EssentialTension

[quote name='lanark' post='939009' date='Aug 28 2010, 08:20 PM']... I use flats on everything - I just couldn't go back to rounds now.[/quote] Me too. La Bellas on the fretted P and J, Thomastiks on the fretless P, and Pyramid Golds on my Decade.

+1 on the following points: *La Bella flats - the older the better and the older they are the less you need to roll off the treble *High action - this is important, not even the slightest fret sizzle and then a bit higher *One finger - unless you can make [i]exactly[/i] the same tone with both fingers *Play between the pickup and the fingerboard *Foam mute at the bridge I'm not convinced about the lard/margarine story. However, as always, it's in your soul and in your fingers

[quote name='molan' post='932940' date='Aug 22 2010, 06:24 PM']The Funkmasters JB Rhythm Sections book by Allan Slutsky & Chuck Silverman. [/quote] I think I need to buy that book.

I expect he had a few. There were at least two because I've seen a pic, I can't remember where, of two of them next to each other. Searched for it but couldn't find it.

Didn't see that but did see them at Reading two years ago. They were extremely good. RATM followed them and, in my view, were even better.

[quote name='BB2000' post='938494' date='Aug 27 2010, 10:52 PM']760FL[/quote] +1

[quote name='Clarky' post='937594' date='Aug 26 2010, 09:58 PM']... Let me start, I have four (excluding the DB, which doesn't really count as its more an attractive ornament than an instrument, the little it ever gets played). In fact, let me re-phrase to "how many electric basses do you own?" ...[/quote] So do I count the EUB or not, and do I count the electro-acoustic or not. I tell you what, I did count them.

The one that comes with a free bandsaw.

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='935856' date='Aug 25 2010, 12:35 PM']I am not sure about this. I love my Sandberg, mainly because the tension is low still down near the bridge, which is where I am comfortable playing. I used my new Shuker last night, and even though its the same scale, with 40-95 on it, the tension is too high (and its always like this on other basses I've used, and my Valenti), can I adjust the neck to change this? And if so, what way do I turn it?[/quote] You say 40-95, but do you mean they are exactly the same make of string or just that they happen to be the same gauge? Gauge does not itself affect tension. Tension is affected only by three things: (1) scale length, (2) mass per unit length of the string, and (3) the pitch to which the string is tuned. You can read about it [url="http://liutaiomottola.com/myth/perception.htm"]here[/url]. If it's a different type of string (i.e. different mass per unit length), even if the gauge is the same, then the tension may be different. If the strings are exactly the same then what you (and many others) are referring to as tension is, strictly speaking, not tension at all but compliance or elasticity - the link above explains this. Compliance can vary due to where the string is played, due to differences in string construction, and, some people claim, due to distance between bridge/nut and string fixing points. What strings are you using? How do the different basses you refer to differ in relation to stringing?

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='933247' date='Aug 23 2010, 12:00 AM']Thanks for that Dave - didn't want to disbelieve the other post but knew the light weight was why my pal bought his.[/quote] I think the AGB200 is semi-hollow and the AFB200 is fully hollow - I think.

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='933233' date='Aug 22 2010, 11:18 PM']Epiphone Zenith? I know someone who uses an Artcore after a serious neck injury in a car crash - bought it as he couldn't gig his P Bass, so surprised by this comment, perhaps there's a wide variation in weight with them.[/quote] I think there are maybe two Artcores now, one is fully hollow while the other has a centre block and so is heavier.

[quote name='paul h' post='924755' date='Aug 14 2010, 11:07 AM']I now have an image in my head of turning up to a gig with a box of spares and making a bass during the intro of the first song ...[/quote] As you're making it you'll have to shout out 'Can you tell what it is yet?' Rolf says 'Brilliant'.

But also ... 'this are the reasons why l selling this bass guitar for only 225 pounds'.

[quote name='merello' post='930216' date='Aug 19 2010, 07:51 PM']If Leo hadn't invented the electric bass, does anyone really think it would never have happened? Interesting argument.[/quote] He didn't invent the electric bass, there were electric basses before Fender. Leo made the one that caught on.

[quote name='bass24' post='837300' date='May 14 2010, 03:32 PM']Does anyone know where I could find the tab for the bass section in the song How long by Ace? Here is a YouTube link: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIK5F4zRN0Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIK5F4zRN0Y[/url] Thanks in advance (Sorry if this post is in the wrong section, still finding my way around here)[/quote] Great song, and here's Paul Carrack (of Ace and the writer of the song) doing it in 2004 with Pino Palladino on bass:

[quote name='daz' post='928669' date='Aug 18 2010, 02:17 PM']No, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, and Paul Jones all learned to play quite well. As for being 'recruited by McLaren' to look the part in the new punk band. Steve Jones hassled MacLaren for months to manage & help them. He only said yes to stop Steve stealing stuff from the shop. This was in 1975 before Punk was started. [b][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pub_rock"]'Pub Rock' [/url][/b]was the big scene from 72 to 76. (Kilburn & the high roads, Dr Feelgood, Ducks deluxe, Roogalator, etc) It was a backlash againt the prog rock 20 minute drum solo, lock yourself in a room for 10 years and learn to play virtuoso before your first gig, school of thought[/quote] Yes, Chris Spedding, who produced the first Sex Pistols demo, thought they could play (this is before Sid). He claims his demos were remixed to make it sound as if they couldn't play: Quote: Spedding explains, They are not the same mixes that I did. Dave Goodman, the other producer besides Chris Thomas, went in and re-did them and added a lot of echo to them and added stuff to them. So they'd been marketed as the Spedding tapes, but they are not really my mixes. The mixes I did sound better. I'm quite proud of the Sex Pistols demos, especially when compared to their other later recordings. On my demos you can hear everything quite clearly - the bass and drums are really audible plus you can actually hear what the rhythm and lead guitars are doing. Part of why they (McLaren and the Pistols) didn't like my demo was that because I like R&B, I highlighted their rhythm tracks with a big bass drum and bass aound, particularly because Matlock had some intensely played bass runs. They wanted a guitar soup. I think that whenever you've got an interesting rhythm section like that, a band sounds like they can actually play, and since that was the whole point of my demo - to prove they could play - that's what I pushed. When you have a guitar soup, which is what the demo they recorded later sounds like, you have to face the fact that someone's trying to cover up the fact that they can't play. And that's what McLaren wanted people to think that they couldn't play, that was just an idea, a way of making all this anarchy stuff happen. [url="http://www.chrisspedding.com/session/sp/sp.htm"]Source here[/url] Unquote

[quote name='risingson' post='928561' date='Aug 18 2010, 12:50 PM']... if Lennon was a bad piano player? ....[/quote] There's an interview with Lennon where he says something like 'I'm not actually a very good guitarist, but I can make it talk'.

[quote name='hoiho' post='928246' date='Aug 18 2010, 12:23 AM']OK, so maybe Apple wasn't the [i]best[/i] example. It was just the first to come to mind. How about Badass, instead. A bass bridge, a leather cream, [i]and[/i] a burger...[/quote] I didn't mean that there was anything wrong with the example as such, because the two companies have and do co-exist. I only wanted to say that the matter had been through the courts.

[quote name='foal30' post='928205' date='Aug 17 2010, 11:46 PM']just want to say Dunn is bluddy magic player great guy to learn stuff of too, he's on some of the best records full stop some genius from here linked to a site with heaps of transcriptions, it's awesome thanks.[/quote] Agreed again.

[quote name='merello' post='928069' date='Aug 17 2010, 09:48 PM']Just wondering. If all the fancy basses on the go just now were what we were used to and a wee guy in California called Fender introduced his 'Precision Bass'.[/quote] It couldn't happen because many if not most of those so-called fancy basses owe a debt to your wee Californian. [quote name='merello' post='928069' date='Aug 17 2010, 09:48 PM']What would you honestly say about the shape, weight, balance and simplicity?[/quote] I'd say I like the shape, I'm happy with the weight, and I'm satisfied with the simplicity. [quote name='merello' post='928069' date='Aug 17 2010, 09:48 PM']Bringing it up because I hear a lot of guys just saying 'you can't beat a Fender' when they have not really tried anything else.[/quote] I've tried lots of things and there are basses I like as well as Fenders, but if I could only have one it would probably be a Fender or a Fender clone. [quote name='merello' post='928069' date='Aug 17 2010, 09:48 PM']I also think I'm a wee bit of a guitar snob but that's another question..... [/quote] I don't really see what it this has got to do with snobbery.

[quote name='hoiho' post='928181' date='Aug 17 2010, 11:21 PM']But only when Apple Computers ventured into music.[/quote] Well, the original dispute over the use of the name 'Apple' and the 'Apple logo', goes back to the late 1970s and predates Apple Computers venturing into music.

[quote name='foal30' post='928156' date='Aug 17 2010, 11:00 PM']always felt Dunn missed the first chorus have a listen![/quote] Agreed.

[quote name='Oggy' post='928107' date='Aug 17 2010, 10:25 PM']Hi Fellow Basschaters, TASCAM PORTABLE BASS TRAINER - [b][u]CD-BT1 MKII[/u][/b] Can anyone tell me how to use the 'loop' function on the above? The manual is long gone, I put it somewhere safe (honest I did) and now I can't lay hands on it. Where's your memory when you need it! Probably the same place as the manual. :wacko: Oggy I still think she threw it out, along with a load of other useful stuff I can't find .[/quote] The manual is available for download [url="http://www.tascam.com/products/cd-bt1mkii;9,21,17,19.html"]here[/url].

[quote name='hoiho' post='928113' date='Aug 17 2010, 10:28 PM']So we can have, say, a computer manufacturer and a music publishing company sharing a single fruity trademarked name.[/quote] Although the dispute over the use of the name 'Apple' did go as far as the High Court - both sides could afford expensive lawyers.