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Do my eyes deceive me here?

Just saw Chas & Dave in Brighton. It's been said on here before as I remember, but Dave Peacock is a fantastic player. Beautiful lines & effortless execution. That is all.

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We’ve never had a single issue in over 10 years. There will be no policy change. Thank you for playing ped

Perhaps the Christmas break has impaired your recollection of events during the course of this year. For indeed, you have form for jumping into sales threads to point out logo transgressions: Prior to the 'triggering' incident of a week or two ago, you commented in a sales thread in October: Ped replied to you saying: On June 18th you replied to an ad for a bitsa Jazz saying: Then on Jan 17th you expatiated in a more general sense on logos: THAT! There are so many fake/counterfeit "Fender"s around, selling with a "Fender" logo is dishonest, just waiting for some poor mug to buy one thinking they've got the real thing. (I also think Fender have muddied the waters a bit by branding Squiers as "Squier by Fender", so that people can advertise them as Fenders. Funnily enough, only three days before you had described taking delivery of a Rickenfaker with a fake Ric logo. Fair play for removing it as you did. But surely in buying it you were party to a transaction where intellectual copyright was infringed. So basically, you want to stop people selling basses with fake logos but it's OK for you to buy one? I put it to you that your unhappiness with fake logos in sales ads is nothing new. You have repeatedly broken forum rules by posting in sales threads where you should have PM'd. You have already had a discussion about fake logos with one of the forum's owners who has made his position clear. I suggest that far from being a spontaneous expression of concern you started this thread in an attempt to change forum policy. You want to stop people selling items with fake logos but you're happy to buy them. Shall I go on?

I found some yellow LEDs lying around in my toolbox and was a bit bored this afternoon so.....

Yes! Let's hope 1967 is a good one!

LSD in the punch.

Limelight 62-ish Jazz. Bought from someone who knew it wasn't a real Fender, sold to me who knew it wasn't a real Fender, then sold it on to someone who kew it wasn't a real Fender. Such a trail of destruction.. so many suffering kittens and puppies. I'm going to hell.

How about something like a Sandberg VM? I can cover a lot of ground with this one. A pre-loved one would be within your budget.

But not good for jazz. I’ve only recently been forgiven for wearing a red jacket.

Must be some new meaning of the word 'microscopic' I wasn't aware of. Mods are busy enough as it is. One item per day? Is that the number of 'misdemeanours' you're expecting? How did you arrive at this number? There is no significant gain in not providing a platform for the sale of illegal goods, because no illegal goods are sold here. I have a great idea about how to make 'this' a better place to be, but forum rules preclude my posting it.

How am I supposed to look at my fretting hand and a music stand at the same time?

And it's finished...holy fecking crap!

Hello from Greece! I was really glad when I found this forum. None of my (musician albeit not bass-playing) friends could understand my happiness about simple bass things, e.g. the sound of the flatwound strings on a semiacoustic

Welcome AmsterdamAsh.

Welcome SnakeEyes.

Played a taylor while in PMT too. Was pleasantly surprised by it - the first videos really didn’t Make me want one at all...playing one did.

Good evening, SE, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Standard up/down sweep, and step filter/auto-wah all in one box. Really squelchy too.

Lovely work and some beautiful attention to detail that takes it to another level!

In which case you could put a behringer model D in there, and we would be back to the start!

Any genre, any style. Just share the album which stood out to you this year (edit: which was released in 2017) For me, it was unexpectedly The Desaturating Seven by Primus. I didn't like the prerelease songs much but the record as a whole has sucked me in completely. Claypool always does the unexpected but this one really took me by surprise and won me over in a big way. Over to you guys. Hopefully this will introduce some people to some gems!

When you go to Hell can I have the Lindisfarne gig?

G&L L2000. Probably the only bass that can do its own thing as well as a very passable P and Jazz bass sound.

On top of which, he does have magical powers. Woe betide those who deign to cross his path when he's wearing his pointy hat.

I've got to that age where I have to check ten times that I've actually put a bass in the van before setting off to each gig!

Maybe a Gibson SG, or a SWB-1 Pro? - http://chownybass.com/product/swb-pro/

Good luck! Might also be worth sending a quick email to the interface manufacturer to check on compatibility. Most companies are happy to offer whatever advice they can (at least in my experience).

Maybe get it checked up for any possible signs of internal wear n tear...Real Electronics in Sheffield deal with MarkBass repairs.....0114 2442969

GPPH_2 - Full Score.pdf Here you go.

Thunderbolt 2 and 3 use different connections. TB 2 is over Apple display port, and TB3 is over USB-C. As such, the current TB2 to FW800 won't work for you on its own. Si

Nickel roundwounds for me and except if your fretboard is made out of soft wood like non treated maple (and you bend like a guitarist) there will be only slight marks that won't affect the sound. I own 6 fretlesses including 1 double bass and 1 EUB. They have quite always been fitted with roundwounds (I fit from time to time the Thomastik Infeld JF that are the best ones as they do sound right with enough harmonics, which is precesely what is missing to the others) except the 2 uprights that are fitted with real flatwounds of course. I hate the dull and poor sound of flatwounds (except TI's) that are better suited for fretted basses to me when you want that lovely Motown sound. For the brand, I always get back to D'Addario's even if Iove the Thomastik Infeld JR, but they are very light tension strings, too light, when you are used for over 30 years to the standard 45~105. Now it's up to you to decide which one you like, but please guys stop saying that flatwounds are mandatory on fretless because of the fretboard. Ask any real luthier and he will laugh at you about this legend...

I am a big fan of Schecter (well, at least the C4 that is my main bass). These new ones look very cool, will be interested to see how they go down.

Well, the NAMM blurb from a year ago had them launching the Vintage Pro summer of 2017....... The Canadians (L&M) got them first, some time in November. Then the US dealers got them first week of December IIRC. I think the UK dealers are still predicting last week of Jan, beginning of Feb before they receive stock.

It took me a long time to memorise our 14 originals, but that was mainly because our songwriter uses lots of different chords and chord types in each song. Whilst I was trying to come up with good basslines, it helped to have the chords in front of me so I could play the right chord tones for each chord. Once I had come up with a bassline I was happy with it became easier to memorise them. I still improvise a lot at gigs, keeps it interesting and I memorised the structure, and so far so good, no mistakes after 3 gigs.

My music stand holds my IEM mixer, my iPad (which could also be an IEM mixer at times), my Zoom H2n for recording, my Ambient mics and sometimes my glasses. It may or may not be on stage. It rarely actually holds music - unless I was doing a Dep gig then the iPad would be there to help with changes etc.

I agree with the consensus that a Fender MIM instrument is unlikely to be significantly better than your current instrument. Certainly not worth shelling out over six hundred quid for. If £600 is your budget, it might be better invested in either gig-worthy amplification or superior pickups for the BB424X. Overall, all that really needs doing is to shunt away some of the wiry treble frequencies and emphasise the really low frequencies. Sockets for either an extension loudspeaker enclosure or an XLR output to run through the public address system would help with dub sub reinforcement. Unfortunately, the Crush 50 Bass has neither of these.

How cool is that! We do cover versions with our year 9s and I use that as an example- always turn that bit up.

My acoustic short scale fretless bass. My goal was to build an acoustic that was as loud as possible without amplification. I failed. It isn't loud (enough). But I do enjoy playing it once in a while.

Will do. Here's one I have on the phone, the others are on my PC at home.

Man I hate this. They have it on SBL. Hopefully it will be ok here (with the higher average age.) It all gets stupid when quantity of likes gets taken as a member rank. SBL even posts who got most likes in the past month... urghhh. Can we please establish here and now. I'm an unsociable got and I don't like anyone.

Currently, the top half of this: Preceded by this: And this - which in a case of brutal irony, I sold because I thought it was too heavy! Had a beautiful (and lightweight) Japanese Ibanez SR800FL prior to that, which I didn't get on with due to lack of cheat lines. What did I do with that? Swapped it for a Peavey T-40. Not sure what it is with me & back-breaking boat anchors.