Gareth Hughes

For what it’s worth, I had a bass refinished from natural wood to Olympic White. Not knowing any better I bought a white undercoat paint. Top coat paint was definitely Olympic White - I looked quite the plonker standing with my Fender in the middle of Halfords to get the right colour. After spraying, the bass came close to pearl white. I asked the guy doing it what the story was, he said I would have needed grey or possibly an orange undercoat. Wish I’d had that conversation before I bought the paint.

The Pumperknickel is more than worth it. If you like the dbx family of compressors, then you’ll love this. It is so faithful in tone and response to a 163a that I have but way more flexible with the blend, and it’s a pedal. Eternal thanks to Bigwan for telling me about these.

Did he ride like a dipsh!t?

Absolutely, and I totally get why Fender don't make them.

They absolutely are Fender's, not arguing that. My point is that I'd want one without the modern angles - ie, the preamp, the fancy wood top. I'd just want an old fashioned Fender, with my tort guard, and my VVT plate, in Olympic White, with 24 frets. No objections to the 24 fret one they've made at all.

I'd argue that they go elsewhere because they have to. I doubt that even if I had the money, that the Fender Custom Shop wouldn't make me a 24 fret version of a Jazz. So the likelihood of that model even making it into the bog standard production range is nil, and off I go to Maruszczyk.

I was thinking the same thing. Even just in terms of something...ANYTHING...new, if Adrian can come up with a decent looking and playing 24 fret Jazz, then why can't Fender? Yes they did have the Jazz 24 years ago, but I'd argue that it got ignored by the traditional crowd because of the preamp, the control layout and the wood combos. A bog standard Jazz, passive, with 24 frets - is that too much for Fender to realise is a good thing?!?!?!?!?!?

Yep, tried that at the PRS distributor in the UK and they were ..... meh. Both the Kingfisher and the other model (forgot the name) had really bad wiring, just plain noisy no matter what. Could have just been those two basses but given that there were plenty on hand to try, this was a bit disappointing. Apologies for the negative review. I did want to like them but alas. They did play nice though.

Well, you’ll never guess what colour it is...... it was the one going in the Bassist Ireland classifieds. Made in 2004/2005. In great nick bar a ding near the 3rd fret dot on the E string side. Sounds and plays heavenly. Tone up it can do a good Maiden clank, tone down it’s a glorious soulful thump. It’s a different old school vibe than my Precision with flats. Not better or worse, but simply awesome. I am in love. Sorry for the thread hijack OP.

Just to let you Ian, that I alleviated my Mustang GAS, and I am ever so happy

Don’t give up on the idea of a smaller bass. I bought my kids - 8 and 5 - a Thomann 22 double bass, the same model that I have a 3/4 size of, and its truly excellent. My 8 year old is average height for his age and he’s having no problem holding down notes in first position or working his way up a D Major scale in third position. It has an awesome tone considering it’s size. Of course not as rich as the big one but in no way lacking for learning. My eldest plays this bass in the junior orchestra I teach and it sits well beside the 1/4 size basses there. The action was a fair bit high but that’s was easily remedied with a few files and some patience. The soundpost is semi-permanently installed so there’s little risk of it falling down while you work at the bridge.

Adam - I wouldn't sweat the clickbait titles. I've watched enough of your videos to trust that the next one is worth watching irregardless of its title. The same is opposite for other folks videos - no title would convince me to spend my time on them.

I'm not 100% sure but I think the Aux In doesn't get sent to the DI. I could be wrong about that.

Both into the A/B selector then it's either front input or effects return. I do love my Streamliner, but for upright it can be a little bit of a problem with the low end. Having said that, if you're happy with your electric sound through your Streamliner then you should be good with your upright too. Give it a try - only one way to find out. Definitely do a bedroom test - eq-ing an upright on the job can be a pain for sure.

Get yourself one of these:

Nope, it won't work as the effects section of the Streamliner is a series effects loop, meaning that when you plug your upright into the effects return you will no longer be able to run anything through the normal input on the front. Sorry. Some amps have parallel effects loops, which would work as you've written, but not the Streamliner. Is your Headway the EDB-2 or EDB-1?

For sure I agree that it’s annoying, but you never know what’s going on in someone’s life that causes them to not reply as quick as you’d like, so to instantly jump to “this guy is so rude for not replying that I’ll give him some grief on Facebook” makes me more than happy that I didn’t reply to him.

As others have said, it’s clearly best for you that you’re out, however frustrating the circumstances are. Life is too short, etc. On the flip side, I’ve managed to dodge a similiarly shaped bullet. There was an ad for a bassist for a Black Sabbath tribute local enough to me. Sabbath would always be appealing but it’s not something I’d want to commit to. Somebody then recommended the singer get in touch with me, which he did via Facebook. I’d read his message but hadn’t replied as I was giving it a second thought. I deliberately didn’t write back straight away as I didn’t want to be sitting on the fence and mess this guy around. And also - life carries on, so other things take priority in ones life over writing to a complete stranger. I didn’t think this was rude in any way, but a few days later, last night, the guy writes back with “we’ve found a bass player, thanks for getting in touch” - clearly being sarky as I hadn’t gotten in touch. Cue a few messages back and forth along the lines of “WTF?” From me and “rudeness will get you nowhere” from him and then him blocking me. I’ve never met this guy!!! So, the moral of the story is - go with your gut. If your Spidey-Senses tell you something’s up, then there really is. Good luck with your new ventures NJ.

Welcome. If you want to check out some local gigs I'd heartily recommend the John Hewitt bar in the Cathedral Quarter on a Thursday night. Has a very fine bass player in the form of Mr. Trevor Dyer. And you'll also find fellow BassChatter MachineHead there too.

This is a good read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Double-Bass-Playing/dp/087487081X

Bought an Electro Harmonix Bass MicroSynth from Jon this week. Excellent seller. Great communication throughout, and awesome bombproof packaging.

One thing I've found that has helped pupils who previously couldn't grasp anything other than playing a single note on every beat, was to have them count out loud the beats - 1234 - for every bar and then clap the rhythm. Start of with quavers on beat one, or three, or wherever - something relatively simple, and then start introducing other groupings of rhythms. A great book to help with this is 'Improve Your Sightreading - Double Bass grades 1-5 by Paul Harris. It has excellent exercises that help you see where the rhythms lie on top of the beats.

Bottesini only needed three strings!

Thomann 22 series basses are excellent value. Not just 'for the money', but plain just excellent value. I loaned mine to Jon Thorne of Lamb for an Irish tour with Yorkston, Thorne and Khan and he was very impressed with it.