Paul S

Thanks all. I am standing and playing with fingers (is that pizz?). Spent an hour noodling about earlier and leaning it towards me more than I was doing before seems to work. More questions! Hip brace - is it important that it rests on your hip or does it just depend upon which is more comfortable/how big you are etc? Mine seems to end up a bit higher. And I am trying to angle the fretboard (except it hasn't got frets- what do you call it?) to me slightly rather than have it facing away completely. Wrong?

Funnily enough it came up near the top of the list in a Google search. I've not used them before but the prices across the board seem pretty good. I'll see what the service is like!

Just thought I'd say 'hello, I have just joined the Stagg EUB club'. I bought one locally the day before yesterday. Nice, aren't they! Not as hard to play as I feared, although getting the new muscles up to strength will take a little while. Question - how do you keep the bass still when trying to slide up or down? Is that a general posture thing or a particular trick? At the moment I 'sort of' keep the thing steady using pressure from my left hand.

I went through a phase of using them because they sound nice, feel nice and look so cool but, yes, the black chips off very quickly if you are a heavy-handed pick player like me. You can touch it in with marker pen but it isn't the same and eventually I got fed up with paying a lot of money for them. But, I never had an issue with quality - maybe it is a current qc issue?

I ordered one from here: [url="http://www.woodbrass.com/en/product_info.php?products_id=150683"]http://www.woodbrass.com/en/product_info.php?products_id=150683[/url] Seems a little cheaper than the English outlet about £95 or so posted from France.

Bought some strings from Steve in a very easy transaction - good price, good comms, speedily dispatched. A pleasure doing business. Thanks Steve!

Ta

Where from, please?

Another endorsement for OBMM. Great product, price and service. Like Bolo said above - I went through a phase of making my own using Neutrik and good cable, purely for the soldering practice and to tailor the exact lengths, but they aren't as good as OBMM and probably not a lot cheaper. I won't bother next time!

Guy, I'd just like to say that I think you have handled this whole episode, which I read from start to finish, with dignity and restraint. It speaks volumes about the type of person you are. Much respect.

I personally don't get the animosity towards the Eagles. I am a huge fan and hope I can afford to get tickets when they tour here. I will certainly get the DVD.

I favour basses with narrow and shallow necks and have found a few, some already mentioned. These are all 38mm at the nut AND shallow - exceptional necks all of them. Fender Jaguar (and so Fender Geddy Lee) Fender Precision Lyte Peavey Fury and Fury II (Milestone III also, but that was more of a budget thing) Then come standard Jazz bass type necks - 38mm at the nut and a little deeper Fender Jazz. SBMM SB-14 Yamaha SX800A Epiphone Thunderbird Pro IV Epiphone EB0 (nicre shallow neck to grab and stop it diving) Fender Musicmaster Slightly chunkier but still 38mm-40mm Westone Thunder Hohner B Bass Hohner B2A Some P-Basses - MIJ Squier Silver Series has a 40mm and shallow neck.

We do Hysteria and I just use a Boss ODB-3! Not had anyone come up to me and say it sounds nothing like the real thing. So far.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1367672609' post='2068221'] Get some sweat bands - double duty ones. You can pick them up easy enough, and they really do make a difference. I`ve found that although I thought it was my hands getting sweaty when playing, it was in fact all of me - urrgh, but it`s what happens with punk I spose - but putting the bands on prevents it running down your arms onto your hands. [/quote] ^^This^^. I use a double size one on my right arm which, the way I play, also stops rubbing on the edge of the bass. Single size on my left arm. Sweaty brow mid-song, it is easy to mop up, too.

The second sound clip is called 'O Jesus King' - something spooky going on here! Turin-burst finish?

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1367399768' post='2065032'] As an aside, I came across this the other day. Brilliant! [/quote] Like that lots. A bit different. Thanks for the link!

Unless you are absolutely desperate for the money or the sapce the instrument takes up I really wouldn't bother. They go for peanuts - no-one wants or likes them. Mine was a timewarp beauty with almost no wear and I think I sold it for around £150. Imagine if it were a Fender in showroom condition of that age!

Only if you use hammerite. It flakes off too easily otherwise.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1367228403' post='2062689'] Finally! After four pages, we come to what's important about bass guitars. My view is this: Bass guitars, particularly P-Basses, should be WHITE - or a variation thereof. That is all. They just don't sound proper otherwise. [/quote] Black, surely?