stingrayPete1977

I'm all for equality so I put a moob in the gap on my Jazz.

That's what I charge for a dep gig if mustang Sally is in the set list.

You do realise they make the St Vincent model for, well, St Vincent?

You've got to love Suzi, it's the law! Our singer can't do gruff or I'd be adding something into our set.

Suzi Quatro always looked cool! She's 5ft tall

A tutor that won't teach you on a stick bass isn't a teacher you need teaching you anything imo. Yes you'll have some things that are different and it's a physical instrument anyway, left hand technique and right hand plucking are what I'd concentrate on first.

There are plenty of petite ladies making excellent music using a jazz bass Silvia, Esperanza Spalding and Tal Wilkenfeld are managing OK.

I rarely use mine these days, even with a 300 watt Genz head it's too loud out front!

I've got a Gedo, half carved de gamba body, she's lovely. Great company to do business with too.

Surely it's a step up from Costa Coffee where most degrees are put into use?

Certainly both would be ideal but if you're going to make a start on your own then Geoffs lessons are the only ones I'd follow just to get going a bit until a tutor can be found.

The classic has a string thru bridge so the fat wound part of the string is in the body rather than alongside the saddle spring anyway.

I dont think they sound the same but the more prominent aspects of the playing can be much more noticeable than the general tone of the bass being used. Then there is the amp and pa to consider, you can have a super bright zingy slap tone on stage but if the sound crew cut all the top off it the audience won't hear it anyway.

It was a play on 'Later with Jools Holland' but it would be an improvement that's for sure!

Later Without Jools Holland.

Hi mate definitely check out Geoff Chalmers discover double bass, that will take you from basic left hand technique to bowing in the philharmonic!

Different maybe, right or wrong no way. If you play motown on a Status with the treble flat out, so what?

How long has television as we know it got left? Our next lounge TV will be a smart one after that there will be little point in me having free view or a licence other than being bound in by it, programming will become done via streaming services and jools will need to get a you tube or Netflix commission or something similar.

I wonder if the fretless got mutes as standard? It looks like the Flea and trans bridge backplate are the same so the mute kit will fit. I never use mine though, lol.

free image hosting website This is possibly a Flea bridge with a mute kit added, looks like the E will struggle to work very well, the G not much better and the OPs screws look much further over to me.

Strung thru like some pre EB and new classic stingrays solves the issue, still not centred over the mute pads but not enough to be a problem.

Mute bridge, straight over the mutes but angled strings to back plate.

Then it's not a Flea bridge drT, look where the strings are in relation to the holes where the blanking screws are on the OPs pictures. You can see the bridge is set closer the control plate to compensate. Both the trans bridge and flea bridge ran concurrently and a mute kit could be purchased to fit a trans bridge, NOT TO BE USED ON A FLEA BRIDGE, the mute pads would miss the strings. musicmanbass.org/mycustompage0061.htm Gav's site is hit and miss at the moment but its all explained here, there is no "earlier version" with mutes, if you've got mutes you've got a trans bridge.

That's not a trans bridge, it's a desirable Flea bridge. The strings run straight across from the back of the bridge past the saddle slots then the bridge is mounted a few mm to the side to compensate, if you look where the Allen screws are blanking the mute kit holes you can see they are not under the strings. It might still work but the mute pads might miss the strings, certainly won't be centred. There are a lot of basses out there claiming to have a flea bridge but most of them just have the blanking screws but still have the angled string back to the back plate. If you look at your picture you can see the bridge is mounted off set to the pickup towards the control plate.

If the gig is large enough to need a big amp then it's big enough to need everything in the pa, if you're doing a mixture of venue sizes then in ears would make life easier and full of heft, thrust and everything else.