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Fair enough. 🙂

Just wondering how many have fitted new strings when they fitted a new bridge, I'm guessing most. Could the new improved clarity and sustain be due to new strings but subconsciously you decide it's the bridge as that cost you money?

I like playing in cold weather as cold air is more dense and thus better able to transmit soundwaves to my ear resulting in less loss of frequencies between the speaker cab and ear. If you believe that then you'll believe that different mass bridges make a noticeable difference to sound too. 😄

It looks to be in good condition so yes just key it up. As Japhet said, the easiest thing to use is scotchbrite (if prefer it wet but it can be used dry) which is an abrasive scouring sheet made by 3M, much like the green part of your standard kitchen sponge/scourer. It's good because it follow the curves of your bass without squaring off corners which sandpaper can do, if you can't get any then wet'n'dry used wet (1000 grit or so) will be fine but go easy on the tight curves, you don't want to rub through or you will need to prime and flat those areas to stop old paint edges showing in your new paint. If you need to fill any chips you'll need a car body filler, actually car body stopper will be best as it's a finer version of filler and will rub down smoother and need less primer to hide it. These repairs will need priming and flatting before painting. There's no need to prime at all if you've not done any repairs, the red will be a good base for the pink colour. If you use scotchbrite your old paint will just look matt when done, not all scratched up, this is plenty enough of a key for the new paint to grip to. Just try to make sure it's fairly evenly matt with no glossy areas. If any of this is unclear or you have other questions, however silly they might seem, just ask away. 🙂

That's even worse, he'd better keep control of his left hand. BTW, I saw what this thread was before he changed it to .

@Japhet You must be another from the world of bodyshops if you're talking Dolphin Glaze. 🙂

Woah, slow down there 😁. What are you planning to do, just a normal refinish or are you relicing to reveal the underneath colour? There's absolutely no need to strip a poly finish off to refinish a bass if it's in good condition. You can just key the surface (not as harshly as you might expect) and paint your colour straight over it, no primer needed. If the original finish is damaged then any repairs done will need primer applied, left to dry and then flatted to stop the repair showing in your final finish. If you want to remove your fresh finish to reveal the paint underneath as per your picture then things get a little more complicated to make it look realistic. If you want to remove the original paint then you can but I see so many folks complaining about what a nightmare it was, not realising it's unnecessary. The only real reason to completely strip is that any new chips may show the old colour depending on depth, and if the old finish is badly damaged. 🙂

Absolutely, I was being sarcastic about most folks on here say an acoustic bass is a waste of time, and yet here we are enjoying one. I actually think acoustic basses are great and totally useable. Totally agree on the sound quality of bass on phones and laptops. You have to use decent speakers or headphones to make a recording anything other than a tinny caterwauler........ .......... unless you're listening to slap bass, there's no saving that. 😉

But why d'you want to be called Loretta, Stan?

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Welcome to the forum Billy. Now, what are you doing!? 😁

No sooner said than done. 🙂

Glad you're liking it @barrycreed, and you @stewblack, great basses. Perhaps this thread should become the TMB30 appreciation thread. 🙂

Sorry, my post does read a bit bitchy, it wasn't intended that way. 🙂

Not worship but I play doublebass in an acoustic band and we do our own take on lots of different styles. In our version of Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) in usually play the bassline from Salt'n'Pepper's Push It through the chorus. Also in another band (Mod/Northern Soul/Ska) our latest original has a Tin Soldier by Small Faces feel to it, not intentionally but that's how it's ended up. I added a little bridge leading into the chorus as we were writing it that everyone said "that sounds great, keep it in". It sounded familiar to me but I couldn't place it, then I realised it was the chorus vocal melody to Mel and Kim's Respectable. It makes me smile every time we play it.

Back on topic of comments I don't miss, in the band mentioned above I solely play doublebass and, as mentioned by @Silvia Bluejayearlier, "That's a big cello", or "How are you going to get that violin under your chin?" gets tiring pretty quick, but they're only having fun and I'm gigging so it's all good.

I see no problem with that. 🙂 One of my bands is four blokes and a woman, I'm the youngest at 47 and the rest are ten years or more older, we do 'Love Machine' by Girls Aloud and it goes down a storm. We also do a few other 'girly pop' songs. Admittidly the woman is our singer but she sings loads of songs that are written from a male point of view without worry, we even do I Kissed A Girl with its bi-curious lyrics. I like to have a bit of fun, it's all just music after all. 🙂

Inaudible and an utter waste of time, if the majority here are to be believed. 😉 I wouldn't know on either count but I'd imagine the pride and joy you'd feel by one of your children learning, enjoying and sharing with you a song you've written would outweigh even the biggest of concerts. Lovely to watch. 🙂

The clarinet solo for the first half of Soft Cell's 12" version of Say Hello Wave Goodbye is beautiful. I love the song anyway but that solo is sublime.

I was going to suggest that as, strangely it was on the radio in the car as I got home earlier, I waited in the car for it to finish. Then I came in and saw this thread. Also love the sax all in Boomtown Rats' Rat Trap. The solo's great but the sax all the way through makes that song.

This thread has brought home the realisation that I'm a hoarder. I tried to remember if I regretted selling any of my basses, then I tried to remember if I've ever sold any basses. In thirty years I've sold two. The first was my first 'real' bass, a green Yamaha Attitude Special which I traded in for a new Yamaha BBG5s, the second was a silver Yamaha RBX374. A neighbours son wanted to learn bass and asked me if I knew of anything half decent for about £50 as that is what his son had saved up. I let him have the RBX for £50 as it wasn't really my thing, great bass though. I do wish I still had the Attitude Special for sentimental reasons as it was the bass I started gigging with, but have realised that if you don't sell anything you can't regret it. I really could do with some space back though. 😁

It may seem a bit harsh but plenty of decent budget P's and J's can be picked up for fifty quid so unless he can prove it's more than just a budget bass that would be my offer.

Not an instrument but when I got a multi effect I sold all my individual pedals with the velcro still on them. I had real trouble letting them go. 😄 Seriously though, I was using my Longhorn last night and thought a series switch would be cool. You'd recommend it then?

My first thought would be nut slot too low so the string is just sat on the fingerboard at the nut end. Does it do it if you stop (fret 🤔) the string as well or only when plucking the open string?

Weirdly, I had just finished fitting D'addario half rounds to it and having a little noodle to settle them in, when I sat down with a cup of tea to browse BC and this was the first post I read. I'm currently waiting for the flimsy thing to explode under the tension. 😄