steve-bbb

and the obvious third option is....

avoid greasy nibbles and knick-knacks before the gig too - i once had some pork scratchings or something and just licked my fingers clean and wiped them down my jeans then spent the whole gig with my fingertips feeling like they were sticking to the strings

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1472414549' post='3120979'] How does a new guitarist even have a voice? I've been in my band for 5 years and I don't shave a say in anything. I can be replaced easily and bands with paying gigs are hard to find in Milwaukee. Blue [/quote] but couldn't this to a degree, depend on how you accepted the gig in the first instance and your input and contribution during your early membership?

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[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1472393994' post='3120764'] But you still should be able to get a high degree of intonation. You do have to be very very precise. [/quote] [quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1472398467' post='3120812'] I set intonation on my fretless using the edge of a fingernail to stop the string for accuracy. [/quote] [quote name='Trueno' timestamp='1472401447' post='3120845'] Good idea. The edge of a credit hard might work, but you may need three hands. [/quote] try a capo i didnt have a capo to hand so i used this aligning the edge of the roll exactly along the twelfth fret and checking the pitch of the fretted note and comparing it to the harmonic with a tuner

just a quick 75 minutes at the end of the day but i thnk we got away with it again

x-factor millenials innit

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[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1472378074' post='3120618'] Having very little neck relief helps with that fretless sound. [/quote] +1 agreed - set action/relief too high and you will lose a lot if not all of that distinctivve fretless growl - too little or too low and the nice fretless growl turns to definite buzzing - is just a case of adjusting until you get the tone exactly where you like it - you might find too that the fretless sound varies subtlely up and down the neck as the neck/string angle changes a small amount

Zep, Rush, Max Webster etc

enjoy [url="http://youtu.be/lfyWPALhlmc"]http://youtu.be/lfyWPALhlmc[/url]

never realised that was JW on burlesque

absolutley - have two basses here with upgraded wizards and j-east's , all the wizards are passive also have a j-east in my status and have used it with both passive and active pickups the main difference being the active pups sound huge compared to the passives

best to unscrew and lift up that end of the scratchplate so that you can hold the pot still underneath whilst you tighten the nut on top a friend of mine (cough) once made the schoolboy error of tightening the nut on top of the scratchplate whilst not doing the above - the result is that the pot underneath [b]can[/b] spin around as you are tightening the nut - worst case scenario is that it overstretches and snaps any of the wires soldered on to the pot lugs luckily [s]i had[/s] my friend had their toolkit in the car and was able to solder the snapped wire back in place on the pot 20 minutes before the gig was about to start with no spare backup bass

will only take an active alone if i have a spare battery - otherwise if is just the single bass then for practicality has to be one of the one that has passive/active switch in case of battery failure but some gigs will take the fretless along too as about half a dozen songs in our set suit the fretless very nicely

sooooo, i got my little tool box out and removed both pickups and armed only with a roll of black insulating tape, a roll of adhesive aluminium shielding tape and soome offcut pieces of high density foam (from an old army issue sleeping mat as it happens) i have grounded out the underside of the pole pieces to contact with the screening which lines the base of the pickup cavity - all contact only through the pressure created by the high density foam - which begs me to ask why do manufacturers only put a silly small piece of low density foam under the centre of a pickup so that it rolls around like a stuck pig when you try and use it as a thumb rest crackling all gone - whole thing running fairly quietly (considering the mahoosive gain and output from the John East) problem solved - thanks for all your input

40 years playing mostly fingers some pick never a breakage through playing - skinny guitar strings plenty

i used to get this and narrowed it down to a couple of sockets in my house rather than the amp itself one of these is a useful piece of kit to have handy

rhythm stick

i have my fretless relief about the same as my fretted - both J's just recently adjusted the intonation on the fretless too - was quite a way out and hadnt realised but wondered why my fingering always sounded rubbish even though i knew i was in the correct position - adjusting intonation corrrectly has made a huge difference to overall accuracy and ease of playing - doesnt feel like im fighting with it any longer to stay in tune

if you call yamaha main uk dsitributors they will give you the number for the uk distributor for their parts service i would tell you myself but i cant remember and lost the invoice i do distinctly recall that they charged me the princely sum just in excess of 20 guineas for a replacemnt battery compartment for a trb1004 - they dont sell the lid on its own as they fit it once in the factory and if it comes out its sort of designed with an inherent inbuilt weakness so that you cant properly get it back in the compartment without breaking it ed- for clarity the 20 squid the battery compartment also included the 9v battery tag and the p+p was also included

[quote name='Cardiff Boy Roy' timestamp='1471089138' post='3110447'] Just a quick Hi to everyone here, only just come over to the Dark Side here in Wales I've herd all the Sheep Jokes. So dont bother with them . My Son who is 9 also plays Bass ,well he started last week. So Hi to all .[attachment=225405:$_86 (2).JPG][attachment=225405:$_86 (2).JPG] [/quote] that will be quite unnecesssary weve already got gene simmonds and some bloke from u2 forget his name as our local whipping boys

[quote name='luckydog' timestamp='1471122602' post='3110724'] Do you mean if you touch the pole pieces when not also touching strings you get hum/buzz ? On some J PUs there is a third wire which grounds the metalwork and a copper screen - if you don't have three wires this could be why the prob. If you have three wires, perhaps there's a fault in the connection or wiring - 2 of them should go to ground. You can add a third wire to ground the pole pieces, need something to spring contact with them inside the PU it's fairly tricky. Or get 3 wire variants ! [/quote] no third wire - they are wizard hammers - will not be replacing them because they took me a while to track down a pair on here and they sound flippin fantastic - they might be tinkerable will have to investigate i think the black plastic cover is removable and they are not all resin or wax dipped so could be an option [quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1471164845' post='3110862'] Shoot a message to Rich/Grangur. I had a similar issue on a (Precision style) passive circuit. Grounding problems...buzzing stopped with a finger on the tone, increased if you touch the pickup pole. He's advised the issue has been resolved quite simply (something not connected). [/quote]buzzing stops when you touch any other item that is grounded - cant say have noticed if the buzzing varies with the tone swell will give it a try this afternoon - thanks will message rich/grangur

just discovered i have a grounding issue but is not where i would have expected have just recently pulled the J apart - lined the back of the pup cavities and the control cavity with adhesive aluminium tape and lifted the bridge and made sure the ground contact was good under there too - connected all the lined cavities together by crimping tags on the ends of connector cable and screwing down - as i fitted a j-retro i used the installation advice on there and connected the ground from the j-retro to another tag screwed into the cavity lining in close proximity to the tag connecting the other cavity grounds result was great no undue noise at all even with the gain cranked right up except from the pickup pole piece magnets themselves but only when hands not in contact with strings/bridge/control plate etc have i done something fundamentally wrong? is there a remedy (other than trying not to touch the pole pieces when playing open strings (would rather not go down the route of new pup covers would like to keep them as is) ta muchly in advance

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1470768210' post='3108322'] I could never [i]hate[/i] another musician because of his performance techniques. I might lure him to a deserted warehouse and shoot him in the face but I'd do it with love in my heart. [/quote] so you wouldnt prefer to see an instructional video of carol kaye showing gene simmonds how to actually play the goddam bass... and just for good measure pulling his trousers down and smacking the back of his legs in public to bring him down a peg or two??? i bet theres quite a few chatters who'd pay good money for it!