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[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='416025' date='Feb 21 2009, 11:47 AM']We need players like Wooten. He pushes the envelope of what's possible on the instrument. And this in turn inspires us to become better bass players. Otherwise we all might as well just play 12 bar, 3 chord tricks in pubs for the rest of our lives.[/quote] +1. I really don't understand why certain individuals in this forum feel it necessary to attempt to belittle such great ability. I wish I were in a position to decide whether to play this way, or not.

I had an RSB Special fretless , bought second-hand in 1986 for what was a lot of money in those days and sold to silverfoxnik on this forum - I gather it's since moved on in a south-westerly direction. Not sure if it was a defret or not, but it was a nice job if so. Really nice bass, only moved it on because I acquired a better Bass Collection fretless from Beedster which I still love.

I've tried both. We often find we need to move the key of a song up or down a few semitones and the lower tuning is helpful when the bassline is already at the bottom of the range of conventional tuning. I had an OLP MM3 5-string for a while but couldn't really get on with it. It wasn't a bass I'd want to spend all night playing. I then strung a bass up B-E-A-D and just used it for a small number of songs in the set, but swapping basses during the set was a load of unnecessary hassle and I couldn't bring myself to play it all night. Having a 2-octave neck helped with the higher octave stuff, you just end up playing everything in the top octave up a 4th. The only problem I had, which may have been specific to the bass, was that it didn't trigger the synth pedal very cleanly. Then I found a 5-string that I was comfortable with playing, that I do want to spend all night playing, did trigger the synth properly and as an added bonus it has a huge range of different tones. So I'm using that as my main bass now and getting into it. There is still the occasional 'Where the hell am I' moment but they're becoming fewer. As others have said, I'd recommend you give BEAD a go, unless you want the excuse to buy another bass. Who, me?

Clip-on blue LED light, supposedly for lighting up the fingerboard but makes you look like you've got luminous smurf hands too.

I have an ancient Ibanez CS-505 which works really well on bass, doesn't have EQ issues, is probably full of germanium transistors. They come up on the bay quite often for not very much.

[quote name='Simon' post='478984' date='May 4 2009, 01:36 PM']Yeh, I did... but I'd appreciate it if people didn't make my transcriptions available online without my consent.[/quote] Seems entirely reasonable. Any news on the new edition of the books, Simon?

I've got a Fender 3mm (!) which was rejected by my guitar-playing son which works for me - we have a couple of numbers in the set (Town Called Malice, Lithium etc) which really benefit from the sound. It's probably slightly too think to be ideal but I'm too lazy to go shopping. Colin Hodgkinson uses a pick, and also has a pick-like technique using the nail of his first finger (with the thumb pressed hard up against it). OK if you've got fingernails.

"Who out there thinks Nick should give in to his mid-life crisis and get the tattoo done?" ROFL. Me for one !!!

My first bass was a Hofner Senator, £15 quid in 1971. Rather startlingly 160 quid in todays money. I must have done a couple of hundred gigs with that bass. Somehow £160 quid now seems like a lot more money than £15 quid did then!

[quote name='conductorbtcb' post='472912' date='Apr 26 2009, 08:22 PM']Hi all, I once played bass (in my younger days). I now conduct a concert band. The Band performs outdoors most of the time and we have been using a leisure battery and inverter to provide the supply for our 100 Trace Elliott bass combo. Recently, the power supply has started providing a "earth buzz" through the combo at fairly moderate levels. Anyone suggest a cure?[/quote] Use a double bass instead?

The 'German' bank account number is an IBAN, or International bank Account Number. The details that Thoman just send me for an order included DE 19 7607 0024 0811 5008 00 That should translate into Sort Code: 76070024 Account no: 0811500800 Is that what you used?

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='463298' date='Apr 15 2009, 06:48 PM']Llllllllllluxury! Youth o'today don't know how lucky they ahr. In maah day, we would've travelled t'stralia 'n' back just for extra XLR cable...[/quote] You had XLR cable? You were lucky ...

[quote name='elom' post='471133' date='Apr 23 2009, 10:28 PM']So what's in your set that you really like to play but is easy peasy lemon squeezy?[/quote] Addicted to love - the Tina Turner version.

[quote name='AM1' post='469430' date='Apr 22 2009, 11:28 AM']Someone in another thread mentioned Hi-Beam strings not being shrink wrapped and that they are dead straight out of the box.[/quote] I've just put a new set of DR Sunbeams on my GL2500 and they were absolutely fine. Not shrink wrapped either. It's easier to automate the production lines but I don't believe it makes the slightest difference to whether strings arrive dead or not. The only DOA strings I had were Elites, and they were shrink-wrapped. YMMV

I had a Deville telecaster guitar for a while, and I couldn't find any information on it either. It wasn't anything special, probably plywood body but the neck was OK, it played fine and sounded alright on the bridge pu .

OutToPlayJazz and acidbass are right, it's second-hand only from Ishibashi - look in the u_box . Fareastguitars sometimes has them in but don't have a lot of stock at the moment. Not sure whether Guitar Emporium can still get them. The best quality instruments are the Not-for-export models with US pickups and ash or alder bodies.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='466230' date='Apr 18 2009, 04:46 PM']A little Flecktones, anyone?[/quote] Good luck - there are plenty of Victors but Bela is absolutely a one-off.

[quote name='KevB' post='466255' date='Apr 18 2009, 05:21 PM']Well as it turned out I probably knew the 8 songs at least as well as the 2 guitarists anyway after 2 nights learning them (could hardly hear them anyway). Band had 2 singers but only 1 was available and didn't normally sing most of the songs I was asked to learn. Most of the alternate keys were just 1 step down so mostly easy to transpose. I thought they were generally a bit disorganised so I've turned them down before being given a verdict either way. They were auditioning another bass player anyway so they can let him have it, seemed more trouble than it was worth for me.[/quote] You've done the right thing. Hang in there, the right band will come along. I was once asked to an audition with another bass player, at the same time. First song, the keyboard player and main man didn't know the difference between B minor and G major 7th and wasn't impressed to have it pointed out in front of the rest of the band. I walked away from that one with no regrets.

One of my friends does this: mixer electronic kit, plugged into mixer keyboards, ditto bass amp, DI'd into mixer guitars, also straight into mixer vocal mike, into mixer (no PA) Behringer 6 channel headphone amp and 6 sets of cans Not quite a silent practise, but just the acoustic volume of the vocals as far as the outside world is concerned. Seems to work - they've had no complaints and it would be a stony-hearted council indeed that would put a noise prohibition notice on one bloke singing! Unless it was Bono, of course.

I've had two, and they both broke - the straight one jammed, then went open circuit. The angled one just fell to bits - the sleeve collapsed into 3 parts and they all fell out on the floor one day. Count me as one dis-satisfied customer who won't be buying any more.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='461608' date='Apr 13 2009, 09:49 PM']I've got it running on one EL34 at the moment (25w or so) and its still too bloody loud.[/quote] LOL. Hotpad, anyone? I'm sure you can imagine what a Pro 2000 is capable of then - the hugest loudest cleanest sound in the world. Gave a Mesa half stack a very very good run for it's money at a recent gig. But also the heaviest :-{

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='461374' date='Apr 13 2009, 06:09 PM']6 tubes - four for one of the bass heads, two for the Pro501 I now own. [/quote] Smart - a scale model of a guitar amp ;-) That explains the new avatar - it didn't look like a Pro 4000 to me.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='461285' date='Apr 13 2009, 03:39 PM']Hotrox now charges for shipping making them less competitive than before. I'm planning on sourcing the 6 KT77's I'm looking to buy off Ebay.[/quote] 6? Eurotubes has JJ Teslas at $18 plus shipping, BnB Tubes on ebay seem to be able to beat that. Pretty good. What are these Genelex Golden Lions - are they a remake of the original KT77 Golden Lions as fitted to later Burmans?