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This is a very interesting thread. Thanks for posting the question. Where I come from, a couple of years ago there was no realy local music scene. Music basically consisted of commercial oriental popstars. In the late 80's some metal bands started emerging and concerts were organized and...

Used to say that too until I heard the 8 inch ;)

Yamaha HS50M. Those will give you a nice sound, but not enough bass. I don't think a speaker with a cone smaller than 8 inches would satisfy a bass player.

I got the TC-Electronic Powercore compact. and it comes with several bundled plugins. One of them is Tubifex. Has been doing everything I want for recording. I don't like to use soft plugins live or during practice though.

Very well said ! :bassist:

you probably meant high pass ?

Haven't gigged for almost 2 years and I am on here frequently, and learning something new every day. So by the day I start gigging again, I'll be kicking !

1.) Bass 2.) Sansamp DI 3.) Strap 4.) EBS compressor 5.) Fastfret

There's no right or wrong here IMO. This is how people come up with new techniques. They experiment, see what sounds good and is comfortable. Whatever works for you without hurting yourself is the way you should do it. But to cut a long story short, most of the people find it easier to slap with...

Mute the track while you're recording. Turn the mix knob down to the left, maybe at around a quarter. Set the latency to 512 or 256 samples. Make sure you don't let your computer go to sleep. If it did already, try opening the System Configuration and change the clock to SPDIF, then back to...

This is quite sad. I remember when I was 12, it took me a couple of months to convince my parents to buy me a used classic guitar. When I switched to bass 3 years later, I spent almost 8 years playing on basses that weren't mine. I'd spend hours after school was over just to use the school bass...

Very well said !

Try a lighter gauge. Or make sure the action is set correct. It might be due to E-String hitting against the frets. Had that happen on my bass.

Exactly ! I don't think he's the first person to think of this.

Back in '98 I had my Ibanez stolen at a gig. After I went offstage to talk to friends and some of the audience. By the time the entire show was over, I went back behind the stage to find it was gone :S. One doesn't learn for cheap I guess. Ever since I keep my eye on everything when I am out.

The most famous local band over here doesn't even have a drummer. Two percussionists. One of them with a cajun and it always gives a great groove no matter how big the gig/concert/festival is.

So what I've gathered here, is that there are organizations out there like the FCC and ASCAP that are somehow concerned with copyrights ? They make sure people don't make money of others "sweat" ? That night we were playing only original music. And I am sure the club had to bribe that guy to...

+1000 Marlowe IS the man ! I have played bass for almost 15 years, and only recently have I improved my playing through this guys lessons. Each video shows a great lick and then a "slow motion" of it, so you can fully understand how it is played. Check out his youtube channel.

Yes, I think that's the purpose it is meant to serve. Supposedly everyone can get a membership if he/she passes a certain test. I guess, there is something similar in US as well then ? As for controlling content, there's a another organization that takes care of that. But they are mostly...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, they are somehow backed up by the government. But I can assure you, this has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. I checked up the word again, maybe syndicate describes what I am talking about here ? --------------------------------------- I think that's quite...

Queen - Another one bites the Dust

I live in Egypt. The middle east mainstream music is very limited in terms of variety. In order to overcome this, most smaller clubs and pubs that provide live music, hire underground bands that they can afford, and which play alternative music. A couple of days ago I was playing a couple of...

Thanks ! That's where we come from :). Unfortunately I was already finished with my part on these pics. But I hope we get to play there some time again, as a full band.

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hahahahaha !

My first gig ever was when I was 12 in 1993. I played guitar back then. The cool thing was that it was in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where there's no such entertainment at all. So we had a huge audience. My first gig as a bass player was in 1996, I was 16. That was the big band of the school...

This reminds me when this guy, who was supposed to be my "ex-band advisor" would come and keep telling me "tune with a TUNER !". I really can tune using my ear to the keyboard or to another guitar !

The thing is, I do have passive basses too, but for some reason I just prefer playing the active ones. I like their response more I guess. A fresh new battery every gig ? I'd have to put a budget for that :P. What I think might be a really good idea is supplying the bass with phantom power...

My two main basses are equipped with active electronics. A couple of weeks ago I went to the rehearsing studio and realized the P-Bass was running out of battery, it started doing these noises and the tone was losing low end. The nearest market wasn't very near, so I had to take out the...

I am very paranoid about hypocrisy. That's why I rarely see anything as a compliment. I very much appreciate it when people honestly tell me what they think of my playing. This could include criticism and/or compliments.

I'd suggest you experiment with kickdrum mics for miking bass amps. There are also cab simulators that might help you achieve a very similar sound to the amps without the need for miking.

Get Ubuntu and start playing around with it. Won't be heard to understand and you won't even need to install it to your hard drive. Runs right from the CD.

Depends on which bass players you refer to as cool :). I think Richard Bona, Victor Wooten and Miller will somehow end up in heaven, don't you think ?

Well I'm muslim, and no I am not messing with you ;)

That would probably be Tony Franklin :). Here's a video.

I have a 5 string American Deluxe P-Bass with active pickups. It's red. I would definitely take it to heaven if I end up there, but that wouldn't be my only choice.

My worries are WHERE I'll be playing. Heaven or Hell ?

The slightest hiss/hum might not be audible to the ear. But after applying enough compression and/or amplification it could cause significant noise. I don't use quality cables myself, but that's because they're extremely expensive where I live.

This reminds me of goatse

I think that this is a very complicated issue. I am guessing there are quite a few reasons why a company would do that. They might not want to release their "cookbook" to everyone so competitors wouldn't be able to copy off their hardware. Or it could be a pure business thing. Maybe they've...