Linus27

Not a fan of The Beatles, I find their music a bit safe, cheesy, poppy and clean. I admit they had some great songs but they do nothing for me. A lot of 60's music, especially British 60's popular music I can't abide as it's just too clean and cheesy. I guess I'm not a fan of the sound. Being born in 1970 means I grew up listening to music from the late 70's onwards. However, I adore The Doors, and songs like Light My Fire, Break on Through, The End, When The Music's Over, Five To One, that's my band of the 60's although their best songs came in 1970 in the form of Riders on the Storm and LA Woman.

The Beatles bass lines also seemed to serve the song in a very similar way to Sting's bass lines served The Police songs. Very functional and effective and in some cases clever but not necessarily technical or outstanding. It was more about the song rather than the musicianship and that's where the talent is as song writers.

So, a question to those who know more about compression that I do. On my fretless Stingray, when I play on the G string, there is quite a drop in volume. I play quite a lot of melodic runs and when Move my run fro the A and D string and onto the G string, it can at times become lost. My thought was to get a compressor pedal to even out the volume across all 4 string or this was what I was told would help. Is this correct or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Good luck Blue, fingers crossed and its certainly a great feeling. We recently got nominated for best new original band and best album/ep release of 2022. We had the awards night last Thursday and sadly didn't win (was very close) but it was a fab evening. Hoping you come away with the win, good luck.

My chain is, Wireless - Tuner - Octave - Chorus - Reverb I'll be getting a compressor at some point and will stick this between the Tuner and Octave pedal. I might also try swapping the Chorus and reverb around to see if that makes any difference.

Awesome, thank you John

Does this work? https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=The+tim+shez+band&crid=JAV3Q4MIX8R2&sprefix=the+tim+shez+band%2Caps%2C106&ref=nb_sb_noss The first link is to buy the whole EP and the ones after are individual tracks. When you click on them, you get the option to Purchase. Does that work?

Thank you very much, really appreciate that. You can buy it from the links above like Amazon And iTunes but only as downloads, no physical copy I'm afraid like CD or vinyl.

Yeah, I totally agree, I didn't really sing like a fretless should.

Excellent, thank you @Dad3353

Thank you, really appreciate it. If you ever think what it is then please let me know as we really struggle trying to describe what we sound like 😂

Thank you very much, really appreciate that 😁

Thank you, you should see the back and the fretboard, its stunning 😍

For reference, this is mine which also has a Pau Ferro board and I paid £1800 for it about a year or so ago.

No worries, here's a link to my original thread where I posted the songs 🙂 Recorded through an Ampeg PF20T and a Barefaced Two10 with a DI coming from the head and the cab also mic'd. The Precision was strung with Rotosound flats. Would love to know what you think.

Found this today. Not the best demo but didn't sound too bad.

Ah ok cool and yep, you are right, definitely not a bass 🙂

Is the guy on his own the bassist from Snarky Puppy? I recognised Kinga.

No problem, I'll send you a link to the thread I posted on here where you can have a listen. Let me know what you think. The bass I used is the third one down and also the same as the OP was thinking of selling so I know they are great basses and he should definitely keep it 🙂

I'm the same as you, fretless player mostly and grew up listening to the 80's so adore all those fretless players or tracks with fretless and whenever I hear a very obvious fretless Jazz with that nasal, mid bumped tone then I go all weak at the knees. However, I'm finding my own playing tends to be a more rounded, warmer tone, a bit more Motown or thumpy. When I play live with my fretless Jazz, I still have both pickups on full, tone set in the middle and play more at the neck or neck pickup. Yes I get the slides and vibrato but it's way more subtle and a nuance of the tone like a double bass rather than a forced expression. So much so that I have two fretless Precision's now (along with a fretless Stingray and Jazz) and when I recently recorded an EP, I predominantly used my fretless Precision strung with flats.

I wish I'd bought your fretless Ibanez. It's on my list of basses to own but I lacked the funds at the time 😥

Just 4 at the moment, 1. Fender Japan Jazz 62 Reissue Fretless (Ebony Board) 2. Fender Japan Precision 62 Reissue Fretless (Rosewood Board) 3. Fender Mexico Precision 70 Reissue Fretless (Maple Board) 4. Musicman Stingray SR4 Fretless (Pau Ferro Board) I feel like I should own some more though and wouldn't mind the following, 1. Warwick Streamer Jazzman or Stage 1 Fretless Natural 2. Fender Japan Precision US 70 Reissue Fretted White 3. Fender Telecaster Bass Fretted 4. Ibanez Musician Fretless

Yes lots of times when signed many moons ago. What's weirder is when you are with other people. My girlfriend at the time and my wife find it really weird that people would ask for my autograph or recognise me in the street. I'm just normal me to them so they find it a bit weird, a bit cool and a bit unbelievable that someone wants my autograph, photo or to talk to me.

I really like your band, I've just been listening to quite a few tracks on YouTube 😁