[Dixielandjazz] Amps

[Patrick Cooke]

>>>As for the bass amps, the rockers have so far
destroyed musical balance (among other things) that a normal bass volume now
sounds puny.  The audience's ears need retraining--or, perhaps, plugging<<<

    When equipment is mis-used, don't blame the equipment....blame the
player.   A bass player who brought his own bass sat in using my amp a few
months ago.  I got back to the stand to find my speaker rattling a terrible
noise.  I thought he had blown out my speaker!
     It seems there is a mentality among some bass players to crank the bass
control way up .  He then discovers his top string is not as strong as he'd
like it, so the imbecile cranks up the volume control!!
      Full bass at high volume will blow out a speaker faster than anything
I know......There are a lot of otherwise good bass players out there who
just have no clue about  how to use an amp.
      BTW, if I had to play bass without my amp, I'd give the whole thing
up.
      Pat Cooke



----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Hooks" <charliehooks at earthlink.net>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Banjos


> on 1/21/03 6:13 PM, norrie.thomson at norrie.thomson at btopenworld.com
wrote:
>
> > they 'amp' their instruments up to such a volume that they
> > take over the band.  Do they really want to be front-line musicians.
>
> It may well be (I'm guessing) that in order to be sufficiently attracted
to
> the sound of a banjo that one is enticed to learn to play the thing, it
> helps to be a bit deaf in front. ;-)  If so, the cranked-up sound can be
> forgiven (if not tolerated).   As for the bass amps, the rockers have so
far
> destroyed musical balance (among other things) that a normal bass volume
now
> sounds puny.  The audience's ears need retraining--or, perhaps, plugging.
>
> Charlie
>
>
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