uk_lefty

I had the original big battalion for a short while. Decent sounding with a passive P bass, not so much with an active J. Am sure of you want it as a drive for a passive bass it will sound great, I personally couldn't get on with the bass soul food but the Batallion drive was a lot more bass appropriate for me (my playing, my kit) so am sure it would do a decent job for you.

Nice!!! Is this a short scale too?

I'm very keen to have a 5 string jazz. I used to have a V7 Vintage fiver and really enjoyed the pre. However I like the simplicity of passive basses and the roasted maple neck looks amazing. I can't decide... I will find having a pre very useful but being shallow I just love the look of the V5..... Decisions, decisions...

I bought this stuff when I was at uni a lot of years ago.... 2002 or 3 it may have been. Its good for cleaning the strings but not so sure on it giving you the slippy feel of fast fret. I've got about 70% of the bottle left. Which means I don't use it often enough!

Not an early April Fool... As some of you may know I have been cursed when trying to sell a particular bass. I've had offers from credible people who disappear in to thin air as soon as it's time for payment, I've sold it posted it spent the proceeds on a new bass and then found its lost in DPDs system only to appear a month later and after a refund with the original buyer who nicked the knobs off it and sent it back.... Anyhow, I discounted it to below the amount of money the bass and all its new parts and work cost me and sold it to a nice chap in Scotland. I found UPS via a parcel price comparison company but went direct to them for the order having had only bad experiences with intermediary companies booking the courier if things go wrong. So UPS collects from me on Monday and yesterday notified me they had delivered. Then late evening the buyer notified me he hasn't had the parcel. Panic. Here we go again. I called UPS and a helpful person sent me the confirmation of delivery, copy of signature and promised the depot would call me within an hour. Just over an hour later I got a voicemail from a lovely lady at ups who had tracked the drivers route, spoken to him and got a full description of where he delivered the package. I phoned the buyer, relayed the info, then phoned UPS back and said "wrong delivery address" to which they said "ok, we will send a driver back out right now to get the package!". This morning the package is with the buyer. Ok, the driver should not have gone to the wrong address and left the parcel there, but what impressed me was not only being able to talk to an actual person, not just an actual person who actually cared, but an actual person who cared AND immediately had a plan to do something about it. It all sounds so simple, but I've never had that from a courier company before. I know a lot will have horror stories from ups but in the Glasgow area at least they seem to have some good eggs working there.

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Very well dealt with by the man in the white shirt. Does he dep for other bands, do you know? Might have a gig for him in November...

That is gorgeous. Not too showy, classic design, executed perfectly in the detail. Awesome 😎👍

I've been warned off that by my Luthier/ set up guy because it was creating some build up around the frets and yellowing on the frets. I do like the feel of strings when it's applied but he told me it's really bad for the instrument... It can't be horrific otherwise it wouldn't still exist, if there's a knack to using it so it doesn't build up on the frets I'd love to know.

Times are changing. When I worked in pubs a pint of Worthington's was 95p. In summer Monday was the only quiet night, Tues was relatively busy but Weds, Thurs were big nights. Everyone was out on a Friday and Saturdays were chaos. Sunday's were busy nights because you had everyone who'd worked Fri and Sat night having their turn, or people getting through their hangovers or after football beers staying in the pubs til closing. People just don't do that these days, not in the same numbers. So the drinks were cheaper, more people were out, the pubs were making good money and spending good money on bands. Now the breweries give them a £250 weekly entertainment budget. They might spend it on music. They might spend it on access to sports events on TV.

Pubs in Hertfordshire area typically paid £250-£300 in the few years pre covid. That's town centre or village pubs, not specialized music venues. For weddings and functions we would charge significantly more because the set up has to be done earlier, we bring a lot more kit... A LOT more, usually we would be travelling further and maybe need accommodation, we play longer and we have to accommodate requests for new songs. Once you've done a few functions a pub gig feels like a mess about practice.

I got an acceptable fretless substitute sound using reverb and chorus, with octaver able to switch in and out. When I get home I'll look up the settings for you, it's one I put together from scratch.

Steve Harris signature flats are superb. First time I fit them to my old precision I thought the neck was going to snap. They are big, high tension but high clarity strings. They're not as old school as most but they just sound huge and clear and last forever. I don't think I've come across anyone else who has tried them yet. I did like Fender flats on my jazz too, that completely changed the character of the bass.

One issue I've had with fitting D tuners is that my Luther had to grind a bit of metal off it to fit it on to an MIM Jazz with Gotoh tuners.

1. No, no difference really. 2. Probably a little but that's the trade off for the convenience. Consider also what you're actually doing it for, is it just for the odd open D string or acrobatics all over that string? 3. No. 4. It depends. I don't drop to D very often so it does take my small brain quite a while to work out which notes are where if I'm trying to figure out a new song. Then on times where I don't have my D tuner bass available and I play an octave higher on a standard bass I mess up my muscle memory. I guess the more you use it the easier it is. Also if you think in terms of notes you should be fine, if you think in terms of hand position it may be different. I haven't explained that very well, apologies.

I've not gigged it yet due to my main band falling apart during the pandemic and me pulling the plug on my other project. I could be depping next weekend though and if I take the Stomp it will probably be put on one preset with a couple of effects I can bring in and out as I need. The volume jumps between different effects really bothers me, I don't understand why it does this by default. I seriously need to get under the hood of it before I can think of using it to it's potential.

McCartney 3 2 1 on Disney+ is excellent for this.

Agreed. I do enjoy the simplicity of the windows editor though, it really is easy.

I'm auditioning for a band that plays "pop" covers and need a soft fuzz sound for a few songs... Any suggestions, please? I would experiment but by laptop has packed in so I will need to make all changes on the unit itself so not as easy to experiment!

I'm in two minds on this one. I do find the same thumbnail of the opera singer reacting to *whichever heavy metal band has a classically trained singer so they're obviously going to be good* must get boring after two different videos. But I suppose "reaction" is better for the searches and the limited patience of the audience than "critical dissection of the merits of *Five Finger Death Punch* from the perspective of a chamber orchestra fifth tuba player" Still, it must be better than unboxing videos. Who really gives a flying turd about seeing any product in its box and packaging?!?!? Just demo it.