Jonesy

Ohh, of course! I'll see if I can give it a go, thanks!

Just out of interest to anyone with a brass bridge......... have you ever had a go at removing the green oxidation from hardware? I'll have to check with the owner first and don't want to make it too shiny, but it is a bit grubby

I'm fairly sure it's a Sb1000 anyway, it definitely fretless 😂 So, it's not really a new bass day. It's more like I've become it's custodian since the owner picked up a Tony Franklin fretless. So it's mine to enjoy for the time being, and enjoying it I have been. The neck is lovely and fairly straight all the way down (as in little taper to it), it's really resonant unplugged and sounds great. Speaking of sounds, I'm still getting used to the circuitry and all of the tone shaping options, which are almost as alien to me as not having frets. I have to play it with headphones for the time being just to save the house hearing my bum notes.

Had our first jam with the blues band since our drummer passed away in May. It was amazing to be back in a room making noise with the band again, but it did feel a bit weird playing with someone else behind the skins. Still, roll on the next jam!

The Epiphone Classic and Vintage Pro Tbirds are great basses. I had a hankering for a Tbird and heard great things about the Classic Pro's when they first came out, watched a few vids on YouTube and, GAS being GAS, had to have one. I headed to a shop to try one out and fell in love immediately, neck profile was lovely, it looked the business and sounded HUGE. Just out of curiosity, I picked up the Gibson model out at the time and the Epiphone was miles ahead - fit , finish, sound, feel were all better on the Epi. The only thing that felt better on the full fat Gibson was the tuners, but you don't play those and the Epi ones weren't bad at all (just the Gibson ones felt smoother, but the Epi ones always held tune). I sold it a few years ago and it's the only bass I miss.

The people in Wunjo are brilliant - enjoy your new toy!!

There's a bit, about 2 mins I to that vid, where Troy just shakes his right hand. I might need a support!

Does anyone else play this game when they're bored and fill a shopping cart on somewhere like Andertons (other retailers are available), imagining what they'd buy after a lotto win? No? ..........yeah, I don't do it either. One of the first in the basket is always the Tony Franklin fretless

I hate Elvis Costello, apart from the odd track here and there, so don't really listen to much of his stuff. I know Bruce Thomas is a monster player and this popped up in a playlist the other day...... Wish me luck!

FYI.....not to derail......I only found out in the last year or so that G&L made a MIJ Tribute ASAT. One went on eBay for standard Tribute prices in the past year or so. I was umming and arring over it for too long and missed out. Been kicking myself ever since

It's a tough choice as it kinda depends on the situation..... - If it was a special birthday purchase, I'd rather have a shiny new one (unless there was something vintage I couldn't get new) - If there was a specific finish/model that was out now that I didn't want to wait for 3-5 years for one to hit the 2nd hand market then you'd have to go new. - For pretty much everything else I'd go 2nd hand and get the best bass I could budget for

Great call, I'd definitely look at lower tension flats if hand pain was an issue. I have a set of Labella 760fl's on a p bass and they're supposed to be a lighter tension than their standard set. I wouldn't exactly call them low tension though, just slightly lower than their usual cables 😂. TBF, I haven't tried Labella's specific low tension set. TI Jazz flats are very comfortable though and sound great too, so I'd also throw those into contention.

Ah nice, that sounds like the same sort of thing we plan to use it for, but I'll be chucking the tracks up to our Google drive. The idea of splitting one track out to individual instruments sounds like a bit too much faff for my use, but more accurately, well beyond my skill set! Do you know what Logic's built in mastering does? Is it just limit/enhance/compress?

Howdy folks, I've just got my grubby mitts on a Tascam DR40x to start recording rehearsals and was wondering if anyone then plays with their tracks to sort of 'master' them after recording? I have Reaper and, from a bit of reading around, it sounds like using a multiband compressor and limiter on the tracks will improve them, so I have some reading to do on that. We've previously just chucked a phone down in the room and the recordings have been good enough to share and listen to, so I'm assuming I won't have to do anything to the Tascam tracks for them to be listenable, but if anyone has any tips/tricks/a workflow to share then I'd love to hear what you do!