EssentialTension

Not a Fender, and 69 ought to be the price not the year.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1483288551' post='3205945'] Is this active? IMO flats are good on passive basses but waste the range and breadth of tones you can get out of a pre amp. [/quote] [quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1483349913' post='3206326'] This. [/quote] I guess if you don't really don't like flats generally, or don't like a particular set of flats, then an active or passive bass can make little or no improvement. However, I can't see that whether the pre-amp is in the bass (or in a floor box, or in a rack, or merely in the amplifier) can make any significant difference.

When I had a G&L 2500, I used Thomastik Jazz Flats and found them to be excellent.

If it's ok to use frets or amplification, it's ok to use tablets. Unless you really are old school ... in which case no frets, no amplification and a music stand not a tablet.

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[quote name='Gottastopbuyinggear' timestamp='1481119346' post='3189845'] Aha! I'm normally pretty good at reading threads before I reply to them, but I'd missed your comment on finding them substantially different. I wasn't trying to contradict you, and I don't think you took it the wrong way anyway, but I've seen wars start over on TalkBass for less! [/quote] I didn't take it as contradiction - not that contrdiction would be a problem anyway - but just that [i]sometimes[/i] there is a subjective element to things.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1480763011' post='3186934'] The FS are substantially more tense or less compliant than the FL, in my experience. [/quote] [quote name='Gottastopbuyinggear' timestamp='1480842817' post='3187394'] I've since put FSs on my jazz and can't really tell any difference to the FLs. [/quote] ... and that's why it's necessary to try them and decide for oneself.

[quote name='mike 110' timestamp='1480758038' post='3186892'] Thanks bb , am I right in assuming that the L in 760FL stands for Long ( scale ) ? [/quote] The L in FL stands for ‘light gauge’ compared with FM ‘medium gauge’, FS ‘standard gauge’ and FX ‘extra light gauge’ etc. The FS are substantially more tense or less compliant than the FL, in my experience.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1473205561' post='3128042'] Because that's the way this bass playing stuff works. There's a certain licks you should know. It's not art. Blue [/quote] Sounds to me that the rock 'n' roll police are out again, telling people what they should and shouldn't know. But actually there is no special reason for knowing those lines. I don't even know half of the songs let alone the basslines.

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1473159554' post='3127448'] ... just songs I think every player whatever style should be able to play ... [/quote] Why should 'every player whatever style' be able to play them?

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1473143814' post='3127239'] Where was that? As I've rehearsed at most of the places in Brighton. [/quote] I can't remember what it was called but in an industrial block just off New England.

This used to happen at a place in Brighton. We were never accused of theft but one time the guy asked 'er ... did you move the piano ... someone moved the piano ... was it you?'. It wasn't us. Another time we arrived and all was locked up and no one there. We phoned the guy and he sent a taxi with the keys to let ourselves in, He turned up an hour later. Then there was the time the ceiling fell on the drummer.