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  1. drTStingray
    +1 well deserved and excellent.
  2. drTStingray
    Sorry duplicate
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    It's a bit like those Stu Hamm Urge basses no longer made by the firm at the centre of a recent mammoth closed thread about illegal copies thereof. Or is it the Roscoe Beck version which has several pick ups - whatever they're both highly versatile.
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    Now I've come across some wondrous lyrics in my time but when this occurred I was awestruck with amazement - and to perform it as well is a real feat. I think most of us are agreed, these guys are brilliant - this is just an extract - what a brilliant song.
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    Nice.
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    Used Stingray 4HH would fit the bill. It's my Swiss Army knife bass - switchable single coils, single HB or multi HB. Alternatively the 4HS is also good (there's one in the classifieds currently).
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    Unfortunately I don't have a pic of the dual stool performance of Rog and Val Doonican despite this being a frequent occurrence on weekend TV in the 70s.
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    I started off with roundwounds on my Fretless, gone via half wound to flatwounds and now have EB Cobalt Slinky Flatwounds on it. Gives a great balance between Fretless mwah, slap zing and finger style thump. Gives me the Pino sound I was after. And also theyre kind on the fretboard - the rounds which were on it when I acquired it actually created scuffs and swirls on the fretboard - the Cobalts don't. Nice tension as well (not too stiff - I don't like feeling like I'm arm wrestling - an effect some flatwounds have in my experience). Ps it's a Stingray - I have TIs on my fretted Classic Ray for that Bernard Edwards sound.
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    If I were a jazz guy id use a high stool (like Roger Whittaker and also The Shadows on their laid back instrumentals 😬 )
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    One of their downsides, they're as effective as drumist's equipment for scratching instruments, invariable clang appallingly when you drop them, and are extremely useful for scratching the inside (or outside) of your car - or van if you're an SVT plus fridge user...... ive decided to learn my dep set for NYE properly and place cues on my iPhone for those little difficult moments - then I won't have to use the music stand. Just hope no one thinks I'm texting between songs if I have to refer to my 'notes'!!
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    Singers, in my experience, always seem to me to use them. Ive heard of musicians using them to pretend to musos watching that they can read music - I've even known them have fake logos on their instrument headstocks, though these are the exception in my experience. No seriously (I was just watching a Frankie Howard show) I use one when I need to refer to chord sheets more than say half a dozen times in a dep gig or with a new band - otherwise I place the sheet on the floor. I'm surprised none of the more well heeled amongst us haven't investigated the use of autocue on a screen set as per a wedge monitor.
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    and therein lies the root of the problem. Most if not all other manufacturers are interested in protecting their product and more importantly their customers from counterfeit. If your primary aim is only publicity then your business is not customer focussed and hey presto......your product and customers suffer and you lose money. Certainly not the only way to lose money but a contributor.
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    Aha - been fooled many a time before by that one!! I think the Commander in Chief and his press office may have a view on that - 'fake' is a favourite buzz word and 'counterfeit' doesn't have the same ring or effect, especially in a tweet or landmark speech.
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    I don't think anyone dislikes Fender on Fender guitar headstocks - just the use of their logos on non-Fender basses, and clearly taking the same approach as with Rickenbacker on the forum is not sensible (in any case Fender is unlikely to take similar potential legal action).
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    Blimey, that'd mean banning all things Fender from the forum...... I still don't get people wanting to put a different manufacturer's name on their bass - I did once think about putting a different logo on a Stingray - but I was a bit drunk at the time.....and then I thought what on earth would be the point - I know it's a Stingray and so does everyone else. An motor car analogy - in the olden days people used to either buy a Mini Cooper S, if they couldn't afford one they'd fit after market parts to bring a standard car to the same spec and sometimes even make it look like one by adding the badges etc - then there were others who took a standard mini, and fitted wider wheels and badges to either kid themselves or others they were driving the real thing. Usually they were young kids who couldn't afford to buy the real thing and most certainly couldn't afford to insure one. I can't help feeling we have some similar sort of psychology going on here....
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    Blimey........ what I don't get on this thread is the volume of people supporting the idea of having a non Fender, for instance, with a fake logo/trade mark. I don't get why anyone would want such a thing in the first place........ There is clearly unlikely to be anyone fooled by such an item on sale in an enthusiast forum - the real problem comes in a few years time if they appear on something like eBay and the innocent chap who knows very little about basses buys one thinking it's the real thing. I'm sure there'll be loads of howls of 'not possible' and 'buyer beware' etc etc - however there's lots of true fakers making money out of selling poor Chinese copies to unsuspecting or otherwise buyers so it's very clear that supporting or turning a blind eye to the idea of having fake logos on instruments is a slightly strange mind set as far as I can see. I remember a very long thread about this subject before and someone pointed out the lack of Nash and Sadowskis with fake Fender logos - so it does appear to be limited to people putting logos on cheaper basses to make them resemble a more expensive item.
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    I play in a ska band - 3 band HH Stingray works great.
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    If you're muting with your fretting hand, you won't be fretting an open string so will need to move your hand additionally to do it - also easily possible to introduce a harmonic unintentionally dependent whereabouts your fretting hand is. You can overcome this by palm muting the whole part but this is not always practical and might produce a different sound anyway. For me, muting techniques are a necessary and complex part of playing bass.
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    47 for me plus 18 unpaid (one monthly jam session; charity gigs)
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    I don't actively avoid using them and for some songs they're essential - however for those of us who've developed a playing style which automatically incorporates fretting hand muting, it's certainly more difficult to mute an open string than a fretted one for me. As has previously been mentioned double bass players often use open strings, and particularly to link from one note to another from different areas of the fretboard - having observed double bass players doing this I nicked the technique years ago and use it regularly. Jamerson used the effect regularly - and was of course, also a double bass player - a particular example is the bass break in I Was Made To Love Her - goes from F second octave to open A chromatically to C. As for use open strings as a part of bass parts - I guess if you're aiming to avoid going above fret 5 then you would have to - I personally find this approach a little confusing - so I Want You Back played in frets 1 to 5 using open strings is entirely possible - but much easier and far more intuitive for me played slightly higher up the fretboard. As for playing rock songs - they are often in E or A - those in E almost always require open strings (although I'd prefer to play A at 5th fret to have more control) - Superstition played in the wrong key does require open E (although on a normally tuned 4 string it can't include the lead in D note which happens every so often).
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    My 93 fretless Stingray with bird eye maple neck - with its fretted 93 sibling (flamed maple neck)
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    That's a very nice bass, a USA built Musicman Sterling. Has a ceramic pick up and series/parallel/single coil switch. The neck is narrower than a Stingray and the body slightly smaller. If you join the EBMM bass forum and post the serial number detail here, they will give you the exact date of birth, specifications and where it was shipped to from the factory. http://forums.ernieball.com/ernie-ball-music-man-basses/1254-music-serial-database-872.html Conversely you could email their Customer Services for the same information. Be careful to align the neck correctly when you put it back on. To correct the bridge info above, the Sterling bass started to be offered from 1993 with the same bridge as the Stingray (called the Flea bridge at the time as it incorporated modifications from the previous version) with mute assembly allowing damping of each individual string. From around 1995 the bridges provided on both models were the same but without the mute assembly, the mountings for it covered. The first bass with the shortened bridge, like the Stingray 5 bridge was the 1996 20th Anniversary Stingray and this bridge started production on Sterlings and Stingrays from sometime in 1996 after that. It generally coincided with EBMM's production from a new (current) factory. This Sterling must be an early example with that bridge from the new factory. Good luck with the sale - it may be worth you showing a picture of the rear of the neck as many basses from that period have highly figured necks so are quite sought after.
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    Well you may think this but the question asked by the OP does not have any specific answer and from my experience, dynamics and especially the lack of from guitarists/keyboardists and even saxophonists can seriously contribute to the problem - I've had several experiences where the guitarist won't play a solo for fear of stopping playing the riff - as a dynamic I went over and rocked with the guitarist - he was so loud in front of his gear that it's no wonder it would sound thin to him as he could not really hear anything else (until he stopped). If you intend to have more harmonic content (like Yes for instance) add keyboards. If you want to have continuous rhythm guitar or guitar riffs add another guitar - however the bass will not be able to achieve this if this is the soundscape you want. In a band environment techniques like the drummer playing ride cymbal, the bass player playing a higher and more intense part, and the solo player creating more dynamics can raise the intensity of a solo. However if your idea of filling the sound out is to sound like Status Quo then the bass will never achieve this and you'll need more musicians or backing tracks.
  24. drTStingray
    Compact set up for small venues with fretted and Fretless Stingrays
  25. drTStingray
    Rose Royce - Birmingham Odeon circa 1978 - close second - The Brothers Johnson - same year same venue.
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