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[quote name='Kex' timestamp='1463212601' post='3049512'] Weight. Thats what I am taking about, when I started playing back in the late 1970s (yep, really am that ancient) bass stacks were big and heavy. We had two transits to lug around our equipment, the PA alone took two men just to move each cab, and there were six of them. My amp was a 4 x 10 Trace Elliot combo, at the time relatively small compared to other people 8 x 12 Marshall stacks, but it was still heavy. Very heavy, I know because until last month I still owned it. Until recent;y i had never even considered the weight of a Bass, it was what it was, yet now I keep seeing 'how much does it weigh' in replies to adverts - OK, i am sure there are some people who have back / medical issues, but not that many surely! Same with equipment, number if times I have seen people with small lightweight cabs kidding themselves that that 8mm chipboard ply is going to produce the same sound as 15mm marine plywood is amazing. Go and try and lift up a professional full range B&W studio monitor, or even a high end home hifi, its massively heavy and there is a reason for that. So, whats with the weight thing, have we all become wimps [/quote] In my experience, the 1970s was heavy unreliable equipment, that did not sound good, transported in a six-wheel Transit and a large estate car following. In my experience, the 2010s is much lighter, compact and reliable equipment, that does sound good, and fits in my Seat Ibiza.

A further example of black with black pearl ...

[quote name='JellyKnees' timestamp='1463148985' post='3049079'] Can't wait to hear her attempt at the accent... lordy flip! [/quote] That will be a lorra fun.

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1463146715' post='3049033'] Danny Glover will play [s]her[/s] Dionne Warwick's father [/quote] Corrected it for you.

La Bella allow you to customize roundwound gauges ... [url="http://www.labella.com/strings/category/bass-vi/"]http://www.labella.c...tegory/bass-vi/[/url] Or Kalium ... [url="http://store.kaliumstrings.com/index.php/electric-bass-guitar/bass-vi-string-sets.html"]http://store.kaliums...tring-sets.html[/url]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1463140918' post='3048939'] White - looked the best to me and the sunburst was already more money when I went to place my order. [/quote] I planned white until I was in GAK and bought black. Good luck with setting it up.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1463139837' post='3048920'] Not very impressed with the shipping times... I ordered one pretty much as soon as the OP went up, and got a confirmation first thing the following morning (Tuesday) with a message saying that it would be delivered in the next 2-3 days. Well today's Parcel Force delivery has been and gone with nothing for me, and the tracking information has the bass still stuck in Köln... [/quote] Which colour?

Very nice.

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1463059900' post='3048189'] If its a new bass, to be honest I think its a weird question to ask; I would never thing to ask if it was in perfect condition...as its new! It would be sent straight back if it wasn't. If its a used bass then completely understand the question and surprised at Mark's reaction, although I'm sure he was intended on being rude or anything like that. [/quote] IMO, it's weird that someone would think it's a weird question.

After several tries I got it to work but then eventually gave up trying to decide what counted as competency or not. I expect it's relevant to someone sometime but almost everything I was being asked I would never do or need to do - so incompetent apparently. Good luck with your study.

It's not at all necessary to play a 'boingy thing' just because it's fretless.

Fretless is not as difficult as people think. Of course the more complex the tune, the more difficult it gets and correct intonation is always more demanding up the dusty end. However, getting by is quite feasible and I don't see any reason why it can't be a learning instrument.

Previous thread about her here ... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/279562-this-girl-is-just-wow"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/279562-this-girl-is-just-wow[/url]

[quote name='halibut' timestamp='1462204614' post='3041074'] This is probably a bit of a newbie question, by why do so many manufacturers consider 45, 65, 80, 105 a standard gauge set and 45, 65, 85, 105 a hybrid or non standard set? Why the 80 instead of the evenly spaced 85? [/quote] I'm not really interested in gauges. I use what I use because of how they feel and sound. My Precision has La Bella Deep Talkin' Flats 52-73-95-110 But my Lakland Decade now has DR Legend Flats 45-65-85-105, although for some time it had GHS Precision Flats but also 45-65-85-105. Those are both standard gauges as I understand it.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1462094627' post='3040152'] ... loose and shambolic ... 'they all sound like they're drunk'. [/quote] That's a fairly good description of The Faces. Check out Stewart's announcement at 17.25 ... '[i]Miss Judy's Farm[/i], it goes like this ... very similar to this anyway' Shambolic, but rocking and funky. http://youtu.be/1xHBjeiqzkQ

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1462053760' post='3040013'] Phew! I don't want to sound like a philistine here. I love McCartney's basslines, and he is probably one of the first guys that had me thinking about bass at all. Those runs in 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' made me want to play bass at least some of the time.... ...but I don't get the endless archaeology to figure out what basses he used on what songs. He EQ'd both instruments (Rick and Hofner) to sound pretty much the same, and it is a fairly basic tone that you can cop elsewhere. [/quote] ... and sometimes it's a Jazz.

Very good.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1461591779' post='3035901'] Pretty much my last contribution to TB was on a thread about celebrities who play musical instruments. I mentioned that Tony Blair (who was PM at the time) played guitar at one time. That was all -- but it was enough to earn me a public bollocking for supposedly contravening their 'no politics' rule..! [/quote] I expect the real problem was the confusion caused by you mentioning TB on TB.

[quote name='hubrad' timestamp='1461575392' post='3035695'] 'Sfunny, I quite like Talkbass for what it is, rather than bemoaning what it isn't. Admittedly I spend waaay more time here on Basschat, and the two vibes are different, but it's just like going to your parents' silver wedding do rather than out for several pints with your mates. . I bet everyone here would act slightly differently at the two events! :-) [/quote] Last year Mrs ET and myself had a 25 years silver Not-Married party. My band played, our son's band played, and the bar bill cost me a small fortune. It was nothing like Talkbass.

I've got a vintage Pre-Ernie Ball Music Man leather strap. It's just the correct length unlike some of these modern straps. Mind you it's not the full original length because someone has trimmed the end. I think it may have been me in 1980.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1461500906' post='3035148'] That's what a fetish is, though - an obsession; or 'an idea or thought that continually preoccupies a person's mind'. I think about vintage Fenders much more often than I need to - in fact, probably more than is mentally healthy - but I'm quite sure there are far worse things to be hung up on. And luckily I can't afford to buy one, so it's harmless really. Isn't it..? [/quote] Do you wake up thinking about the wood?

Welcome to Bass VI world; there are several relevant threads on this if you search Squier Bass VI. Have you shimmed the neck?

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1461359639' post='3034110'] At 1 minute in if there's a way to get rid of the drone in the background. Obviously depends how authentic you want it to sound though.... [media]http://youtu.be/nPmF3dBBXZw[/media] [/quote] I want to try that on Bass VI.

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1461338104' post='3033850'] Thanks, looks great - slightly out of my budget though unfortunately ☺ [/quote] I have seen them second hand for £250-280.