EssentialTension

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1370183858' post='2097288'] It's been quite a few years since I last played Thomastik flats, and back then I was still using round wounds and was not particularly interested (shame on me, I know). So my main question is why do [u][b]you[/b][/u] use them? My other question is how do you get on with the 'different to usual' string gauges? I'm finding it hard to imagine using a 70 gauge A string and getting some weight in the tone, especially as I play soul, groove, dub, funk rock type bass lines most. These sets must be balanced, but how?!!!!! Thank you. [/quote] I like the sound and the feel of them and they are on the bass. As for gauge, I never really think about string gauge. Gauge on its own means nothing. I don't really get this 'different to usual' string gauges idea. On my four basses I have at the moment: TI Jazz Flats - 43-56-70-100 Pyramid Gold Flats - 40-55-75-105 Rotosound Trubass - 65-75-100-115 La Bella 760FS - 45-65-85-105

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1370200782' post='2097554'] I saw Lemmy with Hawkwind a few times. Strangely enough i don't remember a thing about any of those evenings. [/quote] What? Not even Stacia?

The first ding is the upsetting one but after that you quickly get used to it.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1370176879' post='2097222'] Yeah, that's cool, depends on the music dunnit. I find much pleasure in crafting tones, and I often play for hours during and after, I get a kick out of it [/quote] Rather than what you are saying here and deciding a tone for a particular song - which seems to me to be more like the mixing process - it's more the idea of finding 'your sound' with which I take issue.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1370174260' post='2097179'] Where is that 'like' button. [/quote] We had a vote and we didn't like it.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1370106434' post='2096545'] Do you mean the bass has a microtilt neck? ... and it's a 1992? [/quote] I'm still confused by this. Is this a 92 Jazz with a microtilt neck?

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1370175469' post='2097200'] My experience of people looking for who obsessively cycle through gear in the search for "that" sound is that even when they do stumble on great sounds they arn't able to recognise them. I've long thought that there are some psychological factors at work (in addition to the acoustic ones I've already mentioned) i.e. that we simply perceive our own playing and tone differently to other peoples. My rational for this is that as experienced players we tend to internally "hear" what we are about to play and that therefore the "tone" we are perceiving is actually some mix of our imagination and what actually comes in through the ears. The many anecdotes on here and in my personal experience of people not realising how good their kit sounded until they heard someone else play it, bear this out. [/quote] In recent years I've played regularly through ... Ashdown Ampeg Mesa Phil Jones Markbass Ibanez ... usually playing a Fender but sometimes ... Squier Guild Takamine G&L Aria Lakland ... and they all sounded great. They were all better at doing their job than me.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1370172343' post='2097140'] Mmm, I've never understood this approach at all. Music is infinitely more than notes. The timbres of the instruments are vitally important to give the music character. You may need many different timbres for your bass even in a single song, but whatever, your sounds are very important to the overall character of the music and how you express it. I spend a fair bit of time on my sound, and I greatly enjoy doing it. Probably because using a POD and no amp or cab means the possibilities are almost endless. In fact I spent hours on one patch a last week (especially the eq which I tweaked while playing to bass-less versions of some of Kit's songs), for my general sound from which I work out variations in effects, eq, volume, etc. I was soundchecking at a gig with Kit a couple of nights ago and she straightaway turned around and said 'Wow! Great sound, Nige!', the drummer really liked it too. So your tones do (or should) get noticed by your band, engineers, producers, etc. If they don't, I'd wonder why not. [/quote] Fair enough Nige, but that's not really my experience. It's not that I would never roll the treble off, or never move my plucking hand nearer the neck or nearer the bridge, or never boost the mids a little or whatever. It's just that I start from 'plug in and play' and rarely wander far from it. That is 'my sound' or would be if I actually believed in the concept of 'my sound'. It doesn't stop people, in the band or out of it, saying 'great sound' or whatever. I wouldn't know because what I hear on stage is not what everyone else hears anyway. I might be a little more sympathetic to the idea that a particular tone matters to or helps a particular song/arrangement but I still wouldn't see it as a big deal.

[quote name='AntLockyer' timestamp='1370169126' post='2097106'] The feeling the same is just the neck relic though right? I'd be happy with it not being a Palladino to be honest. [/quote] I guess the neck would definitely be the key thing and you could ask for the neck only relic.

I've played two, and only for a few minutes in both cases, but both were strangely excellent.

[quote name='AntLockyer' timestamp='1370168045' post='2097092'] Can you get one they haven't messed the paint up on? [/quote] Yes, just order one from the custom shop. Just say "Can I have one just like the Palladino but without the relicing?". There must be a price for that. But then of course it won't feel the same when you play it and it won't be a Palladino.

No one else can answer that question for you, they can only tell you what they would do. I'd put a set of Lakland Flats on it.

Stop worrying about some imaginary elusive tone. Set the EQ flat. Get on with it. Worrying about tone is a distraction from playing music.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1370113310' post='2096631'] Seriously, you do know it's not a double bass? [/quote] I too would call 3mm low.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1370092454' post='2096365'] I see it as this micro tilt thing ... [/quote] Do you mean the bass has a microtilt neck? ... and it's a 1992?

Looking at the Diversion switch you can see that it's set up for use by a guitarist.

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[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1370079885' post='2096248'] Bolt on neck? [/quote] So it is. Maybe bolted back on after an incident.

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Link?

You're welcome.

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[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1370031858' post='2095911'] Tell you what ... you choose: [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/NickOliveri.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/SirGuitaralot.jpg.html"][/url] Tough one, huh? [/quote] Despite the failings of the first picture and shocking as it is to see that sort of thing, the second picture should be illegal.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1370031743' post='2095908'] I like his impeccable taste in having a 1974 Jazz Bass [/quote] Whatever he plays he manages to make it sound pretty good.

The only reason for not putting flatwounds on any bass, fretted or not, is that you don't like flats for one reason or another. I have flats on everything.