Leaderboard

I have to be careful being a recovering addict so I watch out when I see danger signs. GAS is the only exception. Can't control it I'm afraid. A while back I fitted flats to a semi acoustic bass just because I wanted to try them out. As time passed I picked it up in an increasingly desultory and infrequent fashion, finding the strings unlovely in the extreme. Uncomfortable, unresponsive, lumpen brutes which had an effect not dissimilar to that an olive has on my mouth; they sucked the joy from living. Then I read here that you need to play them in a bit so I resolved to learn a bunch of songs using only the flat strung semi. I reasoned that as the instrument was so hard to play, the fast twiddly bits would therefore be a doddle when I tried them on a bass slung with proper strings. But a weird thing has happened. After a couple of weeks learning the songs I duly retrieved my Stingray with it's normal roundwounds and recoiled in horror at the fizzy, twangy, brittle sound and strings so weedy and thin it was like playing a six string guitar. Now I don't feel I'm playing a real instrument unless I'm playing my lovely warm, gentle flats. I even have the tone knob turned off on the guitar to minimise any residual nastiness from the upper frequencies. Are these things addictive? Will I ever enjoy the twang and sizzle of skinny round strings again? Is there help?

I'm not sure if this will be helpful or not in resolving the concerns of the OP but I have some butter that tastes like a Jazz bass.

Me too, mine kept asking about my tax arrangements.

The inside of the original hard case for my Ovation Magnum 1 smells like a tramp's trousers, but only sometimes. I think it may be haunted.....

Did someone mention bad miming?

I tend to swap back and forth. As soon as I feel that I’m starting to get hooked - I swap. And it’s really hard not to get back to flats. I just swapped to roundwounds few days ago. Oh, I love flats...

One that always makes me laugh - "Best bass I've ever had but I'm selling it". "Best girlfriend I've ever had but I'm moving on".

Always pays to be honest and the seller will feel better knowing he hasn't misled someone. Everyone's a winner with an honest sale. Now I'm selling my Made in Dumbarton Jazz bass original copy with the lowest action i've ever seen. The strings actually sit on the 12th fret. Bridge is fully adjustable UP the way. Intonation doesn't matter with this incredible bass. Plays itself and the Truss rod is now glued in a fixed position to ensure staright-ish neck. The pick ups are so active i needed to fit them on the back of the bass and she plays like a Scotland mid-fielder on a soggy wet pitch with no boots. £3500 collection only as too valuable to post Anyone interested ??? EDIT to clarify :- the above bass does not actually exist it was merely a joke about ridiculous claims on basses. Dave

I might just have to take my 1980 SB-1000 out one of these nights. I've never gigged it since it was refinished a year or two ago. It was my only bass for about 10 years, so it did a few gigs back in the day

I genuinely put up why I sell stuff. ”I keep on buying stingrays, when I know I don’t get on with them” ”I buy 5’s when I need one for a project, then I quit projects...so I sell them” ”I have no money”

I once picked up a Rickenbacker...only once mind...

Celebrating it's 5th Birthday and incorporating the best Basschat luthiers in their very own Basschat Custom Bass show, The Midlands Bass Bash 2018 is taking place on the 5th May 2018 from 1200 to 1700. The venue is Brockington College, Blaby Road, Enderby, Leicester, LE19 4AQ It's easy to get to from J21 of the M1. Take the A5460 and at the first roundabout turn right onto the B4114 towards Narborough. Carry on the B4114 past Fosse Park on the right until you get to another roundabout. Turn right here onto Blaby road, the B582. Follow this road and once you cross the motorway Brockington College is the next left. In the left hand corner of the car park is direct access to the front of the school. If you want to use that to unload that's fine, but it would be appreciated if you would then park in the car park proper afterwards. The room we are using is the first door on the left, just beyond the disabled parking bays. We'll try and get a sign up with an arrow! There is a firm limit of 7 amp rigs in the room but if you have one handmade by dusky thighed maidens that is acoustically perfect in every way then I'll make an exception to the rule! The room isn't huge and I'd like to be able to hear afterwards and be allowed back next year We're going to ask for a £5 entry fee on the day. On the off chance enough people turn up to cover the costs any extra will be donated to a charity voted for by the attendees. I think that's about it, any other information will appear in this post at the top of the thread and then be bumped. Can any possible/definite/probably attendees put their names on the list so we have a reasonable idea of how many to expect.

Sorry, poor grammar,. 1 tea please sugar

TI flats. They just seem to improve with age and I love the floppy feeling that many others hate. Frank.

GHS Precision flats, .40-.95 gauges. I get the thump of flats in a traditional sound without the super stiffness. My favorite "nontradtional" sounding flats are TI Jazz flats in .043-.100. Its the flat wound string for those who love round wounds. Expensive, but well worth it.

Damn he got me then. Hook, line and sinker.

I think Dad was having a little joke of his own.

Got a set last week. Lovely strings,very smooth . Remind me of TIs.

All the shops carry that stuff here in Norway. Here, the brand is called "I Can't Believe It's Not A Jazz!"

five pages of pontificating, and you know what? I couldn't give a fcuk how many notes make a chord

Hmm... my sister has a printer that can print onto cloth, about 2 metres wide....

Marillion took it to extremes with Lavender - Fish had lost his voice so had the lyrics on a flip chart and pointed to them : Andy

I'm going with " Yes, very addictive " Thought I'd give the Curbow some attention this afternoon. Cupboard revealed several sets of TIs,La Bella,Chromes,Cobalts,GHS,Olympia,Optima and Fender I went with the Sadowsky Blue Label for a change

What took you so long?!? Enjoy!

All the bands were miming, the audience knew they were miming and the people at home knew they were miming, what is the point pretending well? Some people took it to an artform, stand in dummies and the like, sure iron maiden, quo and motorhead did that. Then there are people that didn't even get round to it:

-

Depressingly truthful

That would be my approach too. Even when everything is provided, I generally I still have at least one of my cabs and my amp in the car. There's been enough times that I showed up and either there was a problem with their gear, or monitoring is poor for whatever reason, and I could run to the car and set up my little 210 cab and amp before the drummer is done.

Second coat looking good:

I had this problem too. I've taken to using Herco thumbpicks and they've proved to be the ideal solution. One of the things I really like about them is that I can swap between pick and fingerstyle on the fly mid-song.

You have inspired me to learn this now, although I'll have to be downtuning my 4 string.

What’s your monitoring going to be like? If good then I’d say take your bass and Evo head since you have all your modelling etc in there. If there’s no guarantee of decent monitoring then take you cab too, just in case. Better to have it and not need it than the other way around.

Seems to be rackmountable, too...

mojo there was a thread recently on faceache cant remember where , the jist of which some young(er than me) whippersnapper was commenting whether he could justify calling something 'relic'd' to which i responded that you possibly could but beware of miserable old cynics such as myself who have been around the block a few times and know what roadworn look like as compared to careless and neglectful handling

We've gotta find this guy. Get him to the Bash next September.

this is my.......... dream bass

The neck/fretboard is one piece through-and-through laminate of bird's eye maple, solid carbon, padouk, carbon, bird's eye maple. The truss rod was inserted before the laminates were joined, although useless, that carbon has no flex. It sounds like a stingray on steroids and beef. Not quite as much honk as my SR5 (in a good way) with more fundamental and higher overtones. A richer, lively sound, easy to hear in a dense mix and sustain for hours. Fairly high output, drives pedals and amp well.

That’s bloody lovely! The details are fantastic- lovely birdseye (?) neck, the fact it goes all the way through from back to front even on the fretboard, just, lovely! What does it sound like?

Well having sold my AVRI 62 P and feeling rather sad about it. I decided the best thing to do was buy an AVRI Jazz. Found it on a Facebook group at a decent price so off I went to take a look It’s in pretty much brand new condition complete with the plastic on the plate and pegs. It does need a setup and the board needs oiling desperately, however I’m rather pleased with it ! Just need some flares now. Aint she pretty ?! ;-)

Maybe we're all spoilt with the Internet nowadays if there's folks complaining about seeing a bass for sale 500 miles away and the seller not wanting to post it. Perhaps go back to pre internet days bass hunting techniques, when all this gear was still for sale around the country but you just didn't see the adverts, so you didn't want it. You had to scan local papers or the stock a local shop carried, if you were lucky enough to have an instrument shop that carried basses local. Down here in Cornwall there was/still is very little. Personally I prefer it the way it is now. Even if 50% of sellers didn't want to post I've still got the opportunity to purchase a vast amount of instruments from around the country/world that just wasn't readily available 20 years ago. Nobody used to post basses because nobody outside of say a 30 mile radius would see the advert. We all coped back then and I think things are slightly better now

Wikipedia's topics 'Dyad' and 'Power chords' are worth a glance, too.

3 is the minimum.

This is my home built semi hollow, medium scale fretless. Really chuffed with it. Full details are in rebuild diaries if anyone is interested.

Sadowsky. I used to have chronic GAS for these basses. Then I played one and it just didn’t connect with me. I played two more over a couple of years and they all left me cold. The sound, the feel, nothing about them spoke to me in any way. Also, I couldn’t fault its build, the look, anything. Top notch in every way, as you might expect but disappointing. Difficult to explain why in the same way it’s difficult to explain why I connect so well with my Yamaha BB or my Valenti and think they’re amongst the best instruments I’ve ever played.