uk_lefty

I sold off my Sire earlier in the year too...

I don't think the ad is too bad... Probably because I've seen many far, far worse!! I think it's a bit confused, not sure how you can be an experienced and respected contributor to the business of your job is to make sure everyone does what Scott says. Also being remotely based but being responsible for team culture just doesn't work IMO. There are some specific skills and experiences required so it's not just hopeful pie in the sky stuff. I just think it's a bit of a confused mix of stuff he's asking for, in a language that may turn off a lot of people who would want this kind of gig, and it seems a bit "big corporate" for what seems to me like it should be a tight knit small but successful enterprise. That's £1,500+ VAT and expenses for my insight.

Thanks for all the replies. The info was very scant. I'm happy either way, but the logistics of getting a bass there after work, if it were required, would have been a nuisance.

That works better than a load of people sat amp-less in a room trying to follow i guess. Should be good

Only done signatures once, even the sound and lights guy got asked to sign the poster! Makes you feel a bit less special.

So I've signed up for my first ever lesson/ masterclass after playing for over twenty years. I'm off to the Andertons Marcus Miller masterclass. There's very little info about it, though I've seen YouTube videos of other similar things I don't know what to expect. I guess I take my bass...? Has anyone been to an Andertons masterclass event before? Or a Marcus Miller one? Any insight gratefully received. I bought a ticket as I live Marcus' playing and thought they'd sell out quickly, now slowly bricking it...

https://m.uk.dhgate.com/product/left-handed-white-music-man-ernie-ball-sting/395856085.html?f=bm|GMC|pla|1670763299|61518981061|395856085|pla-296557785071|113003009|GB|zhuxue887|m|2|#pd-113 I've seen this advertised via Gumtree (not gumtrees fault). Blatant fakes, I doubt many people fall for it but am sure quite a few buy from here and then they circulate secondhand. Can't believe they don't get shut down quickly.

It's ok, I just feel like a bit of a third bollock for not knowing how to do this stuff, I know you weren't having a pop. A lot of written advice doesn't go in to the required level of detail for me such as I previously mentioned, what distance am I measuring, from fretboard to middle of string or top of fret to bottom of string? Is just one example. I will look at some of the recommended YouTube clips on here, it's just knowing what is good advice and what is turd is sometimes hard to spot. I do want to get to a point where I am self sufficient with this stuff and I like the idea of a cheap kit bass to use as a test bed. Far safer than pissing around with my Stingray! It was when I put the under-sea cable thickness Steve Harris strings on my Japanese Precision and could feel the incredible tension going all the way through the neck, papping myself that something was going to snap and not a string... And the truss rod on that bass needs the neck joint loosening to get to it. That's when I though I really, really need to do this stuff myself.

I take it to a guy who knows what he's doing. He asks what I want, he delivers it without flipping up the instrument. I have a go on it and either say yes it's great or say hmmm maybe you could lower it a bit more? Etc. It saves me masses of time, frustration and stress that I'm wrecking a bass. Things like adjusting the truss rod aren't intuitive to me.

It would be good if there was an "idiot's guide to" bass maintenance somewhere. For example setting action height, I bought the special overpriced ruler but do you measure from the board to the middle of the string? The top of the fret to the bottom of the string? Etc. Would save me £60 every now and then taking my basses for a 'service' (I like to not only change strings but go for completely different gauges etc so it needs truss rod, action and intonation as well as the easy stuff) as I'm sure after a few goes on an old bass I could build up the confidence to do all sorts of stuff to my nice basses.

That, sir, is completely ridiculous and impractical. It's right up my street!!! Great work.

I had Pyramid strings on my headless and they sounded great, weren't badly priced either if I remember rightly

There are other types of time wasters though. Three years maybe back I drove half an hour to sit in a car park of a service station to wait for someone to bring me a Fender Rumble amp. He never showed, never answered his phone. After an hour I went home. All he needed to do was text me to say yes sold it elsewhere, couldn't be bothered driving out to meet me, didn't like the cut of my gib, anything. Just anything to not waste my time.

I find selling pedals takes just days on BC and also through other channels but shifting a bass isn't easy. There's some amazing deals in the lefty bass section but we are a very small market and we've probably all got what we need / can justify paying for. At any one point in time I'll be "watching" five or six basses on eBay and here but I'm not going to buy them unless a crazy deal comes up for the right bass, but it has to be a very special deal.

Good tip. I've not spent enough time with it yet but will have to this weekend in prep for a gig early June

Great, I'm now craving chocolate raisins and vimto!!! My only issue with the G75 from very limited use is that in the rehearsal room it just would not work. No obvious explanation except my guitarist had a G30 very nearby. I think I wasn't changing channels correctly or something. I took it home and it worked perfectly. However, the power cable for the receiver unit is a micro usb on a short cable. Even on top of a small 15" combo that's not got the length to get to a power socket, I don't quite get it, I'd prefer a kettle lead sized socket because you can buy kettle leads by the metre on Amazon and I have a lot of metres worth for gigging purposes. When I gig this in a few weeks time it will have to be on top of two Ashdown cabs and a head so I'm going to probably gaffer tape a four gang extension lead to the back of one of the cabs so that I can power it up. Other than that it works great. I set it up in my spare bedroom, walked downstairs playing bass all over the house and got half way down the garden before the signal got interrupted by my wife telling me to stop pratting around.

Surely the problem is your wrist, not the bass. I would go and see a physio if you can, get your wrist and hand looked at. While it may hurt less using a different bass you may have some damage to your wrist or hand that is not being addressed longer term. While this is no kind of medical diagnosis if I were you I'd get it seen to in case problems come back worse later in life. Probably cheaper than buying new basses.

My favourite is words similar to: "hand made custom Encore bass. £350" Absolutely having a giraffe. It's all over eBay, describing anything as "hand made" and "custom" even the cheapest bottom range stuff. Then asking for a premium price. Or saying "custom made" when really you've just bodged on some different aftermarket parts...

Left handed Kramer Striker five string fretless basses from the "Musicyo" era. In 2060 some hobbyist "information archaeologist" interested also in the history of basses shall dust off a physical interface computer and smile as they rifle through the now defunct Google by actually having to touch a primitive computer in order to give it commands. They will find the ramblings of an obscure amateur bassist taking every opportunity to say "it was cheap but my goodness it's good" and then will start a quest to find any that haven't been sent to the woodchipper to find out if and/ or why it was good. Unique woods and electronics? Or just because it was an eighteenth birthday present for someone who never achieved much outside of playing covers in the same Hertfordshire towns...

I had a bloke drive forty minutes to buy a knackered old vaccuum cleaner for twelve pounds. It was only thirty new many years earlier. He then complained that I didn't make it clear in the ad that occasionally the chord wind in button sticks (if it does you just wiggle it a bit, it's no biggy). Sold for a few quid some very old AstroTurf trainers that I wore once then had in a shed for years: "the tread wore out after six months can i return to you for a refund?" Errr no, complain to the manufacturer if you want to. "I'm not paying over a pound for postage on a bass neck plate!!" Well, if you aren't collecting you aren't having it. I even had eBay feedback of "seller insisted on recorded delivery which added cost and was completely unreasonable" yeah, 75p extra to give everyone peace of mind... I often find it's the cheapest stuff that attracts the most idiots.

Yes! I love my band and bandmates but playing the same covers for three years and five different voices pulling in different directions... I'd like to have something else that is completely different. I've had a few different ideas stewing for years but alas, full time job and family commitments may mean it takes a few more years before I get it off the ground.

That's really not a problem, you can EQ it out easily.

Just this morning I was listening to recordings of a gig I did last summer where I mostly played a Sire Vintage V7 fiver with Ash/ maple and switched to a Mexican Fender alder/ rosewood for one or two songs. The Sire reminded me why I loved it the moment I got it, really articulate bass. I used to keep the EQ and pickup pan almost flat and kill the EQ on my amp because the natural sound was so good. I did find the Fender sound a bit more rich and nuanced, but it did have Bartolini pickups so it wasn't a stock 90's MIM. It would be hard to choose between the two with a metaphorical gun to my head because they do ever so slightly different things. For the record, when I bought a USA Stingray I sold them both! Couldn't justify the number of basses and needed to recover some cash. I do miss a bit of that single coil jazz bridge sound though.

Shag, marry, push off a cliff?

If I was into the Cure I'd want to see them with a load of Cure fans, not in a mixed festival audience. Seeing bands with a cult following is great, whether you're into them or not, it's being among those that are in awe of them that makes it special. I've not been to many festivals but I find people are there only bothered about one act out of many a day and the rest is just filler before/ after who they want to see, it takes some of the shine off the experience when compared to being in the crowd where everyone is there to see the main event and excited about it.