Bassfinger

All of our band have degrees, three bachelors, me postgrad, and our lead guitarist got his PhD in some field of physics relating to electricity, which doesn't seem to be or the remotest help when trying to diagnose his Strat's noise problem. We're just a bunch of scruffy old whingebags and the parchments have no real bearing on that. It's just happenstance that we're all old gits from the same part or the world and share similar key demographics.

I was after one of their single cut out jobs at about this time but all the ones in the spec I wanted were out of stock. Thwt being the case I went for their 3 pickup SG-alike, and I do have to saynit sounds fantastic and actually isn't bad to play either. https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_dc_600_vi_vintage_series.htm

I chose the 4003S for a multitude of reasons.

The people that have the disposable income for such purposes don't have a problem with it.

"Value" is a fickle mistress who doesn't always conveniently converge with "desire." If I like a bass and can afford it, I suck it up and pay the price. If I can't, I grumble to myself and move on. Sadly value rarely holds hands with my desire to acquire a particular bass. Once or twice she has smiled kindly upon me (Sire Marcus Miller), which is nice when it happens but it's still a long way from being my prime reason for ever desiring an instrument. Conversely, it doesn't matter if a bass superb value and comes with free sexual favours from Rosamund Pike, if I don't like it I won't get my wallet out.

Indeed. 40 years ago a hundred quid, which was rather more money then than now, got you a near unplayable egg slicer.

We're acutely aware of that.

I've played some wonderful mass produced basses over the years. And judging from some of the threads on here it's reasonable to presume that a lot of boutique manufacturers leave a lot to be desired for both quality of the actual product and their customer service. So the answer to the question is, "in many cases, yes."

I read that and 14 hours later I'm still chuckling. I've worked in every single European nation other than the Vatican and that is simply poppycock.

I didn't realise you were a fan!

Eurovision? I can create better tunes while sat on the loo farting a tiled bathroom.

As of 2022 they were claimed to be made in China.

Sire Marcus Miller V5. Nice Woods, as well finished as a Player series, lovely sound, great necks with rolled fretboard edges.

Just ordered one, same colour as Urbanx's above. I'd gone into PMT to buy some stringe and they had a slightly damaged B stock one on display. Never seen one up cloee ane personal so I asked for a try and was well impressed, so ordered a new one for only 60 quid more.

I've been trying for 40+ years! 🤣 Ill get there one day. I can't get my head around tab. I can see what it is and intellectually understand how it works, but simply can't make head nor tail of it when I try to read it. I think that my be dyslexia at play.

Yes, formally diagnosed as an adult. It doesn't seem to cause me problems remembering the fretboard, but despite more than 40 years of practice and formal lessons I've never been able to progress to being fully fluent at reading music. I can read a piece and work it out in due course, but never bee able to sight read and play a piece straight off the page. I've suspected dyslexia may be an issue there but have no proof.

I don't really have a preference. I rotate to a different bass every few days so get to play and practice regularly on all profiles and sizes, so I'm comfortable with them all.

Hohner Les Paul since 1983.

It's like these opinionated twits that tell me at gigs I'm some kind of idiot for playing with a pick. The first 30 seconds orf Make Me Smile played with my fingers usually wipes the ignorant grin off their faces. And so it is with your short scale. If it works for you and sounds awesome, then the know-nothings really do know nothing. Ignore them.

I'm not a fan of them, but no one is forcing me to play one. If you're loving yours then all power to you.

Geddy Lee Tech21 Sanamp. That's all the well dressed bassist about town needs. May as well lock the thread now.

Back into rehearsals last night. We haven't gigged since January as our singist was made redundant and he's been spending his time trying to find a job. Fortunately he's all squared away now, so we're back into it. We travel light for rehearsals, monitors and my Orange Crush. I took my my Fender Mike Dirnt roadworn and the Ibanez mandolin. Did about two hours, tightening up in a few new songs were doing and dusting off some old ones we hadn't done in a while. Went OK.

Got about 40 seconds of it down messing about by ear last night while the Missus was out at a show. It's tedious, not my type of music and ear learning is so slow, particularly if I don't know the song, but I'll have another fiddle with it later. Its not difficult, it's just a dull process.

Holiday by Green Day. Took about 2 minutes to learn, its just a case of repeating it enough times that I don't need to think about it too much.

None of that is especially challenging on a technical level. The real issue is that there's a lot of it and much of it isn't repeated. I wouldn't foresee an issue there, beyond being able to find the sheet music for it (I can only find it for piano) so it'd be a long grind with the GB-10, and learning by ear is my least favourite method.