I have been a music fan all my life, and an amature musician for about 25 years.
I took up the guitar in 2001, and still struggle to get good music out of it.
I am an accidental bassist, I just ended up being the guy to play bass. I am a rank amateur, but getting the hang of it. I started out being a drummer in a band in 1964, Ringo is my hero. We were one of the 10,000 bands launched the week of February 9th, 1964 after the Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. It was literally a life-changing event. I still am a hapless musician trying to keep my head above water, guitar and bass-wise. I took up the guitar in 2001, and that was also a life-changing event. I am still trying to make "Louie Louie" sound good, and not succeeding. But I do have a good time making loud guitar noises.
I am currently playing the P-Bass in an accordion band. (insert accordion joke here ______ ) This has been a wonderful experience because it has forced me to learn to read music and play in time with three other musicians. They are very tolerant of my clumsy bass playing, and I thank them for that. Some day, I will be an asset to this ensemble. I appreciate the quarantine because it has spared many people the spectacle of my faltering bass playing, and, it has given me some much needed practice time.
My number one bass is the minimalistic Fender Mark Hoppus Precision/Jazz with the J body and P neck and pickups. It is, of course, in the fetching Surf Green. I got this in an Ontario, Oregon guitar shop used for $400. It has 100 flat-wounds. It is smooth and deep.
My only other base is the 2020 Squire Classic Vibe '50s P-Bass, (with the Tele headstock). I put a Seymour Duncan Quarter-Pound Single Coil P-Bass pup in that thing, and it is outstanding! This bass really puts out, like a twenty-mule team rolling downhill. I know this may seem like a cheap knock-off to some of you, but it is a very well-crafted instrument, and sounds and plays great. Do yourself a favor and try one of these, you may get a tingle up and down your spine. The stock pup was nothing to brag about, but the Quarter-pounder really set this thing on fire.
My main bass amp is the Fender Rumble 100 with the 15" driver and tweeter. This is my most used amp for bass and guitar because it is clean and relatively flat in frequency response. This produces the true tones of guitars in a straight-wire-with gain configuration. I prefer the clean tones of the Fender guitars and basses.
The Rumble 100 is augmented by a Peavey TKO 75 bass amp with Black Widow 15" driver. Together they present a very credible bass tone. I use the pre-out in the Rumble to feed the Peavey, and they make beautiful music together. This is a wonderful way to record the bass as well. The two 15" drivers yield a clean and effortless big sound with 175 combined watts. I put up a nice mic about two feet away from the middle off this stack and enjoy the deep bass on recordings.
Peace,
The Bonneville
I took up the guitar in 2001, and still struggle to get good music out of it.
I am currently playing the P-Bass in an accordion band. (insert accordion joke here ______ ) This has been a wonderful experience because it has forced me to learn to read music and play in time with three other musicians. They are very tolerant of my clumsy bass playing, and I thank them for that. Some day, I will be an asset to this ensemble. I appreciate the quarantine because it has spared many people the spectacle of my faltering bass playing, and, it has given me some much needed practice time.
My number one bass is the minimalistic Fender Mark Hoppus Precision/Jazz with the J body and P neck and pickups. It is, of course, in the fetching Surf Green. I got this in an Ontario, Oregon guitar shop used for $400. It has 100 flat-wounds. It is smooth and deep.
My only other base is the 2020 Squire Classic Vibe '50s P-Bass, (with the Tele headstock). I put a Seymour Duncan Quarter-Pound Single Coil P-Bass pup in that thing, and it is outstanding! This bass really puts out, like a twenty-mule team rolling downhill. I know this may seem like a cheap knock-off to some of you, but it is a very well-crafted instrument, and sounds and plays great. Do yourself a favor and try one of these, you may get a tingle up and down your spine. The stock pup was nothing to brag about, but the Quarter-pounder really set this thing on fire.
My main bass amp is the Fender Rumble 100 with the 15" driver and tweeter. This is my most used amp for bass and guitar because it is clean and relatively flat in frequency response. This produces the true tones of guitars in a straight-wire-with gain configuration. I prefer the clean tones of the Fender guitars and basses.
The Rumble 100 is augmented by a Peavey TKO 75 bass amp with Black Widow 15" driver. Together they present a very credible bass tone. I use the pre-out in the Rumble to feed the Peavey, and they make beautiful music together. This is a wonderful way to record the bass as well. The two 15" drivers yield a clean and effortless big sound with 175 combined watts. I put up a nice mic about two feet away from the middle off this stack and enjoy the deep bass on recordings.
Peace,
The Bonneville
