so here's the deal: i recently had a back injury at work. (btw. don't work for Home Depot if you can avoid it - they are evil people if you have a work injury! i've recovered fairly well. after a week or so on anti-inflammatories. i've even got a new job which will be easier on my back. so no worries there. lately when i've been jamming i've noticed that i can't be wielding my axes for as long

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I've got a Geddy Lee Jazz and a little Fender BXR100 amp. Had the amp for several years and the Geddy for about 6 months. Everything has been working fine until last night. When I set up for rehearsal (3 piece bad. drummer and myself) there was this loud hum/buzz coming out of my amp that I've never had before. I couldn't get rid of it. Tried different patch cords and different wall plugs

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