EssentialTension

I bought some direct from Hipshot, no problem.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1396090561' post='2409804'] Desks are different though. They're supposed to have transparent pre amps. If all the pre amps had humps at 2kHz to cater for vocals they'd be useless for any other instrument. Most bass amps have characteristics designed in for Bass guitars. So setting your amp flat is taking advantage of those characteristics. If you don't like them, then you need to select a different amp. [/quote] Desks aren't different in the sense that I'd expect to start from zero.

... and if you hired a studio for a day would you expect to find all the controls on the desk at their zero position (not only the EQ) or would you not care If the last engineer had left everything all over the place?

I always loved this band too, lot's of crossing over here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGv3Wswe0U0

[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1396037652' post='2409398'] Another one here chaps [/quote] Well spotted.

Very nice job done. I had one of these between 1974, when I paid about £110, and 1977. Heavy, but a good bass.

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1396028194' post='2409255'] Many people are like sheep.... [/quote] I've heard a lot of people say that.

GAS mostly comes from not playing enough with the gear you already have.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1395843088' post='2406996'] You use your own rig for half the set :-D [/quote] Damn, that's another switchbox I need to buy.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1395614659' post='2404472'] So basically, if you're in a covers band, you rarely play with other bands and therefore always use your own rig. If you're in an originals band, you often play with other bands, so often use others' rigs. Fair enough? [/quote] I wonder what happens if you play fifty fifty originals and OPs.

[quote name='Mexicola' timestamp='1395674895' post='2404913'] Thanks Chris! I think I'll try it out on an older bass first to see how it sounds/plays. [/quote] B-E-A-D usually means less tension than E-A-D-G so you may need a truss rod tweak.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAWn4FO1MOw[/media]

You've got to start with the amp EQ set somehow, so at the so-called 'flat' position is the obvious place. Then adjust for the room and other conditions that you find yourself in. I hardly ever change it.

So to play the cello piece, as it sounds, on a four-string you'd best go A-D-G-C or get a five-string E-A-D-G-C. Does that sound correct?

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1395499803' post='2403098'] Cello's are tuned in 5th's not 4th's, so some of the fingerings can be awkward. Also its lowest note is a low C on a 5 or 6 string bass. [/quote] [pedant alert] Surely it's C an octave above that - i.e. third fret A string on a standard four-string bass - usually called C2 whereas low C on a five-string would be C1. [/pedant alert]

... and the two of them more informally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOLc1VGacq8

Marvellous. Conductor Barenboim is marvellous too.

George Formby was brilliant.

Almost always my own stuff. A couple of times recently I've used the gear of a friend who is also bassist but other than that the last time I used gear of a stranger was maybe five years ago.

Lakland flats have black silk but do not come in short scale. Lakland FS760 (i.e. standard gauge flats) have black silks and I'd expect the short scale version to have black silks too. That's 760FSS 45-105 for the short scale ones. But maybe not your string. EDIT: that shoud hav ebeen La Bella FS760 not Lakland.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1394824629' post='2395725'] I just don't get your point. You appear to feel that people expressing their opinion is a good thing on a forum whilst using it as a way of stirring and antagonising other members which is the main thing on Basschat that distracts from discussions between people with differing (valid) opinions. That's just my opinion, of course. [/quote] I don't understand why you are stirred and antagonised, nor what would be wrong with posts that stir and antagonise. I also don't understand why you pick on my post rather than the post to which I responded - which it seemed to me was disturbed by people stating their points of view. But I don't actually care one way or the other.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1394824194' post='2395713'] He says, in response to a post expressing someone's point of view on a topic... [/quote] Yes, exactly. Ironic isn't it. I didn't think it needed saying out loud but never mind.

[quote name='Mark Dyer' timestamp='1394818977' post='2395643'] This kind of topic should have been dead and buried years ago, it doesn't belong on a bass forum in 2014. Disappointing. [/quote] Yes, it's often disappointing when people state their point of view on a public forum.

Maybe it's not a Fender.