stingrayPete1977

If you can't get more bass or more treble by altering your playing technique then you're really limiting yourself imo. This is why Stingrays get the 'one trick pony' tag, if your playing a P bass with a pick only and only in one place in relation to the pickup they probably won't suit you. There's thump up near the neck and funk down by the bridge without touching any knobs on the bass or amp

I mainly just adjust the treble boost before each song depending if it's going to be played fingers, pick, slap. For a more old skool sound I'll cut the treble and boost the bass a little. I rarely touch my amp all night.

That's not a 3rd, it's a G major

[quote name='AutomaticWriting' timestamp='1484841751' post='3219008'] Nah just picked it up for a photo I think. [/quote] Opportunity missed!

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1484823691' post='3218731'] Hopefully the new brochure will feature a man lunging in a waistcoat... [/quote] I think that's my favourite thread of all time!

Passive basses are totally fine...... for beginners

Well to combine the two replies I've got a carbon Yita bow! I think mine was around £90 but they do some that are a bit fancier for a little bit more, I think a few people here have one and I'm fairy sure the last I heard Jake Newman from this very parish was using his in London's west end? Have a look on eBay for Yitamusic and have a Google.

If it was a car that need oil changes and brake fluid etc how the previous owner cared for it would bother me but it's two bits of wood, a bbot bridge and some passive pickups at the end of the day, as long as all the bits are undamaged I'd just enjoy the makeover tbh, I'd always fit new strings and set it all up to my liking anyway. Otoh if I was selling one I'd clean it all up before taking pictures to achieve the best price and bit put anyone off, same would apply to a car.

I'm the same with P basses, everyone talks about this massive thump and then I try one and they sound thin to me, spoilt with all my active basses, lol

Hang on I haven't got one, racist bastards I presume?

I'm so offended I might start a political campaign, I feel that one email has literally bombarded me, bombarded I tell you.

Is it any good for boogie or possibly a little bit of woogie?

You only need to read the small print on some charity stuff "80% of the profit guaranteed to go to the advertised charity" So even after paying themselves an extortionate amount to provide sweets or wristbands or whatever they still take another 20% out of what's left! "80p of every £1 raised" which looks like a better deal to me is not the same as "80% of the profit" but it's clearly what they are trying to make you think This is all before the remains of the "profit" are given to a particular charity who will have paid staff and offices etc, if you buy a bag of charity sweets for a pound I wonder how much actually goes in the funds of the organisation that genuinely needs it?

I find that if and when you do get asked about a possible gig after a charity gig it is often about another free one, mind you that's even more exposure I guess!

I think you'll get a better carbon fibre bow in that price range, does it have to be wood?

We went to the Birmingham Genting arena a few weeks ago, The other bass player that plays live with the red hot chili peppers came out to do his party piece on Go Robot, standard Jazz bass, dead, had to swap it for one of Flea's spare active Modulus basses.

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1484685078' post='3217548'] I did a 750 sell out bike rally charity 18 months ago (tickets were £35 for the weekend). We were told to be there for 4pm sound check. Duly turned up 3.45. Organiser " we're running behind, sound check 6.30pm". Me. "Could you not have texted one of us so we could have gone for a bite somewhere?" Organiser "if you don't like it, f*** off home" Result of that was the other 3 lads dragging me back out of my van, as I was offski, before I banjo'd the prick. 4 hours each way, no fuel money plus abuse? I left home 11.45am Sat, got home 2.15am Sunday. Never, ever again. [/quote] Yep I've had similar, once bitten twice shy now.

It's also a two band charity show, not a three day festival.

And the venue, and the bar staff, and the professional fund raising team.....

I like solid state amps of some kind with a Stingray, my old Ray 4 with my old Peavey TNT remains my favourite bass sound.

That's not that much more than I paid for my US standard Jazz V to be fair and I bought mine pre Brexit.

Give an inch.....

Sorry Owen I shall bow out now then

Out of seven basses I own only one is passive, my double bass that's got a mag pickup that goes straight to a Fishman preamp. I just don't get on with passive at all, I think it's about the combination of bass and amp, my Heftless class D rigs don't suit passive basses and maybe a nice vintage valve amp works better with a bass designed in the same century

You can see why companies just decide to throw items away at a loss eventually spoiling the fun for genuine tinkerers.