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My Century Standard 4 Fretless...

Bought this baby [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=129753"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=129753[/url], and very nice it is too - many thanks!

Thanks guys, I'll check those out.

Hi, Does anyone have a recommendation for someone in the London/Southern Home Counties area to level or possibly replace a fingerboard on a fretless? Ta! Richard

[quote name='lowdown' post='1254190' date='Jun 2 2011, 04:17 PM']Music is not just about Bass.[/quote] Burn the heretic!

[quote name='tauzero' post='1252184' date='May 31 2011, 10:57 PM']An optimist would say it was half full.[/quote] I already demonstrated my optimistic credentials just by visiting the place!

[quote name='yorick' post='1251530' date='May 31 2011, 02:20 PM']Like two skeletons shagging on a corrugated tin roof in a thunder storm........... [/quote] Ah yes, that's how Sir Thomas Beecham described the sound of the harpsichord. Except he said "copulating" rather than shagging. Lord knows what he'd have to say about slap.

I got to play a VMJ yesterday... not bad. Being a flatty I was more thrown by the roundwound strings than the ebanol board. I may get another go on a Vintage Icon next week. But what about this Yammy RBX: [url="http://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-guitars/pid9816/cid560/yamaha-rbx270f-4string-fretless-bass-black.asp"]http://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-guitars/pi...-bass-black.asp[/url]? And I think I've found the answer to my original either/or question: both Get something cheap and cheerful now, do up the Yammy at my leisure, then plant one of them at the GF's house (she doesn't know about this yet )

I was in the Bass Cellar yesterday and it was 1/2 empty of stock...?

[quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='1246889' date='May 27 2011, 12:02 PM']Thanks,that was my inspiration for the Precision,just dont like the strat switch.[/quote] Ditto, otherwise totally lovely.

Allan Holdsworth and Nile Rogers - guitars Hugh Banton - keyboards Claire Martin - voice Bill Bruford - drums

[quote name='dub' post='1247103' date='May 27 2011, 02:08 PM']And why do so many people miss out their heads in these youtube clips. Are they ashamed? Is slap bass illegal in some countries?[/quote] This thread needs a poll... "Should slap bass be illegal?"

Yes, it's a cry for help from a gas-sufferer, but I'm genuinely torn. I'd spotted the Vintage but was initially put off by "road worn" finish, but being both cheaper and woodier than the Squier it deserves a second look. (My only experience of ebanol was trying an Ibanez Gary Willis, and I wasn't too keen on it.) I checked out the Shuker website, and indeed the prices look good - to the degree that I wouldn't baulk at fitting a new board to the Yamaha. But I'm in London and he's in Derbyshire...

We rehearse at the guitarist's house, sometimes on weekends and sometimes on a weeknight. On weekends I bring my "A team" basses, but on weeknights I arrive straight from work and use a cheaper bass which I leave at his house, along with a 60w combo. I'm increasingly playing fretless, so I'd like to plant a "B team" fretless round there too. I bought a Yamaha BB350F off *B*y a few months ago. Generally it's fine, but the board is chewed up from having rounds on it. Not excessively, but enough to be annoying (going beyond mwah and into sitar territory on some notes). Bass Gallery quoted £80 for a "re-shoot": add in the cost of a setup and new set of flats, and we're halfway towards the cost of a new Squier VMJ... even closer to a S/H one. (Although I'm wary of S/H fretless as too many of them seem to have worse-for-wear boards.) So... give the Yammy a bucketful of TLC, or dump it and rush to arms of something else? The decision is mine. But it'd be fun to hear your thoughts.

[quote name='CrackerJackLee' post='1132990' date='Feb 19 2011, 02:06 AM'][font="Courier New"] Another option would be to change fingering from the 2E form to the 4E form...[/quote] Hi, what are "2E" and "4E"? Haven't heard those terms before. Anyway, all of the above is very interesting, as I'm currently working on a fourth-infested passage on fretless and have yet to come up with my solution.

Am I the only one who can read standard notation but is perplexed by tab - largely because most of the examples I've seen give no indication of rhythm?

+1 for the Gary Willis guide, very useful. Re. strings, don't be scared of trying flats - I find they have plenty mwah, although my plenty may not be the same as yours! I've tried TI Jazz flats which I found super-mwah, but I now prefer the higher tension of D'Addario Chromes.

So if I'm not mistaken, back in the days of "vintage" instruments, bass players wore clothes made of sandpaper and squeezed their instruments into cases lined with sandpaper, etc. etc...

[quote name='Clarky' post='1226024' date='May 10 2011, 11:54 AM']For me, one of the beauties of Jamerson's playing is that he is soloing and supporting at the same time - take Flying High in a Friendly Sky. ...[/quote] Ah yes, that's a fantastic track. A classical musicologist would call a part which is "soloing and supporting at the same time" contrapuntal. That sort of line's the most satisfying for me. As for "spotlight" soloing, I agree with most of the previous posts - short is sweet. For me, Geddy Lee usually gets it right, e.g. at the end of Red Barchetta.

[quote name='ZMech' post='1222169' date='May 6 2011, 01:01 PM']Got to love outdated tech. Sorry vader but my geek instincts are kicking in, and I can't resist correcting you . Valves are only used for amplifiers, and whilst they might be used for a TV's sound, the bit that Marvin was referring to is a cathode ray tube, which is the bit that spits electrons at the glass in order to make the image. The only CRT (cathode ray tube) TV I see these days is the one in my living room, and that's so that we can use a playstation lightgun. don't worry marvin, i chuckled.[/quote] Yep, my first thought was CRTs too, although I am one of those old enough to remember valve TVs (and radios). Not sure about them only being for sound, though, as I recall there was quite a warm-up time before the picture appeared - although that may be an old early CRT vs. later CRT issue. As for Adele - I found that clip hard to listen to, but I noticed she was fiddling with ear ears at the end, so perhaps in her defence there were some monitoring problems.

[quote name='BassBunny' post='1221308' date='May 5 2011, 05:32 PM']And here's the story: "Hi, seriously interested in your Squire P Bass but can't figure out the model. any chance of some more details or better pictures, particularly close up of the headstock. You can send to [email protected] Also, would you package up for collection? Cheers, S" Answer within minutes: "Hi, unfortunately my girlfriend put a photo of this guitar on e-bay. i have two red bass'. cheers for your interest though...think i would buy it again for that price! cheers - mrbrownesq" Think he's pissed his girlfriend off?[/quote] I wonder if his girlfriend is aimeereed0 (No longer a registered user), or perhaps the coincidentally similarly-named, and local, aimeereed2010 (of Eastbourne)? Makes you wonder, eh?