Skinnyman

I missed bass sounds part I so i struggled to follow the plot with the sequel.

There's lots of Mikes on here but i couldn't find a feedback thread for this particular one - Mike Hicks - and so I'm starting one. Mike just bought my Genz Shuttle 6.2 and it's one of the easiest transactions ever. Super fast payment, good communication throughout and an understanding manner when I missed the Saturday collection and he had to wait an extra day (plus bank holiday) to get the amp. Another great basschat marketplace transaction with another great basschatter. Thanks Mike, I hope the Shuttle gives you years of service!

Just shoot me now......

That's a bit rich coming from ol' Fifty Shades of Teebs....

I think that Bubinga’s point (and I’m aware that he’s perfectly able to make it himself) was that - irrespective of the genre - by putting flats on, you are losing an element of the “Jazz bass sound” that would be present if you strung it with rounds. And I have to agree with him. The same thing happens when you string a P bass with rounds - they add a “bite” that wasn’t there before. Where I slightly disagree is with the contention that the Jazz was designed for rounds and that by putting on flats you’re somehow going against the design brief. As rounds didn’t really come onto the scene until the early sixties and as the jazz came onto the market in 1960 (and must have been designed in the fifties) I think it’s okay to use flats on a jazz. But for sure, Rounds make it sound different and that’s good and - as Bubinga originally said - it’s each to his own. Vive la difference!

That's very kind - I'd really appreciate the chance to try some. Happy to pass them on to CameronJ if he wants to give them a go as well (or to wait if he wants to try them first). I'll ping you a PM with the address

That's why you need two. One with flats, one with rounds. It's not GAS, it's just common sense....

The d'addario website has lots of info on the string tension of their various sets - without checking it, I'd say that chromes are about the same or slightly higher tension than their NYXL rounds. I'll go check now and probably find I'm talking nonsense. Which will not surprise me in the least.... Edit: and i was right. I was talking through my a£se. The chrome's are slightly lighter tension than the NYXL. The lesson we take from this? Ignore me....

"Come on, guys, let's tidy the joint!" 😀

That was after they did the place up in 2012. It’s gone downhill a bit since then.

OK, you win. It happened. That must have been one hell of a road trip.... ....cruising the mean streets of Glossop

You need to show some respect, Young Teebs. National Service, that's what you need - that'd put some backbone into you, you cheeky young monkey.... Like Quentin Crisp in a biker jacket? Pictures or it didn't happen...

What’s the tension like compared to Chromes? I fancy trying some on a five but wonder what the B would be like.....?

Hahaha. Saw what you did there, you young scamp, you. It looks quite pleasant - there’s something almost....’english’ about the look of it even though it’s an all USA thing. Not really my cup of tea though so your GAS attack missed by a country mile I’m a straight Class D kind of gal and I have all the amps I need, thank you. I will restrict my GAS to a nice walnut 4003s (with flats) just as soon as I’ve sold a few things to raise the funds 😋 The kids, for starters. They can go. And it’s not like we really neeeeeed furniture. Packing crates were good enough for my mum and dad so they’re good enough for me. As to the Nexus strings, they’re fantastic on a guitar and last for aaaaaages but somehow I just didn’t get on with them on a bass. You clearly like them but, as Ricky says, that’s probably more of an S&M, art-rock thing. You sophisticated metropolitan types up in the meedja city there, with your black bass strings. It’s like the Citadel out of the Hunger Games. But more rainy, obvs

Are they the Nexus? I use them on my guitar - a nice, dark tone - but couldnt get on with them on a bass. I might give them another go sometime. I fancy some tapewounds now though.....

Eeeeewww.

It still works if he's called Mal. Or an all girl band of single females playing weddings and parties....

I use a drum stool which has a low back rest attached. Comfy, supports my back but also encourages reasonable posture. I sit while learning new pieces and stand when I'm running through the set list.

Presumably Chris Squire carried on with Rics because he didn't really care for the wife's poodle.....?

Sounds and spelt like a Kraftwerk tribute band without access to a soldering iron.... I'd go see them

Damn. Beat me to it

Excellent. Free Beer Tonight might pack the punters in as well

You mean there are people who put rounds on a jazz? Perverts. Mine has worn the same pair of d'addario chromes for the last six years and just sounds better and better.

Oh bugger. There was I thinking I was paying homage to Neil Young when it turns out that I’m just channeling my inner Stub.... my hat must have blown off....