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Thought you moved for a moment then Owen, or do you just sell your dodgy gear from your holiday home in Norfolk. ☺️

Thanks Guys - the bass is incoming but i believe strung high C at present. I am currently into labella flats on a 62, my 5's are all Nickle 130> D'Adarrio and SIT I was sat going through threads last night and Newtone came up and i have saved their link. Nice to see how much love is out there for shorter scale basses Cheers

Any of you guys have a five string 32" and experience in getting strings with good feel and tension and any preference SS or Nickle Flats or round also low B or high C For Big band and Jazz mainly

Love Boz Scaggs, If you are the wrong age to have known his material in the 70's check him out.

He also said " Fools learn by their own mistakes, wise men learn by other peoples mistakes" my reply when i was about 15 was " I've learnt a lot from you Dad"

NJE is quite right My Dad always used to say "its not what you save that will make you rich its what you spend"

try and avoid GAS at all times it will eat you up far better to spend the money on lessons and be a better player on a shoddy old bass than a poor one on a boutique bass. I am you 30 years on, lots of nice basses but still average on all of them. The only + to you not listening to me is that new gear does get you practicing again 😀

Nice looking basses - No 5's yet though

And I raise you 10 KW

I also got a call this week to stand in on a monthly jazz jam, and received favorable comments back, a boost i needed I did start a thread on here a little while back about being disillusioned with these gatherings, but its like swimming you cant learn from the bank you need to get in there and maybe have a couple of scares along the way. Now my confession - I turned down the chance of future jazz gigs this week with a combo that work regular with good guest players invited in, because I didn't feel my walking is up to that standard expected by these guest players with reference to voice leading etc. The punters may not notice but jazzers will. This is down to practice and time spent perfecting the art, or lack of it and listening to jazz standards which i do not. until i have to. So i would like doff my cap to Bassace who i have seen playing , be it a few years back, but he does have his s ~+*t down, and thats where i need to be. So having now been re-enthused by this thread I will take my own advice and say I will do the gig, whats the worse that can happen. So yes back to P J I Agree with Bassace you will need an iPad and download real and unreal books and ireal pro will save a lot of time and you can transpose and save them to a set list. In UnrealBook on your iPad you can photo chord sheets or music from elswhere and save a PDF to read which can be handy rather than have loose sheets about.

I think it is a characteristic of flats and string size, 85 to 105 the larger E just doesn't behave the same as the next string up and being a flat doesn't have the harmonics a round wound has from the wrap vibrating over the pole pieces. I have La Bellas on my P and the A string sounds amazing the E is good but is shown up by the other string. have you tried La Bellas clear wrapped nylon coated strings, I have these on my Status Electro they feel smooth but as they are rounds inside they still have some harmonic bite and tone

All of the above but from photo and crap around panel start with some contact cleaner or WD if you don't have that and spray a jack plug with it, and wang it in and out of each of those jack sockets several times. wipe the jack on a clean rag each time will show you how much dirt these collect. This goes for amps with jack sockets as well, air movement created from you speakers sucks dust into jack sockets and dirty the contacts, the contacts can also get weak over time and lose their finish and then tarnish and create high resistance in the scratches the jacks make. so try that first and if no joy and you have a meter handy set to ohms or Contact the setting that buzzes when shorted and check the closed contacts are actually making. I have owned one of these (great cabs) and the cross over relies on contact when no jacks are plugged in to that part. If you are bi amping ( using two amps one high one low ) you will be running two cables to woofer and the 8"'s and this is not an issue but sounds like this could be it

Fag yes, but that looks like someone left their pipe in there

First thing is to establish your target audience If this is weddings for example then you will need numbers from the 50's to the 2020's as you will be playing to Grans and Gramps as well as 3 year olds staring at you from 3 feet away. So we would make sure we start with a balance of 50's rock n roll - 60's pop - 70 disco hits - favorite 80's and 90's chart hits and so on. choose say five numbers from each era to start and work up from there, Don't fall into the trap of what band members like - its not about you. But of course if the band is playing local pups only and not family parties then I wouldn't bother with Steps or Agadoo 😕

Pop over to the exhibition and take the hardware off Pauls 😁

I never saw the attraction - the rise of punk in the charts was a distraction from good dance music so despised them As for the bass being smashed not an original rock n roll statement - but some people do blame their instruments and maybe he was annoyed he couldn't get it to sound like Mr Watt-Roy had recorded for him

selection of wood for construction on most mass produced basses is not conducive with good tone and sustain in my opinion. It is more by luck that some in the batch are better than others which is why it is important to always try several, not always possible in your local music store. I will always play them acoustically If they sound good and you could practice on them like that at home then they will sound good plugged in. You could spend some money on it but having been there, I feel you will end up passing it on later with the extra investment you have installed. Things I have found to work - Badass bridge - check bridge saddle screws are evenly tensioned ( not on one screw and leaning on the next saddle) - Check and tighten neck joint bolts - action and set up is correct along with string choice good luck with sorting the issues your local guitar tech maybe the best route before spending money

Gig damage is a worry, guitarists are clumsy need to watch them, but horn players are worse. Don't put your bass out until everybody is up and ready to go, is my approach now

Yep Twin wheel base Transit, No mobile phones or SATNAV then or any petrol stations open after about 11 o'clock