Owen

Ain't that the truth! I have (too) many basses and which ones the Induction Loop chooses to attack is utterly random - single coils, humbuckers, Piezo - it just does not care.

You are going in to a situation where maybe everyone is not an experienced player. That is ok, but your job might, on occasion, be about holding things together rather that laying down the funkiest grooves. And that is OK as well because the music is there to support not to shine. Not all keyboard players understand slash chords so C/E might well be read as a C chord and your playing the E could sound pretty muddy. The comment about pianists and looking after the bass end is completely valid - and sometimes it is just too much agro to educate them so you will need to pare your parts right back to not get in the way. There are all sorts of valid arguments about educating them, but in the heat of the moment they might forget and then it is your job to make the band sound good. You are there to enable the congregation, and that is cool. I could go on about this stuff all day!

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/daddario-helicore-medium-tension-cello-strings-tuned-in-fourths.1339921/ These might still be there?

I used to play 'cello before graduating to the king of all instruments. Moving from 4ths to 5ths makes my head wobbly inside. I cannot deny that I am fascinated. I presume you have clocked the video on youtube? If not (and for anyone else) here it is. They seem to be an octave up. I am now looking at these and wondering if I should have kept my 'cello. Having said that, I have enjoyed the bass guitars I have bought and sold over the years using the money from the 'cello. I hope you will keep us fully informed. Welcome aboard Jan.

G&L have it going on. Did you see this? Proper lush it is.

Yep, still a great colour.

That is a level of maintenance which is way beyond my patience level. It was a nice idea though Thanks

To be fair, G&L do some lovely colours. And great instruments.

That video gave me Smith GAS.

That is the conclusion I had come to but was hoping I was wrong. I frequently am.

I am building a bass. Very slowly. Indeed. However I have been considering how to finish and, today, I fancy Duck egg blue but in a matte finish. How hard is that? Is it do-able or would it just get shiny at the wear points?

No disrespect to your singer, but we all know that a singer carrying less than usual is moving into the realms of the impossible.

I went F# to G on a six string. It was an Overwater 36" and was sublime. Sadly, my head could just not deal with it. I sold it. I still miss it.

Truly, the internet has everything.