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[quote name='Immo' timestamp='1325090389' post='1479735'] ... most people statistically would prefer modern made P-bass with round ... [/quote] I thought it was what we had rather than what we'd prefer.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1325114039' post='1480051'] Now that's a good point. We did an "acoustic" session at a beer festival & the drummer used his electronic kit. [/quote] You just can't trust them can you?

Try watching these: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIzV9462xeE[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4MdWzN_100&feature=related[/media]

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1325113012' post='1480033'] ... When we add our drummer we're no longer acoustic ... [/quote] We have a drummer and he's acoustic too.

I play in an 'acoustic' band and until recently doubled on a fretless Precision with flats and an EUB both through a Mesa combo. No one ever asked me why I wasn't playing an 'acoustic' instrument. However, I've now moved on to a Takamine B10 (thanks to Clarky) and an acoustic upright. I don't suppose anyone will notice the difference - except that there will be less space on stage.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1325095059' post='1479823'] The original strings would not have been black nylon jobbies but flatwound steels, exactly as fitted to all other Hofner basses of the period. [/quote] Would the original strings have been Pyramid Golds?

[quote name='Michaelg' timestamp='1325037229' post='1479399'] excellent! do you have any information about the gold symbols? [/quote] Only that mine didn't have them and I've never seen them before on other pics. Are they painted on or what?

That's in lovely condition. My very first bass was exactly that model and colour. I bought it used (in 1973, I think) for £30. The gold symbols are not original.

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1325026377' post='1479321'] ... and some won't insure them at all. [/quote] ... but they will take your money.

I've successfully posted a bass in a gigbag on two occasions but both times very carefully packed with lots of bubble and card as well as double boxed. My Lakland Decade came from Chicago in a gigbag and double boxed no problem.

[quote name='Skezza' timestamp='1325021245' post='1479246'] I have tried to us the new multiquote button (respond to two or more quotes in 1 posting) I cannot make it work and just get single quotes. Can anyone give me some simple instructions on how to do it. skez [/quote] [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1325023076' post='1479269'] I just click the multiquote button on each of the posts I want to quote. They get collected in a little pop up box in the bottom right of the page and, when you're ready simply click 'Reply to X quoted posts' in that little pop up. [/quote] Just like that.

[quote name='Skezza' timestamp='1325021245' post='1479246'] I have tried to us the new multiquote button (respond to two or more quotes in 1 posting) I cannot make it work and just get single quotes. Can anyone give me some simple instructions on how to do it. skez [/quote] I just click the multiquote button on each of the posts I want to quote. They get collected in a little pop up box in the bottom right of the page and, when you're ready simply click 'Reply to X quoted posts' in that little pop up.

[quote name='risingson' timestamp='1325014751' post='1479162'] No great effort. I see a lot of people throw so much money and time into trying to get a particular sound, but there are far too many variables involved in live and studio performance so the 'pursuit of tone' and the thousands of £'s involved in purchasing very expensive gear becomes almost completely redundant. The best you'll ever be able to do is to have a nice bass guitar, a nice amp, good technique and that's it. After that you tend to be at the mercy of other people in professional performing environments. Don't get me wrong, nice gear is great, I love it as much as any bass player does. But it's not the be all and end all, and I have seen cases of people throwing money at something with the assumption that it is somehow going to drastically improve their sound. I just don't really subscribe to that kind of thinking. [/quote] Agreed, and anyway once you're in a different room it will sound different anyway, or the FoH engineer will change it, or what you can hear standing next to your equipment won't be what the audience hears. I'm sure we all, including me, have tonal preferences but there is no perfecting of tone.

Fender Precision, flats, a combo. That's it.

[quote name='patch006' timestamp='1324931855' post='1478622'] Hi All I really enjoy playing my fretless, the thing is I much prefer the sound of it when it isn't plugged it to a amp I just don't think the pickups are doing it justice at all. I currently have basslines quarter pounders installed as a passive system, with two volumes and one tone pot. It sounds dull and lifeless, the bass is stringed with labella flats which I really like playing. [/quote] When does it sound 'dull and lifeless', acoustically or amplified? Are you associating that with the La Bellas? If you are. but want to keep the feel of flats. then try some TI flats. I can't see that adding a preamp solves your problem - you already have a preamp with EQ on your amp, I presume.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1324985797' post='1478870'] I saw this linked from Talkbass - a luthier in France is working on a Bisonic based pickup. There are some design drawings in his gallery. They're a bit slimmer than the Darkstars, as the poles adjust by being threaded into a baseplate - no extra adjusting screws. [url="http://www.daguetguitars.com/index.php"]http://www.daguetguitars.com/index.php[/url] [/quote] That luthier is one of the guys who was building using Dark Stars and so I guess he can't any longer get them from Fred Hammon so ....

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1324941021' post='1478699'] kids these days, I remember when a gert big box popped up on screen! [/quote] I still get the great big box.

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1324932155' post='1478625'] Actually your ALL WRONG or knew what the question was. Theres no one in the world who owns a preSiCion bass A pedantic Christmas to you all A [/quote] You could be wrong on that: [url="http://www.zimbio.com/Guitars/articles/_U0vkEj72h6/Fender+Standard+Presicion+P+Bass+Mexican+Case"]http://www.zimbio.co...ss+Mexican+Case[/url]

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1324928463' post='1478580'] Carrots. [/quote] Yes, but what year?

Yeah, what is the question?

I prefer foam under the flatwounds rather than scrunchie over the roundwounds. YMMV.

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1324721258' post='1477273'] Like that? Dig this! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4b8IbDpvb8[/media] [/quote] Excellent, love that one.

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1324503613' post='1475114'] ... The two other models (Decade and Hollowbody) are just plain bland; I played both in the US last year and they really weren't so great ... [/quote] I disagree with this competely. My Decade is a fantastic bass and the one time I played a Hollowbody I really liked that too. The DJ does nothing for me.

Despite the change, there are still music topics turning up in 'off topic'.