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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzmV7SXED5A Nice tone she's getting from a .... what? Looks like a Warwick Corvette, but the pickup spacing looks greater than any of the double buck Corvettes I've seen. And how's she getting this tone from it? I'm rubbish at identifying tone; does it sound like there's anything else in her signal chain? What other basses do you reckon would get closest to this? CB

This is just one example of how there's more to life than Fender, more to life than 4 strings and more to life than overweight big-handed male bassists. http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2013/06/26/poliana-magalhaes-jamiroquais-runaway-playalong/ CB

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1372500827' post='2126449'] I didn't get this at all. Unknown bass player plays vaguely similar riffs on four variants of a P-bass. Each has a different set-up (note the silly-low action on the '51 RI), different strings (particularly the 5-year-old Rotos on the '74), and obviously different pickups. Where was the informative comparison? What did this video tell me? [/quote] I know what it tells me. This guy is as irritating as hell. I'm sure I've heard him before talking complete rubbish about the history of the jazz bass. Perhaps that was some other American. The only decent tone I heard in the whole clip was the first couple of seconds of the black/black 70s P Bass. CB

Good Times by Chic CB

You wrapped the bass in plastic to protect the soap-bar pickups? :-) CB

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1372315250' post='2124086'] I'd expect them to react similarly if it was only the temperature that changed, how about big changes in humidity though? [/quote] That's the thing - my two MusicMan instruments (painted and unfinished necks) always react in the same manner regardless of any 'environmental' change. I've yet to see even the smallest difference in their retuning requirements. CB

"You can't beat Fender" That depends on your criteria. I love my Jazz. In 1974, aged 9, it was my first bass. However, when I compare to my current basses: - For tone (given the style of music I currently play) it comes last - For weight/transportability it comes last I still love it. But you shouldn't take your opinion and advertise it as a general fact. CB

Membership fee would work ok for me. One further suggestion I have to help increase the revenue would be to keep the yearly marketplace fee at £20 but to change the individual item listing from £7 to ~1% of item value. - increases number of adverts for and sales of small items - increases revenue from sales of large items CB

Can't believe we've missed Louis Johnson from the thread. I'd recommend The Brothers Johnson 'Best Of' or 'Light Up The Night'. CB

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1372229662' post='2123032'] The movement on MusicMan basses might be to do with the minimal finish on the necks, no? I imagine this allows the neck to take on moisture from atmospheric humidity more readily. [/quote] Good theory - but in practice I don't think it to be the case. My Bongo (painted neck) and fretless Sterling (unfinished neck) sit in the same room and react identically to temperature variation according to my TU-3. CB

"Loud" depends on the size of the venue, which you don't mention. Since you mention combos, I'll recommend the Markbass CMD121p which you'll pick up on here for about £450 if you keep your eyes peeled. It wouldn't be "loud" if you were to play Wembley though :-) CB

[quote name='danthevan' timestamp='1372077676' post='2121238'] Presuming you have the bass one? Mine is pretty good. Can hear what you're playing although they do munch through the batteries [/quote] Yep. The bass one. Thanks ref the batteries. Will check. Perhaps it's the types of basses I use - normally Bongo with its 18v circuitry or my XL2 which is actually hotter. CB

I'd look at it this way Pete. Change is good every so often. If you want to minimise the risk, then don't make changes that can't be easily reversed. So keep any bass which you'd have trouble replacing and move the rest on. CB PS: I'm very glad I did finally make a change. I pretty much spent 37 years playing the same Fender Jazz Bass on the same set of strings. Never really realised there was a whole world of tone out there. Until I got Bongo'd, XL'd etc. Now there's no looking back.

Oh really. These lists can't be taken seriously. They need all to be renamed "Another xx Basslines You Should Listen To". CB

[quote name='Noah Deere' timestamp='1371897159' post='2119264'] I have a Vox Amplug, but wouldn't recommend it because the sound on it isn't great (there's always static in the back ground). [/quote] +1 I think the Vox Amplugs sound terrible. As do the IOS software amps. CB

My Bongo and fretless Sterling react exactly the same way to changes in temp. If the room has been colder, they will both have sharpened pretty much exactly the same amount, according to my tuner. This consistency gave me a bit of comfort. My advice would be to adjust/check whilst your room has been at its average temperature, adjust only an eighth of a turn and leave for a day or more. Then check. Leave yourself just a little bit more relief/action than you need and that way there will be a little give and take for temperature adjustments and you will find you aren't constantly adjusting the neck to and fro around the same point. You'll still be able to monitor those little temperature variations as your bass will be a little more sharp when it's cold and vice versa. But you won't be suffering from fretbuzz and can spend time playimng rather than adjusting. This compromise has worked perfectly for me. CB PS: An alternative option would be to buy a Steinberger. :-)

[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' timestamp='1371891323' post='2119140'] There seems to be a lot of Pre EB's about at the moment and some nice ones too. To complicate things more I may think of moving on my Classic 5! [/quote] Best place (apart from Andy Baxter) to find these nice Pre-EB SRs? More info on your Classic 5? CB

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1371888904' post='2119113'] Actually you can see me mime with it here to the singer playing a Tony Levin OLP Ray (this was the demo track) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rONtsRRlq9U[/media] You can hear it here though as I played the bassline on the finished track, listen to the place in your memory (the featuring Majika one is best IMO but either version is me playing), check out around 2 mins 20 for some Alnico parallel Ray goodness [url="https://soundcloud.com/#davebarronband"]https://soundcloud.com/#davebarronband[/url] [/quote] Loved the song - nice bass tone - however, if I was buying a SR5, I'd be looking for a rosewood board. That's just me. CB

Your blue SR5 - can you PM me some pics? Ta. CB

[quote name='dougal' timestamp='1371559161' post='2115465'] I am an advocate of the fee. I [i]like[/i] the fact the for sale forum is now no longer a gushing torrent where your bass would be on page three by the time you hit 'refresh' to check your listing. I understand the decision to ban rics for sale. That doesn't stop me being miffed that the fee I paid I understood to mean I could sell anything, and now I'm left with a Ric I'm trying to sell, and I'm having to expose myself to the risk of Gumtree or evilbay in order to do so. [/quote] Drop me a PM - if it's a blue one, I might just be able to help you out. CB

... and synthchat.co.uk too I see. Where will it end? :-) CB