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I just turned down a well paid gig. Suggested to my bandmates that they offer it to our dep instead. We've got a few mid-week function bookings coming up - I just turned down one in Reading mid-week in a few week's time. It would have been 5 to 6 hours of travel there and back plus 2 hours of setting up / putting away and 45 mins of loading / unloading the car. And that's on top of the gig itself and they want to make use of the PA for some party set lists in between so another 3 to 4 hours at the venue. It's a decent pay day at £175 per head, but 9 or so hours faff for 2 hours of actual playing on a school night? Ugh! I absolutely love playing and can happily put up with a few hours travel / setting up but this doesn't appeal at all. The dep lives in NW London so will be an hour or so each way travel for her and I don't have to deny my bandmates the opportunity of a gig. Slippery slope / beginning of the end? Would you have done the gig?

Fascinating Facts for a Friday: It would take 3,487440 6' tall bass players head-to-to to encircle the equator. It would only take 3,260982 (.8) @Bassfinger s head-to-toe to encircle the equator. It is impossible to complete the same exercise with the average lead guitarist - they possess heads so big it they have their own gravitational pull which would cause a tear in the space/time continuum. Makes you think, doesn't it?! (What it makes you think is another question! )

Ok, frets filed. The second part of the process is to file them at an angle. One option which I like is to file 'into' the neck, so the angle takes off the sharp edge of the fretboard. Later I'll sand it so that it's a comfortable rolled edge. I also like the way with trimmed frets they look as though floating. And love Evo gold! Now, at this point I can never resist putting two halves together to see what we have. Remember the body hasn't been sanded at all so ignore the blotchiness, that will disappear, honest. This is what I have in mind, more or less. Gold humbuckers, maybe black or cream surrounds....oh and maybe one of those floating type pickguard things that Gretsch always do....

The serial number does indeed date it to December 2012 and made in the China factory although part of me thinks that it could have belonged to a roadie in the past going by the first part of the serial number

6'5" in my socks and 5'6" if wearing a T 40😮

Hi Mike - welcome to BassChat Members basses for sale here Members feedback here so you can check out who you're dealing with. As this is a voluntary system some members may not yet have feedback threads but may still be perfectly trustworthy. Commercial sellers (i.e. Guitar shops, etc) here Good luck with your search for an American Standard Jazz and I hope you enjoy the forum

6'2" when playing fretted. 5'10" when playing fretless ( coz I'm hunched over it trying to see where to put my fingers)

Hmm, I think there's at least one good reason to keep bass-playing women at the front, then. Think Suzi Quatro, Tina Weymouth, Divinity Roxx... all just marginally larger than their bass guitars! Carol Kaye probably not much bigger either. Ida Nielsen is slightly taller, and so are Yolanda Charles, Julie Slick, Esperanza Spalding and Tal Winkelfeld, but big women? Nah, none of them. Our very own @seashell can hold her own with bass-playing gentlemen from the point of view of height*, but she's offset by yours truly, who's 5'2"... * and that of bass-playing, natch.

I'm just on 6ft. I reckon taller people chose bass as it is in scale with them, a six foot plus bloke with a guitar makes it look like a ukulele! Long arms also help with 34" scale - anyone can reach the bottom frets on a strat!

If the missus can have multiple pairs of shoes and bags, then that makes it ok!

Tony Iommi suffered with terrible writer's block after Vol 4. So he moved to a haunted castle, got frightened out of his wits and wrote Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. So, that's always an option.

Phil's first solo album was released today and it's an amazing record - if you're a fan of his you're in for a treat and some surprises! I feel a bit like a kid at Christmas today as I actually played session bass on two tracks on the album (Rocking Chair & Dead Roses) and I've been sitting on the news for two + years! Some huge names on it... Alice Cooper, Dee Snider, Rob Halford and I've just discovered also Mark King!! Give it a listen https://open.spotify.com/album/6nFXIUCSJzwdktjGCVrq2S?si=u4HNc3oNSn-a0Pe-hJD8rA

Five feet, nine inches. That's two separate measurements ladies. I'm 1.76m, I think that puts me a little over 5'9" in old money. Despite being almost exactly the UK average height I often feel rather short day to day.

1.78 m Can get to over 6ft with back combing

That'll be the jama

NBD

At 22 I was 5'11, at 62 I am 5'9. I still have the same amount of me, just arranged differently

6ft 2" I used to be 6ft 9" in Gene Simmons monster stack heeled boots in my KISS tribute days...

I’m 6ft and when I was in my teens/early 20s was one of the tallest people around both at work and in my local. Now it seems I’m just of average height. I don’t think Boris has been blamed for enough this week so I’m going to lay this at his door.

I wouldn’t do it mid week unless it was for a mate. I’d consider it weekends. I’m with you on this one @Al Krow

Perhaps you shouldn't have ended with a final sentence of "P*** s*** w*** c******"?

Being in the US, I remember in the 90's when we couldn't give away used Kubicki, Steinberger, and any 70's Fenders. Spectors were cheap as were preEB Musicmans. For well over the decade all have majorly jumped in value. So that really doesn't mean anything... These are the best basses I've ever played though. They're very touch sensitive, so they let me play with less effort than any other bass. The filter electronics are genius; you can shift the tone around and also pan between pickups without dropping or boosting volume setting compared to conventional active preamps. The Mk2 and Mk3 are shaped to fit your body and stick to your rib cage and no awkward reaches or hand angles (Alembic I'm looking at you!). In my casino band I'm required to do silly dance moves and lots of hand claps, and going back to the touch sensitive the bass stays silent when I take my hands off of it during doing these things, whereas my other conventional basses would vibrate and 'wooom wooom wooom' sounds coming thru the amp during hand claps. The pickups are clearer than anything else, You can strum chords on all 4 string and you will hear each string clearly...never get away doing that on my Jazz or Ric! I love my Jazz, StingRay and Ric, but they cant cop the Wal. Quite frankly nether can the half dozen G&L's I've owned or any other 'in the ballpark' bass I've bought and tried.

I had a different Mex vs Vintera experience (admittedly in Dawsons, Manchester, not Wunjo's - who've always been super friendly and 'Have a try'-y when I've been in there) I went in convinced that I wanted a punk-rock none-more-black Precision with MN (and planned to buy a black guard the instant I bought it) and tried the Mexican, then tried a (beige and then surf green!) Vintera and was completely sold on them. Despite the more vintage neck radius and frets etc, the neck just has a chunkier and 'warmer' feel to it. It's more how I expected a Precision to feel/sound. I surprised myself by walking out with the surf green Vintera and I've loved it ever since. Makes me smile every time I put it on and plug in...

John Paul Jones is actually very tall indeed, but due to his modesty only allows himself to be pictured in extremely large building, or stood further away from the photographer when in the company of shorter people, this giving the illusion of being diminutive.

Hang on, let's not get started on the old adage about long men and long... errrr....members. Anyway, that correlation is more accurately between the length of your fingers and the ....errr...other length. All to do with mother's hormone levels during pregnancy, apparently. So if you notice a male bass player who's playing really badly but still has an over-confident grin on his face, then look at the size of his hands to see why that might be..................

Hiya Mike

Brilliant idea, considering i have two in my band 😞

In that case, if you want to keep it simple, stick to lemons: One will provide you just shy of 0.9V. So 10 of those in series will give you 9V, then arrange enough of those in parallel to give you enough mA for the Stomp. This should do it:

To help out with the upcoming gig booking season, my band booked in at Unit 26 Studios in Trafford Park near Manchester for a 'recorded rehearsal'. 3 songs, recorded live, warts and all, with a multi camera setup in a 2 hour slot. First hour was setup and warm up, second hour was 2 takes of each song. Then mixed down, edited and sent to us 2 weeks later all for £150. We're very happy with the results. As a pub covers band paying for a full showreel was a bit much so this was a nice in between solution. I'd absolutely recommend the studio. For those who are interested, the bass rig was all bought from the sale boards on here: Stingray Stealth 5H - via @derek Handbox R400 - via @TPJ Barefaced Two-10 - I forget who from and can't find the PMs about it. Here's one of the vids, would be interested in your thoughts. Cheers!

Really enjoyed that and loved that little fill at 1:15. Loved the bass tone and didn't think it had too much mid or treble. Sounded just about right for that song. Great vocals all round and would never have guessed the singer had any issues that day. Spot on for me. Well done. Dave

It's rarely worth arguing on matters of opinion or taste but on this occasion the idea a Wal sound is mythical is nonsense by any sensible reasoning. Why do I think this? I'll give you a couple of examples - in the early 70s one of the best bass players around was Alan Spenner - he played a Precision and made it sound good - back then many people playing Precisions sounded meh (that's if you could even hear, particularly live, any articulation). Alan changed to a Wal in the mid 70s and I saw him with a Kokomo reunion using it - the sound was incredible - extremely articulate - you can hear him on quite a few things with the Wal but most famous is his work with Roxymusic in the late 70s. Also listen to the link posted recently in the Mick Karn thread. Or any Brand X with Percy Jones for the Fretless version. This is the Wal sound - and it sounded like that live as well. Add to that the basses come from a boutique operation and they are a very popular instrument - fuelled by the love for Justin Chancellor especially in the US. Are they worth it? For me, they would be a logical step forward from a Stingray type of sound but I still don't have one having dallied with the idea a number of times. Tone wise a Wal offers more control than a Stingray, because of the filter approach to EQ - but they have some similarities in that 'fat' Bass tone. If you are completely sold on some other type of sound (eg vintage Fender or Ric) you're probably wasting your money - who knows where the values will go in the future, but isn't that a problem with any expensive instrument? Some of us remember times when shops could barely give Fender basses away so fashion does come into play. If you're a player who wants technique to be heard without having to permanently dig in, a decent variation in tones, top notch build and materials (effectively an exquisite instrument) and to have a full and punchy bass sound to underpin the music you're working in, then these are a pretty good bet. I don't think I'd go for two necks - however the fretted and Fretless sounds are equally nice and classic (imho of course) - maybe a cheaper way of getting two iconic sounds if that's what uyou want rather than buying two Wals.

Thank you KiOgon, saves me from googling what 1.93 is in feet. Pretty tall for a Dutch Italian and quite handy for playing bass but I have a pretty short pinky and that's a shame.

I am still eating all my veg in the hope I reach 6ft. I'm in my mid 30's.

@Lozz196 Correct! There are some dedicated guitar pedal versions of battery packs but they tend to be very expensive for very similar specs. So I use these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00MWU1GGI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 with https://myvolts.co.uk/Ripcord Just make sure you pick the 9V centre negative version! I've also got one of these in my pack as a spare. https://myvolts.co.uk/product/44871/myVolts_5000mAh_2.4A_Power_Bank_-_Red Dead easy to use - charge up the pack and then use the 5V to 9V cable converter and run a daisy chain from the converter to your pedals. If you have low current draw pedals then you'll only need 1. If you have some hungry digital pedals like delays and synths then you might want to give that it's own battery pack. Personally I'd always take 2 anyway. At £7.99 they are dirt cheap and it's good to have a spare if you are gigging. Also has the benefit of being able to charge your phone for the journey home too! Some of the dedicated guitar versions are only 9V output so they can't be used for other USB purposes and they can cost over £100.

5’10” so a middle grounder I guess. Not tall enough to see round the bloke who always seems to stand in front of me when I go to see a band though...

The D'A chromes are the next for me to try. I use EB Cobalts on my fretted P, and recently acquired a '99 USA Jazz fretless with some new Fender flats on. I'd never rated the Fender flats (I know quite a few here do) but really like them on the Jazz. I'll post a pic of the Jazz but it's teaching me a couple of things - Fender flats just might be good; and lined fingerboards aren't such an annoyance - just ignore the lines Though I really do think Fender should give the option of unlined - they just seem to always put lines on without any thought (I know some MIJ were unlined but all the US ones seem to have them. Loving my Jazz, I'll sort a pic - it isn't porn though, more just a nice workingman's bass.

I'm 5'8" and envious of big hands....

Hhmmm....how can I fk up this P-bass? Oh, yeh.....

Tokais also have a glued in neck, not a bolt on. And a different bridge.

Looks like an Epiphone to me. Tokai's have a Fender-style bridge IIRC, and they don't have the headstock droop that the bolt-on epis have these days.

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