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Practice. Every day ideally. Just like good fretless players.

One thing to try before you gig it: Plug into the tuner and then out of the tuner into your amp, using the cables you're planning to use live. Now take the guitar cable out of the tuner input and plug it straight into your amp. If you can't really notice any difference then you're good to go. Otherwise consider using shorter cables.

I hope you get £1500 for it but Thumbs tend to have a limited audience and fretless models even more so. Personally though I would love a Thumb 5 fretless and I would pay £1500 for one if I didn't have an awful car that ate all my money.

Depends if you play covers.

[quote name='Moose' timestamp='1378988476' post='2207377'] funkbass.com is registered to a company whose address is in the Cayman Islands. Most likely they buy and sell domain names and for the right price, they will sell it to you. Be prepared to spend several hundred pounds though. Regards, Chris [/quote] This. Many, many years ago all the most likely (and many unlikely) combinations of english words were registered and sat on by chancers like these guys. Which is why a lot of familiar big-name websites from small start-ups (flickr, tumblr, etcr!) have misspelled names.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1378831982' post='2205296'] Just a tuner , and maybe a decent -sounding compressor . For the vast majority of bass playing situations , what people want to hear is a good , solid clean sound . Effects are usually superfluous to that . [/quote] Refuse to play music for those people. They are people who don't like music. This is like saying rock and roll is OK so long as it's not too loud and there's no swearing. Oh yeah. For me the pedals I wouldn't be without are an analogue octaver, a low-pass filter, a sample rate reducer and a pitch shifter.

I'm getting to the point where I'm not that bothered about gigging. I enjoy making music with friends, rehearsing and recording and creating stuff, and I only really go do the gigs because someone else I know wants to do it and they ask me if I'll play bass for them.

I think anything with LEDs in the fingerboard.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1377699278' post='2190517'] I think this is more a question of what you choose to [i]do[/i] with a looper that matters [/quote] You've got a point. So long as no bass players make anyone listen to what they've done with their looper then I have no issue with them owning a looper. I sing along to Cud in the shower but I wouldn't put it on Youtube.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1377636551' post='2189820'] Boss pedal buffered bypass is fine, [/quote] It depends how much of your top end you really want. I could hear it on my OC-2s and on my LS-2. The LS-2 was the one pedal that was always in my signal path - I was using it as a buffer - and that's the one I asked Max at SFX to replace. After I received the pedal from Max I A/Bed it in the same position against the LS-2 and, bypassed, there was a big difference. With the SFX pedal it's practically the same as running one cable direct to the amp. With the Boss there's a noticeable difference - the bass just doesn't sound as lively or present. Of course the Boss is better still than no buffer at all, but it's still not good enough IMO.

I take a certain pleasure in watching a thread go gently nuclear when I haven't even had to post anything.

Yeah. Thomann and Gedo are selling nice basses, lots of happy customers here on Basschat.

I would have liked more time to play with the thing and I couldn't say it's a bad-sounding amp because I pretty much had to just plug in and go, but for whatever reason it wasn't in a state for just plugging in and going. Incidentally last weekend I also played an outdoor gig with a drummer and guitarist and did it with just the Ehrlund. It didn't occur to me until I was plugging into the DI that maybe the Ehrlund wouldn't go loud enough without feeding back, but it was fine. Had a problem with feedback from my wedge but they'd put tons of my bass through my wedge (because I'd asked them to) but after they trimmed it a bit the feedback went and I still had a good monitor level. FoH it was plenty loud and we had no feedback problems.

To be fair, the 'true bypass' thing got popular because there were so many poor buffers around. Most people have got a Boss pedal or three on their boards, and you can hear the effect a bypassed Boss box has on your signal. But yeah, one good buffer permanently in your signal path, preferably as the first pedal your signal hits (so long as you don't have any pedals that require a high impedance at the input), is the way to go. I got Max at SFX to make me one.

Another vote for the 1024x here, lovely bass es and handsome too.

[quote name='Jellyfish' timestamp='1377482423' post='2188054']Maybe some day I'll become as good as this guy (who's certainly not a bedroom bassist ) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AbBwTb9AZM[/media][/quote] I managed to get to the bit where he started soloing and then stopped watching because I figured he was just going to keep soloing. The backing he laid sound sounded terrible. Genuinely terrible. Too many bass guitars sounds bad. Chords on a bass guitar sounds bad unless there's very little else going on. All buzzy noise and a glottal swamp of mids. Someone take his looper away.

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1377472119' post='2188020']Rob, Ive seen your stuff and its great , but on a stage it just seems a bit odd to see an act build his part by playing in all the other parts first, rather than have his band mates do their bit . yes its a skill , but it rather eliminates the people skills that are needed to actually have a band .[/quote] I think with most popular music the thing that makes it interesting to listen to is the arrangement. When you hear it spelled out with a looper it's not as interesting, plus you know the dude is only doing it so he can play a 20 minute solo.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1377448577' post='2187659'] Er... that's western consumer capitalism - the system we all live under. You should move to Venezuela and farm goats. [/quote] I like goats. And Venezuela. You may be on to something.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1377436003' post='2187459'] But who would be the arsehole? The seller or the buyer?[/quote] Well I wouldn't buy it, so I don't need to speculate.

Nah. High end basses are for middle-aged men with lots of disposable income. The same market that Porsche are in. I've never actually seen anyone gig a Fodera though, maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1377425214' post='2187262'] Life in general? Isn't this how shops work? [/quote] Sort of I suppose. If you went into a shop and they had one of the thing you wanted left, and another guy bought it and offered it to you for 200 more. That's basically arsehole tax.

Ah. So the button labeled 'post EQ'next to the XLR socket doesn't do what a post-EQ switch dies on all the other amps I've used. I suppose with it being a two-channel amp I can understand why they've provided that feature but they should either have two switches or label it differently. Neither me nor the sound guy figured it out.

I don't really like the idea of people buying stuff with the sole intention of selling it for a profit. Either here, or on eBay, or in life in general. Although it seems to me that most stuff in the for sale forums is over-valued these days anyway.

Where's the gain for the DI? I'm just looking at photos of the head now to see if I was being stupid but I can't see any knob that would pad the DI signal.