Linus27

I just tried my red Precision and zero neck dive. It literally doesn't move. This is using a standard Fender strap.

5 hours ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

Well I did this. Love it

 

Gorgeous bass, very envious but nice one. It won't be long before I have one in my hands 😁

Just now, ezbass said:

J Basses are still available it seems, but for how long? Feels good to have actually been able to take advantage of what seems to have been a proper special offer. 😌

Yeah, I totally agree, thank to @Frank n funker for bringing this to our attention

39 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

By the way @Linus27 it's Mick Karn. 😉

Thank you, all corrected

Its not something I've ever thought about but recently I watched a few videos of my playing and I noticed that for the E and A string, I primarily use my index finger and then for the D and G string I switch to the middle finger and then go back and forth between fingers as I cross between stringers. Sometimes I'll use both fingers on a single string depending on what I'm playing but most of the time, its index for the E and A and middle for the D and G. I don't even know I'm doing it and has never slowed me down or caused me issues. You can see it a bit in this studio clip,

https://www.facebook.com/timshezmusic/videos/766042981206589

11 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

It took a year for my previous band to notice.

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 🤣 

2 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

 

 

The screenshot wasn't big enough to include that bringing biscuits is not actually compulsory.

 

But don't let that stop you 😉

Thank you 😁 

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

26 minutes ago, SamPlaysBass said:

Cheers @Linus27. If you like the Ampeg sound I'd certainly give them a look and the V7 seems to be the sweet spot. Sounds perfect for what you want. I haven't tried a Markbass IV but the Venture is a world apart from the LM3 I had a few years back - much more character to the sound and the character is typically Ampeg. Hopefully it'll match the Markbass for long term reliability! I get the feeling after speaking to the retailers (who I know well luckily) that Yamaha seem determined to lose the old stigma of reliability and quality inconstancy they've had for the last few years. 

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.

6 minutes ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

I'm really tempted mate, I need to shift a few bits first but I was really impressed. They let me try it on a strap too and it felt really good and comfortable which I was surprised about given that I've switched to short scales predominantly. 

 

The colour in the flesh is really nice too. I didn't see one of the vintage white ones but the surf green ticked all the boxes for me. 

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

1 hour ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

I had a play on one of the 70's Tele Basses in Surf Green yesterday and loved it. The one I tried only weighed 8 1/2lb which for a slab body is a good weight in my eyes. 
 

The neck was lovely and it had been set up with a nice low action. The whole bass was put together really well. Sound-wise it's a lot more versatile than I thought, especially if you vary right hand position and playing where I usually play (mid-way between bridge and the start of the neck) and with tone on full reminded me very much of a 4003 neck pickup which someone else in this thread alluded to. It's a sound I love: deep and slightly "fizzy" and just the right side of warm before moving in to a bit too warm for me. Definitely a 70's sounding vibe from the music I love. 

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

1 hour ago, Pea Turgh said:

You’re not even on the list! 😂

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

20 minutes ago, Bolo said:

I object to your choice of ranking. Could have gone alphabetically, chronologically or sorted by colour but nooooo...

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 

16 minutes ago, Len_derby said:

I used to be a bit of a squirrel and keep things from my hobbies and jobs.

What changed my mind was doing house clearances for deceased family members. It’s a gruelling burden that I decided I didn’t want to subject my children to. So, I’ve had a big clear-out and I’m now very strict about what I keep.

It’s a sobering thought that stuff we felt was important to keep will one day be recycled or thrown away with barely a second glance.

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

1 hour ago, Thump said:

You spelled "coincide" wrong in the book

 

Sounds like quite a few people here have lots of stories to share

 

The only book i've been in was the phone book.

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 🤣