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#66
That was fun, and you made some good points.

PS: got a suggestion for a modest KB to try? I have a cheap electric pie-anni (/Yosemite Sam) but it has no midi so I have an excuse to spend some pesos.
 
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Snert said:
That was fun, and you made some good points.

PS: got a suggestion for a modest KB to try? I have a cheap electric pie-anni (/Yosemite Sam) but it has no midi so I have an excuse to spend some pesos.
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Snert! Great to hear from you! .....this video is a prelude into doing some upcoming synth reviews for stage bass synths planned way later in the year for players that might want to try adding synth to their stage setup......your midi-less pie-anni (lol) certainly is more than adequate to cover learning techniques to transfer to bass but if you are thinking about a stage board it will come down to the type of board you want to use such as key size and key range
 
#73
They're back!!! - "Guitar Vs Bass" ! I decided to revive this.....dont ask me why lol
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#76
^^ I LOL'd.

I played in cover bands for years in the 80-2k period, with one 4 string, basically 3 RH positions, 3 PU selections and tone 100/50/0 in an EMG equipped VVT bass, run DI with a cab for stage monitoring (later changed to specialised foldback).

These days I prefer 5s and 6s, but if I were to go back to similar gigs, not much more would change but my preferred bass and some programmable EQ/FX which is much easier these days to preset for basic genre type and select for the specific song and I don't think you'd really need all that many to cover a wide bandwidth of tone.

PS: another excellent video.
 
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Snert said:
^^ I LOL'd.

I played in cover bands for years in the 80-2k period, with one 4 string, basically 3 RH positions, 3 PU selections and tone 100/50/0 in an EMG equipped VVT bass, run DI with a cab for stage monitoring (later changed to specialised foldback).

These days I prefer 5s and 6s, but if I were to go back to similar gigs, not much more would change but my preferred bass and some programmable EQ/FX which is much easier these days to preset for basic genre type and select for the specific song and I don't think you'd really need all that many to cover a wide bandwidth of tone.

PS: another excellent video.
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Thank you Snert. Back in my working bass player days, I went a little overboard with it: played a G&L ASAT and was using all the Series/Parallel options and molding tones per song. It was great and taught me a lot but, these days, I play music for fun and can do everything I want to do on a PJ or any 2PU active bass with about three settings and the fake fretless when needed. Of those settings, I use the two pickups/Modern setting on 90% of everything in my current band. Part of it is old man apathy, and I thought about my current state while making the video, thinking it was a not practice what I preach moment, but decided to finish the video with the intent at a younger audience that never had an opportunity to live in the days of 5 night per week Top40 bass playing and thought this maybe useful for them

By the way, I'm still tweaking the BTB but absolutely loving it
 
#79
That was fun. I haven't had to play anything that was fretless originally for a long while now, but I'll keep it in mind as I'm writing some songs where I think it might work best, come to think of it. And, I don't have a fretless.

One of the important things you mentioned is deadtime. I've had a number of discussions online where people talk about wanting to use multiple instruments on stage, and complicated EQ/FX for different songs and all I can think is, they've never played anywhere not nice. Some of our early gigs made Bob's Country Bunker seem like a Royal Command Symphony performance and there was no time for dead time. We'd plan the sets to build energy, back off a bit, build again etc until the end and there were no gaps except maybe some banter if it worked.
 
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Snert said:
That was fun. I haven't had to play anything that was fretless originally for a long while now, but I'll keep it in mind as I'm writing some songs where I think it might work best, come to think of it. And, I don't have a fretless.

One of the important things you mentioned is deadtime. I've had a number of discussions online where people talk about wanting to use multiple instruments on stage, and complicated EQ/FX for different songs and all I can think is, they've never played anywhere not nice. Some of our early gigs made Bob's Country Bunker seem like a Royal Command Symphony performance and there was no time for dead time. We'd plan the sets to build energy, back off a bit, build again etc until the end and there were no gaps except maybe some banter if it worked.
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As always, thanks for watching and commenting, Snert. While editing the Dead Time part, it gave me an idea to do a video about Do's and Don'ts that working players like you and I did before......problem is I'm not sure if a lot of it is relevant to today
 
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