songofthewind

I just procured a Yamaha BBG 4A II fretless for £160. Photoflame top is nice! (I have no taste). Lovely and light, active electronics sound pretty good, plays nice.

Ha! What’s the difference between an onion and a banjo? Nobody cries when you cut up a banjo.

I love banjo jokes! Got any more, folks?

....and in the absence of Walter, Jon Herrington cut loose a bit more, I thought. You could could feel the grief and loss coming off of DF, and I thought the band were very slightly raggedy and shaken, in a good way. To me, SD songs are about alienation and being marginal. Read Eminent Hipsters if you find this strand of thought interesting. That night at the O2, those qualities we’re back in the frame big time. It was the most affecting SD gig I’ve ever been to. Just a shame I couldn’t hear Freddie Washington. I think I’m talking myself into buying tickets!

The band are, without exception, stormingly good pros, who can groove like an army of mofo’s. Just a little.. polite. But the gold standard for musicianship, to my mind.

Saw them last year at O2. Last few times I’ve seen them the bass has been muddy and indistinct. Also, they lack a little fire these days. Puts me off going again.

Good work. And that, folks, is why you should never screw around with a Scottish bassist.

It doesn’t take long to learn it! Perseverance furthers, grasshopper.

Good luck. I think it can be quite a fun job, but I know how daunting it looks!

I've fixed several breaks similar to that. It can be done, and I think it would be easier with a straight headstock. Angled ones are more difficult. I had the extensive advice of two expert luthier friends of mine, and it was invaluable. Let me know if I can help. BTW, how the hell did you manage that??

Hosco is good gear.

After struggling with envelope filters, I made a patch with two in a chain. One up one down. The trick was to lower the volume drastically. It sounds very good! Press on!

Yah, and that would fit a Sub Ray 4 body, please! Ta.

The Stewmac ones seem to be ground away much more at the the nose. The others look like regular cutters to me, would need to be ground much more. I think.

Of course! “These tabs are iffy”.

I think it will work if you set each midi device to send and receive on different channels. Long time since I used Reaper, but there should be a drop down list of midi channels in each track panel. Harder to explain than to do!

A rare (unique?) instance of Walter singing lead on a Dan track.

I mix it with a Zoom G3 and TCE Nova Dynamics comp, and various boosters/ dirt boxes, no problems. Easy to tweak live.

Choruses, delays, reverbs and compressors are very good, imho. Also great with guitar as well as bass. The envelope filters and octavers I find difficult to tune in. I don’t use preamps or cab or amp sims, but others on here speak very highly of them.all in all it is a great bang for buck box of tricks. Plus, ToneLib editor (3rd party) is very useful.

Thanks for that. I will check when I get home, see what colour silks and ball ends. In an6 case, they’re good!

I thought it might be Elixirs, but I have read that they get fuzzy when they get worn. I have been playing the crap out of this thing, and the strings remain slick and shiny. D’addarios mebbe?

I played guitar, mandolin and bouzouki before I took up bass. Went straight to fretted and very soon after that to fretless. It was fretless that thrilled me like guitar used to. Playing bass fixed my lousy timing, speeding up, etc. I went back to electric guitar for my last band, and now after a hiatus I’m playing bass again with mates from that band. I groove like a mutha, obviously, being steeped in the Scottish white funk tradition. I love it so much!

Thank you for that. Another great Donald Fagen song. I must I must improve my nonexistent reading skills.

Ain't like no Music Man I ever heard of!