lownote

String Direct recommended me the D'Adarrio equivalent of Fast fret. I now have the Dad stuff, Fast Fret, Dr Duck and Finger Ease - enough to last me into the next century. 😂

Try https://www.hannahsmusic.co.uk/gm.html , just ordered some

I play flatwound strings, a well worn set of Dunlops. But having returned to gigging for the first time in a long time I'm having trouble with sticky strings. To be clear, this isn't the stickiness of new flats, these are well worn and smooth. Also I don't have this issue when practising, only when gigging. My fingers start to stick to the strings and it makes playing fast really difficult. Any thoughts?

Having had both, BF are so light weight isn't an issue. Obv one 210 is bulkier. Ohmage could be an issue but the BF 210s is switchable. IMHO the 2x110 set up in black grille would be best for me and looks the dogs. But YMMV.

I asked Alex straight up a while back and he said the original issues were with a dodgy glue supplier, since resolved. FWIW.

my Voices tell me not to listen

They re-placed the side markings on my unlined fretless without fuss and reasonably cost wise. Can't speak otherwise. As they make the Sei line of basses I suspect there's not much they don't know

Dea Matrona

Really interesting and useful (for muppets like me) exposition on various options for fooling around on a single chord

Gosh I've always set up my own, can't help. I've never found a decent tech in 10 years so learned to do everything myself. This was confirmed by one pro tech I went to in the early days who one day said ' what the [bleep] are you doing still coming to me, do it yourself'. If this seems a trifle eccentric it's quite common where I live. Happy D'ad owner.

A recent feverish night’s sleep had Bad Company’s ‘Can’t Get Enough’ running endlessly through my brain, especially that diddly up-high bit. Because I’d been rehearsing it. A lot. Ah, this is how it ends, I thought. Get too involved in music and you’re stuck with an earworm. This moved Mrs Lownote to gently point out that she was having similar issues with 'Hand Jive' and 'Tulsa Time', as heard endlessly through my closed door. So, my question is this: after 50 years of it, how much more of ‘Brown Sugar’ can the Stones take?

Good chap. Helpful, efficient and able to cheerfully sort out idiocies on my part. Hope to deal with him again.

I'd do well playing any instrument properly. Not got there yet lol.

Yeah, it's a passing note thing, like blue notes or a bend

As a fretless player I don't have to just play the notes. Recently, bored during a 12 bar at a gig I experimented with playing between the notes. So fingering a B- and a bit rather than a C. Now I know this an excuse for playing badly, but actually in places it sounded OK and more interesting than when I played the proper note. I 'spose it's no different to bending notes. Any input from music theorists?

Not sure what sense it made me calling the 210 'dark'. More a sax term I think. What I meant was the PJ are I think uncoloured and reflect your bass and how you play it, the BF 10s (110 and 210) are advertsied as coloured - kind of warmer, and 'smokier'. I would and did choose the BF 210 for my blues band, where the bass is more a melodic drum. I also used the PJ for that with suitable EQ adjustment, but the PJ's more inclined towards using the bass as a melodic instrument. Christ I type some pompous b*llocks at times, lol.

Top choices both. My PJ cabs (cab 27 and 47) were the mutts, as was my BF210. Wish I hadn't sold the 210... Not sure if they're not fairly different though.The PJs are very clean, whereas the BF is quite 'dark'. YMMV, just MHO.

I talked to the top bod at Ashdown a while back and he said their volume controls are designed to be fairly linear all the way to the top. So you get top volume at top settings. He said some other makers cram all the acceleration in the first half of the volume control, giving the illusion of serious pokiness to come but in fact there's not much improvement after that. FWIW.

I seem to have a chocolate thing. Precision: smooth dark; jazz: CDM with hazelnuts.

Precision: Sunburst / tort Jazz: black / red tort

Liked my PJB 7" 300w drivers for performance and happy to accept others' insistence that the 5" drivers are even more useful at 400w. Don't quite understand how they do it but thenthere's a lot I don't understand.

For sometime I've found the Entwistle pup on my Revelation P doesn't quite fit with the early sixties rock band I'm in. Bit modern and lacking in warm cuddles, which is fine but not for this job. Put a Tonerider in for £40 and there's lovely, all velvety and 80% dark chocolate.