Bobthedog

I am looking forward to it, however, it will be a long term plan. I am in no rush for now.

Except I would also have to train my right hand as a fretting hand which will take some time. Okay, so have pressed the button on the Sire V7 mk2 5 Fretless Alder body with free gig bag. Hopefully will ahve it for Thursday.

I would love to go upright but have a weird mental block with it. I am left handed but play right handed bass and a few sports too, however, I can for some reason only play upright as a left hander.

Having played Hey You, Pink Floyd not very flatteringly on a fretted bass, I now have severe gas for a fretless and am looking at a Sire V7 Fretless 5 - Alder / Maple. No side dots but lined. I love the fretless Roscoe on here, but also do not want to throw a lot of coin at what may be a short lived whim Never having picked up a fretless, how difficult is it to get it right and realistically how often does anyone here play fretless? I am sort of trying to talk my way out of it but GAS is burning right now. I did search but all I found was fretless basses for sale

This and works off phantom power. I have one and very happy with it.

Always try them out and buy from a shop - so far. I am down to three bass guitars but have tried many over the last few years. Set up and strings can be easily changed - neck shape, balance, playability / feel and connection are to me too important to risk online purchasing. Basically I am too lazy to want bother with a return. Far too much hassle. Physical looks are very different to any pictures too. There have been many real disappointments following a tryout and which stick in my mind including Spector NS5; Ken Smith 5 (cannot remember the model) - both of those just did not work for me in terms of playability - I had decided on the Spector before I went into BD, but walked out with my Roscoe Century. As soon as I picked it up, it just felt right. The Sandberg California TT5 Masterpiece felt very light and cheap and the Mayones Jabba 5 Hadrien Feraud felt like it was a toy lump. I would love the MTD in matt blue that is for sale on here, but am not going to even consider it due to the chance of it not being right for me. The bass is a tool, but as a hobby player, I just want to enjoy playing it and want to look forward to picking the guitar up. Going forward, when I do have a custom made, it will be online, albeit it will be based on a combination of all I have played and made note of that is what I want. All subjective, but my choice.

Leland Sklar has a T:

That is the beauty of music, something for everyone somewhere.

Wagner is not really my thing, so not, however, I was invited to the whole Ring cycle a couple of years ago at Longborough (an English country opera house). Anything Italian and I am there. Plus most other stuff. I spend a lot of my summers at The Royal Opera House in London and Garsington and Glyndbourne (both other English country opera houses). Sadly all off due to the lockdown this season. I was supposed to see Tosca with Anna Netrebko a couple of weeks ago, but that was cancelled but also Mitridate re di Ponto (one of Mozart's first operas) at Garsington in a couple of weeks, also cancelled. I am a Friend (member) of the Royal Opera House and have been for years but not with seats. Have done some European opera houses too in the lasts few years and also the Met in NY (last time was Marriage of Figaro)

Some of you may know that when I am not playing bass I am an opera nut. Currently listening to these stunning duets. Give them a listen. Stunning simply stunning voices:

Nothing wrong with that as far as I am concerned. I do wonder if at times people are guilty of concentrating too much on the technical angle (like pixel peeping photographers) and not focusing on the bigger picture. But then I am only a sub average player.

My local larger venue the MK Stables is apparently down £500k in revenues and in trouble. They are also fighting a challenge in the courts from local developers to shut them down. Sadly, whilst they are currently fighting and fund raising, it may be easier for them to close down. That would be a very sad loss.

If one needs to go, one needs to go, but why are you speaking like the Queen? I don't care about your bathroom needs.

I have an earlier version of that. Great bit of kit, although not on my pedal board atm.

I have a pair of SE535s (used as earphones not used as iems) but actually gave up on them as they were just too clear and precise for me. Something seems amiss.

I too am a Scarlett fanboi but have been looking recently at an upgrade. The guys at PMT suggested that unless I was going to spend several hundreds, I would not notice any material differences and would be better off upgrading other areas of my kit. the following video was also of interest (probably because it said what I wanted it to!) because it was based on popularity rather than an individual personal ranking Another point for me is that my Scarlett sits under my screen. Having all controls on the front rather than the top is important to me.

At last the joke becomes reality: Defendant: “He attacked me with his guitar” Judge: “Hmm, first time offender?” Defendant: “ Yes sir, a Precision I believe”

A little change in direction but when I told some work colleagues I played bass, one of the comments was “why, no-one well known plays bass”. None of them were aware that Paul McCartney, Sting, Lemmy and Suzy Quattro played bass and they had never heard of Jack Bruce.

I use either of two pairs at home. Shure SRH1540s with a Mavis Modz upgraded cable for listening and playing. Sennheiser HD600s with the HD650 cable for mixing (less bass forward). Both superb and very happy with both. I have some PJB headphones too but am not a fan compared to the Shures / Sennheisers.

Should this not be in off topic?

I have an Anita O'Day CD which says on the spine Atita O'Day. Not worth anything but I still smile when I read it.

Old joke but one of my favourites: Destiny's Child.. oh sorry, that is Beyoncé. Sorry and probably already posted here.