Recent content by VinylRepairKit

Yeah we had kind of got away from the OP. I agree that his proposed setup would not work well at all (especially with the amp turned up loud).

Point taken, but I was talking about the hearing aspect of it. I just don't much point in talking about audio without any hearing involved in this context. Its about making a tone that will sound good to listeners. If you prefer the sound of a 4x10 + 1x15 and don't care about anything...

Earlier this year I was loading up my car to head of to rehearsal. I was carrying my bass and pushing my amp along, got to the car and set the bass down to load the amp in. I then proceeded to get into the car and pull out of the parking space. I felt the car go over something and heard a...

Not sure about that...

This. Terry Kath was one hell of a guitar player (and singer as well).

This is very interesting too me. What type of materials would you use to make one? If you have casters on your cab does that change anything?

Use 2x6 plates with staggered 2x4 studs and try to leave out as many connections for vibration to the rest of the house as possible.

Levon Helm. The man is a master of the backbeat and playing 'loose' (in a good way).

I own the Cort A6 and am quite fond of it. I got it used with EMG pickups in it and have never heard one with Barts. Its a great bass IMO though, especially for the price.

There are some songs where you kind of need to play the low D on an open string in order to reach the rest of the notes. It's been a long time since I played it, but I seem to remember 'By the Way' by the chili peppers being like this.

I have the Fender nylon tapewounds on my fretless and I think they have a great feel and tone. They have been on the bass for almost 3 years and aside from the loss of brightness after a they were a few weeks old, they haven't really changed at all. Does anyone else notice though, that a lot...

Not a fan of their music at all personally. It always kind of bugged me that the guitarist is called 'The Edge'. I'm not sure of the reasoning behind it, but it just seems to me that if you're gonna call yourself something like you better be one hell of a guitar player (e.g. I think Slash can...

My biggest problem with these games is that there isn't enough emphasis on proper timing; you either get full points for hitting the note close to where it should be or no points at all for being drastically off (you can get a perfect score on a song while having a pretty sloppy rhythm). I...

The only thing I don't like about my Corvette Rockbass fretless is the ugly, cheap looking headstock. Other than that it is extremely comfortable and I get complements on its sound whenever I play it.

Played one small town bar that actually had a reasonably sized stage. However they requested that we play beside the bar to be closer to everybody and I ended up in a posistion with about 2 feet in front of my amp to work with. Every time the waitress went from behind the bar to a customer I...