Recent content by carldogs

I have some specs of the old combos your cabinet was modded from if that helps, there were 2 types the 300/580w version probably had an 8 ohm speaker with extension cab option, the 150 could have been 4 ohm no extension. I have included the details I have for the 1153. The porting on these cabs...

Great revelation to get well done, I played a lot of dance covers at one time and I found getting the ends of the notes and rests solid made all the difference. I'm quoting someone who said "you have to literally play the rests " so they as solid as played notes

+1 to GMC I to think an eq would better serve your needs, HPF will clean things up but will do so by removing all your bottom end frequencies, boominess usually does not come from the very low frequencies but rather in the 120 to 200hz depending on the cabinet, placement and the room you are in...

It depends so much on the feel of the song and what's happening in the melody, like for example there is quite a lot of chord movement so to add some variation and depending on the style of the song the first four bars could have an eighth note pedal tone on D which is the 9th(actually 2nd)...

As already said great progress and +1 to finding others to jam with and looking at finding a bass teacher. A great resorse to have is Building Walking bass lines by Ed Friedland if you can get that. A next step is recognizing and memorizing common chord progressions from the songs you have...

The police sting

I feel your pain, fortunately my present band does work together to sound balanced and give space. As has been said it's pointless fighting for the low end if it is totally swamped, mids are your friend around the 500 800 Hz mark to help you cut through a bit. Try running just one pickup on the...

I'm the other way used to bass cleff the treble cleff is a bit shady for me. One leger line below the treble cleff is middle C one leger line above the bass cleff is middle C same line same note the bass cleff just continues down below middle C, try not to think of it as something completely...

As already stated velcro wraps but at a push a roll of masking tape is a quick way of securing cables and is not to sticky. If you are also dealing with a lot of ac power cables or long lengths an option to consider if not the case already is going for rubber cable instead of pvc, it is a lot...

Rough boys

I did xxx and got a perfect p bass tone from my jazz bass. I did xxx and got a perfect jazz bass tone from my p bass. Why has a G dim 7 chord got an F flat, they should have called it E.

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As was said to use both, if I'm practicing scales or finger exercises i always use 1 finger per fret but during a gig i will play basically 4 fingers over 3 frets and pivot a bit with my thumb, Much more relaxing, if I'm playing walking lines I'll probably use 1 finger per fret for those. From...

For building speed use 1/16 th notes, four notes to one beat. Start around 60 bpm and slowly build up 5 bpm at a time. The important thing is keeping notes even and clean sounding, when things start getting messy back off on the speed and work on technique. If you can get to around 100 to 110...

Santana's black magic woman, i don't mind the original though from Fleetwood mac.