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  1. Dave the Bass

    Cheap headless basses.

    I used to have a walnut Westone Pantera headless....I regret selling it.
  2. Dave the Bass

    Help me choose one of this OD's

    I have the Bass Soul Food on my board in front of the Tech 21 Bass Fly Rig....sounds great!
  3. Dave the Bass

    What is wrong with me??

    I can play a set of D'Addario EXL's for almost a year before they die...I have a friend who can kill a set in less than an hour. I don't let him play my basses anymore.
  4. Dave the Bass

    Are there strings you actually dislike?

    I don't like Chromes or Boomers...I use LaBella tapewounds on fretless and D'Addario roundwounds on everything else.
  5. Dave the Bass

    What kind of flats do you use on your Jazz?

    I use the LaBella black tapewounds
  6. Dave the Bass

    Music store employee horror stories???

    I was seriously considering a John Patittucci signature Yamaha several years ago, found one at a store in very good condition because the guy that bought it couldn't handle the string spacing or something so it hadn't been played much. The store employees would not let me play it at all, refused...
  7. Dave the Bass

    Worship Bass Pedalboards

    Here it is, promised to post a pic a couple of weeks ago and forgot.
  8. Dave the Bass

    Playing to a click...

    I play just about every week at a large church, we do use some computer/loops, which requires us to stay with a click. We have it set to a nice medium woodblock sound, so it's not annoying in your IEM. I just pretend that there's an invisible percussionist with perfect time playing with us.
  9. Dave the Bass

    Overdrive, mild distortion pedal?

    I love my Bass Soul Food, gives me plenty of drive without being harsh.
  10. Dave the Bass

    Your favorite 6 string bass for less than 2 grand

    Ibanez BTB686SC....
  11. Dave the Bass

    Worship Bass Pedalboards

    I run an EHX Bass Mono Synth - EHX Bass Soul Food - Tech 21 Bass Fly Rig - Zoom MS-60B - TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2- DI. I'll try to remember to get a pic after our Thursday night service tonight.
  12. Dave the Bass

    Fret Sprout on a Fretless?

    My Squier Vintage Modified fretless Jazz neck has the structural rigidity of a half-cooked noodle...I pretty much have to give it a truss rod tweak one way or the other just about every time I play it in order to keep the action where I want it.
  13. Dave the Bass

    The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club

    I've always been a bass-straight-into-an-amp guy....but I've finally joined the pedalboard/DI crowd. Running my Ibanez BTB686 Terra Firma into an EHX Bass Mono Synth>EHX Bass Soul Food>Tech 21 Bass Fly Rig>Zoom MS-60B>TC Electronic Hall Of Fame 2>DI.....plenty of tonal variation to play with!
  14. Dave the Bass

    What did you give your bass for Christmas this year?

    An EHX Bass Mono Synth, EHX Bass Soul Food, and a TC Electronic Hall of Fame 2 reverb pedal.
  15. Dave the Bass

    The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club

    Our team has done 2 albums of original music.
  16. Dave the Bass

    The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club

    I only anchor if I'm on the B or E string, for everything else my thumb kind of lays against the strings I'm not playing and acts as a mute.
  17. Dave the Bass

    The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club

    I've played a lot of classical music as both a bassist and a trumpeter in college, also played a lot of 30s and 40s big band stuff on both bass and trumpet...never felt the need for a click. However, not all the musicians I play with these days are at the level where they are comfortable playing...
  18. Dave the Bass

    The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club

    Rough day yesterday...every song in our 9am service was a trainwreck...missed transitions, early entries, vocalist just quit singing because he didn't know where he was in the song, technical issues with the click, soundman had everyone muted for the whole first verse of Do It Again. We had a...
  19. Dave the Bass

    Interesting new acts for a prog rock/metal loving geezer?

    Teramaze - prog metal from Australia
  20. Dave the Bass

    Who's your "I get it, but majority of people dont" artist?

    King's X and Galactic Cowboys.....killer musicianship, excellent vocals, great mix of styles from both bands. Most musicians dig them, but hardly anyone else knows anything about them.
  21. Dave the Bass

    The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club

    I did Never Gonna Stop Singing with a pick the first few times we did it, but then the drummer and I funkified the arrangement a bit and I've been using fingers, with some envelope filter and octave.
  22. Dave the Bass

    DI only gigging

    The Tech21 is great live...It's built around a Sansamp, with a compressor, boost, octave/fuzz/filter, and a chorus. Also has a tuner accessed by holding down the chorus footswitch. I usually set up my basic sound with the Sansamp on, and then set my levels so I have a useable sound with it off...
  23. Dave the Bass

    Pretty Maids: Dad Band Kings

    I'm more of a Pink Cream 69 fan...David Readman has a hell of a voice and the songs are pretty solid.
  24. Dave the Bass

    The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club

    I used to refer to my 1998 Washburn XB-600(the one in my profile pic) as "the wife", but since I got married my wife objects to that designation.
  25. Dave the Bass

    How to know when you are too loud?

    I play guitar sometimes....I use a 5-watt all tube amp that has 1 12AX7 and 1 EL34 and an 8-inch speaker. Mic'd up it works great and NO ONE will ever have to tell me to turn down.
  26. Dave the Bass

    The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club

    We have 2 room mics that we can mix into our IEMs at our church....sounds really awesome when the congregation starts to get into a favorite song.
  27. Dave the Bass

    Let's see those Work Horse Basses!

    Hi! It's a great bass, balances nicely on the strap, not too heavy on the shoulder...I usually run both pickups balanced, with a little bass boost, and mids and highs flat. Gives a good basic sound that works with pick, fingers, or slap. I really like the sound with the bridge pickup soloed...
  28. Dave the Bass

    How do you like your monitor mix?

    In order of importance...my bass, my vocal if I'm singing, click, guitars and lead vocal, keys and acoustic, and a little kick and snare.
  29. Dave the Bass

    The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club

    I've played 6 strings since 1998 as my main basses, you get used to it. I tend to strap it up a little higher to take some strain off the wrist compared to where I play a 4 string.
  30. Dave the Bass

    DI only gigging

    I use a Tech 21 Bass Fly Rig direct, so I still have some tone-shaping abilities, but don't have to pack my amp around.
  31. Dave the Bass

    The Praise and Worship Band Bassists Club

    Hey, guys...been a while since I've been on here. Life got super crazy there for a while. Playing normally every other week at a multi-site church that runs 8500-10000 every week...1500 or so at my location. Current rig is an Ibanez BTB686NTF Terra Firma into a Tech 21 Bass Fly Rig, I also...
  32. Dave the Bass

    Good sounding cheap arsed fretless

    I love my VM fretless....took some experimenting with different strings to get the sound I wanted, the LaBella black tapewounds are perfect.
  33. Dave the Bass

    Bassist With Best Distortion Tone

    Monty Colvin from Galactic Cowboys
  34. Dave the Bass

    Let's see those Work Horse Basses!

    Here's a pic of it in action.
  35. Dave the Bass

    Let's see those Work Horse Basses!

    Here's my Ibanez BTB686NTF...I love it!
  36. Dave the Bass

    Who here has found, and currently has, their "Dream Bass"

    I just bought the Ibanez BTB686SC Terra Firma.....absolutely love it, gave away my Carvin LB20 to make room in my collection, (and to keep my wife from going ballistic about having 4 basses.) I don't think I'll be needing an upgrade any time soon.
  37. Dave the Bass

    What beer are you drinking right now? EPISODE IV.

    Had a Southern Tier Choklat last night....so good.
  38. Dave the Bass

    Who was your inspiration to play bass?

    I was 12 years old....the year was 1984.....Stryper's The Yellow and Black Attack had just come out. I thought Tim Gaines and that Aria Pro was the coolest thing ever......
  39. Dave the Bass

    New Ibanez Bass day... Feel free to not like it..... BTB686 Terra Firma content..

    I'll be ordering one of these in a couple of weeks.....can't wait!
  40. Dave the Bass

    XLR out from amp or a DI box to the board?

    I kind of go in between the two.....I run a 1/4 out of the preamp out on the amp into a Whirlwind DI. Lets me get my tone out to FOH without having a fight with the sound man.