pete.young

Thanks for that. Every day is a school day on Basschat.

Hi Mick, Not really I'm afraid. When I originally fitted the Nordstrand I didn't record any clips with it, and I've since replaced the pickups with Delano so any clips I recorded now wouldn't demonstrate the improvement in the preamp. It does have a push-pull active/passive option on the volume control and a passive tone control, although I haven't made a lot of use of that. I had to change it because the blend pot had stopped working altogether. I think there is a bit more boost and cut on the bass and treble controls. I also have an SB320 with the original pre-amp and an SB310 which has had a new blend pot, and both these pre-amps still sound fine. I wouldn't replace them for the sake of it. Despite some of the soldering looking a bit iffy!

The pre-amps are a notorious weak point on these, and replacing them, or re-wiring the bass as passive, are both common options. I have a Nordstrand 4-pot in one of mine which is a vast improvement over the standard, I've also fitted Artec cheapies as a short-term. The pickups are perfectly OK to run passive. This looks like a later model with the preamp all on one PCB, earlier ones had individual PCBs on the pots which were much easier to just replace a pot. It should still be possible to replace a single pot without a complete rewire but the question is really whether it's worth the effort. Not sure a right-angled jack plug is going to make a lot of difference. Because of the recess around the socket, it would only be able to point downwards, you'd have an even bigger loop of cable going down out and back to the strap. I've not seen similar issues with contacts on any of the ones I've owned.

Katriona Gilmore (Gilmore and Roberts) plays violin right-handed and mandolin left-handed, and is exceptionally talented with both instruments.

A modern update is the Roland SPD::ONE series: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spd-Percussion-Everythingmusic-Extended-Warranty/dp/B071ZL514B?th=1

Thats done the trick. Thank you.

This looks great and really reduces the glare on a big monitor. I'm a fan. One thing I have noticed though is that in the 'Messages' section, the highlighted thread is coloured a very bright orange, several shades more yellow than the colour used else where. Do you agree, and if so is there any possibility to tone it down a bit?

So what do we think of Beatles tribute bands with right-handed bass players?

I play in a band that plays the music of the Pogues. We try and get as close as we possibly can to the music, and we can manage the ill-fitting suits, but the singer draws the line at having his teeth done like Shane's, so we'll never be a tribute band. We could use a banjo player if anyone is available, or a guitarist who can mug it on a guitar-banjo. Please apply within.

I don't think so. You don't actually look at the fretboard much, so the side markers are much more use. And eventually you have to get to the point of putting your fingers in the right places with or without the lines, which aren't always accurate.

Unless you are a moderator. Moderators can also bump threads.

Seems OK in Firefox on Mac.

Is there any way to turn off the thread summary banner that seems to be appearing under the first post on every page?

When I started playing double bass in my father's folk dance band in the late '60s / early '70s there was no thought of amplifying the double bass. High action, make as much noise as possible, and where possible use the village hall stage as a sounding board through the spike. Amplification was for bass guitars, I wasn't allowed one of these due to lack of space in the car (the bass went on the roof). I don't recall gut strings being as expensive then, since they were ubiquitous on everything from fiddles to basses. The other option that no-one seems to have mentioned is nylon strings. These were cheaper than guts. I have 3 strings from a set of Rotosound Student Double Bass strings from the period. These appear to be some kind of flatwound tape on a nylon core. I remember the excitement when I got my first Lycon D string (we only ever bought replacement strings when one broke, and never a set). This must have been in about 1973. It was 3 times as loud as the other strings. Eventually I got an A and G, and the E was replaced with a much lower tension Rotosound steel core. Remarkably I still have those strings somewhere - I took them off the bass about 10 years ago when I got a second-hand set of Spirocore Weichs from this forum. They must have lasted about 35 years. Not bad.

You have the ability, and at some point you will meet someone who is on the same level. In the meantime, don't be a stranger, you'll be missed.

The thing that astonishes me most about this is that Nigel has your details, can't find a phone number, but isn't able to write to you to say he's got the bass! How hard would that have been?

I seem to recall Cass being a big user of the Korg G5, and I think that's mostly what you can hear on that track.

The orange windings look like my Presto lights, but the ones I have are silver in colour not black.

Common as muck those white ones. Baz, are you absolutely sure you're doing the right thing?

Another reason not to use wire wool on strings is that if the strings are stainless steel, contact with mild steel wire wool can contaminate the stainless and lead to the formation of rust spots. As for 2 years being a long time, I put a set of used Ernie Ball flats on my fretless at least 10 years ago and they're still going strong, although it doesn't get played much!

Something isn't quite right - CIJ didnt appear until 1997, it's hard to tell from the photo but this looks like an 'O' so 1997 - 2000. Still an excellent bass, but this puts a few question marks against the seller. £650 with a US Pickup already fitted seems like a good price to me, but I'm a bit out of touch and used Fender prices have been going up recently.

He's never been away!

Really? And here's me thinking it was about Claudia Lennear. I think a better reason to drop it is that most guitarists attempt to play it on a 6-string in standard tuning, and it sounds pants as a result. One that makes me uncomfortable is seeing 50-something blokes singing 'I saw her standing there'.