Recent content by AlunJWDavies

If you're doing I IV V stuff, not so much. If it's complicated, I don't see the problem. I go to concerts to HEAR the music, not to watch lame stage moves. If optics are a problem, you could photocopy the charts at 150% and put them on the floor. Cuts down on the clutter. I've done it...

Wherever I Lay My Hat-Paul Young cover of Smokey? Hmmm... Pino on fretless and a beautiful intro. Definitely anything by Japan(MIck Karn on Wal or early stuff Kramer aluminum neck) but those would only be hits in U.K., Japan, and maybe Toronto. I think both Pino and MIck played on some...

Very well written pithy response! Give 'er! Wooo! Seriously, you handled that well. Dood should get a life.

Some are great, some are just good. Generally, they have a really ballsy sound. I had a 370 and used a Monoblock II a few times and preferred the Mono. Definitely worth it if working well and can be fixed up for not much mooulah.

For live, don't sweat the brand of verb too much. I have a nice rack TC and stopped using it live because unless you're able to run stereo with a NICE p.a., it doesn't matter too, too much. An old Lexicon will do just fine. Or you could get one of the amp simulators(pod etc.) and have other...

I just received the money order for the SB-1 that I sold Kaputsport. Just wanted to let y'all know the deal went throught with no problems. Bongomania can now put up another cartoon. Alun

I traded a MM Stingray 4 to StereoJoe for a G&L L-1000 fretless(which needs work). The stingray was a gorgeous bass but I just didn't play it. I actually went back to my Kramer Focus 7000 from the 80's which just feels great. Something about those Japanes instruments from that time period. I...

I've got a Fender Bassman 150 which has a 12" and a tweeter. I use a small Behringer mixer into the rca(CD)inputs on the back and guess what? It sounds ok. Vocals land more in bass amp range freq. wise but if you have a bass heavy rig(410 without tweeter) then it will probably sound muffled...

I had one for a few years and I already did the double handed tapping thing on bass so that wasn't a big deal. The tuning was. I ended up doing my own tuning(mixed results). The thing I didn't like about it was the lack of range of sound. There is only so much expression you're going to get...

About 10,000 when I was 21. Not scary at all! What is scary is playing solo bass for a handful of people. That makes my leg go up and down like a jackhammer!

I lived in London in 05 and the age thing there was rampant(I was 41 then). I kept telling them that with the lifestyle there(smoking, drinking, fash 'h chaps) my 40 was equivalent to your 23. That didn't go over well either:) Seriously though, I think this has more to do with attitudes and...

The Dunlop does this(sort of)but you do have to engage the pedal a bit. I do use it exactly for that purpose. I engage it slightly right at the breakdown and then slowly pedal it up while playing a repeating passage. Very Massive Attack. A programmable wah where you could turn it on and set...

That was done at Trinity church in Toronto. Basically, they found the sweet spot in the church which was supposedly mind blowingly good. My guess is that there was a lot of rehearsal to get the levels right.:) Still, it shows what can be done.

Fender Bassman 150. 39lbs. I use it with EUB(lots of low end!), fretless and fretted. The tweeter has a pad which is nice. This thing is nice and warm. And cheap! I play with a couple of loud drummers and it does keep up but barely. Great for jazz gigs which is mostly what I use it for...

Standard thing in Toronto sessions(commercials etc.) is to plug into the Avalon or if you're lucky some kind of UA or Millennia. I would bring my Envoice Mindprint which I love to bits. Engineers will tend to give you some "cool guy" flack 'cause that's what they do for kicks but if you show...