Woodinblack

Good practice for playing live!

My most played bass at home is either the shuker or my Ibanez EHB, by virtue of me most playing upstairs where they are. The shuker is easiest to get off the wall, but the EHB is much lighter and headless so easier to use in a small room without hitting anything! If I am downstairs it is either the maruschyk or the the Stick.

Yes, my mum made every attempt possible to nurture any musical direction I had, I had piano lessons, I got a piano, got a guitar, etc. My family all sang all the time anyway, and even if the music wasn't something I would necessarily want to listen to, it was always there as a communication. So yes, without that, it wouldn't have been the same.

Indeed, turns a ugly, nasty, twangy, shrill, uncomfortable thing into an muffled ugly, nasty twangy, shrill, uncomfortable thing 😀

Never was a fan of telecasters. Had a couple but never won me over. Some people sound great on them, just not for me

I have too many guitars as I don't play them often. As a result I completely ignored a spam this morning with a squier paranormal cyclone. Not interested at all, nope, not even slightly.

That is true. Since lockdown I have bought ∞% more Shukers than before!

You did remember to get dressed didn't you? I know you said you were out of practice... At this moment I will take that gig! I suppose in a way I am better off. I haven't had any hopes raised, no gigs to take away. The singer did say something about a gig in November, but I will believe it if he is still saying it the day before

Really handy being able to hide signatures, thanks for pointing that out, never knew you could do that.

I am not bothered about front fret markers as I don't look a the fretboard when I am playing (need side ones though!) and when I did specify my maruschyk I didn't have any, so its not something I would do, but its your bass, so the only person whos opinion matters is you. That said, they don't look like they have been tacked on afterwards or out of place, so that seems fine

In hindsight I think their decision to put a gold musicman logo on it is poor form

If anything a subsonic filter increases all of those.

Ironically looking around now at my guitars and basses, the average fret number on the basses is higher than the guitars. Most of my basses are 24 fret, most of the guitars are 22!

Not sure about that, especially gibsons you get a lot that are very worn, and what proportion of gibsons from the 60s have their necks unbroken?! Most goldtops from the 50s/60s are woodtops and it seems that a lot of EB basses from the 60s and 70s are not only worn but have holes for other pickups, bridge replacements, various holes. In fact I think the SG shape in particular is designed to look tatty. Its just they don't come like that unlike fenders.

Gibson do a few relics but only on stupidly expensive custom shop. I doubt you would get a thunderbird though, gibson don't even bother making those every years, let alone coming out with a new finish. I suppose they don't really care about basses anyway. Surprised that G&L don't though, they come out with every finish going.

Probably the sensible decision, it is what I would like to think I would go for. I played a set of taurus 3 and they were fun but once you get over the "OMG I am playing a moog Taurus" they weren't actually that special! I have the 12 step and often think a set of PK pedals would be good, but it is another thing to shlep around.

I will be listening. Want to know it is worth the extra!

Did an outdoor gig last year just outside a local clubhouse, it started at 2 and it was into the low mid 30s (probably not at the temp you were saying about yet). We had table umbrellas to hide under because it was so hot. The PA went to massive fan mode just after switch on, and the case was too hot to touch, so we made a fort of cases around to shield from direct sunlight, as well as the mixer. They both had their fans flat out sounding like an aircraft everything was flat out. My voicelive on my pedalboard died from the heat. PA survived. I barely did, I hate heat!

Yep just eurosendered a bass to up north, booked on sunday, picked up on tuesday, bass with recipient on wednesday, all happy and the discount has gone back up to 10%

Well, its just like spam, it washes over you after a while and you won't even notice it, like brief look, delete, move onto the next one.

Fair enough, they are heavy things.

Seems on the high side, but obviously there aren't many around so if you really want a moog taurus 3, you don't have much choice. If you want the sounds you obviously have a lot more choices a lot cheaper.

30mm - there are 3 gaps with 4 strings.

Indeed, and I was referring to distortion in amplifiers not in specific bass amplifiers, as a clarification on classes. There are many hifi amps run as Class A to a reasonable power, and many small class A guitar amps, certainly in the 5W group, such as the small fenders. I have played a 5w bass amp (made by a friend). Personally I think 5w is the perfect size for a guitar amp, the bass amp was too underpowered to work well though. I note there are many people on this thread (and the valve amp thread) that seem to rate low powered valve amps, I suspect they are A/B like the smaller ashdown. Yes thanks, but cheers for asking. I didn't notice anyone on here had suggested using a class C amplifier for bass. Maybe for radio!

The eurosender terms explicitly cover musical instruments. There was also another one someone mentioned - overland or something, they had a specific musical instrument clause.