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[URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160524_223100_zpsmdcsif56.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/Mobile%20Uploads/20160524_223100_zpsmdcsif56.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I had no idea that I was that attached to dot placement!

There are fret lines on the side but a dot on fret 3/5/7 etc it is a bit disconcerting! More importantly, the fretted is fine on G and A, appreciably louder on D and sadly quieter on E. I presume it is time to take the bridge saddle off?

Ukes arrived today. The fretless has the side dots (where there would be side dots) where the fret lines would go. What is that about?

Less is more.

For whoever buys a Uke bass next time, remember to buy a case for it as well Cheap and cheerful - http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_gigbag2_classic_12_bk.htm?ref=search_prv_1_1 Or nicer - http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_gigbag1_classic_1_2_bk_2.htm?ref=search_prv_3_1

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1463674089' post='3053301'] [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_kahuna_clu_bass_ukulel_deko_2.htm"]http://www.thomann.d...ulel_deko_2.htm[/url] Deco Uke's, fretless and fretted £36 plus p&p [/quote] Not any more. Thanks

Approx £540. That is a very fine price for what looks like a nice piece of kit.

Bartokian Pizzicato - a term which instructs string performers to play a pizzicato note to pull the string away from the fingerboard so that it snaps back percussively on the fingerboard. http://www.imusicdictionary.com/definition.php?term=bartok%20pizzicato

[quote name='bassist_lewis' timestamp='1463483283' post='3051655'] beyond the 4th fret. [/quote] What are you doing playing ANY string above the 4th fret? Where is your dignity?

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1463128347' post='3048777'] I ask you all though... Does the audience even notice? [/quote] The audience have no clue, but if I go for a low note and it just does not "happen" then it makes me REALLY sad inside and puts me right off. Having said all this, I am actually planning for a full scale 6 string fretted EUB with a bottom F# (with a detuner obv). My NS5 EUB sounds pretty fabulous through a big PA system I REALLY love LF!

[quote name='Musashimonkey' timestamp='1463089847' post='3048601'] Interesting... Are they tuned with a low B? [/quote] You cannot spell Bass with a B! My problem with non 35" basses for a very long time was that the B did not sound like an organic part of the instrument. It was almost like an aftermarket body kit on a car. You knew it was super cool (!) but it did not seem to sit well with the rest of the car. Both my 33" are strung with a B. They do not sound like a 35" but then the rest of the instrument does not either. For me, with these basses, I can play below E and not get cross inside because the tone changes.

I used to be 35" (MTD, Ritter, Sei, Lakland blah blah blah blah) all the way and then I fell into a 33" Shuker Uberhorn and I now have two 33" 5 strings and could not be happier. I have no bass guitar GAS at all for the first time in about 30 years. It is all very odd

I am feeling a bit light headed at the moment because I went onto youtube to hear these things. They sound really good. I will try some. However the video I watched was of a guy playing left handed with upsidedown strings. I can handle left handed but the upsidedown strings made everything wobbly in my head. He played lovely stuff though. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI2CgGaKKqI[/media]

Do not underestimate the importance of a preamp. Piezos NEED to see specific things further down the signal path otherwise they sound ike crud. As I have learnt. The hard way. On gigs

I have been through more basses than I care to admit to. Some of them were eyewateringly expensive. My present Shuker is easily as good as any of the others I have ever owned. He just makes a lovely instrument.

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/281131-mesa-mini-rectifier-stack-price-drop/

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1462879113' post='3046485'] Sorry I quoted you in error. [/quote] I am so upset that I am considering flouncing off AND taking all my toys home with me

I was not suggesting that the BF One10 would be moving at all. The DOD was making the cone move in truly alarming ways.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1462870798' post='3046370'] I can tell you that the excursion effect will not move a cab, even one weighing only 7kg. [/quote] I tried a DOD Meatbox through a Mackie Studio monitor last week. It was moving around the desk like a slow hovercraft.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1462869001' post='3046340'] In which case I think I shall commission a pair of those nifty right angled Spekon cables. [/quote] Speakon lead GAS!