6stringbassist

That's a stunning looking bass, congratulations.

Was there just one bass though, if you read the Milkowski book I'm sure he says that it got smashed up, isn't it like Triggers broom in 'only fools and horses'.

[quote name='birdy' post='154054' date='Mar 9 2008, 06:00 PM']I have read some absolute bullshit on forums but this thread takes the biscuit.[/quote] It's pathetic really isn't it. So called musicians slagging off a fellow musician, over an article written in a magazine that's designed purely to help those wanting to improve their playing. And the laugh of it all, is that Janek is a widely respected New york based English player, touring the world, playing for some of the top jazz and pop musicians such Mike Stern, what have the majority of the people who posted negative comments on here ever acheived ?. I asked someone last weekend if they ever checked basschat out out, they replied "don't you mean bitch chat".

I think this is the most ridiculous thread that I've read, and this site is certainly no stranger to stupid threads. The exercises are for people who wish to improve their playing, if you don't wish to improve then turn the page and ignore them. There are bass players, and bass playing musicians, most of the people who posted on this thread appear to be the former, obviously with no desire other than to do what they do. As to 'technique destroys creativity', what a load of b***ocks, how can it ?. Unless the boundaries of your creativity are very close together, or you have a great natural musical ability, then improving your playing technique means that you'll be able to play what you want when you want, with less energy expended. Also learning something new opens up new avenues of playing, thus expanding your creativity. I find BGM to be quite a good magazine, not as good as Bassplayer, but then bassplayer has been going longer, but BGM is improving with every issue, I find the reviews to be very honest.

[quote name='pete.young' post='147093' date='Feb 26 2008, 09:04 AM']Please tell me where I can get a set of 'named' flatwounds for that price! The best price I can find is £20 for a set for Elites, Rotosound and Thomastik mid-high 20s. I don't much like Elites, having had a couple of sets which both went dead in a couple of days (and I don't have sweaty hands). It makes it expensive to try things out. Has anyone tried the Webstrings flats from www.webstrings.com ? I've got some roundwounds on a couple of my basses and they seem very good. The only thing that bothers me slightly is that a 45 roundwound seems like a pretty heavy gauge set - am I right in thinking that you need a slightly thinner gauge roundwound string to get the same tension, or doesn't it make much difference?[/quote] Status flatwound strings are £15 a set, they're excellent strings. Fender flats from Stringbusters are also £15 a set. Don't forget that flats last longer. I'd rather buy a set for a bit more money (£5), and be happy with them, than buy a cheap set that sound bad, and probably won't last anywhere near as long, it's a false economy, just my opinion.

It certainly is, I'm already going on the Todd Johnson one, I'm probably going on the Yves Carbonne one, and matt Garrison is a must as far as I'm concerned.

Matt Garrison is doing one in June.

I'm sure that I read somewhere, that he had some sort of accident a few years ago and badly damaged his arm, he had to re-learn how to play from scratch.

He's bought a couple of things from me recently, a really great bloke to deal with.

My new rig, thanks to Mark at Bassdirect, a really fantastic guy to deal with. This is the best that I've ever played through, and I mean the best.

I remember seeing them on 'The tube', I think before they were actually signed they were playing to a drum machine and were really jazzy, they toned the jazz bit down a bit later.

Has anyone signed up for this yet ?. It does look really good.

I have a few quality cables, a Vovox, a Zaolla, an Evidence audio lyric, and I also have a cable from Bayeau cables in the US which uses Canare cable. I also have some planet waves cables, I can hear a difference between each of the cables, and there is a definite difference between the higher end ones and the planet waves cable. The Vovox uses a separate conductor for the the send and return signals [url="http://www.vovox.com/neu/content_e/00_01_01.html"]http://www.vovox.com/neu/content_e/00_01_01.html[/url] Zaolla use silver conductors which have lower resistivity than copper [url="http://www.zaolla.com/zaolla_product.html"]http://www.zaolla.com/zaolla_product.html[/url] Evidence audio [url="http://www.evidenceaudio.com//product.html"]http://www.evidenceaudio.com//product.html[/url] The evidence audio cable is currently for sale by the way.

Have you thought about a replacement neck by Modulus, they do jazz style with a Chechen fingerboard, so you have the best of both worlds.