BassTractor

Hey Andy, Welcome amongst the visible ones! Do I get you right? You've lived for almost fifty decades? Whoa! Impressive! Anyway, partake and enjoy the forum s'more. best, bert

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1379322191' post='2211135'] it could be that right-handers aren't used to playing against lefties as much [/quote] This goes for tennis indeed, and so I assume it goes for similar sports as well. Added points for the lefty player [b][i]being[/i][/b] used to playing with righties. Yessss!!! Happily though, I lose all my games, so I'm spared the shame of having won in an unsporty fashion.

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1379273801' post='2210744'] Any thoughts / observations on this point? [/quote] I pick up movements others make very slowly, and it doesn't matter if I'm looking at the other dancers or at the teacher in front of me who does in in a mirrord way. However, watching a pair of dancers doing a dance, I do get what they're doing, and this way I once quickly became a competition dancer in classic and latin. Yes, several decades plus moons ago. Sigh.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1379247785' post='2210211'] Instead of saying no, just send them a nice cordial reply stating what you'll work for. [/quote] and [quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1379252396' post='2210327'] be calm, controlled, measured, put your point across and stick to your guns despite any histrionics or other types of leverage [/quote] Words from the Wise

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1379193816' post='2209787'] I actually counted those 'wins'. How sad is that..? [/quote] Not that sad. You could easily have called me out, coz I actually contemplated writing twelve or fourteen of those. How sad is that...?

[quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1379190096' post='2209740'] I find if that with the right tuning on a 5 or 6 string I can play most of my set on open strings and I struggle to do that on a 4 stringer [/quote] Now we're talking, and here is where the 13-string bass comes in: a whopping whole octave, and what in the old days used to be called the "fretting hand", can now just concentrate on keeping the neck in the coolest of angles. It's a win win win win win win win win win win win win win situation.

[quote name='blablas' timestamp='1379181321' post='2209609'] It's only a matter of taking away the material you don't want. [/quote] Ah! You mean remove anything that doesn't look like an elephant, right? That's how they make statues of elephants at any rate, so I thought maybe there was something similar going on here. Anyway, amazing, amazing work!

IMS, printboards are identical on these versions, so the HB might be functionally identical - probably with different sized headphones and aux connectors. If you can't find out in the mean time, I'll check this out later this evening, when I have some time. Edit: Not found what I wanted to find, but here you can find pictures of the innards of the HB and Ibanez versions: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/168416-another-promethean-clone/page__st__100 That whole thread offers quite some insight, like that RedSub and Harley Benton are identical, that the Ibanez has a different pre-amp, and that the Beta Aivin has some extra stuff on the back. Dunno about its pre-amp.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1379166608' post='2209364'] £2:2s:0d..? Are you sure..? [/quote] Yup! It was roughly £2.2.0. That's why I found it cooler to use the guinea as a unit and not the pound. See, actually, it was NOK 20, and depending on the currency flavour of the day, methinks that was indeed close enough to a guinea or two.

Thanks to alembic63: Gentle Giant: "Just the Same" - live, January 1978. IMS, GG were back in London after a long hiatus and a lot of US concerting. The audience was not a native GG audience, but was scraped together somehow - don't remember exactly. The next song of the concert, great in its own right, was "Playing the Game", featuring the Shulberry 3-string. [media]http://youtu.be/4StScMaYffE[/media]

Sent money to Germany by direct bank transfer some weeks ago, and the cost was 2 guineas, whilst the currency rate was slightly better than the one used by VISA. Maybe something for others too.

"The Way It Is" is bloody great, innit? Possibly the top track of that album. I have a weak spot for this piano bit of Americana, and it has influenced my own piano playing.

Hey Duffer, Welcome from another Ashbory user, a noob at 57 years of old. You do know that you need an EBS Fafner amp and an Ampeg SVT 810 cabinet for this, yes? (Only kidding. I just took the most expensive stuff I could hastily remember before my first coffee today. Way more expensive stuff does of course exist. You need that instead.) Enjoy the fora, their info, discussion and banter! best, bert

Sorry, but this is laughable. A proper bass has 10 or 13 strings. That and thanks a lot for reviewing and posting! My gas has only gotten worse now, and I'm soooo gonna get this if I can find the dough. Ha! Got an idea! Will put a 70% discount on everything in my shop just to get the revenue to buy this bass! Yup! That's what I'll do. All your fault! Thanks!

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1379085665' post='2208539'] I like the CAR but the 4-in-a-row headstock doesn't work with a symmetrical body for me :-( [/quote] Ha! Exactly my response. But now I look at it again, I notice it also needs 5 more knobs/switches and yet another pickguard.

As a keyboards man in bands, hearing the P never did very much for me, unlike the SR. Appreciated it, but did not get wildly enthusiastic. As a concert audience member, the same. Based on that type of listener experience, as to the older basses, my money is on a Jazz, a Rick, a StingRay, a Danelectro 58 Longhorn even, but not on a P. Own two myself though, and thoroughly enjoy playing them in the living room.

[quote name='Westie9' timestamp='1379065393' post='2208228'] it's starting to wear a little thin now unfortunately..... [/quote] One that will never wear thin is: "You know I need this one, but I really do love you! "

BTW, use WHOIS or a trusted registrar to check domain names and avoid trouble with shady companies claiming them if they think it's generic enough to take the risk.

FWIW, here in Norway, and possibly transferable to the UK, it's said that MasterCard should be avoided when shopping internationally, as they have hostile currency rates. VISA have an annual fee, but good currency rates.

The laws of physics always work, as do geometry and logic, at least on this low level. A bass guitar with a shimmable bolt-on neck is essentially like two planks connected by a hinge. As long as the strings are straight, and StingrayPete claims they are, then it does not matter at all whether you move the left plank or the right plank. This however has one exception: the possible thickness that the shim introduces in the equation, as in the [b]lift[/b] it provides the neck. That again depends on what the shim is supposed to do, how the pocket is made (its length), how and where neck and body are attached to each other (placement of screws in relation to placement of shim). When the neck is lifted, this does slightly change the effect of the curvature of the neck. Mind you: the purpose of the shim is change of angle, not lifting. However, this slight complication does not detract from the fact that two planks and a hinge are the essence. BRX is right. SRPete is simply wrong. Minute changes at nut and saddle, or indeed pickup angle, probably don't even have theoretical interest. Fact. IMO.

My Aria bass weighs next to nothing, and as a result I can't weigh it on my scales, as they need 4 kg as a minimum. Edit for spelling: Air bass!

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1378984032' post='2207293'] what concerns me is that this thread is not a joke... [/quote] Says who? I've not seen one single mention of someone being serious, and several mentions of this all being very tongue-in-cheek. But yes, I'm sure the phenomenon does exist, and I'm not [s]proud of it[/s] in favour of it. ( FWiW, I've never hidden any bass from my ex. )

[quote name='alittlebitrobot' timestamp='1378927829' post='2206699'] Hey, BassTractor. I just happened to see this on eBay. [url="http://www.ebay.ie/itm/BRAND-NEW-Ibanez-BTB7-Maple-Bubinga-Walnut-Neck-Through-Hardshell-Case-/300963939850?hash=item4612d9460a"]http://www.ebay.ie/i...=item4612d9460a[/url] and check out those import charges... 1745.78 dollars all told. [/quote] Thanks, mate! I wish I had the money. Ah well, new chances will come.

[quote name='Bassman Sam' timestamp='1378948924' post='2207002'] I'm a lefty too, I read the the Guardian. [/quote] Ah. Slight misunderstanding. See, this thread is not about that kind of lefty. It's about whether you read it the normal way (in Arabic or Hebrew) or in one of those righty languages like English.

Guilty. Maybe I got too used to right-handed grand pianos and right-handed church organs (discriminating lot, those church organs!) back in my days, Idunno, but: A left-handed guitar is impossible for me. Everything about it is just as wrong as trying to throw with my right arm or to kick with my right foot. Do my kayaking with a left-handed paddle though, and in playing tennis to some degree have two forehands and two backhands. Four hands! This stuff never ceases to amaze me.