EssentialTension

This must have been very depressing and perhaps still is. Good luck with sorting it out.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='546425' date='Jul 21 2009, 01:49 PM']Can I call dibs?[/quote] Hey, I was first mate!!! But actually I have other plans for my £50 so I wave my traditional British right of queue leader.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='546147' date='Jul 21 2009, 10:53 AM']and the shadows [/quote] and The Beatles, and The Jam, and absolutely loads of others.

At £50 I'll have it if you don't want it.

Sorry to hear this story JP.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='545445' date='Jul 20 2009, 04:35 PM']For 'worst-ever' service experience, I could recount certain events at a tea-shop in Kent.... ...but I won't.[/quote] You're such a tease.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='545419' date='Jul 20 2009, 04:00 PM']Let's drop it now, OK?[/quote] Please don't.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='545308' date='Jul 20 2009, 02:02 PM']i thought this was a bit of a spoof thread but i can explain[/quote] Sorry, that was my fault.

[quote name='Greene-Mann' post='545258' date='Jul 20 2009, 01:12 PM']Got an old Fender Mustang not too long ago; im not sure if i like it yet or not tbh; This seems to be the right thread to piggyback the question of:- what would be the best strings to put on it so its got a similar tension to a 34 scale with 100's or 105's on it. Roto only make sets with a 95 E string- just doesnt feel right to me.[/quote] I'd have a set of Thomastik Jazz Flats (JF324) on it before you could say E .106 but from the sound of it their low tension is not what you are looking for. If you're after roundwounds I haven't got the slightest idea. Sorry.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='545249' date='Jul 20 2009, 01:01 PM']I keep thinking it'd be cool to put a japanese mustang neck on a firebird guitar body. Either get a luthier to make one or buy a warmoth firebird body unrouted & route it for bass, possibly setting the neck a bit further back than the stock route to make a perfect mini fenderbird.[/quote] Now you're talking!!

[quote name='onehappybunny' post='545226' date='Jul 20 2009, 12:38 PM']Oh, that Lakland is soooo gorgeous :wub: Any idea when the Lakland shortie will be available? *shuffles off to empty piggie bank* oh no, just found this [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=548803&page=3"]Talkbass Lakland shortie thread[/url] *puts coppers back into piggie bank*[/quote] US model only for the moment, sorry to get your hopes up. Skyline version I guess if they get enough interest but it will still be £1200 or so by the time it's in the UK. I'd like to see a short scale 30" Decade Bass VI.

Here's the shortscale 30" Lakland Decade prototype sitting next to Pino Palladino's 34" Decade: And the [url="http://www.lakland.com/"]Lakland home page[/url] says the short scale is 'coming soon'.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='544785' date='Jul 19 2009, 05:25 PM']you are a brave man..i had dots on all the 'frets'[/quote] That's a very good idea. [quote name='mrcrow' post='544785' date='Jul 19 2009, 05:25 PM']and if i ever get courage enough to use a fretless it will have to be lined[/quote] That's what I thought. It may be what some of the audience think too but at least I'm fooling the rest of the band. Playing fretless has made me listen differently - even with lines but even more so without them.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='544780' date='Jul 19 2009, 05:22 PM']Forgot to mention - I asked Howard The Bass Doc to add a dot on the 1st fret. It's a simple, great little idea I nicked from the Tony Franklin P. What a difference it makes...[/quote] +1 on the first fret dot.

[quote name='spongebob' post='544650' date='Jul 19 2009, 01:02 PM']As soon as I select it, my Markbass speaker seems to be poundng and working overtime, even at practice levels! - but it does sound great![/quote] You need to lower the gain on the amp and increase the master volume. Unless you want the pounding sound you describe.

[quote name='iamapirate' post='544374' date='Jul 18 2009, 10:13 PM']Bah, I dont think any [b]real[/b] bassist plays for the sole purpose of money.[/quote] Hey, I know you say '[i]sole[/i] purpose' (which could still be questionable) but your use of '[b]real[/b]' (especially with the bold emphasis) opens a bit of a hornet's nest. I'd say what makes someone a bassist is whether that someone plays bass (whatever that is) and whether you get paid or not has nothing to do with it. How about that?

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='544139' date='Jul 18 2009, 05:09 PM']It's because it's on the other side.[/quote]

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='544135' date='Jul 18 2009, 05:05 PM']I use a compound - ground pygmy bones and dried walrus blood.[/quote] Ah, there's nothing you can't get at Homebase these days.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='543994' date='Jul 18 2009, 02:27 PM'][/quote] And how do you get your grass to be so green? Or is it my monitor?