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I've got some Status hotwire flats on my basses. Quite nice, I wish they were a teeny little more flexible and bendy. They do sound quite nice though, not at all thuddy. Quite cheap too, £26 for a 6 string set. I'd like to try some TI flats, but I'm put off by the price (£70 for a 6 string set !!!!!!!!! ), and the B string is enormous.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1393769970' post='2384130'] I would think that Elixirs are not really likely to wear your fingerboard significantly less than uncoated rounds. The coating is so thin that it is unlikely to prevent the usual abrasion. What's more, the fact that they are stainless steel means that they are not really that suited to fretless playing, both tonally and in terms of the extra wear that steel tends to inflict on the fingerboard. If you are going to use rounds then they should at least be nickel plated because it tends to be a little kinder to the board, although nickel rounds will still wear it out eventually. Some folks think that if you use strings with smaller/ narrower windings that it wears the frets or fretless fingerboard less , but such strings are hard to find. Thomastic Jazz Rounds are nickel with smaller than average windings, but they are a very unusual light gauge and are quite expensive, but then again the Elixirs you were considering aren't cheap either, so maybe you could look at them as an option . The Thomastics are a remarkable sounding string and would be great on a fretless, providing you could live with their low tension -feel. Another option would be something like D'Addario XL's , which are relatively inexpensive, sound great and are a popular choice for a lot of fretless players, or the excellent but more costly DR Sunbeams, which are what I use on my fretless . Any of those strings would probably be more suitable than stainless steel Elixirs. [/quote] I thought Elixir strings were nickel ? I've got Status hotwire flats on mine, they sound really nice. I was put off the Thomastiks by the price and huge great B string .

Just on real instruments, not software ones ?

What's wrong with it ? Ever actually tried one ? I have and they're great, I'm possibly gonna be buying one later in the year. These are extremely good quality basses, at a superb price. Check out the site [url="http://www.rmiuk.biz/News.php"]http://www.rmiuk.biz/News.php[/url] My fretless 6 has (or would have) 26 frets. Two pickups I though most basses had 2 pickups, except for P's ? A ramp, my Mayones has one. It's just an extremely good instrument for the [b][i]right[/i][/b] person, the OP, obviously isn't that person.

Lots of times the insurance is a total waste of money, musical instruments are excluded items. If it's a bolt on necked bass, and you don't have a case, just a gig bag, then ship it in 2 pieces, just make sure both are wrapped well with bubble wrap and lots of cardboard.

Happily sorted .

For a university project this semester, I have to write or arrange a piece of music that incorporates at least one wind instrument. I'm working on an ambient style piece of music, and I'm looking for a flautist to record, or who can record themselves if I send them a backing track. I have some ideas that I've notated. PM me if you know of anyone. Un-paid unfortunately , but possibly good experience and fun.

[quote name='ML94' timestamp='1393500358' post='2381006'] I can get by with average stuff its when you start looking at Jaco, Incognito, tower of power bass lines and it makes you cry [/quote] I had to play a tower of power song last year, that was tough man. We get given a transcription of song a week to learn for a performance with guitars, drums and vocals. I think it was Funkifize .

I'm looking for a flautist to help with a recording project for my university course. I need to write an arrangement (or reverse engineer an arrangement ). Basically I'm writing a piece of ambient music, and need someone to improvise something over it, if anyone's interested .

It's just practice, just like you see the word ELEPHANT, you don't have to break it down into smaller pieces, you recognise it as a whole word. The more you play complex syncopated rhythms the easier you'll find it to just recognise them and play them. If you have a bar of small notes and rests, just use a pencil and divide the bar up, make the phrase smaller and work on it a bit at a time, then put it together. You'll eventually just feel it. That's my experience anyway, I'm only in year 2 of my degree, so I'm still working on stuff, and expect to always be. The average chart I have no real problem with.

Maybe post an advert or thread on here, see if anyone living in Scotland has one that you could perhaps try ?

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1393280331' post='2378319'] Woohoo they arrived a day early - cue complete failure to finish stocktaking on strings and much testing of new amp with multiple basses and cabs [/quote] Some people have amazing jobs .