Silvia Bluejay

I would be tempted to get a 5, just for the sake of GAS, if they weren't fretless. Pity.

PS I've had a quick look - the really cheap ones appear to be fretless models only. If that rocks your boat, go for it.

I've got two of them already, so don't need any more. But they're good for their price. Are they 2010 models? I remember somebody telling me that Warwick had to reject practically the whole shipment of Rockbasses (from China) becasue they simply weren't up to the required minimum standard of quality.

There is something in the DB that gets you totally hooked as soon as you play your first notes on it. Part of that may be thanks to us already being familiar with bass playing when we approach a DB - as opposed to absolute beginners when we start on the electric for the very first time - and therefore finding it easier than we thought. But there's got to be something else... the awesome sound, the need for your musical ear to be at its most sensitive, the opportunity to become lost in your world while you strive to keep the best intonation... and more. Well done both of you guys for gigging with your uprights.

Welcome, Hari!

I have Warwicks, and the nut height is adjustable through a screw at each end of the nut. It's not a black art, but I suppose it's down to personal preference, and should be adjusted together with the string height you set at the bridge. These two settings together will influence string action even before you touch the truss rod.

I'm a late starter as a musician, and so far I've only played along to records at home. It's more of a therapeutic effect than any degree of ambition, but I do practise and strive to improve etc. I always say that, if I could go back in time to when I was a teenager, I would re-live my life, for good and for bad, without any changes, except for one - I would start studying music and playing an instrument at an early age. I'm in W4. Do you play in West London? Last month I went to see Basschat's very own Happy Jack and MacDaddy with their band The Junkyard Dogs at the George in Chiswick High Road, and a jolly good evening it was. It's great to meet new musician friends this way.

Thomann can deliver to a neighbour if you instruct the courier so at the time of your purchase.

LOL @ your mention of 'actual guitarists' - I think that actual bassists can be actual guitarists as well (although I'm not one of them).

And also, a single thread would soon become unwieldy, and need to be split up into several others, or continued separately, I suppose (that's my experience on other forums).

... but in the meantime, Fast Fret works miracles on long-scale flatwounds - seriously.

*writes name and website down and puts note in a safe place*

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1325766890' post='1487252'] Which one? Apart from the Wing-Bat they all feature aluminium as a major constructional material. [/quote] The first in the list, the shiny one Not that I would be able to play it, right-handed or not, though...

Bookmarked! Thanks again.

... AND for bassists who are also guitarists.

Thanks for the video, Fatback. Will watch again and again and learn!

Hm, am I the only one who thinks Janmaat was being sarcastic, at least in part?

ROFLing at the most recent posts! I want the aluminium guitar! Such a pity it's right-handed

Welcome George! Impressive experience in music and impressive gear. No hints ans tips that I can offer, but I'm sure many others will post here and be as helpful to you as they've been to me. This is a very friendly place.

LOOOOL

[quote name='Austin7' timestamp='1325701971' post='1486383'] It's unlikely you'll find any music forum as friendly, interesting, and musically diverse as BassChat. I've never seen another one that even comes close. [/quote] Exactly. If I understand correctly, though, MacDaddy was implying that the guitar-related subforum on BC would be specific for those of us who play both instruments, not like a normal guitar forum like many you can find elsewhere. (Happy to stand corrected if I got it wrong.) Even if I don't play guitar I might like to lurk on such subforum, as I'm fascinated by how two instruments that look so similar can in fact be so different in the way they are played and in their use in composing songs.

Another 1, 2, 4 player here - my hands are simply too small for normal bass guitar fingering on the DB, especially as I use the lower positions a lot. PS 'fretting hand' would be preferable to 'left hand' for us poor godforsaken lefties!

HAHA! Incidentally, many bassists are piano players too (although that friend of mine we're talking about isn't). For instance, I attended a couple of masterclasses that Stuart Hamm gave Tech Music Schools a few years ago - he is a bassist/pianist, and often draws comparisons between the piano and the bass guitar when he's illustrating a point. Fascinating.

Wow, I log out for a couple of hours and come back to find so many helpful replies! Thank you all very very much. Will google the names and read the links, and then facebook my pianist friend about the topic. Love this forum

I was talking to a pianist friend the other day, and I've ended up with a couple of questions I wasn't quite sure how to reply to. I know I could google myself stupid - and in fact I've had a quick look for an answer to No 1 without much success - but I'd rather hear your voices 1. Any idea when the 5-string electric bass came into common use in pop/rock music? He thought it must have been in the late 1970s or early 1980s, but I swear I've charted the bassline to several songs from the 60s that used the notes on that B string in a big way.... 2. Although each string of the 5-string bass guitar covers 'only' two octaves, the range the instrument can actually play goes from its lowest B (B0) to its highest G (G4). How does that compare to the 'full' range offered by the piano? Thank you in advance! Feel free to go off topic and/or off on a tangent if you feel like dissing the piano or the 5-string bass guitar, ranting or raving etc.