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No. Definitely not!

Yep, have adjusted guitar necks many times, but unfortunately I suffer with OCD and this is a brand new bass and I’m still at the annoying don’t break it period. Stupid I know, I hate it, but just wanted to avoid a neck adjust if possible. Hence asking. At least I’m honest about it lol. thanks for the advice though. I’m just gonna bung em on there I think and see……..

No, but in the 90s I was recognised around my home town as “That good acoustic guitarist” when I was doing an acoustic show on the local circuit. Used to annoy my first wife no end, probably one if the reasons I left her lol. In my last band our drummer used to get asked for it, but that’s another story.

I bought a couple of sets of these thinking they were the same gauge as my 32-130 strings I currently use then saw they weren’t and they are stainless. Anyone have any experience of using these and if so are they a higher tension that requires a neck adjustment please???

Oh crikey yes fretless is an excellent idea. Mine is really easy to play with a super low action and I’ve used it on a couple of recordings and once it’s in the mix you really have to listen to hear its a fretless. Great idea Trueno.

If your normal scale length was a 5 string it was probably 35”? I know for certain that the stingray 5 is 34 not 35 as is the Yamaha East sig model. I think a 32 5 would be poor to play, maybe go 34 5 and play it on the good days or at least the not so bad days??

I have severe spinal arthritis and been on prescription drugs for over a decade to manage constant pain. Playing at home for my own enjoyment is all i do and certainly better than not playing at all. I miss gigging a lot. One thing that hasn’t changed is my enthusiasm and desire to play. Music is always on my mind, so when I’m able I’m straight in the studio to play. I have 3 days a week on my own because my wife works and I can’t care for my little son on my own, so those days I’m in the studio all the time even if I’m just sitting chilling watching music videos as I don’t go out as it causes me too much pain. I don’t know wtf I’d do if I didn’t have my little studio, just being amongst music stuff is nice and every time I close the door and lock myself in I say outloud I love it in here! my dad played until the day he died and I hope I manage to do the same.

This exactly.

my 2 yo son does a similar tune, but tbf most of the time he does it on his own keyboard and not my piano. he also has his own 1984 Gibson laying on a gigbag on the lounge floor that is tuned to open D that he strums. before anyone shoots me down for letting such a valuable guitar etc etc a year or two after I bought it Gibson whom I’d asked to authenticate it told me it was a (very good) fake. As I can’t sell it with a clear conscience it became his first guitar and he loves it.

Mine is a Vintage Jaco model, very impressive instrument for £340. I was expecting it to be crap, but was pleasantly surprised. So it has the lined neck. I’m sure unlined is more daunting but probably not a lot different. The five string headless Ibanez I have my eye on is not lined, just top mounted position markers. I’m not so sure it would be the same on stage. My gigging bass was a Japanese Geddy Lee with lovely big black blocks so there was no way of getting lost when it all got nervous sweaty loud and dark lol. It’s a totally different world to being in your familiar safe practice space, and I miss it so much. So I keep happy with buying new gear and I don’t care that I’ve got far to much already. Ha ha.

I thought the same about the fretless. It’s a lot easier than I thought and after about 20 minutes I forgot it was any different. It was my only bass for a while.

I feel your pain. My body is completely flipped due to arthritis which means I can’t play guitar anymore and play bass (which always was my main instrument) and piano when my pain allows. I have quite a few guitars just sitting around the studio and house waiting for my son to grow up and hopefully start playing them. I’m also now incontinent due to nerve problems in my back. I’m 53. So all you youngsters out there play as much as you can whilst you can coz you never know how long you’ve got. Sorry if that’s too much information, but I’m having a particularly bad and painful day today amd needed to rant!!!!!

I don’t know that guy he’s probably a really talented nice bloke, but he looks like a snob in that foto lol

This is always what’s killed it for me with just a couple of exceptions over the years. The last band I was in was with a well known drummer and very professional guitarist and they would not have tolerated the behaviour the op describes. The songs were decided at a meeting, you were expected to know them at the next rehearsal within a few days. We had three rehearsals before we started the gigs. I was involved with another similarly run outfit at the same time. It just comes down to if the music or personalities come first. For us it was the music and we all put the work in to learn the agreed songs on time, and that made it enjoyable and good fun, but the music always came before everything else.

I think if you’re going to police the apostrophe you should also point out the error. It’s only fair, no?

Yamaha TRB Actually it is more defined than I thought so long as I keep volume down which is definitely room size. the room is well treated but till weather warms up I keep the partition across so it’s cheaper to heat.

The B string is okay down to the D imho. My studio setup loses a little definition lower than that tbh. Probably due to room size. I think my next bass will be a fretless 5 string tuned E/Drop D ADGC

I am considering a five string and going high C rather than low B. I also would like another fretless. Has anyone seen this Ibanez ……. https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/detail/sras7_1p_06.html that really appeals to me but I don’t know why lol.

I like the sound of the Boss unit. It adds a very slight amount of top end. As the treble is maxxed out on my preamp (bit like my credit card after getting back into bass) I think it would suit and allow me to back the treble off a bit.

The more I hear on this subject the more I think my tone could benefit from some subtle compression.

https://www.award-session.com/pdfs/Tube Amp Compression.pdf

Was it tube compression? or am I late to the party? I’m late aren’t I? sorry

I know it’s not nice to take the fosters, and I certainly wouldn’t want to bully them, but we definitely need a Nilorius thread to capture all their great quotes and phrases. i love “ the goods and the bads of it…..” that will become a stock phrase in my house hold.

Although I have to add, I learnt a song the other day, could have sworn it was in C when actually it was G as I was still thinking the 5 th string was the A string. Takes a while I guess.

Definitely better at string muting now. Before my thumb was anchored firmly enough to hold the Titanic, now it floats and mutes. I actually find it easier to play the sixer. Tempted to have a luthier make one fretless for me, that would be interesting.