Linus27

Interesting as I get comments at pretty much every gig about how great it is to see someone playing a fretless, I love the sound of your fretless, you sound like Pino/Mick Karn and at one venue, the bar staff have renamed our band as 'Tim Shez and the Fretless Bass Player', much to our singers annoyance 🤣

Thank you 😁

I'm thinking of attending this as well although I've never been to one before or know how it works

Thanks @SamPlaysBass this is great info. I loved my PF500, it just so suited the sound I had in my head and the tone was perfect. I also recorded with a PF20 which again, sounded brilliant. Both amps with a fretless Precision and flats is heaven. I do like my MarkBass IV, I'd be more than happy to keep it and certainly would if the new Ampeg amps didn't exist. It creates a great sound and super easy to get a good tone from it but I do miss my Ampeg tone. Plus, hopefully with Yamaha onboard, we get the reliability although I never had any problems with any of my Ampeg gear.

Thanks @SamPlaysBass it looks like I will sell my MarkBass IV which is really good but I love Ampeg gear and I've been considering an SGT-DI so this will tick that box as well. I'll go for the V7 when funds allow.

Great rehearsal last night and a little different to normal. We got ourselves a drum pad and we've been programming in various sounds, pads and layers that our drummer can active during a song. So this week we decided to have a stripped back rehearsal which was a nice change as its usually always too loud. No effects, just an acoustic guitar, voice, fretless bass and drums with brushes. We also wrote a new song which was sounding pretty good so far.

Awesome, I'd like to see the vintage white in the flesh as I love the surf green but the vintage white I think is more fitting. The feedback so far from those who have tried them has all been really positive so it sounds like a winner

Are you going to buy one? I know I will be when funds allow.

His name's not on the list so he can't join our ragtag group of 'Thomann discounted Squier 40th Anniversary Club' 🤣

HAHAHAHA ok, I went by importance, red first as they are more fiery and feisty, then blonde as blondes have the most fun and then green as they are green with envy of the other two 🤣 1. Frank n funker - Red Precision 2. Linus27 - Red Precision 3. GlamBass74 - Red Precision 4. grapefruitmoon - Red Precision 5. Delberthot - Red Precision 6. Phil Starr - Red Precision 7. Jd56hawk - Red Precision 8. Sharkfinger - Vintage Blonde Precision 9. ezbass - Vintage Blonde Precision 10. Odi - Vintage Blonde Precision 11. Uncle psychosis - SFG Jazz 12. floFC - SFG Jazz

So I've gone back over this thread and from what I can work out, this is who's taken advantage of this awesome offer. I dont think I've missed anyone?? 1. Linus27 - Red Precision 2. GlamBass74 - Red Precision 3. Sharkfinger - Vintage Blonde Precision 4. floFC - SFG Jazz 5. ezbass - Vintage Blonde Precision 6. Frank n funker - Red Precision 7. Odi - Vintage Blonde Precision 8. grapefruitmoon - Red Precision 9. Delberthot - Red Precision 10. Uncle psychosis - SFG Jazz 11. Phil Starr - Red Precision 12. Jd56hawk - Red Precision

That reminds me of this that I read the other day, 'Have you ever thought about this? In 100 years like in 2123 we will all be buried with our relatives and friends. Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector. Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father? After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories. If we paused one day to analyze these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was. If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people. Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy. And we waste it day after day with greed, greed and intolerance.' Anon

I know, I think there's about 3 spelling mistakes in the book, and to think I had it proof read by two other people.

Something I did with all my old photos was put together a photobook with a section for each band. Bonusprint has a great program that you can download and let's you import your photos and has lots of superb effects and editing tools. Once you have created it, you then ping the order off and they will print it up. You can choose book size, hardback/softback, glossy how many pages and all manner of effects. It's up to you on how creative you want to be but it's super easy to use and a book of about 140 pages was about £120. As I've played for 37 years, I cant get all the bands in one book, so book 1 is from 1987 to 2012, book 2 which I am working on now is 2017 - 2020 and book 3 is from 2020 onwards. Maybe they'll be a book 4 depending on how much longer I keep playing for.

Just had the pickups in my Japanese Fender 62RI Fretless Precision replaced and these are the old ones that came out. They actually sounded really nice but I can't see any markings etc. on them. Do they look like standard Japanese Fender pickups?

Disappointed in the looks of the amp heads but they do seem very appealing now Yamaha are involved. I loved the the sound of my PF500 but it was quite a heavy chunky old thing by today's standards weighing in at 5kg. The new V7 is 3.1kg so that seems better.

So just a bit of an update from me, I tried the ACS Pacato 16 universal fit ear plugs last night and I really didn't get on with them. They fitted fine but everything sounded sort of muffled and underwater and when the singer spoke to me, I had to try and learn to lip read as it sounded like he was behind a wall like when you hear someone speaking in the next room and its muffled. As soon as I took them out, everything was crystal clear again although stupidly loud still but that's another story. Not sure where this leaves me as they were giving the lower attenuation and flatter response at 16db but I lost all definition and dynamics. I'll give them another few goes for sure as it might just be a case of getting used to them.

Where did you buy the new set from?

Don't forget Jeff Amett from Pearl Jam but as already mentioned, Pino Palladino (Paul Young), John Giblin (Kate Bush/Simple Minds) Derek Forbes (Simple Minds), Paul Webb (Talk Talk), Mick Khan (Japan) to name a few.

37 years of playing here and only ever played 4 string. Now I only play fretless. I did try a 5 string once but my head couldn't get used to an extra string being where the E is. So I'm thinking of taking on a challenge and buying a 5 string fretless as I love the look of the fretless 5 string headless Ibanez make 🤣

I actually have a similar story. A band I was in back at the end of the 90's, at one rehearsal the drummer says the bass is too loud, can you turn down. I was surprised as I was not any louder than normal and I'm actually a quite player as well. So I turn down. We play the song but again, he says I'm still too loud so I turn down a bit more but again, after playing the song, he says I am still too loud. The singer also joins in and says yeah, I think you are too loud so I turn down more and play super softly but nope, still really loud. Confused by all of this I say ok, I'll turn down more but turn my amp off. We play the song again and yep, I'm too loud so I point out that my amp isn't actually on and it turns out it was the rhythm guitarist 🤣 We turn him down and put me back to the original levels and everything was ok again.

I even used to play fretless in a 50's/60's Rock n Roll band so if its good for Elvis and Chuck Berry then its good for anything

On a different note, I'd love to play in an Irish Trad band, what's the name of your band so I can try and have a listen?

Will do and thank you.

Definitely needs those cream pickup covers.