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[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1472578901' post='3122325'] Well done Hugh and Hugh's luthier friend A happy ending. [/quote] Indeed, what a fine bunch of people we have on here! Heart well and truly warmed.

[quote name='hubrad' timestamp='1472577836' post='3122314'] I've just spoken to an excellent fellow in Bradford, and will PM you his number. He also said the first choice would actually be the string(!) Slacken off the E string and look for signs of a kink in the place where there's a buzz. Sounds a bit extreme, but he showed me this once on a guitar in the shop and he was bloomin' right! [/quote] It was the string! I took it off and it had the tiniest of kinks in it. Gently tried to straighten it and put it back on - fixed! Cheers Hugh you are a star!

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1472577217' post='3122311'] Just don't use the 12th fret on the E Seriously, I've three FLs and they all have similar idiosyncrasies, I just work around them. Adds to the mojo C [/quote] I wish I could! I know its there though and it will bug me even if I don't use that fret. I need to chill out about these things 😊

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1472571847' post='3122239'] It could be a sympathetic vibration (sometimes the truss rod but you've tweaked yours and it hasn't disappeared). Do you get a buzz if you play the same note on the A string? There could be a slight problem on the fingerboard around the 12th fret position meaning it needs some attention to get it levelled. [/quote] No buzz on the A, I'm going to take it in to someone to give a once over. I'm not confident enough to tweak with things to much. Thanks for your help 😊

[quote name='hubrad' timestamp='1472574919' post='3122276'] If it's a defret, it could be a slightly proud fill-in; otherwise you do find a fretless board can wear if you repeatedly hit certain notes, kinda fretless fret-wear. Put a steel rule or straight-edge over that position and put a bright light behind, so if there's even a slight depression in the board you'll see it. Until I learned to do my own, I'd have mine skimmed every year or two as certain notes would always develop a buzz. [/quote] Thanks Hubrad. I see you are in West Yorkshire, I live in Wakefield. Can you recommend anyone I could take it to? I know a couple but I haven't used them in a while. Cheers!

I raised it up pretty high (higher than realistically playable) and it was still rattling. Thanks for your help!

Hi and thanks for the input, I tried it but I hasn't made any difference though. I might take it to be looked at by a professional. Its just odd that its only on that one fret position on the whole bass and its quite loud.

Hi everyone I have just picked up an Ibanez SR700 fretless. I've changed the strings to some standard flats, it had tapewounds on it and I didn't really like their sound. The new strings have brought it to life and this thing sings now. Only issue is a fretboard buzz at the 12th fret position only on the E string. No buzzing to speak of anywhere else, I've tried raising the action but its still there. Any ideas what could be the problem? Cheers!

Just done a trade with Rowley Birkin QC. Great communications and a top bloke to deal with. Highly recommended!

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1472244228' post='3119840'] I was 16 in 1991 and a school friend gave me copies of: Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese Chilis - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Faith No More - The Real Thing At 16 these three bands blew my mind. I hadn't heard anything like it before and they're still 3 of my favourite bands to this day [/quote] Great albums! I loved Frizzle Fry by Primus too.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1472196836' post='3119252'] Ah, 16. [/quote] That's how I feel when I think about being 16. I think using 16 as a point in time is, for me, a time when I felt that music defined who I was and how I dressed more. Up until then it was just 'songs I liked'. Its an interesting age!

I am 41. When I was 16 I used to love this, I had it on VHS and cassette. They were a strange band in retrospect, after King For a Day I tuned out but I still enjoyed watching this tonight. I loved Mr Bungle too! [media]http://youtu.be/nennHnQiBGo[/media] So who were your favourite band at 16?

I think I just welled up a bit.

Got a Jazz bass wiring loom from John, its a top quality piece of kit. John is a top bloke, great advice, great product and superfast delivery. What more could you want? Its also worth mentioning how good John is with help in getting the kit fitted too, I had a few questions and he replied quickly with excellent guidance. I'll be back for more, my P bass needs one now...

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1471038464' post='3110236'] Cool, Thanks *Interpol Blue *I went to see Interpol at The Rave when they were in Milwaukee. [/quote] Was Carlos on bass? He is a legend. He looks like George McFly!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1471036334' post='3110209'] We're not a covers band. We have released 2 cds of originals. We're a bar band. We do play some blues rock covers from Nancy Sinatra to Peter Green to Robin Tower. Cover bands over here play Bruno Mars and Katy Perry. Blue [/quote]

Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1471015605' post='3110027'] I was just thinking this very morning that if I had then what I have now, I'd have gotten closer but whilst I earnt good money here and there, I knew I couldn't do that over 45 weeks a year, year-in, year-out so I took jobs that paid me a salary to live how I wanted to live. By the time you are 30 you need to make that choice and I did and had no regrets. Ultimately it depends what you want from live and how you go about it... I made my decision with no regrets. Would I do things differently? yes, but I don't have that option so don't worry about it. [/quote] And that sums it up perfectly for most. I think you have to make a decision at some point don't you? I've just played in covers and originals for most of my time. I was professional for about 2 years when I was in a band that got signed to a major, it was fun, recording and touring etc but no success came our way. Luckily for me I have a career (I'm a teacher, is that a career anymore? I almost feel ashamed to say it nowadays), I knew I always had something to fall back on. Now I am going to have a couple of years of being a hobbyist, my ears ring constantly and and in the absence of being able to find a band who can actually play their fecking instruments I'm better just playing bass at home. I still love every minute of playing bass though, at home or with others.

This is how I did it, in no way am I saying its the best way. I started at 13. I had a few lessons from the bass player in my dads band. He liked the Beatles a lot, so most of the first basslines I ever played were McCartney ones - that was a good start! Lady Madonna, Eight Days a Week and Silly Love Songs. He gave me a hand drawn diagram of all the notes on the fretboard and said that I didn't have to learn them, but if I did, then it would make playing, creating and remembering basslines easier. So I learnt them all and he was right I guess, some people learn what to do by shapes and patterns and I do too to a certain extent, but underneath it all I still know what each note is as I play it. I would say that learning the notes and then being able to tune the bass by ear were major first milestones. Then I stopped having lessons and he said just go and be in a band and learn songs and practice (he probably couldn't be ar$ed anymore!). So that's what I did, I loved AC/DC so they were ideal beginner (but still awesome) basslines, then a few Iron Maiden ones. All by ear, rewinding tapes or moving the needle back on vinyl. Listening back to isolated bass tracks now on YouTube I realise I was WAY off on some of them but I think it helped train my ears. Then we got into Metallica and Megadeth and the like, it all helped. If I was going to give advice it would be to train your ears as much as your hands and fingers. Easier said than done I know! YouTube is great, especially the Scotts Bass Lessons site and similar ones (Talking Bass is good too), but I take the covers on there with a pinch of salt, in the same way that Ultimate Guitar tabs should be approached with caution. I use youtube for theory and technique but still try work songs out by ear (if I have the time!). I picked up on the theory side of things later, I really wish I had done it earlier. Everything makes so much more sense when you know how and why things fit together. Above all though, it should be fun, even when you have rewound a 5 second part of a song 50 times to try and get what is being played, it should be fun! If it isn't then maybe play something easy like the guitar! I think I have used the word 'ear' too much!

[quote name='Grassie' timestamp='1470841073' post='3108861'] Saw The Cribs at the Isle of Wight Festival this year. Dreadful, awful band. [/quote] I'm with you on that one. Utter garbage, they are the kind of band that people like the idea of - 3 brothers, garage indie/punk/rock but the reality is that they are dire.