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Much discussion on this site about this bass... The original Wal and this Japanese copy he now plays. Unbelievably, there was a left-hand version (no really) for sale here too! I'm holding out for a version with fanned frets... And a whammy for each neck.

Sybass6 - sorry to be a meany but the trouble with sight-reading is that you need heaps of content to practise... I must refer students of sight reading (like me) to Sight Reading Machine for the iO/S. For £1.99 you get an app that generates unlimited numbers of sight-reading exercises to the parameters of your choice, including rests of different values (in bass clef). And it plays them so you can hear of you're right. So my suggestion to all learning sight-readers is check out Simon's e-book for theory and download the app too for practise to put some serious time and effort into 'shedding the music.. Quick edit: I have no affiliation with the app, just a happy customer...

To give you a more precise answer: $600: [url="http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=357"]http://store.hipshot...ct_detail&p=357[/url] (And that's without labour!)

Why oh why? It could be done and would involve cast or machined parts and a custom tuner block and, and, and, would be very expensive conversion. Get a whammy too while you're at it...

[quote name='allighatt0r' timestamp='1397469216' post='2424112'] Check this out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g6NygXdYtQ [/quote] His tone on this awful and he's not using one of his signature bass! Dreadful... But his isolated bass on WGFA is wonderful and the Alembic has that gritty tone without all that chorused overdrive of the clip above...

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1337342854' post='1658453'] Weather Report 'A Remark You Made' is the great fretelss 'entry level' tune. [/quote] 'Entry level'! Well it's not that many notes but good luck getting that intonation, tone and timbre...

Well that sounds a bit more involved and potentially drilling into your Fodera top. I think the Damien Erskine Skjolds have something like that. As a retro-fit, I'd go with a more simple ramp that gives you the 'wood under your fingers' feel without the fuss of some elaborate construction. Also I think the Gary Willis Ibanez has some adjustable thing happening too but yours is post-build and I don't want to suggest anything that involves Fodera surgery.

[quote name='DaveFry' timestamp='1396814107' post='2417655'] Musings regarding Joni Mitchell .... At the beginning of this live recording she explains that after reading " Beethoven : His Spiritual Development " by J.W.N.Sullivan she was inspired to write this song from the angle of being Ludwig's personal muse and encouraging him to not give up . ( Ironically the volume fluctuates in this recording ) [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JDSQf-YMMw"]https://www.youtube....h?v=-JDSQf-YMMw[/url] My favourite Joni line is ; He sees the cars as sets of waves Sequences of mass and space from A Strange Boy off the Hejira album [/quote] Spooky! Me too! I love that album but it's so melancholic. 'Refuge of the Roads' shows off Jaco at his lyrical best with multi-tracked basses. Agree with all the praise from this thread. There's a really good Sky documentary on her tracking her early 60's coffee shop roots to her finding her daughter and grand-child. Very moving.

Not sure what you mean by 'cover'. But as for wood, choices are a combination of looks and functionality. So you'd want a wood that compliments your bass, or provides a nice contrast. Like the top of your bass, it can be a laminate if your luthier doesn't have a deep chunk of walnut lying around. Jon Shuker used a laminate to raise the height of mine to just under the strings when fretted at the 24th fret. But don't sweat it too much as if you use the tape option as I'm recommending, you can experiment without altering your (probably very) expensive Fodera. As for woods, mine's walnut - see 4th row down, 4th column: http://www.gbguitars.co.uk/gb_spitfire_gallery3.asp

My view, is short of having it shop-fitted by Fodera which I'm guessing is not an option, I'd get your nearest reputable luthier to make one out of a wood of your choice - (feel under the fingers & looks) and get them to fix it with double-sided tape so you don't make any permanent change to the wood on your bass. Bernie Goodfellow did my original ramp out of a matching walnut top wood and Jon Shucker (who's 200 miles nearer me) made some adjustments when we he set it up recently. Although it sounds flimsy, it works a treat. And shouldn't cost too much...

Sound engineering and acoustics get pretty complicated very quickly... Many variables. Most bass I've heard at a gig was Chemical Brothers... incredible

Agree with comments so far... RTF and early solo albums great, post-70's iffy. However it's worth remembering that whilst the records were a bit ropey, his live shows were great. During the 80's with Clarke/Duke, he used to get musicians out of the audience to play bass, sing as he did when I first saw him at the Manchester Apollo. Also wandered through the audience with a long cable. Another bit of trivia is that Animal Logic was going to have Allan Holdsworth in it and be called 'Electric Rush-hour' but AH baled. Earlier comment from a poster saying they caught him on OGWT when the poster got their first bass made me smile as this happened to me too only it was with a Clarke/Duke show (where he played his Carl Thompson - can't find on YT anywhere) and in the same week, Joni's 'Shadows and Light' with Jaco - both on BBC2. Those were the days. Amazingly I soldiered on with bass!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1395998225' post='2408725'] He managed to spot that this [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8EotTtv2GU"]https://www.youtube....h?v=r8EotTtv2GU[/url] was lurking somewhere inside this [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJMMT9nXRI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=OVJMMT9nXRI[/url] [/quote] No I think he knew he could make the latter into the former. If music lore is true, he was mixing Yes' 'Big Generator' album at the time....

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1395532688' post='2403526'] he said he only used an Alembic because they're pretty much indestructible! [/quote] That's not what John Entwistle or Jason Newstead have said, at least on occasion! The latter using black ones too.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1395542245' post='2403565'] your kidding me right.? i dig your opinion most of the time Dingus. but in my opinion, , you are way off the mark. sorry. this is, what it is. although bass is what we love, some music should not be touched.. i couldn't think of anything worse than Victor Wooten double thumbing through this piece of music?. and Steve Bailey on a fretless. i would rather take a sh*t on a Rembrant. I'm not being snotty, but i think electric bass doesn't work for everything. [/quote] Go look up sarcasm... I think Dingus is agreeing with you.

Anyone managed to A/B one these Corts against the old Peavey Palladium?

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1394875088' post='2396135'] What are discs 2 and 3 in the pile there? [/quote] [quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1394924180' post='2396857'] It's got the 'Invitation' disc instead of the unedited 'Twins'. Surely an inferior edit version shouldn't be in a box set of this price? [/quote] It appears to have both!? Discs 2 and 3 look like Twins I and II, as well as the edited Invitation. Can anyone confirm? Any how, if you're a fan rather than a collector you can get the music for a fraction of the cost of this set.

Wow! Red bass looks pretty intriguing? So you can get a great slap sound obviously but what else can you do with all them knobs 'n' switches?

After a month you'd end up leaving the pick-ups in the same spot and using the tone control just like any other bass... Probably in the normal neck/bridge alignment too!

[quote name='obi 2 kenobi' timestamp='1394541605' post='2392409'] He was better in the 70s. All the Dan (post 1977) and solo stuff (with the exception of Kamakiriad - his best solo work imo) sounds too controlled and a bit lifeless personally. Lack of vibrancy and general spark [/quote] !!! The Nightfly is a masterpiece! Vibrancy and Spark? Listen to 'Walk between the Raindrops'! Anywho, here he is speaking about another classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP_2r9zbaIY

[quote name='Dread Bass' timestamp='1394786801' post='2395164'] Alan from ACG is building me a fretless at the minute although it's only a 6 string: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/229989-acg-krell-single-cut-fretless-6/page__pid__2391765#entry2391765"]http://basschat.co.u...65#entry2391765[/url] [/quote] Wimp! I did see on Twitter a fan-fret fretless 6 if that makes sense. Makes your look like a walk in the park!

Wow! A leftie 7 - that's a pretty narrow market. Now if it was only fretless.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1394747319' post='2394856'] Tapping never sounds good though. Slapping… Mostly people don't like it because most people who do it don't do it for the sound, they do it because they want people to look at them. I remember once being at a jam night and Dave La Rue turned up and slapped all night [/quote] Agree about the tapping - nearest I've got to liking it is Victor's 'Norwegian Wood'. You were at a Jam night and Dave La Rue turned up!? Where???? Who, How? Was Jaco there too?

Well I'll pitch in for a plain old fashioned desktop PC. Pound for MIP, they're the most cost effective bang for your buck computer-wise - assuming you don't want to move around. A desktop will power a whole host of DAWs and SoftSynths. And for lengthy editing and composing, a mouse is better than a finger IMHO. I'd consider what DAW and music software you want to use routinely, and from where you want to use it, then work back to your platform from there...

I've got the De Pres book too. It's not bad but if you do it sequentially, it forces you to master rhythms first to a very deep level which can get wearing. So I'd do the pitches section and rhythms simultaneously. Got an iPad? Get Sight Reading Machine. It will randomly produce a score for you to read in bass clef. You can choose parameters such as time signature, key, tempo, range, ties, etc. Great value for the £5 or so... Endless practise music and, it will play it for you too so you can play along and correct any mistakes. Finally, I'd also suggest writing some basslines out too which sort of reverses the process in your brain. Keep at it! You'll learn the fretboard too as you centre on 'C' then migrate out to related keys...