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There's an elephant in the room. A pink elephant.

I play fretted and fretless but Intend to gravitate to fretless most of the time. It really suits the kind of melancholic jazz I like to play. Just more expressive than fretted. I've just discovered Labella flats as well and they have just taken my overwater from stunning to unbelievably brilliant. Just don't start a discussion on lined or unlined boards. Oh dear, i mentioned it.

Martin just took delivery of my Spectorcore four string. Great to deal with. Paid without question. I can certainly recommend you deal with him with confidence.

...and well worth waking up.

Wow! Nice collection Luc. Droolllll

Polkadots and Moonbeams played on my ACG Finn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEw4k2-caZo

Everyone in Heaven will be getting some good entertainment from Jeff Healy.

It's hard to know where to start as you don't say what kind of bass tone you like. What players do you like? What kind of music do you listen to? As discreet said, trial and error. I would start by boosting the mids a bit then sweep the freq control around until you get a tone you like. Then cut the mids a bit and play around with the freq. But then when you get to playing in a band context what you like will change. Experiment, experiment, experiment.

As the first one seems to be for a Steinberger XT bass I'm sure it will fit a Steinberger XT bass. A Hohner B2A five is the same bass so I'm sure that would fit too.

That's what I call evidence. Standing on the floor Jack looks unhappy. On the pleasure board? Big cheesy grin.

Met up with Peter today and traded my Ibanez for his ESP B205 fretless. Flawless transaction and I would certainly recommend dealing with Peter. Thanks a lot Peter.

Well worth a watch. Great performance.

Nice work. Like the guitar work.

When you play C at 8th you have a longer string than you have playing at 12th. That gives you a greater length for the string to vibrate which equals a different tone. This is why I use a high C string on fivers. A G played at 7th on C string to my ear sounds clearer than that same note played on G string at 12th.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1427664919' post='2732899'] I'm not an expert, but I don't think people tend to use the little finger so much on double bass, not on its own anyway, I think they tend to use fingers 3 and 4 together, finger 3 on top of finger 4 to help it. [/quote] The third finger (ring) is seldom used below fifth (C on G string). Too big a stretch. Little finger is often used on its own. Might just need practice to strengthen it. You could try playing the same triplet run in second position which would be less of a stretch for you. As always practice.

[quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1427659248' post='2732797'] Can't really describe just how great that looks to me...speechless... [/quote] What he said. Amazing!

Thanks for this. I have it on LP. Time to dig it out.

The neck profile on the Status is probably like no other. An almost flat back and the graphite also feels different. I have no experience of the Smith basses. They are both high end basses so I doubt you'd be disapointed with either. As has been said it comes down to personal taste.

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1427442116' post='2730327'] I bet its not as big as you think....... [/quote] Another incarnation.

Comes with a free osteopath appointment after one year There are a lot of very beautiful stock basses there.