stingrayPete1977

I dont like to put people into skilled or unskilled camps really, I enjoy a track by the band Hole as much as that clip of Uxia Martinez above but I think its fair to say one is more technical than the other, not better, not worse just more technical.

Scherwing

Oh I nearly forgot this one! Crazy pizz and arco skills [url="http://youtu.be/T93WcrvtVj4"]http://youtu.be/T93WcrvtVj4[/url]

Yolanda did a great set an NRCM a few years ago

OK as the other thread by Pixiechick23 keeps getting derailed about other peoples favourite female bass players not being very good technically we might as well have one aimed at that very topic! I will kick it off with the same answer as my favourite one Esperanza Spalding, that goes for bass and Double bass. [media]http://youtu.be/2aRC3YY3svs[/media] [url="http://youtu.be/jgnDE_5Wxiw"]http://youtu.be/jgnDE_5Wxiw[/url] I still like Marta Altesa, and I still haven't nailed Master Blaster anywhere near this! [media]http://youtu.be/OIs6qCe3wpU[/media]

Nope not me, you have altered what I said to suit yourself I never mentioned carol kaye etc I know who they are. You are still struggling to see that just because you dont like a player it makes them a bad player, it only makes them bad to you! I dont like Jaco's music, does that make him a bad player? You are also struggling with "favourite female player" and "which female player has the best chops"

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1407422795' post='2520365'] I certainly don't want to sound pompous about it. [/quote] Im not sure how to break this to you?......

Well? Lol

All my basses get gigged,I never use the same one twice in a row so hanging them up makes rotating them easier, all my musicman cases are tucked away and I take a hiscox one instead.

I slap as well as I pick, terribly!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1407406065' post='2520115'] My right hand cramps up if I play too long with a pick, I'd suggest playing a couple of pick tracks then revert to fingers for say four songs rather than doing a solid half hour with a pick at first I appreciate what jtuk is saying about "keep up all these styles" but we are talking fingers and pick not two handed tapping and intricate chordal work, man up and learn whichever one it is you don't do currently folks [/quote] My right hand cramps up if I play too long with a pick, if suggest playing a couple of pick tracks then revert to fingers for say four songs rather than doing a solid half hour with a pick at first I appreciate what jtuk is saying about "keep up all these styles" but we are talking fingers and pick not two handed tapping and intricate chordal work, man up and learn whichever one it is you don't do currently folks

Oh yes it's all tucked up safe and I'm a neat solderer

Only using a single technique to me is like saying you will never play the notes B or D! The whole thing is there to be used in a variety of styles often all in one song

I probably shouldn't have pulled the original preamp out then, lol

That is very cool!

[quote name='Chienmortbb' timestamp='1407251484' post='2518791'] It is often said on here that if you have two cabs rather than one it is louder. Is that really the case and if so is it always the case? I am not trying put over a point here it is just that in some ways that statement makes no sense and in some ways it does. Take for instance a Valve/Tube amp running into one cabinet at 8 ohms it is a 100 watt amp running at 100watts. Add second cabinet and switch the impedance switch to 4 ohms and at each cabinet will recieve 50 watts is all else is equal. Added to gether we have twice the speaker size in both driver ans cabinet but the same power, so no extra acoustic output, the SPL is the same. The only difference is that the new cabinet is closer to the player's ear so it will sound louder and have more mids and highs. So that would suggest that only the player will here a difference. If we do the same trick with a well specified solid state amp it is different. If the SS amp has a meaty power supply, the two speakers would each get 100 watts and there would be a 3dB lift in power and presumably SPL. However in this case we have upped the power as well as adding a speaker cabinet. Be aware that many amps skimp on the power supply and the giveaway is if the 4 ohm output in only a few tens of watts higher than the 8 ohm output rather than double. It may be that speakers get less efficient as you drive them harder ( a stretched surround is harder to pus that a relaxed one) or it could be a reduction in power/thermal compression, some form of maybe the combined size of the two baffles helps with bass response. So my question is are people talking about the second case where there is a corresponding increase in power or is there some acoustical magic that happens when two identical cabinets are used instead of one, even if the power feeding then is the same? [/quote] Im no expert but as I see it in laymans terms the problem with your calculation is that you are working on the 100 watt amp running flat out, constantly, I suppose if you did that your theory might work until the amp or speakers died but in real world terms how much wattage is an amp putting out during a gig?

Jobs a good un then, I couldnt find anything suitable near me when I bought my Gedo, moseley violins didnt stock anything under a few grand back then, I would have almost certainly had the eastman they stock and had them do the setup for me. I guess these shops are realising the cheaper end but proper decent playable basses are becoming in demand right now!

You know it makes sense Serial came back as May 5th 2010 on mine drT so just a bit older than yours but still early, birds eye neck and confirmed as tobacco not retro burst.

That sounds like a fair deal and a good chance to see if you really bond with the bass then EDIT just to ask, are there no credit checks on it then? what is to stop you from taking the bass and not returning it?

After years of muscle memory from playing a fretted note in one area of the neck even if you ripped the frets out of the same bass just playing all the notes 1/2 inch further up the neck would feel different never mind a different bass, that said a J fretted and J fretless will feel more similar than say a J fretted and a MM fretless obviously, just looking at the lines on that fretless Squire is making my intonation go pear shaped as I would try and [b][i]fret [/i][/b]the note rather than [b][i]stop[/i][/b] the note on the line if you get what I mean?, it was not until I started on DB that I began to understand why some people dont like a lined neck.

Looking at online prices £70 pm over two years sounds too cheap unless there is a massive final payment? EDIT found the 80 series at Moseley violins so it depends exactly what model you end up with IMO

Hhhmmm how much are they to buy? By my rough calcs you could buy a Gedo like mine after 12 months of the rental plan £840 ( Mine cost a grand with the extras and postage but you can still get a half carved one £840 including postage I think, just) If you wanted to sell it on later I cant see it being worth less than £500 ever probably more if it had nice strings and a good setup etc. 18 months interest free credit card £70 per month paid back would give you £1260 to spend and give you international purchase protection if buying from abroad,

[quote name='bakerster135' timestamp='1407249545' post='2518757'] See, to me that's "clank"!... [/quote] +1 and the Gibson Gripper beats them both for it IMO yet they were never as popular?!

The ceramic mm pup but with a series, parallel or single coil switch, so a pre 2008 post 1993 stingray five then

I agree with all of that bass in my face, I don't need to do any of the things I'm currently learning and I have no intention of being a pro, I haven't got the ability anyway, i could maybe hold my own in a reasonable function band on electric bass (I have before) but I couldn't go for any upright jobs beyond jam night level. I can't think of any pro players I have met that have made a proper living purely from a single genre of music never mind a single technique? I suspect the Jack of all trades players get more calls than the guy with the killer floating thumb!