Woodinblack

OK - so i got one and now I can't find any 5 string short scale sets. Surely someone must make them?

I haven't seen Marta doing it either. I genuinely don't, I am genuinely just seeing you complaining that this woman is trading on her looks and miming. WTF?? Now I am not allowed to have an avatar that I want because I am hiding behind a cartoon? I wasn't aware that someone had died and made you the avatar police. Maybe I am am concerned that people like you would think I am just trading on my good looks?

It would be better than when my wife did some cheese knobs..

Wood? Are you sure that isn't some very small cheeses?

Same here, I slowed the video down on the 'were not so different anyway' fill, it too me ages to get that bit. So if she is miming, she is miming well enough for me to learn how to play it by her finger positions!

I would be dead if I tried it!

Interesting though as I am doing exactly the same at the moment, but I haven't got to that point yet, I have got to the base coat of paint after the primer and the 'But it looked like the same colour in the shop' stage. This stage: So I was going to put a transparant pick guard over it.

You spray painted the bass in your living room???

Umm.. lets think. Oh, I know, the woman that the thread was about! Fancy that, that was easy. I know she had the audacity to be a woman, and not covered from head to toe in a hessian sheet (damn hussy) and more talented than probably the majority of people on the forum. Must be just because she is a girl though. Other women.. how about Nita Strauss on the guitar? No? Tal Wilkenfeld? No? I know there are a lot of women on youtube that get interest because they are women, and I know the comments on youtube are awful, they are on all videos, its a type of madness to read the comments on a youtube video, but that is hardly the fault of the person on the video. It is the scum that mainly women have to put up with on youtube videos.

So I seem to have bought myself a short scale 5 string bass, currently with E-C strings, so I need to get some B-G strings. Looking around I can't find any 'normal' 5 string bass sets in short scale. I did find that labella do short scale flats and tapewounds, but I want normal roundwound strings suitable for a short scale maruszczyk. I suppose I can email maruszczyk and ask them, but surely someone must do them somewhere as they are not unheard of.

Now there is a mental image that is probably not required...

I don't know, modern progressive music is quite progressive, and certainly more progressive than old progressive music, which is a bit dated, except they all tend to use old moog lead sounds, which sound a bit... regressive!

Progressed?? I like a bit of progressive music, but it sounds a bit dated these days!

Yeh, women, how can they play stuff, they would be too distracted by kittens and handbags to learn a proper mans job 🙄

I still like that album, but then I like most of his newer ones as well I don't think it sounds dated, but some albums if you don't really like them anymore seem dated because you used to like it before and now don't. To me all blues sounds dated - even if it is new, but I know that is because I used to like it when I was young but now don't.

I can't remember which but one of the foo fighters albums is so compressed up to the maximum it is unlistenable. Which is fairly common for a lot of 90s stuff I love trick of the tail though, and love the production on it. I bought the remastered version and actually threw it away as it was so bad. The previous albums and can easily skip though.

I hated those, because I liked the older stuff so much. I had a friend that kept trying to persuade me 'listen, this new album sounds just like the old stuff' - it didn't. I didn't actually mind some of the songs, just the sound wasn't there. Odd really, I liked power windows, and that was the same producer as hold your fire.

Excellent - worked out well then!

Can't see they would cause any trouble at all. Changing string gauge is a pretty normal thing. On my 4 string bass I have used the DDTs, which were 125-65, I am sure that was more notable.

Oh I don’t know, there is the fun of getting something and hacking around on it, although probably more for the money you are better off looking for unpopular but good brands on eBay that no one has bid on. It is true to say that those don’t look like they are going to be good!

I don't know, maybe there are going to be some american kids who get a not very good bass but learn to play it and end up in a band. Probably not bad.

But bone bridges are not that adjustable are they?!

funnily enough, my wife has just given me some marvel comic paper which I am going to put on an old telecaster that I have kicking around to test the papering thing before I do it with the good paper! I bought some red primer and have now done the first coat.

Would love to get any narrower bridges, it is so hard to find decent spaced bridges anywhere, even china. Its odd really - the standard spacing on an ibanez is 16.5, and they are very common, so you would think there would be loads of aftermarket 16.5mm bridges, but there aren't.