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PRS Private stock guitars regularly run around $7,000-$10,000 due to the types of woods, master builders involved (including PRS himself) and the finish levels..."regular" stock PRS Grainger basses are around $2-3000 each so I'd say for a custom short scaled bass with custom made...

There's also the F Bass Alain Caron Classic, which has an incredible upright tone. George has done some major work combining flatwounds (Labella Tapewounds actually) with piezo pickups, a chambered body and a specialized preamp in creating an incredible sounding bass...

For standard (jazz, rock, country) gigs: TC Electronics Tuner Demeter Compulator EHX Micro Pog (Low Octave) TC Electronics Corona Chorus For my Progressive Rock and Fusion Solo Gigs: In Order: TC Electronics Tuner Demeter Compulator TC Electronics Sparkplug Booster Dunlop Bass...

My old CIJ Geddy was like a barometer and I got REALLY good at tweaking the neck (despite having to take it off until I replaced the pick guard). After a tour where it would go wonky mid-set due to climatic changes, I couldn't stomach using it any more. Great playing neck, awful to ensure...

Not to mention the Kelvinator fridge (for cool tones?) and the vending machine (lots of tonal variety)...

Was just going to say the same thing. I've seen him locally (Hamilton, Ontario) several times recently, backing up his son Jordan!

When I was in at F-Bass headquarters to pick up my BN5, I spied the TecAmp Dream Buzz Deluxe pedal as George now distributes this line in Canada. Having seen very little online about it, I arranged some time last night to check this pedal out... It's a very nice, very polite Big Muff clone...

Given that I live, literally, 5 minutes from F Bass' factory and showroom in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, I have been trying to avoid the wiles of Mr. Furlanetto's wares. However last year, when I hosted Trip Wamsley for a house concert and visit to Toronto, a trip to the factory was in order...

Bozzio, Torn, Karn - Polytown Tony Levin - World Diary Both made me rethink my overall tone, note choice and bass as a melodic instrument to drive a composition.

Just finished his autobiography and read the Bass Guitar interview. Peavey amps all the way since 1980s... Currently using Peavey Basses live, but still goes back to the Arias and Music Man for recordings...

I use a Trace Elliott V-type preamp for my main tone. I use TecAmp products for volume and support. Both give me a nice warm, full-range tone that I can use other tools to tailor for the gig!

Hi there, I own an Ibanez BTB 676 which is my main bass for solo gigs and am becoming increasingly unhappy with the sound of the stock Bart MK2 installed in it. I'm looking for replacement pickups that would require little to no routing/modification to the bass itself. Would any of the...

This reminds me of a gig I had last year where I was visited by a number of bassists including a Talkbass user. I used my Warmoth/Moses build that I put together. The Warmoth body was one of their "Showcase/Sales" items... Most of my bassist friends commented on the tone of the bass and how...

Of the basses I currently own: Hohner B2 Steinberger copy (converted to fretless) - purchased as my second bass (due to a back injury, it's light weight and short length made things easier to play), converted to fretless when I got what I thought was the bass of my dreams (Rickenbacker 4003...

[Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Musicians Killed after Refusing to Play Longer After members of the band La Excelencia in Guadalajara, Mexico refused to play more songs after closing time, irate members of the audience killed two members of the band and detonated a grenade inside the...

I have a custom Tele guitar made out of reclaimed bamboo flooring and it's one of my favourites to play. Link Removed The neck is SOLID and hasn't shifted all winter, it does have a truss rod and is baseball bat thick like all early tele necks. The body is resonant and light...I could...

Yamaha RBX 250. It was light and played easily, I did so much stuff with and to that bass...then I bought my Hohner B2 Steinberger copy, which led me to sell the Yamaha. Don't miss it much. Still prefer the sound of a P-style instrument.

Rickenbacker 4003. Saved up for a year and waited for this one to be made. Even bought the Ric-o-sound unit to go with it. Sounded great, played great, however the third fret was not located properly and was constantly sharp on all four strings. Because I changed strings to non-Ric...

Pretty much the entire Polytown album...it's what happens when three virtuosic musicians get together and listens to what each other is playing.

My Peavey Minx 110 practice amp. The first amp I bought (24 years ago) and now using in my living room (hidden in an end table) for practicing in a comfortable environment. It does what it needs to do and does it well...

I am looking at a Warwick 5-string bass, however play a 5-string with a high C instead of the low B. How adjustable is the just-a-nut? Will it be able to accommodate the high C or do I have to get a new nut installed. Thanks in advance!

As a gay person, I have been beaten twice, once badly enough to be hospitalized because of just walking out of certain establishments. And believe me, I'm not the limp wristed, lisping stereotype either. I've also been kicked out of two bands because they found out my sexuality (guess what...

My suggestion is that you get the band together as a lot of the agents that book tribute acts want to see and hear you to confirm that you are a convincing act. I do know bands like The Musical Box and the Canadian Pink Floyd Tribute have their own booking/advertisement. However the...

I will highly recommend the Hohner Steinberger licenced models - I have a B2 that is one of the most solid basses I own. Beautiful, light, neck through and has everything you'd want from a Steinberger except the carbon fiber and the price. Mine has since been converted into a fretless and...

Now I've done it. I've had a big green Sovtek Big Muff that I love the tone of (particularly with my P-bass) this thing just kills with tone and gives that nice warm fuzz that annihilates any mix. However the darn thing was too big and I could not find an adapter that played well with it...

Yes all my four strings and one of my five strings have Hipshot Bass Xtenders on them. Yes I do and I use them for more than just dropping the low E to D or the low B to A... Four, including one with an X-tender on each string to facilitate alternate tunings.

Red Bear Trading Classic Shape Gypsy Jazz Gauge (1.5mm) with grip holes and standard bevel. Expensive, but it's lasted me over a year...awesome tone too. Kind of half way between a celluloid and a felt pick. Even came with its own case/pouch and care kit.

After my back injury and surgery, I went from a Trace Elliott rig to a tube DI with a Sansamp and relying on monitors for a couple of years. Then I discovered in ears and haven't looked back. I have a small mixer in my rack that takes a monitor feed and mixes it with my bass (phase switch to...

As someone who twists balloons as a secondary artistic venture (actually it pays more than music on an hourly basis does in the long run), you're looking at about $7.00 for the bag of balloons if you want em to last decently long. The ones at most grocery stores/discount stores are so stale...

Actually, knowing Dev and the SYL albums, I'd say that the mastering was intentional as he was going for the brutal, pummelling wall of sound. The one conversation I had with them was that he was looking to leave the listeners exhausted, confused and spent after listening to them. I think he...

I was in a comedy music duo with a comedian for a while and we were beginning to get some decent gigs and build up a reputation. However, as we got better gigs, my musical partner became more unpredictable, erratic and self destructive. We ended up playing a three night stand at a large...

Are you looking for someone to jam with or a good night out listening to tunes? Styles? Type of music you prefer? For instance a really creative quartet (Dat Damn Jam Band) plays two "weekly" gigs EVERY WEDNESDAY at The Unicorn Pub on Eglinton Ave. in Toronto from 10 until 2. EVERY...

The bartender and the waitress. Midway through the evening, the cook came out to join us too...

When I saw them do this one live, Mr. Harris played this on an Ovation Acoustic bass. As shown/supported in the following clip. Piezo's and acoustic strings or fresh Rotosound Flats probably.

You pretty much answered all your questions. Re-amping is the process of taking an already recorded signal and running it through an amplifier to get the additional tone and vibe of that amp and any effects you wish to run it through. Usually this is done with a solid good clean direct...

In Guy's book "My Bass & Other Animals" he states that there is indeed tremolo there and that the hardest part of pre-production of the 1987 tour for him was getting the timing right to sync up with the tremolo and the delay on "One of These Days"...so yes he used tremolo in the middle section.

"Tarted up" - you mean like all of the heavily Antares Autotune-d "singers" around these days (ie anything where the artist is "Featuring T-Pain" or the latest Kanye West)? It was a cool effect when Cher's producers did it years ago, now it is nails on the chalkboard to me. Anyhoo the...

I use a Line 6 DM4 for my analog delay with mud...and you definitely need a tremolo pedal for the middle section...

Three ways to discover our faults: • Ask a friend • Ask an enemy • Recognise a fault in others or We know others to the extent that we know ourselves. We recognize in others what we know most deeply in ourselves.

Actually the guitar peg is for the G-string, the D-string is just angled around the G-side of the string tree and up to the peg usually reserved for the G-string. If I recall correctly, he just added another string hole to a stock Fender bridge and has the strings angled over the regular...