velvetkevorkian

Beautiful

What's the big box with lots of knobs and no writing?

Surely less top end (i.e. the opposite of "bright")?

Not totally solo, but [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Double-Bass-Piano-1/dp/B0000014FZ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1275757439&sr=1-3"]this[/url] Naxos CD (and volume 2 also) have some lovely playing.

Or it could be a typo- 2 is just next to 3, after all...

Quilted. Flamed is OK, especially on the backs of double basses, while birdseye is pointless and rubbish IMHO.

That's really good. I was expecting not to like it but it's a good idea, very well executed- I particularly liked the bits where you get the melody going. And the hat. Nice one!

Can it be posted in the "Site News" section so it appears at the top of the main page (i.e. where it currently shows "Basschat.co.uk latest news: I won an award... Jazz Journalist Of The Year.")?

I love the fact that there is a venue called The Hobbit.

I'm not really qualified to comment on most of that, but if the Upton pickup is the Revolution Solo II I think its great- I get a very natural sound with mine. Nice looking bass though!

I read that and thought "Why would anyone need to bleed a door?". I am an idiot

Elixirs only sell 4s as a set now- you have to buy the low B or high C separately (e.g. [url="http://www.stringbusters.com/frameset.asp?MAIN=http://www.stringbusters.com/ko-kat/BASS%20STRINGS/ELIXIR/"]here[/url]).

I'm with you- I switch neck profiles and number of strings frequently and its never bothered me. That said there's plenty of behaviour that goes on round here that I find inexplicable so I'm probably not representative...

This thread delivers! Whoever thought a pair of gloves could stir up such strong emotions? I have on occasion played with woolly fingerless gloves (which I wear for most of the winter) and I'm pretty sure I tried with full finger ones as well- didn't work for me. Also, it would be one more thing I'm bound to forget to take to practice (another reason I don't like using picks!).

Never broken a bass guitar string. Once broke a DB string in rehearsal but it was an old tired school bass with strings older than I was. Don't take spares, but I have enough extra strings on my basses I'm sure I'd be able to work something out.

No comment :ph34r:

Ha- it took me a while to find it, as I thought it had expired but thought it took a lot longer than that!

The Novax patent ([url="http://www.google.com/patents?id=yektAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=4,852,450&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false"]here[/url]) only covers one method of laying out the frets, using lines coming from a single point. There are simpler ways of doing it (mark the fretspaces on the longest and shortest strings then join them), while the concept of fanned frets per se has been around since the Renaissance ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpharion"]link[/url]). Wow, that was some serious procrastination when I have lots of things needing doing that are actually important

Could be a lot of things: a change in technique, a slight movement of the neck, maybe some fret wear, string rattling gnomes, I could go on... Unless you mean it was loose hardware, in which case its definitely the gnomes.

Not sure about the open strings, but for the fretted ones could it be the string between your finger and the nut vibrating as well as the bit you'd expect? Maybe check all the hardware is tight, and there's nothing vibrating in sympathy. If it all disappears through the amp though I wouldn't worry about it.

No. They're listed as using the "Novax fanned fret system"- Novax do/did (not sure if its still valid) have a patent on a method of laying out the frets IIRC but fanned fret instruments have been around for quite a long time.

I have invested quite a lot of time emulating Billy Sheehan's three finger technique, but my aim was never to sound like him; it seemed the most logical way to get up to the speed I needed to be at to play the music I play. It was definitely good for me in the long run, as I can now play at high speed for extended periods when required. Nowadays I try to pick and choose elements from a variety of other peoples' playing that I like, rather than going for one specific sound.

Excellent- all the best! What are you playing?