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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...

Never heard of a pan pot, but it sounds like a knob for controlling the left-right pan in a stereo setup.

Willie Dixon was a bass player and one of the greatest songwriters ever.

Zeppelin II

Haha I like his bass face at the end.

I have them on a fretless and they produce a pretty neat sound that I am fond of. They have a fairly crisp, hollow sound to them and when you EQ some low-end thump in they sound great. They also have their own 'mwah' sound of the string vibrating against the fretboard that is distinct from...

Nice deal here: Link Removed Works quite well for me for acoustic and vocals.

Elixers?

I always like Otherside, had a neat abstract video too with Flea playing telephone lines as a bass.

I'm most productive/creative late at night with the headphones on.

Yeah the bottom 2 necks are pretty redundant and difficult to reach by the looks of it. I always thought this one way neat: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

I hate rock bass, always feels like there's something bigger on the line.

As far as I know, you can play whatever you want in a live performance as long as you are not recording or broadcasting it.

Hasn't happened to me in a while, but what did you guys do if you got one during a long gig? I would keep it unless it got so big that I couldn't play with it. It would be quite painful playing after popping a large blister though on that finger.

Rick Danko of The Band, they didn't really have a lead singer but Rick sang lead on many tunes.

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A lot of it is in the plucking fingers, Geddy really attacks the string with them, but in a very controlled way.

I'm in a blues band, and once played a gig in a bit of a hick town where we were told by someone that if we didn't play Johnny Cash or Elvis they were going to leave. If you play well there's always gonna be at least some people that are liking it, so just play for them and don't worry about...

I broke my index finger once so I started using and ring finger to compensate. By the time the index healed I had developed enough control over the ring to start learning rhythms using all 3 together. So I guess so you could go and get a hammer and...

I can get 192khz with this: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] However you cannot burn an audio cd at more than 44.1khz if I remember right.

1. Warwick Rockbass Corvette Classic Fretless 2. about $550 if I remember right 3. 10% of the time

Agreed. I'm a little confused as to why there were deaf olympics though... the only reason I can think of is not being able to hear the starting gun in some events.

Never played one, but the most intriguing thing about them to me is the ability to use strings made out of pretty much any material (because they don't have to be magnetic). This could really open up a lot of different tones.

Texas Flood-SRV Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett (we hate playing it but it gets asked for a lot and gets the audience dancing) Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Stones One Way Out - Allman Bros Tulsa Time - Eric Clapton (lots of country fans around here and this is about...

Get some rhythms/scales to play and use a metronome or drum machine to slowly work the tempo up with lots of practice. You can also try using 3 or 4 fingers on your plucking hand. On a side note I've always wanted to make a little contraption a few inches long with a piece of a bass string...

With all the talk about these low frequencies I can't help thinking about the (probably) mythological brown note. Personally I hardly ever use anything below the D on my B string so I can't see myself ever using an F#, but I'm sure their popularity will grow. I don't think it will ever be as...