soulstar89

Oh music nomad who have great videos on YouTube suggest depressing at 12th fret. A gentleman on YouTube named Dave does 17th. Thing is all are extremely knowledgeable. Either way I’ve found my approach and I’ll stick to it so that I make life easy while learning.

You place a capo on first fret to get the nut out of the equation. Fender states depressing the last fret and then measuring the distance between 8th fret and string. I’m finding my way. Just like learning bass you just have to “do” and everything will fall into place.

cheers for heads up. on crewdson I’ve watched the doc many times it’s amazing. I shoot film and his style is very much inspired in what I do tbh. I went to his exhibition in London at the photographers gallery cathedral of the pines. Dream house is my favourite project.

Thanks for links. I actually watched a lot of Dave’s videos. He depresses at the 17th fret. I just find it confusing many people have different views. Maybe the more I do this the do this the clearer the patterns will show themselves. I restrung my 78 p bass with heavy gauge flats. At first the neck didn’t move (chunky neck) but I’ve had to do adjustment reliefs now. Waiting for it to settle. Also nice profile picture. Gregory crewdson is one of my favourite photographers. I’ve some of his books

On the fender website regarding setting up your bass it advises that you place a capo on first fret and depress last fret. Use feeler gauge at 8th fret. I have seen and read other companies suggesting depressing at 17th and also 12th. my question is how does depressing a fret at a different location affect setup and playability? I get completely different feeler gauge readings at 12th,17th and last fret. My neck is a 9.5” radius so set a 0.30mm as relief as indicated on fender website. just rather confused with many different approaches. cheers

Beaitiful

Bought a set of D’addario chromes from etienne. His communication was top draw. The Royal Mail was slacking by placing wrong post code and in turn delaying delivery. Etienne was extremely helpful and offered a refund if they don’t show up. Genuine person. Again his communication was exemplary, fast postage and strings are as described. Would highly recommend Etienne. Cheers bud Soulstar

😊

I’ll make another trip after this heatwave.

I went the Roland store in central london to try out the new katana head and combos. I was intrigued with the combos as they are class A/B. I couldn’t get on with them. The controls made my brain hurt and I couldn’t get a sound I loved. I may need to try again. The katana head is class D and set flat sound vastly different. I came out and went to rose morris next door and tried the ashdown a evo iv…. Wow. It made the boss, tone hammer and mark bass amps and combos I tried feel and sound sterile. I love the tone hammer with a p bass bass but the evo had such a full rounded sound. I also tried the Eich t-300 and genz Benz streamliner at the bass gallery. The Eich is super clinical. Amazing eq points and taste control is good. Genz Benz streamliner is completely different. It's much warmer and round (doesn’t compare to the ashdown though). I played both through a barefaced 2x10.

I tried one last week. Very nice. The new genzler kinetic 800 head is another option

When it feels right, it feels right.

nice find. I’ve been looking for a fender mij pb-70 from the 90’s with no luck. How the bass feels on hand is the mist important. When you see wear of an instrument it shows it’s been played which to me is a good thing. See how you get on with it and also if you like the tone it produces. The lacquer to me isn’t an issue but everyone is different

Found a couple sets which I feel deserve some exposure. Great mood created.

That’s relative to the environment. Playing with people is extremely similar to team based sports like footy. You react to the moment and adjust accordingly. “X” is playing and doing this how can I complement the mood here. If a improv gets boring it’s due to no one taking the lead at a given time and then collective reacting and supporting. To me improvisation is the root of all things creative. The key is being in the same frequency as others.

Old post but I just watched a Yussef dayes set with Rocco on kexp His using rotosound swing 66 strings on a BB1100’s (you can tell by red silk and the coloured ball ends). Prob a dead set. I use a late 70’s Yamaha pulser 400 with Bartolini pickups and can get a similar tone. one member said about chasing the exact equipment. It can be an endless rabbit hole. I idolise paul Jackson and Freddie Washington. I don’t sound like them even if I tried lol, I’m funkier lmao (bad joke) A good trick to get a dead tone with fresh roto’s is coat them with Vaseline. It gives a different tone to playing them in. That’s what I do. Basically same method as what many do with flats.

great advice. This would save us so much Money and time looking for gear rather than getting to know the gear you have and evolving our technique

really appreciate this. I’ve still on the look out for the manual for the pulser and bb100 and 1200. The search goes on lol

Oh really? I didn’t know this.