Recent content by xxjazzbassist

Do yourself a favor and stay away from hartke and get a markbass

I've played several "background music" gigs for my university and did some significant traveling for the event. we had a drums, upright bass (me), piano and sax quartet and went through alot of trouble bringing equipment so we could be heard only to be told to play so softly that there was very...

for the sake of your sanity get out while you still can

For me it was a Crate Electra precision copy, the action was pretty good on it from the start and it was well built. eventually the pups went out on it and i replaced them with some bartolinis and some ernie ball slinky's on it and it sounded great. played it til i got my EBMM 5HH Ray in 2010. i...

the battery for me needs to be changed every few months now but when i was playing it more often it needed to be changed about once a month. your battery life will be worlds better if you unplug it when you arent playing it. also the mids knob is where the money lies in dialing in your tone on...

-1 i strongy disagree...the bass attack is a tone killer

Ska is NOT dead because FIVE IRON FRENZY has returned from the grave!!!

as much as i dislike hartke, i'd still take hartke over line 6 or beringer...most people can cop a pretty good tone from a hartke, plus victor wooten plays through hartke

Unlike rocking bird i've had horrible experience with any of Ibanez's ABG's and would caution anyone against them...in my experience they play lousy and aren't built well

Theres a great Ska Band called five iron frenzy that broke up around 2003 and they have recently decided to get back together and start touring again and started making an album. they used kickstarter to raise funds and raised over $30,000 in less than an hour and over $150,000 in under two...

I tune them a half step high and let them settle by playing them for a while after putting them on then i let them sit overnight and then i tune them to pitch

you buy an upright, a bass guitar never truely cops an upright sound

my EBMM has molded pickups on the thumb side so i anchor my thumb on the bridge pickup

I tried out the Markbass Little Mark Tube 800 at the local GC and i fell in love with it :) I loved it so much its gonna be my next big purchase

Anyone else besides me reping the Tri-Cities/ Pullman