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Bass Gallery are selling the new Wilcock short scale basses if you fancy spending £1500 https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass-new-arrival/products/wilcock-the-mullarkey-short-scale

Thanks I'm going to work on this, I need to get smoother when moving my thumb down to rest on the A string.

I’m trying to improve my finger technique. I mostly play with my thumb resting on the E, briefly lifting it upwards to rest on the pickup if I’m playing the E string. My two fingers are doing the muting ok - eg pluck the A and rest/mute back on the E string below. The problem is sometimes playing the G string leaves the A open. I’ve tried the ‘floating thumb’ (like scott devine) technique but I’m finding it awkward. I watch some pros on YouTube and they seem rooted to resting their thumb on the pickup and I can’t work out how they are muting. Should I just persevere with the ‘floating thumb’? I think that’s what Pino P is doing in the vid below? Btw my left hand muting is pretty good, but maybe there are techniques I’m missing. I’m coming from pick playing where muting is all left hand and palm, and that’s all ok. Any tips welcome

I’m a huge fan of electronic drums and bass, and enjoyed the show, but I would rather these programmes stick to drums as in drummers, and bass as in bassists - otherwise we always end up in the same place (the programmable machine). I suppose at least the guitarist episode wil be relatively immune to that unless we go down the sampler road.

Bass - there’s a lot to get through in 59 mins! Enjoyable programme and some great snippets of footage but agree about the odd editing selection especially the prolonged part about Bernard Edwards’ ‘chucking’..!? Aphrodite on the Amiga was a hit of pure dnb geek for me - loved that bit

If I had the ambition and talent be a professional session bassist I’d be all over this course from SBL. Unfortunately I don’t, so I have time to join in with this discussion > 2 P-basses here, ALL other basses - you know where the door is!!

Anyone here tried restringing and tuning a 6 string (guitar shhh) with a floyd rose floating trem? That can take several days 😬

For some reason I’ve read every post of this thread. I must be losing it 😬

I would be very happy with these on my desert island 🏝️ > Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby John Coltrane - Giant Steps John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Duke Ellington / Charlie Mingus / Max Roach - Money Jungle Grant Green - Matador Don Patterson - The Exciting New Organ Of Don Patterson* * not famous like the others but a personal favourite! marvel at the way Don plays fantastic walking bass with his left hand while improvising on his organ with his right 😜

That’s true - my bass sounds 0.1% better when I’m not touching it

Some Kind Of Monster is a great film, I could hardly believe they allowed it to go out... Bros film is hilarious too - although they are both twits I changed my mind who was biggest about half way through. The most awful doc I’ve seen (in a good way) was about Bucks Fizz - that guy from Dollar had bought the band name and was trying to pass his version off as the real one while remaining members of the original band were trying to stop him. Really awful. Not sure if it’s available anywhere.

Sorry! Guitar Village in Farnham was what I meant to type Although Guitar Guitar in Epsom does also have a small ish selection of basses.

Guitar Village in Epsom [edit - Farnham! sorry for confusion] has a small room of basses, I think all stock is on their site so you could check if anything is of interest. It certainly won’t have the selection that Bass Direct has. Is Bass Gallery in Camden too much of a hike?

I would definitely have shown them what a real imposter sounded like I find it more successful if I just stay in and entertain the dog with random noodling over the adverts.

I'll add this in case anyone isn't aware: https://www.musicianshearingservices.co.uk/musicians-union/musicans-hearing-health-scheme/ £40 (£30 mu member) and you get a pro consultation, ear test, and a pair of custom moulded ACS pro ear plugs with choice of filters (and colours). Amazing deal I reckon. The ear plug technology has come on a bit (I had my last pair made 12 years ago) and they are now vented which apparently helps the feeling of being shut in. My ears were doing ok last time I had them tested in 2006, slight dip around 4k. However the test I did yesterday shows the 4k dip is now into the zone where it is classified as slight hearing loss, and as you may know there is no coming back once it's gone. I was surprised to learn that it is ALL frequencies of prolonged volume that cause the damage, not just the high end. I will be much more careful going forward - my last pair of plugs spent 99% of their life in the drawer. I went to a bar a few weeks ago (Heavenly Social upstairs) and it had the worst loudest sound I have heard in years. I was there for a mate's record launch and I felt embarrassed about constantly asking the djs to turn down, and also I didn't want to leave early. Stupid decision - that 3 hour period (spent mostly with my finger in one ear) appears to have brought on tinnitus and sensitvity that wasn't there previously. 2 weeks later and it's still the same, hence the visit to the ear specialist. Be careful out there!

Thanks everyone I think I’ll start by giving it a rub over with a scotchbright and see how that feels.

I have gently sanded my jap p-bass neck back to the wood - rough to very fine sandpaper. I then put a super thin coat of tru oil, let it dry, super fine wire wool light rub, another coat of very light tru oil, dry and light rub wire wool again. My issue is the tru oil is still quite a shiny surface so it doesn’t feel like the really dry bare wood that some relics/custom shops have. It’s more like a very light varnish. I’m concerned the neck will take on moisture if I just sand it back to plain wood. Any advice please?

I’d like to be able to adjust nut height without taking it to a luthier or buying a set of files.