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[GraemeC]

Originally posted by Tav:
Gear wise I am a big fan of the now non-exsistant Trace Elliot bass amps.

Nasty one tone wonders......thousands of better amps out there...

[Alex]

Spoonie should know the joys of the warwick and gallien-kruger combo. I tried for 12 months to get a bad sound out of that.

I recorded a track with my yamaha going into a fully distorted JCM 900, and the FX send going into an 8*12 ashdown setup, which I loved.

[Tav]

Originally posted by GraemeC:
Nasty one tone wonders......thousands of better amps out there...

Obviously I like other, I just liked the sound they gave me. Gallien-kruger would be nice...or I would mind trying a Ampeg...just to see how good they really are.

this is what my bass looks like...sounds ace.

[Tav]

If anyone wants a Tanglewood Rebel 5K I have a black one for sale. £100 ono. 5 Strings, small, light and plays decent...

[Monk Rocker]

I have a Trace Elliot V-type valve amp and it sounds ace. Very different from the transistor ones with the graphic EQs. Very simple amp, with only five controls!!!

I was a Warwick man through and through until I got my Stingray. It's now my main stage bass, over the Warwick. I would love a Fender Jazz though. The first bass I used was a Tokai Jazz that had active circuitry fitted, and I wish I still had it. Bah.

Bass is a very underestimated instrument. There are so may guitar players that think because they know their way around a fretboard then that makes them a bass player - wrong!! You can spot a guitar player that is playing bass a mile off. Bass players that switch to guitar make better guitar players than guitarists that switch to bass (it that makes any sense!).

[YETI]

Right! since i started the thread i guess i have to chip in with gear and the lot... well I've got a jacaranda workshop six strings custom neck through.. a beauty and a beast at the same time with its 18v amg actives. tell you the trouth tyhe only amp i can p[lay with is the good old trace elliot. unfortunately now trace is three time the prtice and a third the quality so i've been told. style? anything going... slap, pop, finger, pick and id love to play some decent tapping.
i almost forgot my animal has a lovely detuner on the b string so i can go from standard b to drop a eith the flic of a finger.
i whish i had a picture of it but i dont

[Spoonie]

as far as amps go, i've never found a trace elliot that i liked. the gallien kreuger that alex was talking about was a beauty and i've played through a couple of ampegs at various rehersal places in glasgow and they really are ace.

monk rocker's right enough about the guitar-bass thing too. the two instruments are completely different. you have a totally different job to do on each instrument and many guitarists move over and get it wrong, but at the same time, everyone has a different style of playing. i tend to play a really 'busy' style like jack bruce whereas i tend to respect people who keep it steady like rod demick or billy cox. in the first band where ginger baker and jack bruce played together, ginger complained that jack was too busy and he didn;t want to play with him. but look how that turned out!

spoonie
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[YETI]

right said spoonie... i like challenging bass lines. a riff that is a bugger to learn but once you got it to a smooth sequence is a rewarding feeling. unfortunately i'm so ignorant about bass players and other i only know a couple which are my main influences. as for amps is like colours everyone has theyr own favorite.

[Mouse]

Originally posted by YETI:
right this is the space for you i want to know what really makes you tick. basses wise of course. brands, styles, inspirations and aspirations.
everything goes

So many

Yamahas for quality and style, Fenders for the sheer classicness and versatility.

One bass that has caught my eye is the BC Rich Beast, it's fucking huge but beautiful.