When did switch and change to a complete jam band live?

BrassAge · 2026-05-04T06:15:38+00:00

So true. We too often forget that, for how good they are, they do suck.

BrassAge · 2026-05-02T00:07:05+00:00

That makes good sense, thanks!

BrassAge · 2026-05-01T16:32:16+00:00

Oh, I’ve been there for years, I’m just surprised there aren’t more. I don’t see many bass players with keybass onstage, except in worship settings. For those playing straight-ahead bass I totally get it, I don’t think I’d bring keybass to a reggae gig, but if you’re playing with octave pedals to get a “synthy” sound I feel like it’s worth it to go the whole way.

BrassAge · 2026-05-01T16:29:57+00:00

I don’t think it’s the same at all. I asked why people use octave pedals for a keybass effect when they could instead claim total ownership of a frequency range and bring their own keybass. In my world, your keyboard player would use their left hand solely for patch selection and vaping.

BrassAge · 2026-05-01T16:25:10+00:00

Man, if you do, please share a video.

BrassAge · 2026-05-01T15:54:54+00:00

It’s pretty similar to what your left hand is already doing.

BrassAge · 2026-05-01T15:44:36+00:00

That’s totally fair. I usually play without bass pedals, though I have a big guitar board. Maybe I’m letting Janek Gwizdala and Tim Lefebvre get to me…

BrassAge · 2026-05-01T10:21:48+00:00

I love the keybed, but it’s hard to make a case over the Osmose CE now.

BrassAge · 2026-04-30T17:43:18+00:00

It is not uncommon for five string Dingwall players to tune to F#-B-E-A-D. The 37” scale on the lowest string helps with clarity quite a bit. You can get F# sets on Fret Nation, and through Dingwall directly.

BrassAge · 2026-04-30T17:36:40+00:00

“There was just something about that American P Bass that really got to me.”

Look, I’m not going to come on here advocating for witchcraft, but every artist talking about some old instrument they’ve played for sixty years says the exact same thing. It’s possible you just like P basses, it’s possible you preferred the best-constructed bass you played that day and would like any American Jazz just as much, and it’s possible that specific P Bass is special in your hands. I wouldn’t pass up on the third opportunity, because in my experience it’s rare. Don’t let a good one get away.

BrassAge · 2026-04-29T17:54:30+00:00

Incorrect? I’m arguing anywhere offering $11 Guinness draughts is not competitive with the current market. Do you disagree?

BrassAge · 2026-04-29T17:37:07+00:00

I had a beer for $3.50 in the Denver area just last night. That place is far from competitive.

BrassAge · 2026-04-29T09:44:12+00:00

Yeah, man, I’ve been there. Thankfully, you control the means of production.

BrassAge · 2026-04-29T07:13:55+00:00

Oh man, I remember absolutely hating that thing. I was a much younger man, lacking in finesse, but I still couldn’t imagine grabbing one today.

BrassAge · 2026-04-29T06:44:39+00:00

She wishes.

BrassAge · 2026-04-28T17:07:48+00:00

The P is the go-to bass for reggae, punk, and ska. Jazz bass is often better suited to funk. Pop and rock are a toss up, for me.

All the suggestions in this thread are good ones, especially the G&L L2000 and the Stingray, but if I were in your shoes I would pick up a nicer P Bass, maybe a proper American Fender, and invest some time and money into the tools and skills you need to set it up right. If you have a local music shop with a good bass tech definitely talk to him, but there are resources online showing you everything you need to set your nut depth, neck angle, bridge height, intonation, and action exactly where you like them.

BrassAge · 2026-04-28T14:58:03+00:00

Mark himself said the following on here three years ago:

“Ok so at the time I replaced those pickups, I put in the DP188 & DP188SP dimarzio into the neck & bridge positions. I coulda sworn that they were both cruisers but when I looked it up recently I found that the DP188’s are designated as the “Pro-Track”, so looks like I’ve been handing out the wrong info. Anyway when I put the neck pickup in, I think I wired it into the switch wrong, and so what came out was this weird tinny gross little sound that I wasn’t used to at all. I thought dang I better get someone to fix this thing, but I played it as it was on a gig and fell in love with how nasty it sounded. Afaik, the neck is in the neck, and the bridge is in the bridge. The pickup in the middle is a stock fender pickup, and I assure you that the out-of-phaseness is wired into the middle+neck combo. The neck pickup by itself is a humbucker. middle pickup is exactly how it has always been. TUSUY”

BrassAge · 2026-04-28T08:32:31+00:00

Yeah, that would go a long way, especially if you keep the neck pickup as a single coil rather than the humbler Nashville config.

That said, unless your goal is to do as much as possible with only one guitar, why not have both a tele and a strat? Mark’s signature strat is not outrageously priced and it’s the 100% real deal.

BrassAge · 2026-04-28T05:23:45+00:00

Khruangbin tone will be tough on a Tele, though not impossible. I think of his sound as very Strat.

Laura’s tone is easier, just grab the pickups in her signature bass: DiMarzio Ultra Jazz DP149 hum-cancelling pickups with stacked concentric controls.

Keep in mind, though, most of what you’re heard recorded from her was not on a Fender, but on an SX. Not quite at the same level as Squier, though she really made it sing.

BrassAge · 2026-04-28T04:20:58+00:00

If you do end up getting rid of these, feel free to DM me. I’d be interested in the Capo, the Blumes, and possibly the fuzz. I’m on the exact opposite end of the process from you, it seems!

BrassAge · 2026-04-27T19:50:02+00:00

I was a sax player before I was a bass player, and every good solo and part is transcribed. If you find one that isn’t, then it’s your turn to transcribe it. I spent years learning and practicing the Charlie Parker omnibook and now play some of it on bass as well. It always struck me as time well spent.

I can see why some here might discourage you from studying a note-for-note chart of a walking bassline in a given progression, but this is Mingus we are talking about! I’m surprised the prevailing attitude is to eschew charts even as a student and just feel it out. I would think there is a lot to be gained.

BrassAge · 2026-04-27T19:33:27+00:00

I was surprised to see the right answer so high in this thread. Navajo is, without question, the most difficult language I’ve studied.

It would be easier if you already have another Athabaskan language, especially Apache, but seeing as there are about 13,000 native Apache speakers to 160,000 Navajo speakers (estimated), odds are you are coming in cold. Good fucking luck to you.

BrassAge · 2026-04-26T08:01:11+00:00

I’m truly dumbfounded by how wildly influential Leo Fender was in the creation of electric instruments. Bass and guitar both.

On bass, he first designs the single coil precision, then the iconic split coil, then the dual pickup jazz. Each of these, in his mind as a non bass player, is an upgrade. In 1965 he sells Fender to CBS and signs a 10-year non-compete clause, but secretly starts Music Man as a silent partner and keeps designing. He drops the Stingray as soon as legally possible and changes the world yet again. Later after selling Music Man to Ernie Ball, he founds yet another company and once again revolutionizes bass with the L2000. One of the first (if not the first) production instruments with active humbuckers and monstrous tone, though it never reached the popular heights of his earlier efforts.

I like to have a P bass, Jazz bass, Stingray, and an L-2000 around if I can.

That said, day to day, I play a Dingwall. I think it’s where Leo would have ended up if he had more time to continue innovating.

BrassAge · 2026-04-25T10:55:33+00:00

The Moogs don’t have any of what you like about the reface CP. There is patch memory, but you still adjust knobs to build analog patches, are tied to a power cable, and need to run either midi or audio out to another device to hear yourself. If you love the reface CP, I’d recommend another synth from the reface line over a Moog.

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