Happy Jack

Rather than pick [i][b]sizes[/b][/i], I find it's pick [i][b]hardness [/b][/i]that makes the biggest difference. I always use picks made of Delrin and I have two types - similar but different. Switching from the orange (thicker) to the red (thinner) has a surprising amount of impact on my sound and my playing style.

But the multi-pocket bag approach (bin there, dun that) is not the complete answer. Unless the pockets are all made of transparent material, you'll then need to memorize which pocket contains your main instrument cable, which has the patch leads, which has the kettle leads, etc.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1501707972' post='3346855'] Someone with a little more knowledge will come along im sure, but a compressor seems like a good choice. It will level out everything. Other than that, just use your ears and your hands. Those are your best effects imo. [/quote] This ^. Left to my own devices, I sound louder with a pick but that's partly because I have so much more attack and I'm therefore more audible. Whether or not I'm actually "louder" is debatable. I've just joined a new band where I have to switch from fingerstyle to pick and back again repeatedly within each set. For the first time in years, I'm running through an always-on compressor pedal, which I'm using as much as a Limiter as a Compressor.

[quote name='JoeEvans' timestamp='1498332694' post='3323938'] Anyway, here's Slam sounding great playing arco in one of the best jazz/dance sequences ever - I love this so much! [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mb2tN-aa2s"]https://www.youtube....h?v=9Mb2tN-aa2s[/url] [/quote] Late to this thread, but good to see Hellzapoppin again after all these years. Getting back on topic, though, and it's hard to ignore how the bass simply vanishes from the mix as soon as the rest of the band gets going ...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Bass-V-1-Start-Price-/122627315876?hash=item1c8d2858a4:g:ts8AAOSwS8xZfeEt So is it supposed to be a Fender? Or did he have it built as a custom copy of a Fender? And why has he made such a pig's ear of the dot markers on the neck?

But what a shame about that enormous dink in the front.

Forget it Mick, it's nowhere near heavy enough. Modify your amplifier search to include the word "forklift" and this will stop happening.

But screwed into what? Seeing as it's definitely a hollow body, maybe he used really REALLY short screws.

Never - it's hopeless in that guise. Played as a fretless bass, it's bulky but very practical.

So with crushing inevitability, we ran tight on time at the gig and the song that got dropped from the set was ... Fever. Ach well. Just to give you an idea of how nice that TB10 sounds - even when it's me playing the bloody thing - here's another song. http://youtu.be/c5PLOBKzvsI

I'm perfectly happy to let other musicians use my backline. So long as they have an MSc in Electronics Engineering. And the Certificate to prove it.

Yup, I look at photos of myself on stage and I invariably look grim and miserable. I have NO IDEA WHY. Actually I was having a great time, the sound guy had got my bass exactly right, and I was playing well. You wouldn't believe it from the photos, would you?

Flaky musicians ... who knew?

[quote name='NJE' timestamp='1501495545' post='3344968'] I hate the fact that huge swathes of the population tune in to watch shallow, vain, vacuous people on love island [color=#ff0000][i][b]pretend [/b][/i][/color]their are in love and have sex on national television ... [/quote] No! Say it ain't so! Their love is true and will last for ever ... it must be ...

Aguilar TH500 or Gallien Krueger MB500 or Genz Benz etc. etc. etc. There are SO many really good Class D heads out these now, and ultimately it comes down to taste. I have a stopwatch running to see how long it takes for someone to ask me why I haven't listed a Markbass ...

On my screen, this topic reads "Band needed for private fun". I'd be up for that ...

[size=4]Who writes this stuff? Andertons or Gibson?[/size] [i][size=4][color=#231F20]"You have 2 volume controls for each pickup so that you can blend the pickups however you want to with a master tone control."[/color][/size][/i] [size=4][color=#231F20]Ignoring the fact that this sentence barely passes (or parses) muster as English, that could imply that the bass has four volume controls, or in fact five. In practice, it has three knobs, and presumably at least one of them is a tone control.[/color][/size] It's a pig-ugly bass anyway.

http://www.affairsoftheharp.com/harps-for-sale-hire/ Don't know them and I know nothing about harps, but I rather like their name.

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1501454438' post='3344817'] And my careers officer's name was Hugh Pugh. [/quote] Presumably the guy in the next office was called Barney McGrew?

Does she do Roadside Recovery?

There are no vintage Hofners with bolt-on necks. If you know this to be a 60s bass, then it's not a Hofner. If it's by someone else, then it's not an Eko or a Kent, because it's too closely based on the Hofner design and uses too many Hofner parts. In truth, to me it looks like a buggered-about Chinese-made modern copy. Is it a true hollow body (unlikely with a bolt-on) or is there a block of solid wood running down the middle?

Yeh, I asked Silvie to reverse it to correct the polarity, but being a lefty herself she downright refused. Bloody difficult woman, that Silvia.