stingrayPete1977

I have become more cynical of where it goes more than what they take, charity starts at home now for me, I have done loads of free gigs and provided gear for others, as they say on dragons den, "I'm out"

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1406536024' post='2512122'] I've got a five string too. Try playing Velvet Revolver's Slither on a five string [/quote] Out of curiosity I just did, I found the tab and transposed all the showboating from the open D to 10th fret on the detuned D string across the BEA strings of a fiver and its just the minor 3rd to major 3rd that pulls you out of position a fraction Doddy would sight read it!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1406554072' post='2512353'] Personally I still haven't come across an E-string that would still feel right dropped to D without being too stiff when tuned to E. If I really have to use drop D I'd have another bass with an appropriately heavier string for the low D. (This is what I do with my guitars where I use a 52 for E and a 56 for drop D.) [/quote] I will play devils advocate and go against my own earlier post and say that in some cases, mainly the ones discussed in this thread part of the point is the timbre of the flappy E string, your idea of the bass playing as it should when tuned to D by the use of a different gauge string would defeat the object of the whole sound some people are going for, these songs were and are still being written on a detuned E string rather than a state of the art bass strung specially for two numbers at a gig requiring multiple basses to be taken too, would you 4 string pioneers agree with that? I have never found a song requiring the need to drop my E on a five string yet and the times it is easier on five far out weigh the reverse, I am not pointing the finger at anyone here as I think most of you look like you understand but some people cant get there head around the notes that are far away when in drop D will not be so far when playing a 5 with correct positional fingering because we still have the E where it should be so the original notes fall to hand, where anyone tries to think of really tricky songs to catch us out they forget we can go across as you would on a B strung 4 string or up as you would on an standard tuned 4 string.

Genuinely worn basses are cool, faked ones tend to be bought by men of a certain age wealthy enough to buy a fake, too tight to buy the real thing or realised the real things are often awful basses

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1406536024' post='2512122'] I've got a five string too. Try playing Velvet Revolver's Slither on a five string [/quote] I'm sure it can be done

What is this drop tuning to access a low D you speak of?

Thats my German bow that does not get used and i can confirm that my bow playing is just as bad with the French bow not in shot! The room is north facing so only a bit of sun comes in plus it has a wooden slat blind too, the back bedroom on the other hand managed to age my strat neck within a few weeks to a nice honey colour

I still dont see the need for taming the beast either? Nate Watts, John Deacon, Bernard Edwards and Louis Johnson just embraced it. When you do want it the imposters fall flat every time! A 2 eq Ray at full tilt sitting in a live band setting is a thing of beauty

If they made a 5 string Grabber I'd sell a Ray 5 to buy it

If its the clip I think it is then the drummer is at the wrong gig or our favourite Japanese transvestite should be along shortly

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1406422046' post='2511415'] Jeezus, even my plexiglass one wasn't that heavy! [/quote] Oh yes they are out there, awful!

We are playing a beer festival in August, we did the may bank holiday one and it was packed, they have booked us again and given us a better slot this time. There was nearly 100 beers on tap last time

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1406417050' post='2511399'] Ok, what are bits? Blue [/quote] I'm not entirely sure, sediment from the natural ingredients I presume, think of a processed American beer made from chemicals in a giant vat that comes out as fizzing orange water, well a proper ale is the opposite of that

I had a bitsa jazz, I sold it on here, it was based on an affinity jazz and was lovely and light, perfect for long gigs. The last P I played was a 15lbs 70s one!

It looks great, I can see the Stingray is in its rightful place though.....on the gig!

Oh yes proper ale for me, warm with bits in

That sounds about the same as here....but....go on then...whats a Can Cozie?

Your bitsa P is literally half the weight of the last one I played

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1406376900' post='2511008'] That seems light for those particular models Telebass, maybe those cheapie scales are cheap for a reason [/quote] I thought the same?

I presume every ones Gedo got shipped the same? It's got a nice tone to my ears but is it worth having the post altered?

We would need to wait for the public weigh bridge to open on Monday for me to post the weight of my black stingray 5 : lol:

Nathan Watts is the man, end of, it's not even up for debate

Can you hear anything useable like a melody though, we can hear quite high frequencies but Florence and the machine have proven those to be fairly useless or worth hearing too

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1406279535' post='2510025'] I can hear down to 30Hz according to this audio sweep - humans generally can't hear below 20Hz, though. [url="http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencychecklow.php"]http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencychecklow.php[/url] You'll need proper monitors to hear the lowest frequencies - and watch your volume, it gets loud! [/quote] That's great in isolation but in reality and in a band mix all it's doing is sucking up wattage.

They are only shelved at 80 if you don't engage the LF, it caused arguments about the shuttle 9.0 being deeper than the 6.0 because people read that the 9.0 goes to 37hz, they were actually the same.