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Telling manufacturers that we won't accept bad treatment of their workers is exactly what we are doing to reduce child labour in the clothing industry. From what I see that is working. We did the same with apartheid in South Africa, and currently the Russian athletics teams are being excluded from the Olympics. Boycotts work if they are well managed and properly targeted. If you see something being created by "slave labour" stop buying it. The fat cats running those industries just love it when they see us shrugging our shoulders.

This is a perennial problem with Schallers. This has been posted since the start of BC. How are they still getting away with selling these things with their undersized screws? Dunlops never have this problem. Matchsticks are just as good as toothpicks. You don't need hard wood because the pressure of the screw and the thread in the now greatly reduced hole size is enough to keep everything locked down.

Lay your straight fingers across the fret board. Don't stretch and from index finger to pinky you should be covering 2 frets or an octave. If you want to go any further. . . move your hand.

The argument that it's OK to give workers poor pay and bad working conditions because the alternative is worse wasn't acceptable in the UK in the 1800's and isn't valid anywhere else today.

I borrowed a 5 string version of that bass when I flew to some gigs. It was the only 5 they could provide and I didn't like it or the sound at all. I think I'd have preferred if it had disappeared in the mix! We all want different things out of our gear but IMO there are compatibilities. Many amps and cabs work together out of the box, but then some players seem to need to fiddle with the EQ more than others. Maybe they think they are making a better sound if they make more changes. IME the more fiddeling I do the worse the sound gets. I buy an amp that gets the sound I want with all the controls at noon.Then I might move 1 click left or right because of the room, but not often. Any more adjustment than this and I know I've bought he wrong amp. IMO when you reach a certain level of gear it's harder to get a bad sound. My Barefaced and Berg cabs never get a bad sound with any amp. I've tried basses I hated, the Fender Dimension was one, but I can get a good sound out of almost any P and J style bass without much effort so those are the ones I'll choose to play. Why make things more difficult than they already are. It doesn't surprise me that the P worked. That's their strength. . . they just work.

This is one detail that doesn't affect me at all. I've had basses with fat, Gibson-style frets, thin, banjo frets, high and low and everything in between and I've not noticed any difference in the way any of these basses play.

It's all CNC machines and cheap (abused?) labour. The Cort Factory moved from Korea to Indonesia because there was unrest about working practises and bullying the workers wasn't working. Google if you want to find out more.

If it's bothering you so much, email Barefaced and ask.

Consider everything. It's all important.

Loved it. Thanks for finding that.

Try http://barefacedbass.com/which-barefaced.htm

People can use the studio's basses or hire in for the recording and video shoots.

+1 To the OP - In my experience a bass that sustains well usually sounds better than average on the rest of the notes. Sustain is essential to have but that doesn't mean that you have to use it on every note, but if you need it and the bass can't sustain then it's not a good instrument.

Thanks guys.

If Radiohead are accepting advice from a lawyer that advice can also be, "Leave it with us. We'll take it from here."

I've just been asked if TI flats can be strung through the body? Does anyone know?

Change the valves if they are faulty or adversely affecting your sound. Power amp valves wear out, pre amp valves usually don't.

That's the way these things start, but if there is no agreement behind closed doors, then they hit the courts.

Melody and words are the only copyrightable parts of songs. Recently publishers in the US have discovered that judges are crap at telling one part of a song from another and have been winning spurious copyright infringement court cases, sometimes to the tune of millions of pounds. Sadly publishers now see these "smash and grab" raids on songwriters as a valid income stream.

I'm a fan of TI flats on my P bass and while I do sometimes put different sets of rounds on the Jazz (the last was Dunlop Super Brights), I always come back to DR strings. Lo-Riders at the moment, but I also use Hi-Beams.

Ah, also the sound of underpowered 412 cabs being pushed within an inch of blowing up. Sounds like there is very little separation anywhere in that studio. If it is a Leslie then let it go. Just use some sort of distortion. With that amount of string noise, sounds like the the bass is tuned down.

A D800+ with your 322 would sound awesome.

Talkbass has "clubs". Look for the Barefaced Club and you'll find Alex is very highly regarded and doing pretty well over there.

Probably not. That is peak power. The cab is only rated at 400 watts. . . . and definitely a lot, lot less than that for bass frequencies.