DaveFry

Here is a nice simple one . Why Can't We Live Together ? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkpGhmIC_U[/media] - needs more cowbell , though .

It must be love - Labi Siffre or Madness ( verse starts Am , chorus G ) One World ( Is Enough For All Of Us ) - Sting Kingston Town - G or Ab Soul Limbo - Booker T or The Dragonaires ( in C )

[quote name='bassbiscuits' timestamp='1437599685' post='2827550'] My band sometimes does the music from Barry Norman's Film 98 ( or any other year around that time ) which is called something like Oh For A Life of Dreams I think. [/quote] Maybe you mean " I wish I knew how ( it would feel to be free ) " by Billy Taylor . If so , then good call ! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brBtTluod_w[/media] Also covered by Nina Simone , The Lighthouse Family and maybe others ; [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEP0-8VAow[/media]

The old memory banks have filtered out a moment in 1977 . In the middle of a Clapton Old Grey Whistle Test special he handed the stage over to Yvonne Elliman ; [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NldjjmzDUfE[/media]

If you could make a fresh recording of just the interference from the phones , then copy/paste and align them on a seperate track so that they occur at the same time as the original , then a phase reversal of the new track would make the interference disappear . - tricky longshot , i know .

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I like this one too ; [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbZK3CoLrkU[/media]

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One with a Stanley Clarke solo ; theme from 2001 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJK3eUP5Hvg[/media] And the beautifully simple theme from Midnight Cowboy ; [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb-5aQ1EIgc[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTtswoWkGQU[/media] Wait for the bass

Try to not look at the fingerboard , use your ears . Practice in the dark . If you can sing it ( in tune ) you can play it ( in tune ) .

3-part reply ; Yes , the box did merit investigation on the cat's part , but she did tend to prefer ; an empty bass hard case left open on the floor, or, a freshly warmed up combo : The fingerboard gluing mission ; Firstly I must point out that this was the cheapest of the range of Thomann DBs . I could not find any hide glue down here in this one-horse town so I ordered some granules online . Whilst waiting I acclimatised the bass in the living room with a bowl of water by the radiator and filed a few sharp edges off the pressed brass tuners , lubricated them and the endpin thumbscrew with vaseline and scraped/cleaned off the old glue on the neck and fboard . Hide glue is applied hot and sets as it cools , so I warmed up the fboard on the radiator whilst the glue was heating up so as to give extra working time . When the glue was ready I just brushed it on both sides , lined it up , clamped it and wiped off the excess . If ever it needs to come off , a wallpaper steamer will soften the glue again . 3rd part ; Fingers crossed for safe deliveries to Messrs Walbassist and Geddy's nose .

A Tololoche is the Mexican equivalent of the double bass . The name , from the Mayan language, means " bull embrace " . The softwood body is matched to a fingerboard and bridge of very hard local woods , designed for slapping . ( English translation of Spanish Wiki page ; [url="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tololoche&prev=search"]http://translate.goo...che&prev=search[/url] ) There seems to be a traditional party number called " El Tololoche Chicoteado " where the player demonstrates his skill at resembling riding a bull : [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzAd0FISNm0[/media] - Hope that inspires/interests someone .

You may find you can tweak it back come Oct/Nov .

I've had a similar thing happen on a fretless with roundwounds which I had set up for as little relief as possible for maximum mwah . At some times of the year the G string would rattle behind where I was fingering when playing 10ths around the middle of the neck. A tiny seasonal tweak of the truss rod cures it . You can test to find out if this is what is happening by just bending the neck forwards fractionally by gently pressing the headstock against a wall and pushing back on the body as you play the offending notes .

Thomann DB box outside my door . It wouldn't fit through my door so I had to unpack there on the stairs as quietly as I could to avoid the nosey neighbours . I could carry it on my own , it was just taller than the doorframe and there wasn't enough room to tip the top down to get it in . Mine arrived with the fingerboard loose and the bridge in bubblewrap ; The (claimed ) ebony board was about the same weight as the rest of the bass . I glued it on with hide glue. It has all been fine for the 2 1/2 years I've had it . HTH

They called Wes Montgomery's bass playing brother William Howard Montgomery ( aka " Monk" ) .... Mark ! Surely a typo . I have seen the fnords .

+1 for Lloyd Brevett. I hear a lot of him in Sting's lines .

The extra two-beat bars in Forty-Four Blues often catch me out ; [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h-95D-MAsE[/media]

Plastic Sousaphone solo ! ; [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyER73wEz0E[/media] Song is Ellington's " Caravan " .

I see the new diy craze in the motorcycle world is a thing called hydro dipping . It takes the "swirling" idea further by using a water transfer film which is laid on a water surface , then after a minute an activator is sprayed on which dissolves the backing . This leaves a ready-made design for dipping objects into like the swirling method but more regular or predictable. Kits are available with different sized films and patterns , such as camo , flames , woodgrain , marble etc . Best to seal /finish after with a durable clearcoat . I guess a poly-coated bass body would just need ; Light sanding to provide a key , Bare wood ( eg neck pocket , cavity ) masking with waterproof tape, Screw holes ( eg strap pin holes ) masking with blu-tac -and a big enough bath ! Search YT and Amazon for hydro dipping . I'm tempted to try a carbon-fibre pattern myself . For a natural wood finish however , I would recommend an orbital palm sander to get the worst of the poly off , then hand sanding , followed by tru-oil ( or Sainsbury's Walnut Oil on a budget ).

It depends on ; Your computer specs Your operating system The recording software Your computer's soundcard and The driver for your soundcard. An audio interface is just a soundcard , usually external , but with drivers ( software instructions for the operating system ) specifically written for it to prioritise audio with minimal lag ( known as latency ). You may get acceptable results with your existing internal soundcard and it's existing driver . If not , try again with the free driver ASIO4ALL . After installation it will show all the available audio inputs and outputs on your system on a graphical set up screen . Simply select your jack-to-usb as the input and your souncard's outputs where your monitor speakers are as the outputs . Next configure the buffer size in the set up ; test by recording , then ,if the sound is ok ( no breakup or crackles ) but has a delay when you play :- lower the buffer size . If you start getting breakups ,dropouts or crackles :- increase the buffer size . You have to test to find the best buffer size setting for your system . The better quality.a soundcard-and-it's-driver is the less latency you get . Your existing set-up may be adequate for your needs , but you have to test/configure to suit . Hope that helps .

Yes , to fake a 3-piece laminate neck . It was just an experiment on a £35 bass that I defretted and coated the fingerboard with superglue . On the front I experimented with pyrography ; ( Lower is a HB f/less ubass ) Because tru-oil is linseed based you can tint it with artists linseed oil paints . I used yellow on the front of the body to make the alder look more like spruce , and red on the back to resemble mahogany .

Below is a maple neck I treated with tru-oil . ( Lower , obviously , - upper is just a work-in-progress lap steel ) I had sanded the Stagg neck back to bare wood , but before I applied the tru-oil I masked off the centre and headstock with tape and treated the edges with a home-made ebonising solution . Recipe ; Take steel wool and wash it in hot soapy water to remove the anti-corrosion coating then put it in a glass jar . Fill jar with white wine vinegar and leave overnight with the lid loose . Apply to wood with paper towels , renewing towels as necessary to avoid contaminating solution in jar . When dry sand again to flatten the raised grain . Note for using tru-oil ; It is possible for rags soaked in tru-oil to self-combust if scrunched up in an enclosed environment ( eg bin ) so unravel them flat on a non-combustible surface to dry before throwing away .

And next , a real post on the local Open Mic farcebook . This guy wants us to think he is doing us a favour by letting us play for free .;