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bass_dinger
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Another band with the same name?
bass_dinger replied to Jean-Luc Pickguard's topic in General Discussion
Or, perhaps, 6 identically-namec bands each with one gig, one in each of the 6 States. -
Adam Clayton is on tonight's Gardeners world on BBC 2
bass_dinger replied to jazzyvee's topic in General Discussion
"I've been searching through these seed catalogues for an hour now, and I still haven't found what I'm looking for. " -
You must be "Inside". Me, I am stuck beside the coat table in the hallway. I'll send you a photo of me, to help you decide whether and how you want to greet me
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He remembered me, and that we last met at a mutual friend's birthday party. He remembered too that he had given me a lesson. I am in shock. And I am officially Cool.
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To my utter surprise, I made it. The place is full of groovy and hip people. I am neither. I think that I am late. About 30 years late....
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That's today! Pretty close to me, in Swanley, too.
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The comment "Worth getting a teacher" was for the benefit of @edstraker123, as someone who hadn't previously tried the violin. So it is interesting that @Rosie C is getting a teacher, even though we know that our friend is a proficient orchestral viola player (violist?), and had therefore used a bow before. And a mandolin will have given experience of the violin tuning. And of course, anyone who can make a recorder sound decent is clearly a musical genius! If @Rosie C needs a teacher, how much more would a beginner like myself!
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It is terrific fun, and very rewarding to nail a line, or even a note. I feel that I have unlocked a new skill level! I am still trying to increase the "mwah" which I have done by turning up the midrange. Is there another way of getting more mwah? Lower action? Different strings?
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Did the bridge need any adjustment? A friend of mine asked me to restring his (much cheaper) electric violin, and I saw that the bridge was not shaped to give a lower action at the A and E side. I wasn't competent enough to try it myself, so I left him to get a luthier to look at it - but as it was, it seriously impacted on the intonation. Violin is the same tuning as your mandolin, I think. I have seen a separate fretted fingerboard "cap" that sits atop a normal violin fingerboard. Worth looking at? However, it is possible to learn the intonation and the positioning by ear (and practice). Worth getting a teacher too - of all the instruments I have tried, it was the least intuitive.
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Perhaps he has joined an interpretive mime group, and is trapped in a room for which he cannot find the door.
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"That's a great sounding bass! I must buy one for myself, for, as we all know, new basses make us sound great. " Or is that the wrong sort of thing that is being encouraged?
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It's not just you. Two of the input channels on my Yamaha AG03 PC interface have failed. Instead of buying a new one, I found the Xenyx 802 mixer that I was given, and used the working inputs from that, and a pair of effects pedal cables, to plug into the two remaining inputs of the AG03. The twin mixers are messy, but kept me operational. There's more. Instead of buying a midi expansion box with lots more sounds for my piano, or a better hammer-action keybed, I invested the same budget in piano lessons. My Grade 1 exam is on 10th March. And one more. Instead of using my fretted bass to practice, I am now exclusively on fretless bass, working on my intonation. So, all this gear abstinence malarky is giving me no extra toys, but a bit of extra ability on the instruments that I do already have. Practicing? It'll never catch on....
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@Raslee The weight is 4.334 kilograms = 9.555 pounds. To my embarrassment, I am unsure how to measure the string spacing. Do these photos help? 45mm nut width. -
1998 XB500. This Korean-made Washburn was manufactured in 1999 (according to the Serial Number). An active bass with twin humbuckers, a pan-pot selects a variable mix of the pickups, and we have Volume, Bass and Treble controls. Translucent green / teal finish, that is largely intact apart from a few minor surface scratches, and a tiny dent. The stuck truss rod was recently fixed (unstuck) by a well-known Basschat luthier. I shared details of the bass in a few threads - in the interests of transparency, here are the links: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/446973-where-are-all-those-washburn-basses/#findComment-5422722 https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/459762-rattling-truss-rod-on-a-washburn-xb500/#comment-4656048 https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/445217-safe-removal-of-a-tone-control-from-a-loose-shaft/?tab=comments#comment-4365696 Prefer having the item picked up (not least so that the buyer can try before buying). No strap with the bass, I'm afraid. However, I may be able to source and add a tired but usable Hiscox hard case to the mix for an extra £40, and will post it for free. Photos below
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That sounds like a good outcome, notwithstanding your neck and shoulder problems.
