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19 hours ago, devinebass said:

Hey, thanks for posting! 🙌 ... this is the first in a series of this format and we had ZERO idea whether peeps would dig it or not. Thankfully, it's looking like they do  

 

We've actually already filmed another one w/ Henrik Linder, and also one w/ Rob Mullarkey and Richard Spaven... those will be released over the next few weeks over on the YouTube channel. 

 

Cheers, 

 

Scott 

 

  

Loved it. If I may suggest, Christian McBride would likely be good value too - good talker and a doubler.  McBride has performed and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Joe Henderson, Diana Krall, Roy Haynes, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Sting, Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Isaac Hayes,  Carly Simon, Bruce Hornsby, and James Brown.

That is one of the most right looking basses I've seen for some time. From the wood finish to the overall mojo. But for reasons that defy logic I'm a no lines man.  However the very best of GLWTS and if I had £2500 I'd be sorely tempted. 

So at the beginning of this year I vowed to abandon bass and focus all my energy and money on sax GAS. And I got to February really well. And bought loads of sax stuff.  I didn't touch the Revelation, and it wasn't even a battle to do that.  I eschewed the BC For Sale section (well, a little light window shopping p'raps). Then. Yesterday I watched the SBL Thursday vlogcast as usual, and there's Ian Martin Allison bigging up Leyla Sneary, a capable young bass sister on Instantgram.  And she's playing a 5 string 'burst alder Sire V7v2, which sounds rather well.  And IMMEDIATELY I'm on BC FS section scouring.  This is DESPITE having had four Sires in the past, including an alder V7 5 and moving on.  AND knowing that just because she plays it well doesn't mean I will. Doh. 

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The radio industry lives by playing music that the target audience wants.  And that yields a play list based on 'music of your life': the music most of us love is what was around when we were in our early to mid teens, cored on the age 14. So when you're designing a radio station you come up with your target age group (say 25-55). You then work back to when they were 14 (11-31 years ago) and play music from then.  Works for me.  I was 14 in '68 and I just love music from round then - a bit earlier to a bit later. But that doesn't mean quality stopped then. I'm hearing some great stuff (bass and sax) from the yoof of today, and respect it. I had a friend much older than me who used to rant on about good music stopped in 1949.  My old dad thought good music stopped with Bach.      

I wiggle back and forth.  Started on four.  Went to six because of the lovely high chordal possibilties. Went to four again.  Then five.  Now back on four fretless. But increasingly none (gone to sax). If I stay with bass  the obvious answer for most stuff is a wide strung five.

Is the Cort A5 Artisan 18mm? I used to have a single cut Ibo Cerro SRSC805, which I think was 18mm

Maybe we could open this out.  Are there some places that are more - or less - magic, and others that are ghastly s***holes? Or is everywhere a bit of both depending on our personal experiences? Personally, as discussed, I adore Newcastle, my missis loathes Sunderland based on having to live there, and I loathe the whole of Devon based on personal experiences. But I like Warwick, and Norwich is nice, but Ipswich isn't. Is it possible or even sensible to generalise? Maybe not. And not least because places change with the years.

True Newcastle story.  I (short bald fat unhealthy looking guy of late middle age) was up on business from the South. As I tottered miserably out the rail station heading for my hotel, coming the other way on the sidewalk/ pavement were three girls, happy, laughing, not drunk - this was mid afternoon. As they passed me one of the girls grabbed my ears, turned my head down like Snow White does to Dopey in the movie, and planted a kiss on my bald pate.  Then they waltzed on, still laughing.  I fell deeply and permanently in love with the Geordie character from that point onwards.   

Having pushed the same questions around with my nose in the past, my technical understanding from others is that the difference between 300 and 500 watts is not what it might like in raw numbers.  And from personal gigging experience this year I have found that number/ size of drivers is far far more important (as someone says above).  I variously ran a BF 4 ohm 2x10 and a Mark Bass  410 8ohm off my 500w head. The latter cab completely blew the former out of the water, especially outdoors. Just my tupenny worth.  

I think I'm in too.  More interested in getting my sax right nowadays.  Split with my band and decided I loathe gigging, the local venues and the people I get to play with and for.  Plus I'm happy with my fretless and my MB rig.  So the first purchase of 2023 is a sax, not bass. and we may stay that way.

You live in a golden age of online learning... Scott Devine (Scotts Bass Lessons https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWTj3vCqkQIsrTGSm4kM34g), Mark Smith (https://www.talkingbass.net/) and a dozen others all post quality free videos on YouTube. Note you don't have to buy into paid-for content. All these people post useful free stuff

Two things helped me get off the ground: 1/ realising bass plays chords like guitar, only one note at a time b/ learning a handful of shapes on the fingerboard which can be moved around will give you everything you need.

You have PM

yup

2 minutes ago, Alistair said:

Hi, can I buy this please?

Sure.  Can we move the conversation over to private messaging? Simply click on my name and then chose the message option. Our chat will then taken place under the little envelope at the top of the page. We can taken it further there.

I don't like mwah and prefer a conventional sound so I go with conventional settings: 0.3mm at the nut, ditto relief at the 8th fret with string held down at 1st and last fret position, and string height above the board at 12the fret marker of 2.4mm E, 2mm A, and 1.8mm D&G.

D'addario Chromes ECB81-5 45-65-80-100-132 flatwound strings, new, unopened. Bought by mistake £75 new   £55 posted UK. 

LaBella nickel RX-N6B roundwound strings for 6 string bass, 30-45-65-80-100-125, unopened pack  £37 new  £25 posted. IMHO best nickel roundwounds out there, great tension, great feel.

Jim Dunlop nickel roundwounds 6-String 30-130 strings, tapered B, 2x3 cut, almost new. £25 posted

Set of Picato flatwound strings, cut for Fender style 4 string, almost new. 45-100.  £30 posted within UK.

Ignore the £30 in the title, it relates to a now-sold item

I'd have thought that was dead good value for the price

Escape now before you while you still can!! Or maybe it's too late.

I had one.  Sold it.  I am a richard head.

9 hours ago, JohnFitzgerald said:

I had their fretless Jazz. The Jaco looking one. Played nicely but was very very heavy.

D'accord.  I had that one and it weighed 10 / 6 !! Couldn't sell it quick enough. That's why I asked about the PJ.

14 hours ago, NJE said:

I got given one by a friend of mine who was upgrading and didn’t have the space for it, and I have to say it’s an incredibly solid bass.

 

There were two small issues with mine, the pickups were wonky and rattled around, and there was terrible buzz/hum from the pickups. Easily sorted for about £15 and some time, I put a load of conductive copper tape in the cavity and shielded it to the best of my abilities, and I put new foam and springs underneath the pickups.

 

I have a 2001 USA Stingray but have been taking the HB to the last few practices and it sounds bloody great and plays well after a minor set up.

 

I’m tempted by the new roasted necked ones they have just released.

 

 

Is it heavy?

Dunlops are now £25 per string!

Bareknuckle '58 split coil P bass pickup.  Boxed.  Plastic covers have scratches.  Recent service by Bareknuckle. £75 posted within UK.

1 hour ago, frannie01 said:

Yes couldn’t have put it better myself although Ive been in situations where guns were pulled out so I totally get where your coming from  👍🏽

In Bournemouth??? I suppose it's all the retired colonels hanging onto their service revolvers.

All the videos on how to succeed as a session muso (bass/ sax/ anything) include advice variations on 'don't be a richard'. Be prompt. Be helfpul. Smile. Offer encouragement. Help people pack up. Do they know how diificult that is when everyone else in the band is a richard?