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[quote name='bottlebassman' post='982417' date='Oct 9 2010, 11:32 AM']Using TI Jazz flats at the moment and love them. [/quote] So you did like the strings on my old Deluxe P?

La Bella Deep Talkin' Flats La Bella Black Nylon Flats Pyramid Gold Flats Pyramid Gold Black Nylon Flats Thomastik Jazz Flats I didnt vote because it was limited to one choice only

[quote name='Linus27' post='982034' date='Oct 8 2010, 09:20 PM']Did I read that right that Dan Lakland has left Lakland? If so, why did he leave and what is he up to now?[/quote] If I've got the story correct, Lakland is now owned by John Pirruccello (who was already a working for Lakland for many years and knows Dan Lakin from childhood) and Bo Pirruccello (who is John's brother and is boss of Hanson who make pickups for Lakland). Rumour has it that Dan is going to be working for Harmony Guitars.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='981718' date='Oct 8 2010, 04:07 PM']This is how it should look. I know this is a DJ5 and the OP posted to the updated JO5 but still, a jazz is a jazz. [/quote] Well, to me, that one looks out on the B string just as the teal looked out on the G string

Never spotted this thread until today. The bass is looking lovely guys. Well done.

[quote name='stevie' post='980865' date='Oct 7 2010, 07:34 PM']Any idea how much they are - and if it's really better than a piece of foam?[/quote] The prices used to be on the website but not there at present. My recollection is that they were not at all cheap.

[quote name='spongebob' post='980789' date='Oct 7 2010, 06:12 PM']Done a search, but can't find anything....hope I'm not breaking any rules here (apologies of so). I always buy my strings online - normally Stringbusters or Stringsdirect. I've always found them the cheapest and most reliable to buy from. How about everybody else? Is there somewhere cheaper?? Flatwounds are now about £30 a shot for D'addario Chromes?? Any ideas?[/quote] [url="http://www.lordofthestrings.com/"]http://www.lordofthestrings.com/[/url] [url="http://www.stringstar.com/"]http://www.stringstar.com/[/url] was doing 10% off for Basschatters - not sure whether that's still going.

[quote name='Johnston' post='977243' date='Oct 4 2010, 03:38 PM'][url="http://www.bachmusik.com/en/bach-ft-1-or_p1550"]fenderbird[/url] Wouldn't mind knowing a bit myself !!![/quote] By the way, the guy playing the Fenderbird in the Youtube clip is Basvarken at the Last Bass Outpost and is, I think, an agent for B&CH based in the Netherlands.

[quote name='chris_b' post='977005' date='Oct 4 2010, 12:57 PM']If I can’t play what I need to play on one bass then I should either buy a better bass or I'm playing it wrong!![/quote] I used three at Saturday's gig: NS WAV4 electric upright on about 1/3 of songs, fretless Precision about 1/3, and fretted Precision 1/3. I can't see any reason for not doing that if it suits the songs and there's enough stage space for the gear. Another band member played two guitars (in different tunings), ukulele, mandolin, several harmonicas, and a kazoo. The percussionist had a full kit with a second snare and a range of other percussion instruments. The last member only had one guitar - poor bloke.

[quote name='Johnston' post='977243' date='Oct 4 2010, 03:38 PM'][url="http://www.bachmusik.com/en/bach-ft-1-or_p1550"]fenderbird[/url] Wouldn't mind knowing a bit myself !!![/quote] Lots on the [url="http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=2847.0"]Fenderbird at the Last Bass Outpost[/url]. And also a very very long thread on the [url="http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=434.0"]Bach Non-reverse Thunderbird also at the Last Bass Outpost[/url].

I play in a band. Some of the songs we play were written by one or more members of the band. Some of the songs we play were written by people who are not in the band. Are we a 'covers' band? Are we an 'originals' band? You know what? I don't give a sh1t.

[quote name='toneknob' post='972975' date='Sep 30 2010, 05:37 PM']Surely he was the third man[/quote] Jolly good!

[quote name='leschirons' post='972207' date='Sep 29 2010, 11:10 PM']Wouldn't it be funny if Adam Clayton auditioned and didn't get the gig.[/quote] The novelist Graham Greene entered, under an assumed name, a competition to see who could best parody the style of Graham Greene. He came second.

I enjoyed that almost as much as he did.

[quote name='Wolverinebass' post='968980' date='Sep 26 2010, 11:13 PM']... but when note choice and freedom of expression starts getting taken away from you, that's what I mean by being dictated to ...[/quote] But when you work with a band, especially at an audition, note choice and freedom of expression are always taken away from you at least in the sense of your freedom being limited - by the song and its needs, by the arrangement, by the very fact that you are working with others. Music is a cooperative activity even when there is a leader/musical director, even when there are written parts. The one band I played with where the songwriter had written out all the parts in notation - and I'm a very slow reader - was the band where I learned the most.

It looks good, I've got the same pickups (although in humbucker cases) in my Decade. They are very nice and very sensitive pickups.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='966062' date='Sep 23 2010, 08:39 PM']Precision in the traditional place with a passive tone/volume.[/quote] That will do nicely.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='966064' date='Sep 23 2010, 08:41 PM']"just think, when do you ever solo the neck pickup on a jazz bass?".[/quote] Almost always.

[quote name='lanark' post='966701' date='Sep 24 2010, 02:00 PM']Cool - the extra cost might well be worth it. Are their black tape ones good for that too?[/quote] The extra cost of some flats is an incentive to stick with them until they are dead. I like the Pyramid black nylons too but I think there is quite a lot of personal taste in this matter and I'd be dubious about getting you to spend £40 on my say so. With any string there's a risk you won't like them. Maybe you could offer the Chromes up for trade for a set of used Pyramids (or any other flat).

[quote name='lanark' post='966699' date='Sep 24 2010, 01:59 PM']Yeah, but only so far (and I get DId straight into the PA when gigging - so I can't tune it out with the amp). Besides - you don't get flats to use the tone knob to reduce the brightness (unless you have a fretless, I suppose).[/quote] Well, I'd probably roll the treble off even with flats. I agree that Chromes can be relatively clanky (for flats) but also playing with right hand nearer the fingerboard can help as can playing more lightly.

[quote name='lanark' post='966665' date='Sep 24 2010, 01:36 PM']Can anyone recommend flats that have that duyll mellow sound from the mooment they're put on? I've to switch a set of brand new Chromes that were put (by the shop) onto my new CV Jazz because they were too clanky - especially when pressing down (I don't want a ting when pressing against the fret). Funnily enough, I don't remember my first set of Chromes being this bad - but the memory is a funny old thing. So --- when I get another set of flats, what would you recommend that don't need several weeks worth of wearing in? EDIT: I was thinking of starting a new thread, but figured there were enough about flats already.[/quote] Pyramid Golds can sound dead straight out of the packet.

[quote name='Truckstop' post='964944' date='Sep 22 2010, 08:57 PM']Option D: Fake your own death. Sometimes it's the only way out. Truckstop[/quote] Deja Vu.

[quote name='Tradfusion' post='962582' date='Sep 20 2010, 07:15 PM']oops sorry I didnt realise this is old news... oh well [/quote] Well, old news and ongoing news too.

[quote name='Tradfusion' post='962556' date='Sep 20 2010, 07:05 PM']Stumbled across this by accident and now I'm intrigued...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNPx6RS8PiM... fair bit of chat about these over on talkbass so I was wondering if anyone closer to home is using a Ubass? I play some trad Irish sessions that this would work great on, just the size and handiness alone is great but they actually sound decent as well in a funny double bassy kind of way...[/quote] Several threads on these already: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=60595&hl=ukulele"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...&hl=ukulele[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=91933&hl=ukulele"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...&hl=ukulele[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=93168"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=93168[/url]