fretmeister

I have strong feelings about naming inanimate objects that aren't boats. (VERY Bad language warning). the Hound sums up my feelings:

I don't like crowds so I play jazz.

My hatred of baked beans is not irrational. They deserve all the hatred I can muster. The vile taste, the vile texture. The revolting sauce they are in. They alone are reason enough for humanity to end. Anyone and everyone who had any involvement in them being not only available for sale, but actually grown and harvested at all should be propelled straight into the sun. Oh, you mean bass related? Tube amps on bass are completely pointless. Outdated, unreliable, too heavy, fragile, pointless. Once good transistor amps were available they should have been banned. Anyone and everyone who had any involvement in them still existing after good transistor amps were available should be propelled straight into the sun.

Well, the HX fuzz models are not very good, and really the filers and synths aren't great either.

If I hadn't recently had to buy a new washing machine I'd have probably emailed CC with a cheeky offer. It's so annoying having to replace necessities!

TBH I think most of the couriers are pretty similar. Apart from Evri. Absolute tossers. Of course Parcel Force won't insure instruments properly even if you buy their own additional cover. Whatever you do, get proper insurance. Third party insurance can be better. Hardcase and then loads of bubble wrap and then a double walled box. Take photos of the entire packing process for future evidence needs. If it's a bolt on, think about taking the neck off to reduce the chance of damage. No matter how you pack it, some jobsworth will claim you didn't do it well enough - so completely over-do it!

I like TI Flats on my Sandberg Lionel (Same scale and hardware as the Florence) but it is light. If 40-100 rounds are too light then I fear the ti flats would be too. They are slightly bigger gauges but they are also a lot more flexible. I have 2 other shorties. On one I have La Bella Deep Talking Flats at 45-105 and they suit it - they are quite stiff - by way of comparison, I would have the 39-96 on a long scale, so I have the 45-105 on a short. If you would have 45-105 La Bella flats on a long scale then you might need the 49-109 The other has 50-110 Dunlop roundwounds. If you want some flexibility then La Bella do their own Low Tension flats. There's only one choice of gauge. They are quite a bit higher in tension than the TI Flats but not like the DTF ones. They sound quite similar to the DTF though - so a trad flat rather than the mid pushed ti flat sound. La Bellas are a lot cheaper than Thomastik or Dunlop flats too - might find a used set to try in the classifieds. Also - the Florence has big tuners so you don't have to use specific short scale strings even for flats, so pick whatever you can find cheapest. Bass Direct is often cheapest for La Bella, Amazon for Ti Flats, and Dunlops are just mad everywhere.

I doubt they do many checks. There was a pair of Foderas at one a couple of years ago, up for sale at about £2K. IIRC they were top of the line - £25K new. There was no way they weren't stolen.

That was quite unusual. I stopped and started again with a different mindset as my first attempt just made me think Vic is a bit of an old hippy!

It's also a really neat way of stopping intentional damping.

Take them out. Probably saves 2-3grams in weight. Then get the screws and covers and throw them into the sea.

I'm sure they still tried to offer the previous owner £50 for it though.

It wasn't a background / restaurant gig. It was a rock venue.

I think so too - but you know Talkbass and their opinions.....

Yup. A very busy music pub. Apparently we were so loud they got their entertainment licence revoked by the local authority. So really nobody got asked back. That was back in 1993 iirc.

Guy Pratt's "My Bass and Other Animals" is very amusing. EDIT: If you prefer audiobooks, then he reads that one himself and does a great job. Quite nice to hear it in his voice when a particular anecdote brings back happy memories.

Agreed. I've load loads of their stuff and never had a problem. Always quick to answer questions too. And unlike other companies they actually lowered their prices when supply chain issues got better. The rest just left them high.

They are absolutely fine on trad large tuners. Just not on mini tuners like Ibanez use. Will be fine on a JMJ.

Duff's intro bass part on Sweet Child Of Mine. Loads on that. Everything Type O Negative ever did. I swear Pete Steel played Chorus as the instrument and just used a bass to do it. It's a funny effect. Used badly and it just makes everything sound like crap Jaco or generic rock from 1985.

I like a lot of their pedals. Never had any trouble with them. I had that amp too, no problems for me but I didn't like the Tube Tone drive sound. Was neither tube sounding or more modern and it needed a completely different EQ setting for the drive being on or off. I liked the concept though. It just needed doing properly!

https://www.cashconverters.co.uk/shop/music-tv--video/musical-instruments/guitars--string-instruments/bass-guitar/054400261222 Just in case someone wants this cool little thing.

@bassben1 We need more info to help. Can we have photos and a clear description of your signal path?

Also - there are 2 takes available. The regular release and the alternate take that has higher drive and aggression levels. Apparently from really over driving a rack compressor with anything they could throw at it. I'm fairly sure it was the same bass on both versions, just played even harder with more dirt on it.

There's a lot of online speculation about what bass he used. Some thinking Alembic, others a Stingray. A large amount think it was either a fretless jazz or a fretless Stingray - with the clank being from the strings hitting the pickup and not the non-existent frets. He does play very hard. My old band used to play it and I studied it a lot and I think it's a fretless too but I didn't have one so I played it on the Status I had a the time. The drive is very much like the input drive on an old Reel to Real recorder with loads of cut on the deep lows and highs. These days I get the tone with my JPTR Jive pedal and then EQ and it's bang on with a bass with a bridge pickup. It's a great line and it's also really annoying that AM's current bassist doesn't play Flea's line.