Evil Undead

A while ago I decided to go short scale due to issues with my hands - main issue being that I'm losing the feeling in my left hand pinky, which is worsened by playing 34" scale bass, even my Ibby. But playing shorties doesn't worsen it. But I keep resisting the short scales and don't know why. It's got to be one or more of these reasons - but I can't decide if they're valid reasons or just my lame excuses. Not feeling/looking like a "real" bassist - besides, other girls play long scale so I should too! My Ibanez sounds freaking amazing and I love it soooo much - don't want to part with it but I can't afford to keep it and get the Mustang I'm craving Short scales aren't so easy to find so narrowing my choice of instruments - the end of GAS? I recently took a shortie to a jam with some people I used to be in a band with, and got no end of compliments on my playing (I was kinda embarrassed haha), which I can only attribute to being able to get around the bass more easily, as I admittedly don't practice often enough. What to do, what to do... Anyone care to chime in? Anyone occasionally or even exclusively play the short scale basses? Ever felt this way?

Happy with my bass playing? No, I suck. But that's ok, I just enjoy flailing away.

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1386792165' post='2304701'] That is really quite uprising, I cannot imagine how it could be slippery at all! Was it faulty? [/quote] I don't know, I hadn't really considered that! Maybe I should try another. I do love the look

The short one is just about the right size for me. But, I may be alone here, I found the back of the strap too slippery and it made neck dive worse. So I sent it back.

Welcome Ed. I've seen a lot of your videos, great for fuelling my never ending GAS

[quote name='madshadows' timestamp='1384118509' post='2273030'] This might be good for your problem, think they are cheap to run [url="http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4153733.htm#pdpFullProductInformation"]http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4153733.htm#pdpFullProductInformation[/url] John [/quote] Not so much. One of those on constantly, 24/7, for... say 4 months of winter, is gonna cost you over £500. That's using an approximate price per kWh of 15p... depends on your tariff/supplier of course.

Bought a wiring kit from John, he's been very friendly, extremely helpful, perfect transaction. Thanks dude Oh, I'd also like to say, he posted the kit out the day after I ordered it, and it arrived the day after that - super speedy!

I had a bass shipped to me from the USA once, and it took 10 days to get from the sender to the USPS depot half an hour down the road from him. That was on a Global Priority service... I think you don't need to worry yet

I'd go with b/w/b

Win. I've wanted an acoustic bass for ages, but haven't bought one - the only one that's grabbed my attention is a Kinal - too expensive for playing at home!

I'm sure Thomann sell them

If you have an iPhone or iPad, you could even get amplitube free - you need an irig adapter (I may know one for sale for a tenner ) and headphones. Bass-wise, you can't go wrong with a squier precision. The cv and vm series are excellent value and come up for sale often on here, but there's nothing wrong with the affinity series either, IMHO.

The bass that I'd want doesn't exist, and I don't even know whether Spector would make it! But if I had the money, it would be a Spector NS-2 with the Doug Wimbish sized neck (jazz nut, slim profile), but in a 30.5" scale. And electronics would be MEC p/j pickups with 2 band EQ. So basically, the moon on a stick! Oh yeah, and even if Spector would make it, it would probably cost about £6k

I really wish I'd had my strap with me when I tried it out, as I would have had a much clearer picture of whether it would be a problem for me. If Fender brought one out in those colours (white/black/maple) with a satin tinted neck, and added an active 2 band EQ, I think I'd have a really hard time passing it up.

I played it standing, with a cheap nylon strap

I played a white one of these in a store recently, and loved it! Amazing bass for the money. Fell in love with the sound, even though it wasn't terribly versatile, to me it sounded very Stingray-ish, which I'm really in to at the moment. The only reason I didn't buy it then and there was the gloss neck and fretboard (tinted satin would be preferable to me) It had the tiniest bit of neck dive as it's so light. But, nothing that a leather strap wouldn't solve.