Skinnyman

WHAT!!!????

Are they 7.62mm frets? And sound advice for the newbie interrogator in his first days on the job....

I've used Snark ones of various sorts (very good and accurate but they go through batteries a bit quick and they can be a bit.....plasticky. Two of mine are held together by sticking plaster, like Jack Duckworth's glasses). I then got the TC polytune (which I've only ever used in single-string mode). Brilliant. Unobtrusive, battery lasts for ages, nice and clear display. If mine breaks I'm getting another. It also seems less sensitive to positioning than the snarks.

I've never done it professionally, but I've done the sounds for a good few amateur productions and band gigs over the years. You ask people to play at "normal" and then "peak" volume so you can get their input gain set properly. You then carefully balance all the instruments against each other so that everything is audible, boosting and lowering specific frequencies as needed to stop feedback and allow each instrument to be heard. Once all that's been done I can guarantee that the guitarist will sidle over to his amp and turn the flipping thing up. Or you discover that between the soundcheck and the performance he's found another inch of travel on his volume pedal. It doesn't help that drummers only work properly with adrenalin buzzing through their system so their volume and speed goes up accordingly when the gig starts. That's the point that volume wars break out. I think I've just persuaded myself that soundchecks are basically pointless. The levels we all agree then are not the levels at which the band will actually play.

Why bother when you got there first, Young Teebs? Cheeky little barskit..... 😉😉

I love a CAR guitar. Which makes it seriously uncool, of course You should get rid. I'll take it off your hands if you like. No, no, don't thank me...

There's been a load of comment on how gear vreviews shouldn't be done (some of it mine) so you've now got me wondering whether Basschat shouldn't start it's own YouTube channel? If we can organise a podcast, I'm sure we could get people in to do reviews that follow a consistent format. Clearly, some of us are less photogenic than others so perhaps the actual presentation might be done by a small subset of the community but this could allow us to share our collective wisdom for the greater good. Just a thought.....

Wow. Fantastic review, well done. Good luck with the album - i hope this is just the first of many similar reviews 😎

Small world! I'll drop you a PM....

I missed bass sounds part I so i struggled to follow the plot with the sequel.

There's lots of Mikes on here but i couldn't find a feedback thread for this particular one - Mike Hicks - and so I'm starting one. Mike just bought my Genz Shuttle 6.2 and it's one of the easiest transactions ever. Super fast payment, good communication throughout and an understanding manner when I missed the Saturday collection and he had to wait an extra day (plus bank holiday) to get the amp. Another great basschat marketplace transaction with another great basschatter. Thanks Mike, I hope the Shuttle gives you years of service!

Just shoot me now......

That's a bit rich coming from ol' Fifty Shades of Teebs....

I think that Bubinga’s point (and I’m aware that he’s perfectly able to make it himself) was that - irrespective of the genre - by putting flats on, you are losing an element of the “Jazz bass sound” that would be present if you strung it with rounds. And I have to agree with him. The same thing happens when you string a P bass with rounds - they add a “bite” that wasn’t there before. Where I slightly disagree is with the contention that the Jazz was designed for rounds and that by putting on flats you’re somehow going against the design brief. As rounds didn’t really come onto the scene until the early sixties and as the jazz came onto the market in 1960 (and must have been designed in the fifties) I think it’s okay to use flats on a jazz. But for sure, Rounds make it sound different and that’s good and - as Bubinga originally said - it’s each to his own. Vive la difference!

That's very kind - I'd really appreciate the chance to try some. Happy to pass them on to CameronJ if he wants to give them a go as well (or to wait if he wants to try them first). I'll ping you a PM with the address

That's why you need two. One with flats, one with rounds. It's not GAS, it's just common sense....

The d'addario website has lots of info on the string tension of their various sets - without checking it, I'd say that chromes are about the same or slightly higher tension than their NYXL rounds. I'll go check now and probably find I'm talking nonsense. Which will not surprise me in the least.... Edit: and i was right. I was talking through my a£se. The chrome's are slightly lighter tension than the NYXL. The lesson we take from this? Ignore me....

"Come on, guys, let's tidy the joint!" 😀

That was after they did the place up in 2012. It’s gone downhill a bit since then.

OK, you win. It happened. That must have been one hell of a road trip.... ....cruising the mean streets of Glossop

You need to show some respect, Young Teebs. National Service, that's what you need - that'd put some backbone into you, you cheeky young monkey.... Like Quentin Crisp in a biker jacket? Pictures or it didn't happen...

What’s the tension like compared to Chromes? I fancy trying some on a five but wonder what the B would be like.....?

Hahaha. Saw what you did there, you young scamp, you. It looks quite pleasant - there’s something almost....’english’ about the look of it even though it’s an all USA thing. Not really my cup of tea though so your GAS attack missed by a country mile I’m a straight Class D kind of gal and I have all the amps I need, thank you. I will restrict my GAS to a nice walnut 4003s (with flats) just as soon as I’ve sold a few things to raise the funds 😋 The kids, for starters. They can go. And it’s not like we really neeeeeed furniture. Packing crates were good enough for my mum and dad so they’re good enough for me. As to the Nexus strings, they’re fantastic on a guitar and last for aaaaaages but somehow I just didn’t get on with them on a bass. You clearly like them but, as Ricky says, that’s probably more of an S&M, art-rock thing. You sophisticated metropolitan types up in the meedja city there, with your black bass strings. It’s like the Citadel out of the Hunger Games. But more rainy, obvs

Are they the Nexus? I use them on my guitar - a nice, dark tone - but couldnt get on with them on a bass. I might give them another go sometime. I fancy some tapewounds now though.....