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[quote name='Ancient Mariner' post='695702' date='Dec 29 2009, 04:39 PM']FWIW a 3 way switch will allow you to blend 2 pickups together exactly as you already can with a J type, but will allow you to quickly solo either PU without fiddling with a volume pot. This strikes me as more useful: all the sounds you already have plus 2 more.[/quote] On a Jazz bass I can quite successfully 'fiddle' with two volume pots at once using one hand if I need to but it's very rarely necessary. The three way switch is just irrelevant to me. My Tony Franklin fretless Precision with P/J pickups has a three way switch and a single volume control - the one thing I would change about the Franklin is to remove the switch and have two separate volume pots.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='695500' date='Dec 29 2009, 11:51 AM']I got mine through Amazon but i think they were from Staples.[/quote] Excellent, found them at Staples. Thanks.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='695128' date='Dec 28 2009, 08:31 PM']I have a mate who spent over £200 on a set of earphones, only to get them trapped in a taxi door on a drunken night out. Cue 25 minutes of them bouncing off the road at 30mph, they were well and truly broken afterwards![/quote] I can understand £200 on earphones. I can't understand taking £200 earphones on a drunken night out.

[quote name='demanufacture' post='695316' date='Dec 29 2009, 01:20 AM']I'm wondering how can we descirbe perfect ear... the hearing is not an objective sense (it's only for ourselves)[/quote] Wikipedia says: [quote]Absolute pitch (AP), widely referred to as perfect pitch, is the ability of a person to identify or recreate a musical note without the benefit of an external reference [...] Generally, absolute pitch implies some or all of the following abilities when done without reference to an external standard: * Identify by name individual pitches (e.g. A, B, C#) played on various instruments * Name the key of a given piece of tonal music just by listening (without reference to an external tone) * Identify and name all the tones of a given chord or other tonal mass * Sing a given pitch without an external reference * Name the pitches of common everyday noises such as car horns[/quote] Sounds fairly objective to me.

[quote name='Texastrouble' post='695099' date='Dec 28 2009, 08:01 PM']Have anyone tried the Epiphone Zenith Bass? grtz Texastrouble[/quote] There's a link in post #22 [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=59067&hl=triumph%20zenith&st=20"]here[/url] to a comment by someone who played a prototype in the US.

Michael, you are not thinking straight, you obviously need an upright bass - EUB or double bass, it doesn't matter which.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='606325' date='Sep 23 2009, 12:11 AM']I found some 18" steel rulers on line for about £1.80, they seem to do the job.[/quote] Where did you find those? I'm having no luck.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='694577' date='Dec 27 2009, 10:44 PM'][url="http://stores.ebay.com/USSREPOCH_Guitars-Basses_W0QQ_fsubZ884230016QQ_sidZ271161026QQ_trksidZp4634Q2ec0Q2em322"]http://stores.ebay.com/USSREPOCH_Guitars-B...634Q2ec0Q2em322[/url] Enjoy![/quote] Very interesting Jack. Some of the listings have a link to [url="http://www.cheesyguitars.com/index.html"]Cheesy Guitars[/url] which has links to [url="http://www.junkguitars.com/"]Junk Guitars[/url] and to [url="http://www.lordbizarre.com/"]Lordbizarre's electric guitar & amp museum[/url]. Also very interesting.

I don't think you'll manage to get the CV to sound exactly like the Highway but you might make it sound even better than it does. I have a CV Jazz and it is a great instrument but I'm also considering some upgrades. 1) I'm not changing the bridge, which is already a high mass bridge with brass saddles. 2) I'm planning to change the electrics for CTS pots, a Sprague capacitor, and a Switchcraft socket. 3) I'm going to change the pickups for (probably) a pair of Lindy Fralin Vintage Jazz (but maybe Wizard 64s or Fender Custom Shops - or lots of other possibilities depending on what you like).

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='694066' date='Dec 27 2009, 12:41 AM']an all-original 1966 daphne blue fender mustang in near-mint condition with lollypop tuners & creamy pearl pickguard[/quote] [quote name='Rowbee' post='694073' date='Dec 27 2009, 01:00 AM']Could you be a little more specific? [/quote] I think maybe JLP forgot to mention the TI Jazz Flats.

A thumb rest can be limiting because in practice you may not always want to play in the same position. Sometimes you'll want near the bridge, other times up over the end of the fingerboard, someitmes in between. So better, IMHO, to get used to working without a thumb rest.

1) How long have you been playing Bass Guitar/String Bass for or both? Bass guitar - 35 years, Electric upright - 9 months. 2) If you don’t play string bass/bass guitar have you thought of doubling up on either to get more recognition as a bass player? n/a- but it wouldn't be about recognition. 3) Who are your favourite exponents of both string bass/bass guitar? I don't really have favourites, I listen to lots of people 4) Do you think that both the bass guitar and string bass are important as bass instruments? of course they are. 5) What genres do you think are important for bass players to listen to? all of them, of course 6) Do you think electric guitarists can learn to play bass guitar more than string bass? of course, they are physically more similar 7) Do you think bass can be used to solo as well as accompany other instruments? of course it can and is 8) Do you think it is important to learn to sight read? the importance of sight reading depends on what you are doing as a musician, for some it would be indispensible. But there's also a difference between being able to immediately read and play on first sight and being able to make sense of notation which would be not disadvantageous for any bass player 9) What do you think of bass guitars such as 5 string/6 string e.g. as being an add-on to the bass players role? they are fine but they don't interest me and aren't necessary for what ido 10) What are your opinions on electric upright basses as a substitute for the string bass? they take up less space and allow me the opportunity to play some upright 11) What is the best amp to use for bass guitar or string bass? there is no best amp 12) What pickups for string bass are the best for capturing the natural tone of the instrument? there is no best pickup

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' post='689651' date='Dec 20 2009, 12:12 PM']A word of advice: if you are about to play your first gig on fretless make sure that you run through the set in a dark room![/quote] Or get some florescent tippex.

Very happy with my Walkabout 112 too.

[quote name='lowdown' post='688737' date='Dec 18 2009, 09:11 PM']Must be a publicity shoot.[/quote] "CBS News cameras [...] were doing a brief piece called The Motown Sound."

[quote name='Basska' post='688406' date='Dec 18 2009, 02:53 PM']Power Stance? Ants in your pants? Head bangin' rants? Skankin' dance?[/quote] I vary between bored bassist and skankin'. On more than one occasion I've been told by a punter 'you look like you should be in a reggae band'. On one of those occasions I was in a reggae band.

Does the pickup have the E-A coils in the usual position and then the D-G coils moved above them nearer the neck? Or are the D-G coils where the E-A coils would have been relative to the neck? Looks to me as if the D-G coils are nearer the neck than the usual E-A position. I'll stop now before I confuse myself.

I've got TI Jazz Flats on my Michael Kelly. Acoustically it is quieter than when it had acoustic bronze rounds on it but I had to amplify it to play with others then so I don't see what difference it makes.

[quote name='Rayman' post='688300' date='Dec 18 2009, 12:53 PM']Yeah great to see a rare little glimpse of the great man in action. My mum is a massive fan of Bix Biederbecke, and the [i]only[/i] footage of him is one fleeting clip from a film made in the 20's of a big band he was in. That one clip is precious to mum, and she plays the DVD of it regularly, even though it's only a few seconds. Point is, modern heros are very much more accessable that the old ones, so rare old clips like this one are very important to us older folks.[/quote] Hey, steady on, who are you calling 'older'?

[quote name='Conan' post='688281' date='Dec 18 2009, 12:29 PM']I enjoyed it too! What a fantastic voice the lead singer has/had. Was that david Ruffin? Not one of their greatest tracks though IMO... [/quote] Yes, David Ruffin and definitely a fantastic voice and I think it was a B-side.