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At least it shouldn't suffer from neck dive with about 3 feet of the body behind the bridge

Anything with "tort" shouldn't be allowed to be listed at all but instead burnt in some sort of ceremonial ceremony of some description. Seriously though, without keyboard spamming, you should use as many words as you can in the title. This encourages more people to look at the listing as they know exactly what it is. Brand, model, year (if possible), colour, number of strings, country of origin and fretted/fretless should be in the title

I've only ever favoured 1 bass at a time so at the moment I am making sure that I have bonded properly with my Geddy Jazz before putting my Sterling up for sale. At one point years ago I owned 7 basses at one time but I will only ever play 1 at a gig so the other 6 were sold Maybe something to do with the 140 odd basses I've owned over the years making it easier to sell them every time

There's a bit in the Proclaimer's "500 Miles" where there is a stop for 2 bars before we go into the final choruses so I use it to add in whatever tunes I've been listening to or just for the hell of it. They range from Popeye to Enter Sandman but last night I decided to play a section of the big run on the Chili's "Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky" The look on our singer's face was priceless. I don't think she knew what to make of it so I'll be having a think about next week's musical interlude. There was another band I used to dep with and part of a medley they did was Sex Machine by James Brown. One night the drummer came in with a slightly different pattern to normal so I ended up playing What is Hip

A few years ago I received a 1979 Rickenbacker 4000 in a gig bag with a burst zip and a couple of bits of brown tape holding it in

My first thought when I saw the title was that this was going to be thread about this fellow

I always use channel B set at Hi-z whether direct in or via my BDI21 with both musicman and jazz basses

It was his listing that gave me an idea to check out online perspex companies. I liked the idea of the using the pickup screws to secure it so I have bought some black 5mm thick perspex cut to size and will drill the holes myself. I've bought a few pieces just in case I make a mess of it

After gigging this weekend I am finding that I am having trouble finding the best place to put my thumb when I am playing. On the Sterling, the pickup is right where I was to play but on the Jazz I want to be somewhere between the pickups. I had thought about a thumb rest of some kind but am thinking that a ramp might be the solution. Does anyone know where I could source one or have one made? It's a black Geddy Jazz and I'm not too bothered whether or not it follows the radius of the fretboard but would prefer it to be either black or clear. I understand that they can be home made but am completely hopeless when it comes to making anything

You Keep on Moving is still one of my favourite Purple tracks

check out some of the really supercheap pickups on Ebay from China etc. Most of the jazz ones I've seen have been ceramic so there's a chance they'll have P ones as well

That's everyone at the moment surely? 😀 There are some things that you are practically guaranteed: Hofner Violin bass - always played with a plectrum Fretless - weird chordy noise involving lots of harmonics rather than playing an actual tune or making a sound that the average bass player would make at a gig Fender Videos - Really crooked right hand wrist action Rickenbacker - either muffled and indistinct to sound like McCartney or a ton of overdrive and played with a plectrum to sound like Geddy, Chrirs Squire or Lemmy 99% percent of the rest - slap fest that sounds like someone pushing a drum kit down a flight of stairs. These are easy to spot as the thumbnail for the video has the player with his thumb hovering over the end of the fretboard and I know to steer clear Once you know this and accept this then you've less of a chance of getting annoyed.

I've been using channel B on the HI-Z setting. Channel C outputs at line level but there's no mention of whether it is balanced or not. I'm guessing that since it is a PA speaker then there wouldn't be a balanced output on it. I have decided to plug into my old Korg DT10 which also saves me turning down 2 volumes on the bass to tune silently between songs and it has a buffer built in. This then goes into my passive Art Z-Direct box with the balanced output going to the mixer. I might dig my BDI21 out for next week but I'll just use the DI this weekend

The block diagram on the instruction manual makes no reference to a buffer so I'm guessing that what goes in will be at exactly the same level coming back out again. DI time methinks 🤔

I read that as well but it doesn't state if it has a buffer like plugging into a tuner before going into the amp or if the signal is literally split between the amp and what goes to the through connector. I'd ideally like to get away from using anything else as I've already ditched my outboard preamp and like to keep it as simple as possible by plugging my bass directly into the amp

I have decided to ditch the wireless and plug straight into my QSC K12.2. The receiver I was using had a DI output to take my signal to the desk but I was thinking about using the DI through on Channel B which according to QSC is an unaffected signal but doesn't state if there is any buffering going on. I would like to find out if I plug my Geddy Jazz directly into channel B and send a DI from the loop-through to the desk, will the output be great enough or do I need to get myself an active DI box? I can't find any specs online which say if there's anything going on or not to buffer the signal

His brother Ricky use to water Robert Plant's plants in his pants, true story.

My first gig at 17 was in a big band. I was the youngest by about 40 years but they were the guys who had been there at the time so to speak and had some amazing stories. It's a very different gig to playing in rock bands & doing weddings. Much more relaxed and usually a great laugh. The band leader was always telling me to turn down but the sax players would always turn round to me and tell me to turn back up I was in that band for a couple of years and learnt a great deal in that time.

I had this problem too but used paper cut to the required width and wound it around the outside of the bit that goes through the back until it felt tight in the hole then taped it on. Not ideal but it worked

Just ignore me, pilot error 🤪

I posted earlier in a for sale thread quoting another member's post. I've gone back in and my post isn't there. How queer

I remember a thread from a year or so ago regarding using various lubes such as nose grease on your fingers but I thought at the time and still do that surely that's going to deposit more gunk in between the windings of your strings making them go dead quicker? For me it was a matter of finding the correct strings and string height. I use D'addario EXL nickels as they are the smoothest roundwound strings I have found after years of using flats. String gauge is also crucial - too light and the strings feel like rubber bands, too heavy and it can become a real effort to play. A case in point is that I use 45, 65, 85, 110. I tried the balanced tension strings either side of this. EXL220BT are 40, 55, 70, 95 and EXL160BT are 50, 67, 90, 120. They both felt wrong so I went back to the ones that I normally use Unfortunately everyone is different so it is up to you to find the correct balance that matches your playing. A second issue is that it can also depend on your bass so if you find yourself changes basses regularly then you can soon find yourself going through lots of strings to get the right ones for each bass