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[quote name='MIJ-VI' post='1026462' date='Nov 16 2010, 10:26 PM']You may find this to be helpful: [b]Step Back + Take Stock[/b] [size=1]by Rawn Randall[/size] [url="http://archive.basssessions.com/oct07/Randall.html"]http://archive.basssessions.com/oct07/Randall.html[/url][/quote] I saw a guy on a forum with the typical ego-stroking gear list signature that a lot of people have, but knowing how old he was I figured out he must've bought close to 10 instruments per year for the entire time that he'd been playing bass. I've been playing for 20 years and I've only bought 10 bass guitars in total.

[quote name='bobbass4k' post='1026552' date='Nov 17 2010, 12:27 AM']I'm considering getting a second one. Just because I can.[/quote] Me too, now I've seen that mod...

[quote name='silddx' post='1025890' date='Nov 16 2010, 02:15 PM']Most bassists with normal hands find it difficult.[/quote] I don't think your hands are normal-sized given that they fit into womens gloves.

I think we can declare the OC-2 the winner. Deserved too.

I think most people do play like this. I think the only people who are forced to stretch a lot are some metal bassists who have to keep up the widdly-widdlies with their guitarists. Not much you can do but stretch for that.

I know what you mean, I get this too, but I had put it down to my strings (evah pirazzi) rather than my adjustable bridge because they have quite a thumpy attack sound. What strings are you using? Edit: Sorry, just saw that you don't know what the strings are.

[quote name='SaxxyBass' post='1025772' date='Nov 16 2010, 12:44 PM']Ah okay thats cool I'll practice that. Right yes now I'm with you - a chord triad - I'm getting befuddled with finger numbers, fret number AND note numbers!![/quote] Sorry, my bad! I don't have five fingers, I'm from Yorkshire not Norfolk. [quote name='SaxxyBass' post='1025772' date='Nov 16 2010, 12:44 PM']So if I play 1-2-4 I won't be able to anchor the thumb?[/quote] If you are fingering 1-2-4, then if you need to play a note beyond the span of your fingers you need to move your whole hand to a new position. Sometimes you can stretch for it, but don't make a habit of that. It's better for your wrist to change position rather than stressing your tendons with a stretch.

[quote name='bubinga5' post='1025451' date='Nov 16 2010, 03:29 AM']what exactly do you want to gain from this pickup arrangement, or what do you think you might gain from it?[/quote] A couple of things. I think with flats it might sound more open and natural, not necessarily more bassy but deeper and fuller in an acoustic type of way maybe. I'm also thinking it might be useful for better tracking from my OC-2, which is becoming more important. Recently when recording a song I had to switch from my Thumb bass to my flats-strung Jazz for an outro because it required a long note from the OC-2 that the Thumb couldn't do - it was flubbing out too early.

Yeah I just don't like that stuff (enough). About the same time in my life, my band's guitarist's dad was routinely handing us LPs to see if we could enjoy them yet. He started us out with Hendrix and Cream and Ten Years After, but later tried us with Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver, Modern Jazz Quartet, and funk stuff like Sly Stone, AWB, Graham Central Station, The Meters. I mean Steely Dan might be clever but when that's your yard stick, they aren't going to kill it. And to be honest we had bands like Brand New Heavies and Galliano and Jane's Addiction and Stone Roses and Public Enemy and Beastie Boys, we were spoilt for quality music to chew on at that time. Still, I had massive respect for this guy anyway. He was proper loaded - he had a successful software business and a garage featuring a MkII Jag and a Turbo Esprit amongst others - and at the age of 60 he still insisted he didn't know what he wanted to do with his life, and he was always talking about jacking it all in and buying a van, putting a band together and going on tour. He was a rocker at heart. I hope I still have his attitude when I'm 60. Judging by my recent performances on this forum I think I probably will.

I've got this silly idea about putting a third pickup on a Jazz bass, up by the neck join. And arranging some switching system where it's always a 2-pickup bass but I can run the neck pickup instead of the bridge pickup if I want. Has anyone done anything like this before and was it useful or horrendous?

If necessary I can stretch to one-finger-per-fret all the way along a standard 34" scale bass, but if it isn't required I will happily use 1-2-4 fingering across a whole tone instead because it's certainly much more comfortable. The problems start when you start trying to play rocksteady on a double bass (as I have been required to do recently), and everything is nimble 1-3-5 patterns in the lowest positions. The scale on my upright is 42" But I don't think any human can withstand that. You end up changing position twice per bar, which sucks. Especially when you're worried about intonation and trying to sing harmony at the same time. When it works it sounds great though. I console myself with that, whilst wearing wrist splints to bed each night (not even ****ing joking).

My first proper girlfriend's dad, who was a guitarist and super-successful business guy person, was a massive Steely Dan fan. He used to make me listen to them all the time and I never did get into it. It was too well-produced I think, too slick. At the time I was listening mostly to Pop Will Eat Itself and Cud. I pretended to like it though, because he liked me and I was f***ing his daughter.

Ahaha I knew we would find some common ground somewhere dude. Prophets of Rage was what got me into hip hop. PE deserve so much more credit than they get. Unfortunately the sampling laws killed them stone dead.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='1025384' date='Nov 16 2010, 12:41 AM']There are two primary reasons why things are done as they always have been: 'It's how we've always done it' and 'It's the only way we know how to do it'. Those who open their minds sufficiently to allow for alteration of the latter don't have to forever conform to the former.[/quote] I appreciate your expertise Bill (in fact I bought your 2x10 schematic last year but I haven't yet built one) but for me if it is loud enough to be clean and heard on-stage without turning out all manner of horrific flub and nonsense, and I can carry it in to and out of my first-floor flat on my own, and it fits in my compact car along with everything else I need to move (which often includes a double bass) then it is probably the best speaker cab for me. And my 2x12 Schroeder actually does all that, regardless of how flawed - theoretically - the design may be. I certainly don't feel that I'm doing anything this way because it's the way I've always done it. Prior to this cab I have been a slave to spine-destroying 4x10 cabs and a horrifically heavy (and not particularly pleasant-sounding) 2x15 cab that had each speaker firing opposite directions, that I loaned for a tour once and instantly regretted. If you say that two twelves stacked vertically would be better than what I've got now then I am not going to disagree with you, but it wouldn't fit in my car. I haven't yet felt like I was lacking anything that could be provided in the same volume of boot space.

[quote name='risingson' post='1025389' date='Nov 16 2010, 12:54 AM']Yeh, I like the turn towards the advent of hip hop here.[/quote] It's where funk went when it left all the chin-strokers behind.

Bring it:

[quote name='Finbar' post='1025121' date='Nov 15 2010, 08:08 PM']I just went looking for the pictures cuz I couldn't remember, and found this one, from the height of my lunacy. [/quote] That reminds me of my first "big board", although mine was all hooked up with 12" super-stiff jack cables and in many cases I had to boot the curls of cable out of the way to stomp stuff, it looked like a ****ing carbonara. But if I switched everything on at once, I could unplug the jack from my bass and stick it in my ****ing ear and it still made the same sound. Ultimate! Also I could get a laser sound out of it that ended in a fart sound. Not alternately a laser sound and a fart sound, but both in succession with the same settings, just from licking the jack plug. That is what pedals are about. Unfortunately I got a gig playing bass shortly after that, and everything went downhill from there.

I think everybody likes Expansions. It's like everybody likes Roy Ayers and Gil Scott Heron. But logic doesn't dictate that those people will find anything likeable about Incognito. I don't know if that counts as jazz-funk, but whatever it is, it is awesome.

[quote name='Simmo' post='1024228' date='Nov 15 2010, 03:46 AM']yeah i have looked at a few of the squier basses, and some of them look really good, like the squier standard jazz in walnut satin, but from what i have read, and heard in some videos they can be a bit of hit and miss :/[/quote] I've got one. The hardware is pretty cheap and I keep meaning to replace the tuners, pups and pots on mine (I've already replaced the bridge), and I once had the control plate pop off when I trod on the jack lead which was pretty funny (I plugged the holes with matchsticks and screwed the screws back in and it's been no trouble since), but the neck is straight and decent and all the frets are well fitted. I've done a couple of dozen gigs on mine this year without incident and even done some recording with it, I think they're pretty good for budget basses all in all.

[quote name='Marvin' post='1024823' date='Nov 15 2010, 04:30 PM']Oh well that's another one gone. I've got images of Nigel turning up at a Take That concert dressed as Audrey Hepburn, for some reason [/quote] It's only a matter of time before the social workers catch up with him IMO!

[quote name='Marvin' post='1024574' date='Nov 15 2010, 01:20 PM']Please don't say things like that, I thought Audrey was very attractive - now I've an uncomfortable image in my head. Do you go the whole hog? Which movie do you go for? Charade? Roman Holiday? Breakfast at Tiffany's? In actual fact don't tell me I wouldn't be able to watch them again[/quote] At least we're still safe with "How To Steal A Million". Whoops...

Certainly looks like some tidy workshoppery has gone into that. I would be worried that giant spiders will take up residence, but I worry about giant spiders more than I really ought to.