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[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1335267883' post='1628261'] This might help with choosing new DB strings. [url="http://www.hervejeanne.de/saitenmatrix.php"]http://www.hervejeanne.de/saitenmatrix.php[/url] [/quote] nicely, thanks!

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1335517607' post='1632382'] PEAbyFLEA!!! [/quote] Beat me to it.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1335465563' post='1631724'] I play a Stagg and had resigned myself to the fact it doesn't "look or certainly sound like a Golf"! However a respected local DB player asked if he could use it at a Jazz jam we were at and to my ears it sounded just like him playing his DB. . The point I'm making is I guess quite a lot is down to good DB technique and having decent strings ( not that mine were!). I'm sure others will comment further [/quote] That's very good news for me, novice eub player and stagg owner. Thanks! :-)

The singer in the covers band I play in is very charming and charismatic and gets away with saying stuff to audiences that would be toe-curlingly embarassing coming from anyone else. He's been crossing the line recently though...introducing a Gregory Isaacs song he's been saying 'this was written by Gregory Isaacs who died recently...started with waccy baccy, went on to the strong stuff...don't do drugs, people!' Which is disrespectful to the man, as if that was the most noteworthy thing about his life, and horribly patronising to an audience (I don't like being told not to do drugs by my GP, never mind someone I'm only interested in because they're entertaining me). Had to get that off my chest. If you're reading this, Ray, you have a great voice and I love you like a brother, but...

[quote name='thodrik' timestamp='1335453904' post='1631478'] [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/fender-bassman-135-vintage-valve-amp-and-cabinet/100241298"]http://www.gumtree.c...binet/100241298[/url] Some guy in Paisley is selling a 1970s Bassman 135 and matching 1x15 for £450. You could give him a shout I suppose. [/quote] Bite his hand off. The 135 is a monster; much deeper and louder than the 100.

Rather lovely...let's see it being played then!

[quote name='jamirrorquai' timestamp='1335375470' post='1630191'] Shame that you think of me as a tool of the highest order, but that is your decision. I hope that you continue to make great music in the future and have loads of success in everything you do. Because although things didn't work out and as you say it was impossible to co ordinate everyone and to get them to care enough, I would never have anything bad to say about someone who tried to do something they have faith in. [/quote] Surely if you're going to do the tribute thing properly you need to be a tool of the highest order to front a Jamiroquai-a-like. Me, I'm planning on fronting a Fall tribute as I have many of the necessary personality traits, not to mention the dental arrangement.

[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1335437342' post='1630990'] Yeah, but they were never very tight; God, being omnipresent, was all over the place. [/quote] Aythenkyaw!

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/174101-1974-nearly-bassman100w-all-valve-amp/page__fromsearch__1

My singer was raving about them today. definitely will have to check them out.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1335270752' post='1628341'] ^ Broke Basschat [/quote] Probably just as well.

"I've just got this on Ebay and I'd like you to wear it on Friday'

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1335263238' post='1628104'] I've finally received my lefty NS 5 upright and I'm in love. Despite having a massive neck (which I'll have to learn to negotiate), it feels much more like a bass guitar than a double bass. As a consequence, I'm very happy I also have the more traditional - if cheaper - Harley Benton, because the two uprights appear to be complementary rather than mutually exclusive. Will take a few photos and post them either in the Gear Porn section (if they are any good) or somewhere around here. So how are you guys doing with your uprights? [/quote] I'm discovering that the Stagg is a crowd-pleasing Novelty Item. Played a couple of gigs and though I'm nowhere near as proficient as I am on a BG I'm getting more comments than ever from audiences and band members. Beginning to wonder how to make it sound more double-bassey already. Obviously a lot is in the fingers so that'll come, but it can't be long before I'm looking at new strings, and I'm not sure exactly the sound I'm after yet so won't be in a hurry to spend £100+. Bluejay, what are the dimensions of the NS5 and HB neck?

All of BMW Live at the Lyceum for the reasons Gary Mac states. And yes, Grace Jones with Sly and Robbie certainly does count :-)

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1335223066' post='1627708'] both my current basses have rosewood boards I have had a maple board but rosewood IMO looks better, feels better and sounds better - or maybe that's just in the mind I'd like to try an ebony board as I think that possibly looks better than rosewood but as it's harder it should be brighter....but isn't it heavy? [/quote] I have a fretless ebony board on a Warmoth P neck and it's not obnoxiously heavy. The board is such a small part of the neck the difference in density between various woods shouldn't amount to much.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1334657039' post='1619120'] A CE mark on the packet should be a dead giveaway [/quote] Not really - there are probably factories in China that turn a healthy profit manufacturing CE stickers. I have a circuit board here that's marked as lead-free and CE compliant and I know for a fact that at least one of the chips on it has never been manufactured lead-free. Must admit It'd never ocurred to me that the reason guitards and bassists were all mad was because of the heavy metals (as opposed to Heavy Metals) in the strings...bit like the Mad Hatter and his mercury poisoning...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1334595830' post='1618269'] Not entirely sure what a 'sole' band is... [/quote] They don't need a bass player...

[quote name='sykilz' timestamp='1334654786' post='1619074'] I put SD quarter pounders into my Mexican P bass.....and didn`t notice any difference at all. Except they look better. And I`m £50 down. However,lots of other people rave about them,so perhaps I just had great original pickups.... [/quote] Want to sell either of them?

[quote name='fumps' timestamp='1334582428' post='1617958'] .......awww now see what i did ? .........................goddam messed up my pants [/quote] Know how you feel. I sh*t myself the first time I heard the open E string.

[quote name='MetricMike' timestamp='1334592997' post='1618175'] Remember "[i]People don't know what they like[/i], [i]they like what they know[/i]." [/quote] Up to a point, but I play in a covers band and our singer regularly gets audiences singing along with the one original in the set. He introduces it as 'you haven't heard this but I guarantee you'll be singing it to yourself in the shower tomorrow'. Some of the surliest audiences I've played to have gone for it, too.

You're going to love me even more; I'm about to confirm that yes, you really do need to get an EUB :-) Spent 6 days noodling with it, suffering a tender right index finger but not as bad as I feared. Intonation was somehow easier than on a fretless, maybe because the fingers are naturally perpendicular to the fingerboard rathe than at an angle. The depth of the neck is a bit of a shock initially but it's surprising how you get used to it. Still haven't got the hang of the dusty end though - the neck runs out about the 9th 'fret'. Took it to rehearsal last night and EVERYONE in the band just loved it at first sight. And much to my surprise I found that I could play nearly all the set on it. Some sounded better, all sounded different. It was big fun, the physicality of it. It was like mountain biking as opposed to road riding, the instrument is a bit bigger and heavier and not as smooth, but you can chuck it around, grin a lot and get very dirty. The stuff that didn't sound as good (or called for use of the dusty end) I played on fretless, as usual. It felt like playing a teaspoon. So easy! And maybe because my left hand is getting stronger, the tone was better than before. Just a little practice on an upright has definitely improved my BG playing. So I'm going to play it at a gig on Tuesday. I really didn't think I'd be able to so soon, and I'm a right lazy bastard, but it's made a huge difference to my enjoyment of the band (who also are delighted). (Gushing rave review over, niggles upcoming: feel free to skip) The instrument I got had been fettled by a luthier. Previous owner said he'd made it a lot easier to play, but he didn't do anything beyond filing the nut and lowering the bridge. The headphone output is pretty useless, very hissy. Some complain of hum from poorly shielded electrics. Absolutely not an issue with mine. The bit of wire that you use to brace yourself is flimsy and rattly. You can hear it amplified when playing solo. I haven't spent a lot of time adjusting my amp but I think it could do with a bit of EQing to remove a certain plasticky tone. It certainly needs a very different EQ to my BG. Strings are very expensive, like half the value of the instrument. So it follows that if I buy good strings it'll improve the tone 50% . I have no idea where to start though. I guess I should practise a lot and decide how much of an increase in tension/weight I can tolerate before deciding. My giddiness has only just begun

[quote name='Alanbass' timestamp='1334529510' post='1617385'] I had exactly the same problem. The Why on earth fender don't have shielding as standard on their top of the line bassses is totally beyond me. [/quote] Because they don't give a cattle truck. They know that if it says "fender" on the headstock in big letters and "made in USA" in smaller ones we'll feel privileged to be allowed to pay whatever they ask.

hey fumps, just picked up a stagg (on the way home from a weekend mountain biking in yorkshire dales) and loving it...my Mrs thinks its the coolest thing since bass itself, first rehearsal with band next Sunday, I'll let you know how it goes!

I wouldn't worry too much about getting the maximum power from your amp by using 4 ohms. The difference between 300 and 500W is 2.2dB.

[quote name='MetricMike' timestamp='1333627110' post='1604459'] It strikes me that slapping... is a sport that has about as much meaning as sychronised swimming. [/quote] In ketchup. Metaphors comin' atcha like taxi cabs! And yes, Flea's best playing is fingerstyle.