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William Shatner is appearing here soon. There will be a screening of Wrath of Khan, followed by Shatner reminiscing and taking questions from the audience. Tickets are priced around $60-$80. This is at an upscale performing arts venue. You can also buy a separate ticket to have your photo...

Background - I mainly play for my personal enjoyment. Have an MTD Kingston Heir 5 (2008ish), with just upgraded nordstrand pickups and preamp. My current amp is an combo Ampeg BA112 (version 1). While I think it's "fine", I feel like there's something missing. Listening to other bass players...

Hi to all, My Strunal 50/1 satisfies me, since David Desbois set it up. The sound is decently good. BUT, next summer I plan a third trip to Boston... and Upton Bass is just 100 miles from there. I should NEVER drive those 100 miles. Their entry level Bohemian is great for the price. NO, NO...

First, thanks to those who replied to the previous thread. My bass teacher said that it's better to keep the pre-amp for better sound. Moreover, most of the double bassists he saw are using the Fishman BII. Finally, I changed my Rumble 25 for a Gallien-Krueger MB110. Big difference. Even the...

Compression is the last effect I want in my stripped down pedalboard. I'm using; 1. Pigtronix Bass Fat Drive 2. a Cheap Behringer tuner, I'll eventually replace 3. MXR Bass Octave Deluxe 4. MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe I've upgraded my cables and patch cables, I want a Pedaltrain Nano+. Anyway...

I have some nice leftovers from the Walnut Wonder, enough to build I nice SG style body and and a 30-32" scale neck. My original thought was to build an EB-3M (32" scale EB-3) But, I happened to stumble upon some things about the Bass VI and the very rare EB-6 and decided to swerve a bit; lose...

....Tell them it’s in the Church!

Saturday’s gig was in the hands of Tom, a widely trusted, experienced, committed, tasteful, audiophile sound engineer who is also a bass player. During sound check, he asked me to give him a little hotter signal out of the built-in D.I. on my amp, because the bottom end was sounding a little...

Like to try that amazing Barefaced Super Midget on your gigs? Alex provided one for a ''Traveling Demo". Currently in Tennessee. You pay shipping (It's only 21 lbs) and we'll send it to you to try.

So it appears I've managed to secure an audition for a band next week. Guitar, bass, and drums, and a female lead singer, doing what appears to be 80's rock and some country. Some of the songs are transposed to a lower key, as the singer (along with myself) are old, and ones singing range...

I have owned 20 basses. Mostly P basses and a few Jazz. 95% American. I have never had one with this poor a set up. The truss rod does nothing. I can loosen it up completely and I still get buzz on 2nd fret. I have to raise action so high using bridge that it is not comfortable to play. I tried...

Most of those on this forum are very content with the wooden necks on their electric basses. But after we've seen aluminum and carbon fiber, what do you think the next material to be accepted for bass necks will be?

Ok chaps, tax refund came in. I've been thinking about re configuring my cab setup into one, do-it-all (for me)bass cab. Here are my requirements: -12" speakers. I don't know what it is, but I've owned 10s, 12s, and 15s. I've hated every 10 and 15" cabs and loved every 12" cab. Can't really...

A post in another forum on TB a discussion on how to play a particular song is being talked about. The OP thought it was lacking movement, MalcolmAmos posted this: "You ruled out walking, but, a good ole country walk to the next chord may be the movement you are wanting. Experiment; the walk...

Donnie Iris will be 75 years old next week and still performing

Right now I'm using a Peavey Cirrus 5-Pigtronix Bass Fat Drive-MXR Bass Octave Deluxe-TC Electronic Corona Chorus-EHX Enigma:Q Balls-Ampeg BA115v2. What should I try next?

I have played and still do play many ‘styles’ of music as a bassist/vocalist. It’s been an interestingly compartmentalized journey moving from one project to another through the years from all original to covers, back to original with record industry intent and now ultimately playing with...

The cover band that I founded with my guitarist brother that has been going strong for the last 18 years is breaking up. It's been a pretty wild ride. We have had a lot of fun and have been blessed with a good following and a steady supply of gigs. Weird. It's like losing a family member. I'm...

So I've been GASsing for a P or PJ bass lately. I also am a certified Jazz-width neck kinda guy. So I've been paying attention to TB discussions on the subject. As someone who rocked a Peavey amp in the 80s (the Combo 300, since that was the best loud-cheap thing I could find,) the fact that...

I'm probably a day or year late on this but does anyone agree that the Plex is a taste of GK amps to come? Like maybe amp heads that combine the basics: tuner, drive, compression, classic tone profiles.. Like the B/Amp.. The MB has been around a little while. The 400RB is gone..

I started out on bass a few years ago and my instructor advised me to pick up the Progressive Bass book. We got through part of the book and worked on some songs, etc. but I had to stop lessons due to financial and other personal reasons. Long story short, I just got back to working through...

I've been on this kick - program? - for the past 6 months or so. After I feel I've really learned a tune in the common ways it's usually done, I look for ways to make it more interesting, freshen it up, reinterpret it. I came to that realization when I was working on Dolphin Dance. I was...

Ok kids! Poll time! I'm going to Status Graphitize one bass! But which one? My trusty old beat up Chinese SUB ray4 with Duncan electronics and Badass II bridge? Or.. Create a Stealth jazz bass out of my Mexican 70s Jazz bass? I'd use all black hardware and Fralin pickups. See photos below

I just received a Barefaced Super Midget which I will be putting through the usual paces: some videos in the studio as well as GIG REVIEWS and videos. I'm also planning on taking the cab out to visit several friends at their gigs and plug it in for them to try. I couldn't believe it when I got...

The title says it all. That type of bass would cover sounds I don't have. What's good, available new, in production, under 1000$?

After an 8 year hiatus from buying basses i finally got the next one on my list. I currently have 4 basses and cant figure out what would be next. I wont buy anything for at least a year but id love to hear some suggestions of what you guys think would be a cool next bass cause for the first...

A recent observation that hadn't occurred to me before and I don't think anyone mentioned to me either: once you can competently solo the changes to a tune, a big improvement can be realized by working on playing several choruses while trying to make each new chorus more interesting than the...

This is what im currently using: ehx bass soul food, polytune mini, mxr bass fuzz, mxr bass chorus deluxe, mxr dc brick I also own an mxr bass octave, crybaby bass wah mini, ampeg scr di. I've been looking into compressors. From what i can tell, the mxr bass compressor is best at it's size...

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Looking for amps that fit this formula: Class D, <10 lbs, ≥ 1000 watts, <$1,100 & Rackmountable Context is....using the above in a band that plays multiple genres and we play a lot of large stages (national size), but some smaller ones too. I will only be using the head with one cab at any...

Hey everyone, i'm thick in a new build, and am now having design re-considerations. It's a Daphne blue P-Body. Originally, i was going to go blue with white pearl (everything) and chrome, then I saw a black block inlay neck and liked it. I had also considered having a local artist paint a few...

Hi All, I've been happily playing a GK MB210 for the past 7 years in a band that has grown in size (9-10 people now) and volume. The GK can hang pretty well but I feel like it gets too "dispersed" sounding when pushed too loud (I will go though the sound system when available). I want people to...

So yeah, which bass are you willing to get next? I wish this one as my next bass, it's made by a local Luthier (from Buenos Aires, Argentina). Exactly like this one but 5-stringed and with EMG pickups :)

Hello guys, I’ll give you a bit of backstory first. This idea toying with my brain is probably a result of Aspergers Syndrome I have, and me being a very impulsive buyer who has to be told no to see common sense when purchasing things. Of course, when it comes to bass gear and the ever lasting...

It’s a Japanese Squier Bullet made in ‘84. The best squier’s ever made. Better than some American models today in my opinion. It’s been modified with a 70’s Fender Tele bass humbucker and a Leo Quan BAII bridge. I don’t know who did the funky finish but it seems like it has a good story behind...

Never saw this before. But his fretless Jazz through a GK1000 sounded deep and fat in a large outdoor tent during the local Octoberfest. No PA support. Homemade (duh) from some type of sewer component using a freeware speaker software. Unmanipulated waveguide run amok. Certainly not for the...

My absolute favorite dramas have been Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Homeland, and Fargo. I recently switched over to streaming TV and have been catching up on other great TV dramas. I really enjoyed The Sopranos, Narcos, El Chapo, Ozark and am almost finished with Sons of Anarchy. I tried the...

I have a healthy stock of basses that I use when I play out which include Lakland's and Sadowsky's and some one offs. I've always wanted to have a collection of all the iconic basses. Just would like to have them to tinker with for fun or to have their textures when doing tracks. I have...

So from my previous post regarding favorite body styles What's your favorite bass body style (and why?), the polls showed Jazz and Precisions running away with it, with some honorable mentions for Thunderbirds, Spector NS-2's, Rickenbackers, and Ibanez SR body styles. With this in mind, off...