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  1. lownote
    Next week I am playing a new-to-me blues jam. I have two basses and I don't know which to take. My one bass is a cheapo Harley Benton active unlined 5 string fretless. It's new to me and I'd like to get the practice in. My other bass is a cheap 4 string unlined fretless P bass clone. I can play them about as well as each other, which is OK but not astonishing. My concern is if I take the fiver the crowd will be, like "OK daddio, now prove you can REALLY play that thing - or we shall deem you a posey pink torpedo." They may be a bit like that with the fretless 4 too, but perhaps less so. I suppose my position should be that I don't actually care what people think. But as a newbie at a new jam I hope to go to more often, I actually do care. And, no I don't have a fretted bass, which would be an obvious very safe alternative.
  2. lownote
    The radio industry orients its music programming on the theory that we most relate to what was around when we were 14 ish... so my case five years each side of 1968. But that's bulwarks because I also totally relate to numbers /songs from whenever.
  3. lownote
    With you all the way. Over the years I've had Trace Elliott, Barefaced, TC, Peavey, Ashdown... Then last summer I bought into a Markbass LM3 head and 410 STD cab. Great balanced bass sound for me, surprisingly portable, no issues indoors or out. It just - WORKS. My definition of professional. FTR, on the sound front for me EQ at 12 o'clock settings on the LM3 is fine in band context, but not when practising or on my own, when settings of 12, 11, 10, 9 and with the filters at 8 and 10 are perfect.
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    Edited - I decided I was being a trolly dolly.
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    Reduced
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    Cut up an old plastic rail card. About .5 mm ish. Done the trick enough to serve, although I doubt I'll be offered a job with Fodera. I could have sent it back but I'm fed up with returning stuff to Thomann.
  7. lownote
    Just bought a Harley Benton B550FL which arrived with its neck apparently cocked up at the bridge end. There’s no shim under the heel currently and I reckon I need a shim in the order of 1/2 millimetre at the machine head end of the heel to drop the bridge saddles to their proper height. What’s the best and easiest material to use for a shim? EDIT Now I'm on my PC I have caught up with previous threads on this subject so mods feel free to delete.
  8. lownote
    What's good? I took up bass at 56 and was amazingly awful at it for a long while. But for the last few years I've held down the bass chair in two good local blues/rock bands and had a few very gratifying complements from people with 5x my exerience. So maybe I'm 'good' in a workaday way. And I'm now approaching 69. The age, not position.
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    Your budget is very very tight for both bass and amp. Assuming you spend around £160 ish on the bass (HB) I really don't see how you're going to get any amp that will do more than bedroom practice. Anything's possible but you're setting yourself quite a challenge. I have the fretless Harley Benton B550, which represents astonishing value for money but can't speak for the fretted versions. The reason this makes a difference is because fretting is a fiddly process and it's easy for the finishing to be scimped (skimped?) on ultra low price instruments. The general consensus is that starting off on 5 string is perfectly doable but 4s are just that bit easier to get your head round at first and most teaching material is 4 focused. My personal experience and IMHO face to face teaching (proper lessons) is an expensive waste of time. We live in a golden age of online learning with loads of high quality free videos. Yes, there's some awful rubbish out there too but you'll soon get a feel for what's good and what's not. The go-to source of quality teaching is SBL (Scotts Bass Lessons). This costs money but you can take a 14 day free trial to see if you like the content and if you google there;'s a fair bit of quality free archive material from Scott too. Hope that helps.
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    Of course. I learned early on (12 years ago) that I would be a rubbish bass player. So I focused on what I was good at and enjoyed - packing, sending and receiving cardboard boxes and selling gear at a loss. I could probably be as happy just sending myself empty boxes to open.
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    NBW:  Harley Davidson B550FL, new one to replace the Dodgy B stock one Thomann took back.

    1. lownote

      lownote

      Why do I never learn.  Posting this made certain the delivery would be delayed or may never happen.  Delayed so far any road.

    2. TheGreek

      TheGreek

      I didn't know that Thomann were selling motorcycles. 😉😉

       

      I hope the deals they're offering are as competitive as those on their musical equipment.

  12. lownote
    G'day Mate
  13. lownote
    luvly!
  14. lownote
    Did have but using it again - they're not that dear new
  15. lownote
    I know this is a bass forum, but just wondered if anyone else was a sax doubler and had thoughts on a small but useful amp/cab rig for mic'd up saxes and gigging. I rerally don't think my MB410 and LM3 are appropriate.
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    We once summoned a local electrician to diagnose an electric oven that had gone over to slow heating up. Said skilled operative placed a thermometer in the oven, switched it on and then spent the next 30 minutes mardling (Norfolk for gossip) and drinking our tea. He then extracted the thermometer, looked at it and pronounced his judgement: "Thought so," he said "You've got slow electrons. That's because you're out here in the country."
  17. lownote
    Moving towards sax and only playing bass at jams where back line is provided so I no longer need these bad boys. Markbass Little Mark 3 head. Secondhand but really good condition. Output power: 500W RMS @ 4 ohms / 300W RMS @ 8 ohms. Weighs 2.5 kg. All works perfectly. With MB LM bag, also in good nick. Speakon cable and kettle lead included. Now £300. Markbass STD 104HR rear ported cab. 8 ohm 800w. With my old pub gig rock band of two guitars and a drummer this cab handled any normal size venue space with gain set on 9 or 9.30, and importantly actually works outdoors, where most cabs give up the ghost. Secondhand but excellent condition. Pet and smoke free home. Carpet's in pretty good nick. A previous owner tried to fit wheels with ordinary wood screws which weren't man enough so I've taken them off, leaving the screw holes but they're invisible, obv, unless you upend the cab! Actually you don't need wheels really - the cab weighs about 22kg but thanks to great handles and balance it's surprisingly portable. Quality RoqSolid cover in matching colours, no rips or tears, and Markbass ramp/ stand thingy thrown in. Those two are worth over £100 on their own! £350. Try out and collection only from mid East Anglia (near Diss). Possibly with the usual tea and biscuits if you give me enough warning. No trades, thanks.
  18. lownote
    D'accord. I get a buzz from chancing upon or tracking down good but cheap gear. My goto bass for some years has been a Revelation fretless that cost me less than £150. My sax is an immaculate and very playable Sakkusu worth £550 that I got for £300.
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    Don't play rounds, simples. Flats will last for ever. I believe Danny Mo Morris is still playing an 18 year old set on one of his P basses.
  20. lownote
    La Bella RX roundwound series, blissful. Bass Direct.
  21. lownote
    That is a very good price, esp with the extras.
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    Edited
  23. lownote
    hooray!
  24. lownote
    I have no control over the process. First thing I know is when a bass or sax shaped parcel turns up.
  25. lownote
    I still can't quite justify it but it haunts my dreams
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