stingrayPete1977

What were you planning on buying if you had sold it as planned on facebook? And what's the budget we have to spend for you?

Cool

Cool as!

Planet waves cables should only be sold as the ones with the grabby bit and only as a temporary fix for an already faulty jack socket, utter junk!

'Most' upright players don't play a finger per note either Tim There's actually a topic in the DB forum at the moment, I've started using my upright technique on electric, which isn't good but it's a lot easier than trying to fudge elec technique onto a DB

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1480282139' post='3183098'] You can't have the strings opposite on a cello and bass to how they are on a violin and viola. It would be impossible to move from one instrument to the other. Sometime around 1600, everything was standardised. Cellos and basses are just bigger versions of violas and violins. If you can play one you can play the other. They could equally have standardised the other way round. But they didn't. When I turn my head to look at the headstock and fretboard on my bass; the E string is on the left and the G is on the right. . [/quote] So you play a double bass and cello looking down the neck from behind but a violin/viola looking up the neck so in the words of our own blue, I'm calling shenanigans I can play double bass with a bow (well in a fashion), I can't just play a violin. The fact it's tuned the opposite way with the thin string being the E and the fattest being the G wouldn't make life easy either!

[quote name='NickA' timestamp='1480247968' post='3182736'] [i]"It doesn't matter because bassists shouldn't be playing above the fifth fret on the two low strings anyway 'lol'. ????????????[/i] Try playing the header of Donna Lee (or pretty much any other Jazz tune) without doing that!! there are a lot of nice chords and harmonics up there too. Used to be said that you only get a good bass tone using as much string length as possible .. so it sort of depends on your priorities. :-) [/quote] I'll think you'll find he's pulling your leg mate, Dood has many basses with many many strings!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1480268296' post='3182951'] Convention. Every stringed instrument, even the piano, goes from low to high, left to right. [/quote] Except the left handed piano.

As ever with these things why does anyone else care? Unless I'm being asked to carry or pay for the gear to take to a gig I'm going to see I don't see how it affects me.

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1480262604' post='3182876'] Just a polite grammar correction. Your= It belongs to you You're = You are [/quote] Thanks, small screen and auto correct honest chief, I'm not a regular offender

[quote name='ChunkyMunky' timestamp='1480206563' post='3182569'] Thanks for your help, guys. I'm picking her up in the morning! [/quote] Like

It's ok if your Jimi Hendrix because well your Jimi Hendrix and that's the sound you need, if your playing a couple of Hendrix numbers amongst dozens of artists then you are going to need a couple of distinct sounds imo. In a previous band our front man had a strat for most of the set but he also needed a Gibson for some of the songs, he had a guitar tuned really weird for some killers tracks I think they were and one that was totally detuned a semi tone, the other guitarist just used a strat and a les paul. The guitarist in our trio has a Variax

I'm gonna mention Lee Pomeroy.

I think circa 1990 was a good era, best of most bits imo.

Trans Teal and maple is as they say "for the win!"

There's probably a technique thing at play too, those that grab onto the neck like their life depends on it are going to have more problems sliding up and down the neck than those who grasp gently with their thumb 'resting' against the neck aren't they? I've noticed it more with neck dive prone basses with glossy necks where you spend all your time holding the thing up!

1200 grit wet and dry up and down the playing area, gloss gone. Bit of cutting compound at a later date and it's glossy again if you want to sell it on.

I have nothing to add here

Got to be an upright!

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1479996100' post='3180868'] Nah, not even a moan, certainly not annoyed. [/quote] This thread isn't over yet, that's why I said threads like these, referring to the topic, the last barefaced one someone waded in laying into everything bad he thought the thread must have already contained after two pages, but it hadn't at the time! Of course a page later it had done

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1479911171' post='3180223'] Will this turn into yet another thread critical of Adam Clayton's bass playing ? They always amuse me, baring in mind they're currently celebrating their 40th anniversary. How many records have they sold ? How many sell out tours, playing the worlds biggest venues. How many of us can claim the same ? He does what he needs to for the song. [/quote] [quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1479981704' post='3180719'] Can you show me where there there is a post of someone annoyed in this thread, cos I sure can't see any. [/quote] Erm is this not a moan?

If it's as prolific and detrimental as people say I wonder how thousands of hit records have been recorded using one? Maybe they use a P bass to fill in all the notes played on the G string in the studio after

I love how these threads go, same as barefaced ones, we get a page of people annoyed at the naysayers before any naysayers join in

[quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1479913135' post='3180243'] whenever I've used eBay to sell I've always made it very clear that if they are paying by PayPal then I will not post or meet to hand over the item until I have cleared money in my bank account, which is not the same as having the payment confirmed by PayPal. This then typically results in the buyer travelling to meet me and hand over the cash because they want to get their hands on the instrument ASAP. [/quote] [quote name='ras52' timestamp='1479931560' post='3180430'] Yep, it now costs the sender a 1% fee to send to a "friend". But if you withdraw the money from PayPal and they subsequently do a chargeback, won't the money just be taken from your bank account or card registered with PayPal? [/quote] Yep, my brother got paid via paypal, £300, he withdrew the money but some time later it turns out the person used a stolen card or account somehow, paypal have now had to give the victim their money back (and quite rightly obviously) and they now want the money off my brother, great!