Reggaebass

Ah sorry, I’ve just seen another thread 🙂

Hi , I cannot see any pics 🙂

1 hour ago, skej21 said:

Or these guys too https://restauracja-gitar.pl/basy/ - nitro refinished and/or reliced MIJ/CIJ Fender Reissues for the price of a Mex. In most cases a little cheaper than Limelight but possibly a little less flexible. However, all genuine Fenders just refinished, so keeps the “why does it have a Fender decal?” crew quiet.

I’ve never heard of these before, that buzz hornet #87 looks well nice 🙂

That’s one cool looking bass ☝️Could it be  cherry burst ?

Nice job,it looks great,   thanks for sharing, I was going to have a go at installing one of these myself 🙂

This has to be one of my favourite simple but great basslines , 🙂

6 minutes ago, BrunoBass said:

It doesn’t get a lot simpler, nor effective, than this. One note, on the beat. What a groove...

 

...sampled incidentally from this:

 

Great tune, I haven’t heard that in years 🙂

6 minutes ago, ped said:

How about a wardrobe guitar hanger?

That’s a good idea because a suit hold-all would fit completely over it 🙂

18 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

Is the Burbury compulsory or can non-Chavs use it too?

It’s Burberry, to match my bass 😁

7 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

+1 for O’Keefe’s, but I tend to use Bepanthen which is a nappy rash cream. I dunno what it’s got in it, but it must be something akin to Pixie Dust - it’s that good!

Sudocrem , is also very good for minor skin problems. 

I fit medical equipment for the Nhs , so I’m constantly washing my hands or using wipes which dries your skin and causes splitting, as Cato says, O keeffes cream is great , and I use this , it moisturises but it’s not greasy 🙂

2 minutes ago, 41Hz said:

4 weeks! I hope it doesn’t last that long, did you have to stop playing, mine is too sore to play

No I didn’t stop playing, but I had to fret more with the pad of my finger than the top 🙂

I had this a while ago, I thought it was a splinter as it was very tender to touch when I fretted a note , but no sign of anything , it went away on it’s own after about 4 weeks 🙂

Nice job, that looks great Painy.

6 minutes ago, mcnach said:

Got practice tomorrow with the UB40 band... I'll bring the SuperBooster pedal along and see how it goes.

I used the markbass amps for a long time and always used the filters otherwise I couldn’t get the sound I wanted, the pedal could be all you need (I want one now 😁) ,I’ll be interested to hear how you get on,    I’ve kinda gone back in time,  at the moment I’m using an , Ashdown mag 300 EVO lll  head , with markbass Ny 115’s , with a bit of compression, and really loving the sound 

The UB40 band sounds like good fun , I really like some of earl Falconers basslines, Kingston town being one of my favourites 🙂

I’ve never tried a mudbucker , but I like the idea, there’s a pic of one fitted to a jazz bass below,     I don’t know much about electronics but If you can get the controls right I think it would sound great,       but my Sandberg TT in active mode with labella low tension flats gives me a great  clean deep reggae tone , so do my jazz basses with tapes .  

Btw, that’s a cool looking bass you have  mcnach 👍

For any sly and Robbie fans, some studio footage, nice Bassline 🙂

A nice fairly slow tune by dawn penn with a great Bassline 🙂

5 minutes ago, TKenrick said:

A bit more Bowie - 'China Girl' transcribed in full:

David Bowie - China Girl Bass Transcription PDF

There are tons of bass books out there that tell you what to practise, but very few that detail how to go about it in the best way, so I wrote one...

Better Bass Practice eBook

Hi TKenrick your book  looks good, is there a paperback version .

32 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Wow! that would be great. One will do - otherwise I might be tempted to 'fit and forget' 🙂

PM sent

No problem 👍

Hey stub , If you’re going to make some , I’ll post them to you for you to copy if you want 🙂

2 hours ago, Ricky 4000 said:

No no no. I tried that and it sounded a bit Chinese. 😬

Good for noodling on then 🤓

Here’s a few pics stub 🙂

4 hours ago, prowla said:

I use aluminium food trays - they’re easy to cut to strips and double over to get the required thickness. 

I like that idea, on the few occasions I’ve had to fit a shim I’ve used a strip of business card 🙂

28 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

Please tell me it wasn't being sold by the purveyor of instruments for people with big hands.

😂. I don’t think so, it was on Shpock.