JohnFitzgerald

How to kill the mwahh on a fretless ? ?

What did I start here ?!?!?!!?!

Hope not. I've hitched my wagon to the Markbass thing. Still planning on another extension cab. Not because I actually need one, as such.

Cheers !!

I'm often accused of playing fretless when I'm playing a fretted bass. I should probably be insulted but I take it as a compliment.

I like a little light delay and using a certain style of vibrato which rolls around the finger which never actually moves on the string. The nett result is a natural chorus effect. And yes, I do play harmonics quite a bit on fretless. With the same delay and the neck wobble effect. (Hold the upper horn with the plucking hand and wobble the bass back and forward gently) that also gives a natural chorus effect. That's how I do it. And I like it.

It's rather lovely. Virtually mint condition with hardly a blemish on it. The scratching on the finish is no more than a polish with some cutting compound would easily fix. I have have pretty large hands and long fingers, so the wide fingerboard is no hardship. The single passive tone control is genuinely useful over all of its travel and cuts the treble very deep. Far more aggressively than my Fender did and more progressively. Playability is not quite up to the standard of my Status, but I've done no setup as yet. It could use a 1/4 turn on the truss rod to sort out the relief to where I think it should be. My Status is super low action and has a fabulous neck, so I'm not sure I'll get it to that standard, but it will still be very good. Over all though, a very pleasing thing. I've realised that I like the slightly odd, so this fits me fine. Now, let's find a nice sunburst fretless seeing as my black Fender is now gone.

Did it draw the eye somewhat ? It was half an hour from here, couldn't not have it.

Nor had I seen one until Gumtree thrust this under my nose yesterday. I have a penchant for having both pickups wide open, then roll the neck pickup back until the mid range just pops out. This does that lovely. A nice linear curve on the tone pot too. It actually does things all the way, not the first 5%. It'll get a run out this week.

I posted about this yesterday after I'd seen it, but now I've bought it, I feel as if I can legitimately give it its very own New Bass thread. Haven't begun to decipher the serial number yet, but seeing as these were made between '96 and '98 it'll be in there. Condition is within a whisker of mint and it plays rather nicely. I'm a sucker for the trans red finish, pearl scratchplate, and the gold hardware. A bit of an unknown rarity I suppose and for that alone, I'm rather taken by it. [attachment=212930:20160221_144920.jpg]

One of the issues is there are six of us, three carrying guitars. I don't imagine the Captain's cupboard is that big. I'm happy with carrying it to the gate and then placed on, but I'm going to go with asking nicely, being polite, all that stuff. Thanks for the advice folks, and the other main thread, which I should have checked.

Going for it tomorrow lunch time. Made in Korea 1996-98 it seems.

Nor had I, but I do like a bit of bling, and the trans red finish along with soapbars is a bit fetching as well.

I'll answer my own question. It's a Squier Pro Tone.

Have seen this for sale locally. Obviously, it says Squier Precision Bass on the headstock. The gold hardware, translucent finish, pearl scratchplate and twin soapbars rather confuse me though. What is it ? [attachment=212868:Squier P 6.JPG] [attachment=212869:Squier P 2.JPG] [attachment=212870:Squier P 1.JPG] [attachment=212871:Squier P 3.JPG]

Thanks Muppet, I'll check that out. Sorry for not using search first.

Status Energy 4 - spotted this on someone's post on a Facebook group. Not yet advertised, he said it might be for sale. I PM'd him and got it for £150. Justified. Fender Jazz bass fretless. For the singing lyrical style I get to play in my acoustic gigs, a fretless jazz is all you need. Mine is a Mex. Does all I could ever need. Cost me £350 second hand. Justified. Markbass JB Player's School. - All I need for my acoustic gigs with no PA support. All I need for my big gigs where there is PA support. I don't need anything in between, sounds beautiful. Justified. AKG WMS 40 wireless - I stand on my leads and get them snarled up around my ankles. This stops that and makes me marginally less static. Cost me £70 - well justified. Korg AX3000G. £50 second hand. It's a tuner, it has a Jaco tone (chorus, 'verb, delay). It has a couple of generic tones. It's not high end. It's all I need. Justified. All of the above has done great things for me. (I also have a pair of Thomann PA 202 PA cabs. These cost a very modest £87 each new. I bought mine SH for £20, the pair. They sound gorgeous, and I sometimes use them as PA tops for stand ins with another band. These have more than earned their keep. Justified, I'd certainly say.) I've just realised. My gear really is very modest compared to many.

The internet is great for horror stories of disastrous trips involving prized basses. Has anyone flown with their bass before, how did you do it, did you have it as carry on, was it checked in the hold, how did you get on, who did you fly with ? I have a gig on the other side of the pond in May. I'm tempted to take a soft gig bag with me and my Status Energy in dismantled state packed in the middle of my case with loads of packing around it. Thoughts welcomed. We're flying Aer Lingus and I'm told they're one of the better airlines from this perspective.

I played about 40% of last night's gig on my fretless with the new 40-95 rounds on it. The dead spot issue is gone. It was singing like Sinatra. (I'm a Jaco fanboi. I'll never escape that, so I've long stopped trying to.)

Of monitors and FOH levels. Did a gig the other night at a local venue in Glasgow -The Grand Ole Opry (yes really, we have one here.) It was the venue for a 14 night folky festival. Subs were 4 18" Logic boxes. Tops were Logic LS12, 4 at the front and 2 for rear fill. Monitors were a wall of logic wedges along the stage front. Beautiful levels on stage and the rear fills on FOH worked a treat. Wrapped in warm sound, but never too loud. Fancy Midas digital desk too.

I counted 4 - drummer has one too ;-)

Aye, I'll be walking into King Tut's and telling them that I know better. Same engineer also does T in the Park, I think I was benefiting from his experience, not the other way round.

The Tickled Trout is the only venue I've ever truly wanted to play.

Monitor setup at my next gig, should do fine. (I'm doing a grand total of 6 gigs this year, but they all really count.) I've copied this straight off the venue page. :-) And yes, I've done loads of backline only, squeezed into a corner type gigs. After a lifetime of this crap, I'm entitled to gloat at a shot at a proper venue. Don't worry, I won't get carried away. [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]1 x Midas Sienna 480, 48 Ch[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]5 x XTA GQ600 Graphic EQ[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]1 x T.C. Electronics M-one [/size][/font][/color] [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]2 x Drawmer DS201XLR Dual Gate[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]3 x Drawmer DL241XLR Dual Compressor[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]1 x XTA C2 Dual Compressor[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]9 x Crown MA24 Amps[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]10 x Logic Systems CM20 Active Wedges[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]2 x Logic systems Side Fills[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]2 x Side Fill Rack Amps[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1A1A1A][font=Verdana][size=3]1 x BSS Omni Drive System Processor[/size][/font][/color]

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