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  1. lownote
    Do you get roundwound chatter marks on your skin like fretless fingerboards?
  2. lownote
    Mogadon dull teaching style, though doubtless the content is good. I keep falling asleep to the vids so its takes me much longer than it should. Mark Smith at Talking Bass.net is IMHO far better but it is also far more comprehensive. Like far, far... reading War and Peace to get an outline idea of Franco-Russian relations in the early 19th century.
  3. lownote
    Spend twice that much on a brand new Revelation (Bass Gallery). One of the best basses I've had.
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    It’s now several weeks since I came off the course and surprisingly it has left a useful legacy. A central plank to Willis’s teaching is to play music. Just that. After 10 years of trying to learn the mechanics of music, this is a deep-ploughing idea to take on board. But it’s something I’m now doing and it’s refreshing. Just takes getting my head round that’s all.
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    Although by feel's fine, some folk prefer a 'recipe'. I use automotive feeler gauges and set the gap between 12th fret and string in millimeters as follows: E 2.4, A 2.0, D 1.8, G 1.6 Depending on how good your fretboard is and what feels good you may have to raise or lower from this base measurement, but it is a start and a good compromise between low and high.
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    It's no good. I have to have it. So I've sold it to myself.
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    How many of us make full use of the G string? Not me for one. I even experimented with BEAD tuning but it sounded too muddy.
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    I'm not upright, but I do alternate between fretless 4 and fretted 6. The number of strings used to but no longer bugs me. Where I struggle is with playing frets after a spell on the FL; they seem SOOO clunky and restrictive after the fluent gliding up and down of fretless. If I was told I could have any budget but only one bass, I think I'd settle on a 5 or six string fretless. Like this Fodera currently on sale in the Bass Gallery:
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    I find 4 strings so restricting, and often think how much more Jaco could have achieved had he had a 5 or 6 string. Unfort my current craze for unlined fretless has kinda ruled out multistrings because they're hard to find, especially cheap. But I still keep my trusty old Hohner 6 B Bass to hand.
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    How ridiculous. I've just posted an ad for one of my own basses and then found myself gassing for it! My mother had me tested and the doctor said I was sane but I'm not so sure.
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    This unlined active fretless in glorious Bubinga wood is in fantastic condition. The bass equivalent of a car barn find, it was hardly played by the first owner, then stuck under a bed to gather dust and fluff. Quick hoover and wax and it looked like new. A visit to top tech Phil Pugh had the nut slots lowered, a corroded pot replaced, the truss rod adjusted and new strings (Dunlop flats 45-105) fitted. Now a stunning bass once again. Apart from a couple of tiny marks, probably as good as it was out the box. [Due diligence, the fretboard does have the faint imprint of roundwound strings, but these 'chatter' marks are totally superficial]. Maple neck, rosewood fb. P/J configuration with Wilkinson pickups. Controls are Volume/Bass/Treble/ Pan. I might post but given recent experiences with Parcel Farce's finest I am very reluctant. £250 cash on collection. Will deliver or travel to meet up to 30 miles (Norwich, Bury St Edmund, Ipswich). Might trade for a 5 string unlined fretless, or maybe a decent MIM Fender P Bass with cash on top your way. Nothing else, thanks.
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    well I like it very much, just my sort of music.
  13. lownote
    I'm methodical, don't like to rush things
  14. lownote
    I've now tried this and it makes a huge difference, esp Deep and Bright. Total opposite of what used to work well on my Markbass. Cheers
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    Possibly, I very much doubt it. I’ve given JMB people the benefit of the doubt too many times now. I won’t tell you about the last two- I don’t want to appear negative.
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    Today was NAD, finally. Shame I’m now away working until end of the week. So my amp, like Schroerdigner’s cat, could currently be crap or brilliant. Won’t know until I open the box on Saturday.
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    Personally, I have yet to see daylight through either BM or JMB. The latest guy coming on to me was a recovering alcoholic ('I like to be straight about these things') electronic music fan who 'isn't actually a very good musician', and his studio is 'actually my living room, haven't had a chance to sound treat it yet', but he does have access to a 'playfully creative' singer called Zia La Zinger Zua.
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    ... and back to me, the OP. And today, yesterday's NAT, now look's like it won't be NAD either. So here's looking forward to NAT (2), only I'm off working until the weekend. It's so long since I bought the MF I can't now remember what it is. And of course life being what it is, just hours after buying it, tired, dusty, needing to be repaired before despatch, I now seen the same thing, in immaculate condition, with cover, for sale for just £10 more and less than an hour away pickup. Sigh
  19. lownote
    Gary Willis has various tips on this specific issue, two are: 1/ never play more than four notes sequentially before playing somewhere else 2/ start scales on the 5th instead of the root.
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    NAD has slid into the likelihood of NAT, thanks to Parcel Farce who have decided I haven't been home today, despite me sitting at the window with my nose up against the glass since 8 this morning.
  21. lownote
    I wonder if other nations have a similar level of cretinous whizzed up low life as the default audience
  22. lownote
    I'm about to partner a MAG300 with a Markbass 112. I hope the pale blue and yellow go together - they seem to in your pic. Couldn't care less about the sound, but I do hate it if my accessories colour clash.
  23. lownote
    Having been told by all and sundry that my recently dropped Markbass LM2 can't be fixed I have stumbled into buying an Ashdown MAG300 as a cheap alternative. It arrives tomorrow. I wasn't expecting very much TBH, but I am encountering surprising amounts of unexpected Ashdown love on here. So have I done a good thing buying one, then?
  24. lownote
    Or Anthony Jackson. If God plays with a plectrum half the time, shouldn't the rest of us take heed?
  25. lownote
    Now talking to the AmpGuy (Steve Ayers) in Norwich.
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