EssentialTension

[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.

I have a Crafter SA which combines characteristics of an electro-acoustic with a neck more like an electric ... http://youtu.be/nvLyQFvbKu0

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1461329873' post='3033753'] Such a vast eternity that they decided it would take too long to include links to their music in the ad, and simply suggested that we google it ourselves if we're that fussed. To be fair, they possibly have form for using guitarists as bassists - if that's their previous bassist in the picture then he's doing a pretty good visual impression of dear old Keef! [/quote] Looks like one of Bill's basses too.

A week is a long time in politics.

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1461316417' post='3033559'] I wouldn't recommend an unlined fretless to start out with. You have to have a very good ear or have spot on technique to play one. The purists will frown on a lined fretless but to me it's about the sound rather than the look. With a lined neck you'll know exactly where you're supposed to be fretting. With an unlined neck it's likely you'll spend a lot of time wondering why it doesn't sound quite right with no points of reference to help you correct it. Just my opinion. [/quote] I beg to differ. Lines on the fingerboard can get you in the region of a note but they do not tell you exactly where to put your finger tip. Only your ear can do that, lines or no lines. Anyway it's common for a unlined fretless to have side dots - hopefully at least roughly at the correct note position and not misleadingly between the notes - and side dots are as good a guide as lines, i.e. imperfect. When one is standing up playing, then the lines, especially for the D and G strings, will not be seen at all or will be seen at an angle of parallax that really won't help and may be very misleading. Of course, people can play whatever they like.

Just get a cheap fretless (preferably without lines IMO) and practice. Anyway, there isn't a fretless sound anymore than there is a fretted sound.

The wiring issue sounds a particularly bad to deal with on a hollow body. Nice that you sorted it but you have slightly put me off buying one.

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1461229677' post='3032597'] This. I put LaBella Deep Talking flats on my jazz when I realised that Joe Osborn played on so many tunes of that era that I thought had an amazing bass sound. [/quote] ... and played with a pick I believe.

[quote name='LeftyBiskit' timestamp='1461068185' post='3031098'] Mine was a Hofner Artist-I bought it in 1978 off a mate for a fiver, It came in bits as a project, as I'm cack handed I had to modify it a bit I still have it and occasionally plug it in the one in the pic is how it should look. [/quote] I too had Hofner Artist. I paid £30 if i recall correctly, which was about two week wages. It was quite playable although imperfect in intonation at the dusty end. I gave it to a friend when I got a Hayman 4040 for about £100.