velvetkevorkian

Good buy- I have a fretted and a fretless just like that but red and orange respectively. Excellent value. Will need to get some pics I guess... What electronics are you putting in? I actually really like the passive controls- rolling off the bridge tone with everything else maxed out gives me my ideal fretless sound.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='781879' date='Mar 21 2010, 06:15 PM']Which way are your fingers hitting the stings? if you are pushing them down into the bass rather than across the face of it, that will do it.[/quote] I would guess this is the issue. Try and use as little force as possible, and see if you can get your fingers moving parallel to the top of the bass, rather than down towards it.

That's what I suspected- thanks! Back to the classifieds with this one I guess.

Recently I bought an Ashdown dual latching footswitch from Ou7shined on here to use with my Boss VF-1 for switching patches. Now, it's plugged in and it works, but there's a bit of a quirk- it takes two presses of the switch before the unit registers the change. This is a bit of a PITA for quick and accurate changes, obviously. Has anyone encountered an issue like this before? Is it likely to be down to the fact that its latching, as opposed to momentary? The VF-1 manual suggests that either would work, although of course it suggests using the Boss ones only. Should I just suck it up and get the Boss dual footswitch? Cheers, Kyle

The week before I went for my first school orchestra course (about 10 days of playing 8 hours a day) I sliced the tip of the middle finger on my right hand. Just had to use the other ones more to compensate!

All the biceps on show here are making me feel very inadequate.

As would I; what we need, though, is someone willing to take on the responsibility of organising it.

I doubt they would know or care as long as the payments keep coming through!

Bridge pickup only on fretless side? No thanks. Not everyone wants to be Jaco when the play fretless.

From the site: "At the moment Take it away is only available through retailers based in England. "

[quote name='hagguy' post='777724' date='Mar 17 2010, 05:40 PM']i've seen this advertised myself quite like the idea are there any restrictions on who can apply for example if your in full time employment? i've not read all the details but thats usually a big stumbling block when applying for charity based things[/quote] England and Wales only, at least it was last time I checked.

It really depends on the line you're playing IMO- I would try and stick with 1 finger/fret as far as possible but sometimes its just not possible to do so, in which case I see no problem with doing as you're suggesting.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='777617' date='Mar 17 2010, 04:31 PM']As OBBM says, won't work. Check out the Micromon from Behringer, or some alternative headphone amp + monitoring equivalents from ART. These act as small headphone amps, that also allow you to pass your bass signal through to an amp, and also to mix in an external signal (e.g. aux, mp3, monitor signal, etc). I've got a similar system integrated in my SFX Preamp (www.sfxsound.co.uk). After using in-ear, I won't go back to monitoring bass from the amp alone. Unless I am leading a band (or other situations where I need to be able to speak/give directions and hear people speak whilst playing at the same time) then I will always run IEM. I am totally convinced by this technology, and it can be achieved for next to nothing nowadays (my first attempt was with a cheap Behringer 4 channel mixer and my best pair of headphones that I had kicking about - sound sucked but I'd never heard myself more clearly!).[/quote] Just to clarify, would you continue to use this even if the rest of the band were using conventional monitoring (so it would be bass only though the IEMs and the rest of the band through the monitors as normal)?

n/a- I try and avoid anchoring as it tends to introduce tension to the hand IME. Floating thumb all the way for me.

I can't stand it personally, but YMMV!

It's basically a tablature/notation program (mainly for guitars) which lets you play back the tracks using crappy MIDI sounds. There are also freeware programs which read GP files, such as TuxGuitar if you don't want to pay for Guitar Pro.

The neck on my fretless is almost perfectly straight, with just a fraction of a millimetre's daylight visible when you hold down the 1st and last "frets". Not much different to setting up a fretted IME.

Likewise.

And if you can find a cheaper 5 string than that, I'll have my hat for breakfast.

As long as you keep the gain under control there shouldn't be a problem. There's no reason you can't use two preamps. I would assume the DI would include the effected sound, but I'm not 100% sure- the manual states that the DI is pre-EQ but doesn't mention the effects loop. Try it and see- you won't damage anything trying these different setups.

[quote name='4 Strings' post='770627' date='Mar 10 2010, 04:59 PM']There is no reason at all for using a guitar amp, it should make no difference to it at all.[/quote] Er... judging by the rest of your post, I assume you mean there is no reason [i]not to[/i] use a guitar amp? [quote name='0175westwood29' post='770639' date='Mar 10 2010, 05:12 PM']cross over? andy[/quote] A cross over is just a device that splits your signal based on frequency. Commonly sold as PA components, so you can send your treble to the PA tops and the low frequencies to the subs.

Any of the three methods should work as long as you have an effects loop. I would probably put the Rocktron in the effects loop- should look tidier that way!

Personally I have no real interest in an entirely seperate forum- there are other places I can (and do) go, although the community aspect is not usually as strong as it is here- which is why I think a sub forum here would be cool. I don't really see how it could alienate people- there are a number of subforums currently which I consider a waste of space (the Groove Library and the Barefaced forum in its current state, for example), so what do I do? I ignore them. Not that difficult. I don't think anyone's advocating turning the site into a platform for multi instrumentalists- its a bassists' forum; I just think it would be nice to have a small corner where we can talk other instruments with this community, and there seems to be a number of people with interesting things to say about them.