@allSorry to go off on tangent.... A tribute to my old trumpet player.... http://tartanrocker.blogspot.com/2014/01/clyde-valley-stompers.html?m=1 |
@mayor........Check out my YouTube link... Did this show in '79 in Toronto with Peter Appleyard on vibes...I was 18 at the time.. 2 18 inch woofers with the Traynor head.. With my upright.... https://youtu.be/VPx3qjwyVww |
Mayor.... Cool man I am a Bass player have been playing upright and electric since I was 16...now 59..... Always jas been my bone of contention with high end audio that is so thin and lame...preamps no tone control loudness buttons etc ...there is just no real bass... Thats why I have circled back to my 1980 Advent 1s with a nad pre (loudness button) and Carver M 500t....some room treatment from GIK and the bass is nothi g short of phenomenal....great attack and realism even at low volumes...acoustic bass shines...as well as electric.....weather I listen to Milt...Jaco...Ray Brown....Brian Bromberg..Jeff Berlin...and right down to Geddy Lee who grew up right in my neighborhood actually....well I hope you find what you are looking for.... |
I look at it this way...... I hear on a system an upright bass. If it sounds real and I mean I can hear al the subleties one hears when pressing down a string on a fretboard its resonance it gives....then attack and bottom and actual notes then it is an accurate reproduction. When rhythm and chord are accurate via accurate sound then you have a real reproduction of the bass. Musicality is when the system jams...when it has actual soul in the sound.... Some digital stream systems are completely void of this instruments sound real but it has no "jam" to it... There's the Bass the Guitar..etc...but it sounds like they are playing in seperate rooms.... Its like what some TV setups have in that HandyCam look the images are brilliant but the picture has no soul to it. |
@ all who enjoyed the video.... Yes at 18 cameras rolling and Carrie Smith hands you a chart....well as they say.."game on"....Great fun with those guys...and so many stories... the trumpet player...trombone player all from Scotland .....from the Stompermania craze....pre rock and roll... pre Beatlemania.....Jack Bruce played with the trumpet player when Jack was 18 or so...and I could never figure out why I got along so well with Malcolm the trumpet player till finding this out... he met all those cats like Clapton too...they use to listen to Dixie just like Brian Jones of the Stones did too....the rivers run very deep in music I must say..... |
