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Two news songs to tide you over, complete with cool bass effects (Invincible has a trippy little bass solo in it).

My Peavey Mark IV head is giving up the ghost. I ordered the Behringer Ultrabass BXD 3000H. My cabs are an old Peavey 1810 and a Peavey Headliner 410. I'm not sure how to wire these cabs so I get the full 300 watts from the head. The Ultrabass has 1 output which will give 300w/4ohm, or...

This is an update to my previous thread . I want to praise the excellent service from "Dawsons music", who answered my call to them, I told them my problems with the amp, by this time it had completely stopped working, they didn't hesitate and sent me a new amp, which I received this morning...

I'm looking into looping gear at the moment, and I'm finding it hard to get started with hardware because of the apparently two different "worlds" as regards synchronisation (between master and slave devices) On the one hand there's Digitech's proprietary 'Jamsync' technology, which actually...

Hello TBers. As some of u know there have been various Cort club threads, such as the Cort club, the Cort club part 2, club Cort and so on. No one is giving out numbers anymore. So Should we start a new Cort club? But I need everyone’s help. Former Cort club members wanted aswell. You...

Hi, I have an rumble 15 amp. I plug my laptop to the aux and play some drums on youtube. I like to practice that way. But I have noticed that the volume of the aux channel drops when I start playing. Also if I turn on the overdrive pedal, the volume really lowers. Is this normal and why? thank you

The body will be Spanish cedar with a ziricote top. Spanish Cedar is very lightweight, and is actually a lot closer related to Honduran mahogany then it is toany type of Cedar. It’s also quite beautiful, A lovely reddish color. Ziricote, of course, is a beautiful and hard wood ... has lovely...

I'm interested in buying a bass, probably a Precision or a Hofner Ignition for recording it analog to Ableton in order to produce Psychedelic Rock, my question is, should i record it by mic'ing the amp or using a DI?, I want to know because i don't want to spend a lot of money on buying both...

The 5/4 string preference convo made me start thinking about this... I started out as a guitarist, and selected a 5-string bass as my first...just felt better. Wondering how many did the same thing?? Or preferred a 6 or the 4?? and Why?? Although I often wonder, "If a 6-string had been...

Anybody else suffer from VAS or Variant Acquisition Syndrome? I initially planned on one Rat for my board, and started small with a Proco. Now I have the Landphil, Volt Thrower, Plague Rat, Traitor and the Iron Pig V2. And I still look for more!! ***!!!! I'm also obsessed with HM-2's and love...

Hey there, figure this is a good spot to introduce myself. I used to play bass back in the day, nothing too serious, just gigging out with a few bands. For some inexplicable reason, I picked up one of my old instruments, started playing, and got the bug again. As I live in a tiny apartment in...

I have a fretless 4 string on its way to me - standard scale. I have not played fretless before - I'm looking for recommendations for a good starter set of strings to throw on it (the bass is used, I'd like to change out the strings right away). Do I need to go with coated, or are flats ok...

Beginning my education on adding a bit of color to my tone. A good start? I am now interested in adding an envelope filter possibly. The Zoom pedal is a toy to me. I will probably give it to my 11 year old along with a Mikro bass, cheezy chinese 8" Roland amp, and my original Bass Pod (I...

I posted a week or so ago about my weak pickups in a new entry level bass. I've never modified/customized a bass, but it seems like a lot of you had, and I wanted to give it a try on this sweet bodied-poorly electronics beauty. I bought a soldering kit, Seymour Duncan SPB-4 and SJB-2, watched...

Years ago I lived in a small village in Surrey, England, and a certain drummer whom I’ll call “Phil” lived nearby. One day me and a couple of school mates plucked up the courage to go and knock on his door. Guess who answered? Phil Collins himself! We had bags of albums and I had a Wind &...

Take 26 minutes, 25 seconds and check out this video. I guarantee you'll learn a lot after you've listened to this video...

The background is a little complex so I’ll stick to basics. I played a little acoustic guitar and knew maybe four chords. I had been playing just over a year and didn’t know anything about licks or riffs. I may possibly have been able to play “House of the rising sun” by then. This was 1969 I...

I am 43 going to be 44 in May. Since turning 40 I have: Now become allergic to Posion Ivy which before I could have rolled in it and never catch it Now have allergies Trouble getting off the floor A tooth broke Saying things like "Damn kids" or "Back in my day" Actually having to do the math to...

Hi y'all, I'm new to using compressors, I'm actually pretty new to playing bass. I've been playing for three years now, and someone that I play with is suggesting that I get a compressor. Our sound is sort of like The Cure, & because I kinda suck he said he will help keeping all of my notes...

I'm planning to start new YouTube channel .the main idea is about sharing life,specially about music part of my life . Gigs ,practice ,travels and .... Maybe some bass recording and music project will add to the category . After research and talking with different people from all around the...

Welp, its time to dust off the old bass and get back to it. This time around I'm a lot more limited on my amp possibilities and am completely tied to headphone-only play/rehearsal/writing (I'm in a Los Angeles apartment now and will need to play exclusively through headphones (this project will...

I promise I have scoured this forum and others, and it has been invaluable. The stuff I've read so far is the only reason that I can even talk about this right now. But I feel I'm at a point where I know the broad strokes, but I wanted some specific advice on what I may be missing. And yes...

Looking to get into some Pino Palladino but don't know where to start. What would you say are some of his more iconic / best recordings?

I’ve been going back and forth on how I want to achieve this. I’ll be spraying lacquer. I’ve thought about shooting in a semi gloss and just calling it a day. I really can’t find any examples of a semi gloss sheen in lacquer, and locally I can only source lacquer by the gallon, so it might be...

A part of me was sort of wishing this day would never come, but in another way, I'm happy that it has. Let me tell you a story. @JIO will be horrified and amused... hopefully more amused than horrified. When I was 16 or so, my brother and I worked for a studio that had you record your own...

So, I've been playing for about 17 months but progress has been slow with 2 young kids and studying part time on top of my job. I'm itching to play with others but not confident I know what I'm doing enough to jam. How did you get started jamming and joining a band? Is there a minimum set of...

Hi, looking for resources on how to start taking my creations to the next level. Where I'm at: I'm a software developer nerd with limited hardware design experience Comfortable creating stuff with the Arduino Duelimanove / Uno pre-fab boards w/ breadboards, project boxes, and lots of tape and...

Hello TBers, I have recently begun my journey as an educator, and have now found myself teaching both private lessons and group lessons at a few middle schools. I am sure I will be asking more pedagogy-related questions in time, but for now I am wondering... How should you guys tell students...

Ok, so I have what I need to get started learning to play bass and I've been watching numerous internet/YouTube based methods of instruction, but I would like some opinions from other's who've gone this route. I don't want to skip around doodling with 3-4 different instructors, I hope to pick...

I posted a thread a few months back about a flyer I wanted to put up to form a band. The school's so-called "public" messageboard is reserved for the student government (ie, ministry of truth) only. Bottom line: I need to form a band and have no dang idea how to do it. I have Facebook if...

Hi. Tried to start a new concersation with@SamuelHarris tonight, and that function was not visible at all when clicking on his username. Regards, François

I haven't purchased an actual record since the early 80s. Generally, I find them expensive, bulky, fragile, and the gear to play them hard to maintain. I listened to cassettes through the 80s and then jumped on CDs. I'm not an MP3 guy and only use streaming as a stepping stone to a purchase. I...

Lately I've been wanting to have a stringed instrument capable of both bass and guitar ranges. I thought about getting a 9-string electric and downtuning two of the bass strings, then later thought about getting a 9-string and tuning it to open C (C-G-C-E-G-C-G-C-E) then about getting a...

So I really would like to build my own bass sometime soon just because I want to. Nothing crazy but I do have a few ideas that are not being done by other makers major or small. I would like to start easy but making everything completely meaning not buying a precarved body or already made neck...

So posted out to try to start a band. this is not my first trip around the sun...been here before many times. Why does it always have to be so hard. *sigh*. So here is the short version of the past 6 months 6 months ago I posted that I wanted to start a band...play anything.... = crickets. 2...

I have a Brit built 80's GP11 Mk V 4x10 combo, and powering up for the first time, the 10's jump along with a pop. If i switch off and switch back on again, the pop & speaker jump is so much less. As a non techy, i don't know if vintage TE combos had some kind of soft start to prevent...

Hi all, I was reading another thread here about a Magnum bass (not the Ovation) that someone acquired having sat in a cupboard for 10 years and wanted to share my Magnum bass story. I managed to pick up my first bass off Gumtree for $40. A Magnum with a P style pick up. This one made in 02...

I've looked at a lot of pictures of Jaco's bass and recently finished a biography of him but there's no real discussion of his bass. Was this a Fender Jazz bass that had the pickguard removed? What were his mods? Laura

Just that, when did you first hear of and start using round wound strings, do you still use them, how did you become aware of them? For younger players this probably sounds a little odd but all bass strings as far as I am aware of were flatwounds until at least the mid to late 60's. I started...

My singing duties have been growing ten fold this year. In my endless quest for improvement, I start taking singing lessons Friday. My neighbor who is a professional vocal coach for opera, and whatnot has decided to take me on as a student. It's actually something that's been in the works for...