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When on holiday to Houston to visit friends I used to frequent all my old music shop haunts. One in particular, Guitar Centre on Westheimer, had a second hand Warrior Signature for sale at nearly $4k! Stunning bass that over a period of about 5 years I asked to play whenever I was there. Loved the neck, balance & small body size but the strings and setup were awful. The last time I was there I tried it again and it was still less than stellar.....but they had dropped the price slightly to $3,600. I decided that I had to get rid of the hankering once and for all so I offered to pay them for a new set of strings, battery and a tweak of the setup. If I really didn't like the bass after that then they just got themselves a free set of strings and a better playing bass (= more chance of a future sale). They half heartedly agreed and put on the new strings (without cleaning the fretboard etc!! ) tweaked the truss and lowered the saddles a bit. I sat down, plugged in and played a few riffs........WOW....it was an absolutely different animal!! It played and sounded wonderful. I decided to make them a "cheeky" offer of $3k as it had been sat in their stock for at least 5 years that I knew of. I thought, start low and you can always increase your offer......didn't need to, the manager accepted straight away! That bass was mine for the next 11 years and never let me down or dissapointed.

Hi guys From the first day when my Sandberg arrived it was difficult for me to get used to the H+S pickup combination regarding thumbrest. It's ok to hold it on a humbucker or single pickup, but the sweetest sound spot for me is somewhere in between, a bit closser to the humbucker. ...so I made a custom 3D printed thumbrest. Here is how it looks 🙂

Use the 'off' switch then. It has a similar effect to the 'block' button on Basschat 🙄.

I ordered a couple of enclosures from Tayda between Christmas and new year for a couple of projects I have on the go. I went for the custom drill and uv printing service. took me a while to actually wrap my head around it all. I usually drill, paint and design myself but wanted to find out if their any good. They arrived yesterday and I have to say the quality is impressive. The purple one is a megalith clone from a pcb, i already have one but I built this one to reduce the footprint and remove the heavy button. The green is stripboard version of a Dunwich D-120 for my guitarist. Which is based on a matamp. Hence the look. And the band logo.

I know it can't be just me. Would love this, especially at this price but it's collection only from Cheshire. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304764333728?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=wAjAjwKBRQG&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&

I always had a soft spot for Knocking at Your Back Door, despite it having some the dumbest lyrics I've ever heard (even by Ian Gillan's very high standards - so bad it's brilliant).

Highway Star for me. I’m not familiar with much of their material but we do this in my classic rock band and I just love playing the bassline.

That paints a picture This is BassChat so I'll limit myself to bass. Look for another band, unless this one is gigging regularly you won't need to give up on this one. As my wife says 'don't put your dirty underwear out until you have clean'. So you are a reader, with a musical background who can also play by ear. You know enough about music to improvise and you can sing, at least enough for you to do backing vocals and maybe harmonies. You take what you do seriously and you want to work harder. You may not realise it but you are hot property. Stop apologising about your age too. I didn't start playing until I was 55, zilch/rien/nothing apart from a few guitar chords as a 14 year old. I've been between bands a couple of times and in multiple bands when it looked like a band had reached the end of it's development. Musically those gaps were the most fertile periods. I filled them with regular auditions which forces you to learn half a dozen songs quickly. I also teamed up with friends at open mics, depped for a few bands and just generally took anything offered. It forced me to learn a lot of songs and I hate making a fool of myself so even the open mic stuff I worked at. That's the way to get a lot of different rhythms under your fingers too, every genre has things that make it what it is and everything is a learning opportunity. I briefly played in a country band, how hard can it be? It had me screaming, playing simply and well with nowhere to hide is a discipline itself. The advantage of lots of activity is that there just aren't that many musicians out there and they will soon get to know you. Become part of that community and things will come along.

Its £50 and just made for a jazz bass, so if you have a jazz bass, its not hugely off a set of strings to give it a try and see how it goes. Yes, there are flaws in the concepts, and I haven't got a jazz bass so I can't try it, but for what it is, if I did have a jazz bass, I would probably give it a try.

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Hi Vigier fans ! Some Passion 1 photos are available on the following link. I was lucky enough to be the first on it. http://www.californiamusic.fr/basses/4-cordes/vigier-,produit_4741_fr.html

Ah, you’ll love this. I went through the whole rigmarole again, checking leads, checking earths, everything. Then I looked at the signal chain, changed the battery in the Bass…….. guess what? Hiss, she vanish like the wind. Twin channels is us, B3n through one, straight through the other, my bass sound unmodified and the other channel with whatever takes my fancy. So happy bunny, rehearsing with it in full flight next week. Thanks for all your assistance guys muchly appreciated, it’s pays to ask🤔👍

First of all - thanks to @Woodinblack for the above help… might be useful for folk more at my level (Ie idiots) to go through how I got it going… Stuck a drum beat or demo from toy keyboard through it. Measured small voltage on input measured slightly larger at test point 1, bigger again test point 2 none at the volume or output tiny numbers wobbling around weren’t telling me much, so made an audio probe out of a Jack socket, a cap and two wires …. Ran that into my compressor at fasted and highest ratio… and into preamp to headphones… followed the toy keyboard beat around the circuit - figured the third stage 2n2222 wasn’t working switched it out for another one soldered it together, followed the beat to the end plugged in a bass and played!!

This might not seem like the answer that you want, but... A lot of people, bass players in particular, struggle to understand harmony because they don't have a solid understanding of intervals (how two notes relate to each other) and basic triads first. It's going to be hard to get your head around 7th chord harmony and the devices that Marcus Miller is talking about if you skip over the much less exciting foundation work. A good starting point is to look up the intervals of the major scale (major 2nd, major 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, major 6th, major 7th) and understand how those intervals are constructed (the musical spelling and grammar, if you like), how they're played on the bass, and how each one sounds. You don't necessarily need a resource that's aimed at bassists, and it can be helpful to work on some of this stuff at a piano/keyboard as it can provide an easier way to visualise certain things compared to the fretboard.

Ok, so we're boasting about our 6 music achievements now are we? Good, here I go ! 🙂 Couple of comment read out: one Lamaqc (or Lammo as we 6'ers call him 😉) , one Tom Robinson. Won the Marc Riley "Who's on My T-shirt" a few years ago, including an on air chat with Marc. See picture of the shirt ... can you guess who it is? My favourite band is the Fall so it was big moment for me, but a bit embarassing when he asks who my favourite band is. Got selected for a feature on Tom Ravenscroft where you pick two songs from a particular year, plus a significant object from that year in your life. On air interview included - pre-recorded though. Both the songs I chose where ones I first heard on John Peel, so was dreading making some clumsy comment/reference about his dad. (Songs were: "Mind you Own Business by Delta 5, and Heidi's Head by Kleenex)

This was really big at my school in the mid 80s, with the 6th formers putting on a show and then hiring out the theatre in the town for a short run. I was a bit young but sort of absorbed it via osmosis through my older sister. Anyway, I rediscovered it at my daughter’s Xmas show where they danced to Shake Your Tail Feather (something to do with turkeys I think) My ears pricked up at the lovely bass work, and I’ve been listening to it again and I’m loving Duck Dunn’s lines! Ended up ordering Aidan Hampton’s excellent transcription of the sound track: https://playbasslines.sellfy.store/embed/checkout/product/xxknxj/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fplaybasslines.sellfy.store%2Fembed%2Fcategory%2Febooks%2F%3Fpage%3D2 Anyone luck enough to have played this in a show? Some great stuff here 👇

Been having a few sharp pains in my left hand recently and while not really sure, what is causing it but playing a short scale bass does help ease that pain a little. I recently got my '64 Hofner 500/1 back out of it's case when I need, that break from my Precision bass plus the light weight helps as well.

I am continually amazed by how many people have learned to live with crap setups. Any instruments I've bought used usually come with ludicrously high action, starting at the nut and working all the way down the neck.

Had the Heptones for a show one evening - backing band didn't show & the guys did an impromptu gig one one mic (mine) over their version tracks - the audience loved it (think they did Book of Rules twice) 😎

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When I was speaking with John he did mentioned the inflationary effect of the great luthiers retiring and the effect this was having on asking prices (I had mentioned that I had a Pedulla and I'd watched the asking prices for those balloon after Mike Pedulla retired). John cited Wal as an example of ballooning asking prices. This was before I'd seen the £12,500 Wal, and I mentioned that I didn't think they were all that. I like them but I don't think they're worth what they cost anymore. I don't think anything with a huge heel like the MK1 and MK2 models should be anything more then £1000! 😂 Of course, this is partly coloured by my memory of Wal basses being relatively cheap. I have friends who remember when they were out of fashion and considered distinctly naff (and they still do have a bit of the stale whiff of the 80's about them; Spandau Ballet and Bow Wow Wow etc). That too keeps me grounded, though I do think some of the MK3 models are a bit cooler. Of course, you might find the price of £12,500 for a Wal ridiculous. Try and find another fretless six string MK3 though. You can name your price, effectively.

It was originally going to be a concept album about establishing a church on Sesame Street: "Pastor of Muppets".

This is how a GK MB500 Bass Gear Magazine lab test viewed the noon settings and where the EQ controls can be set to achieve an optimally flat signal.

Marcus Bell is working there again. For those who don't know Marcus, wow...he can play.

Just ordered a something from them. First time I've tried using Bass Direct. Let's see how it goes... 🤞

Panzer division destroyed. Budgie

It's also important to listen to the best players in order to really appreciate the piece:

I thought they played both kinds of music, country AND western

Jad Freer Audio Sisma bass head: https://jadfreeraudio.com/ Nothing sounds like it

Found a picture. Andyjr1515 did the work for me.

Reverse P - nice! I'm building something very similar - MM in the sweetspot with reverse P, EA in the classic P position.

Is it one of Ped's?

Notice how it pulled the low E string up the tuner post, and how hazardous the string break angle is at the headstock for the two higher strings going under the string retainer. Also how will that plastic hold up with the metal strings being pressed and rubbed against it when you first start playing? And finally I'd like to be able to play above 12th fret. All in all this seems like a novelty item, only really maybe useful for people who perhaps would like to try out fretless bass before committing to having to buy one, but not much more. It would have to be cheap for it to be worthwhile for sure. Also I don't even own a jazz bass, and getting one just for the sake of being able to use this kind of defeats the whole point with this thing in the first place. I do really like the idea/concept though, I'd even go as far as to say it is pretty genius, but I just don't feel that it really work properly in this form, and that someone would need to find the solution to some of the obvious issues this version of the concept got before it would really be a viable worthwhile finished product.

I mostly suck my thumb while crying and wishing I learnt technique 45 years ago when I started playing. Then I think how would I have learnt technique on a short scale semi acoustic Antoria. I shall therefore watch other people play in awe and concentrate on making shapes on the fretboard my way.

I appreciate this thread is focused on the Mk1 Passion, but this Mk3 just popped up on bassic.de and as we’ve got a Vigier thread going I thought I’d put it here in case there was interest… https://www.bassic.de/kleinanzeigen/vigier-passion-iii-90-10-made-in-france-1992.35818/

That Old Black Magic Woman ～ Frank Santana

Lace sensor pickups?

Yes another fretted bass that you can fit this device to it

This film was a gateway drug for me and plays a big part in my love of this sort of music. Have played a bunch of the songs with a soul band I used to be in. Great lines, great grooves. A drummer friend of mine plays in a touring Blues Brothers show and has an absolute ball doing it.

Thank you ped, that’s the thing it feels and plays really good, I think I just need to get on with playing it and not worrying about things, excuse the messy bass room I’m moving things around