petebassist
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Light masking tape might do the trick, not wrapped round too many times so you keep the feeling for the strings.
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Is that what the Black Labels are? Thanks
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Anyone rate the Delano or black label pickups that you get on the recent TT, TM, VS, VMs, or Californias? Particularly, can they cut it live? I hear about people having to swap out the stock pickups but I don't know whether that's on earlier models from years back with different pickups or still an issue with the latest basses. Advice welcome. Thanks.
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WITHDRAWN This is a standard un-altered Sterling SUB Ray4 bought in 2016. Weight on my digital scales is 8 & 3/8 pounds or between 3.81 and 3.85 kilos. Only gigged a couple of times. Slim satin (San Luis Obispo SLO size I believe) neck, balances well, sounds great, electronics in fully working order. Intonation great and action low (truss rod adjustment is a spin wheel at the end of the fingerboard). Strung with D'Addario XL Nickel Wound Custom Light Gauge EXL190 (40, 60, 80, 100). I'd say condition is good, with 5 or 6 small dents and scratches to the body that you can see if you zoom in. Please PM me for exact details. Pickup from Bristol, or shipping at buyer's risk and cost (I don't have a hard case for it or shipping box). Sale only. I copied the description below from gear 4 music, I'm confident it's exactly the same bass. Sterling SUB Ray4 Bass JTB, Walnut Satin Overview Sterling by Music Man Peak performance. Expert clarity. That's exactly what you get with the Sterling SUB Ray4 Bass JTB. Because Sterling have taken every step to ensure it kicks out a booming bass tone of scintillating quality that punches through the mix with ease. It's fitted with a powerful 9V preamp, which is what gives the Ray4 its gigantic sound. But you needn't worry about noise interference. A single, low-noise ceramic humbucker takes bass playing back to its no-nonsense roots, maintaining stunning clarity and articulation throughout your playing. Performance is effortless due to its sleek Jatoba fretboard and lightweight body, creating a real feeling of freedom and weightlessness on stage. And you can be sure that it'll flourish in every gig due to its meticulous construction. Put simply, it's everything a bass should be. And so much more.- 1 reply
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Hi, if it's unbranded, I would check the scale length (nut to bridge measurement) - there's no standard but 3/4 acoustic basses are usually between 41 and 42 inches. Some EUBs are 34 inches like a bass guitar and won't be as good. Also check that the finger board is curved so that you can bow it. Some EUBs have flat finger boards. Both these things mean that if you switch to an acoustic bass later, it will feel familiar. Also I'd check the pickup - piezzo is usually better than magnetic if you want a more acoustic sound.
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These look ace - d'ya switch between the bridge and the neck pick-ups much? Does it sound good either in P or J mode?, and have you tried it in a gig at volume? I like Gregor's review here (I know he's affiliated), but he's always entertaining.
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Nice bit of playing there mate, I can't hear a difference in tone. I think it's your similar vid showing a BBP34 doing a very good impression of a Fender P. It's a very versatile bass !!
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I'll bet you'll have a lot of fun with this mate. If you're going for the jazz acoustic upright tone, lift the action as high as you can I'm told.
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Songs where bits seem tagged on for the hell of it
petebassist replied to Barking Spiders's topic in General Discussion
I've never understood why they tacked the Top Gear theme music onto the end of the chain !! Ruined the song for me... -
Just out of interest, what kind of string height/action can you get up to with an NS wav/nxt/cr? I tried a CR at the London bass show a few years back and the action was set crazy low so I couldn't play it like a double bass and didn't have time to ask the guy to raise the bridge so I could try it, and I've never been able to find on the Web out what you can set it to?
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Jackie still rocks!
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Most of the YT clips make them sound like fretless guitars, but this one's got a nice tone diallled in, using pirastro solos and a GR Bass Pure Amp 800.
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Yes small world, I'm from Coundon, I used to drink in the Sportsman a lot as well - I left the NE in the late 80s. I should put a vid on here for Prefab Sprout, another local band, but they weren't very metal...
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Yes mate Penetration were from Ferryhill, a little town a couple of miles from Bishop Auckland. Great band, still going strong I believe.
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That's a blast from the past. I never saw the Tygers but in the early 80s Fred Purser the guitarist used to hang out in the King Arms in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, where I used to drink every weekend. He went on to be a successful music producer. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Hey if it's good enough for Sir Paul...
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Love this. Anyone happen to know what semi-acoustic bass is used on the studio version? Nice tone.
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You'll have to get a blue Jazz as well and a pick 😉
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Awesome song - it was the first punk song I ever saw on TV, a program called Revolver in the late 70s, I knew it was different to anything I'd ever heard or seen. Let us know how you get on 😎
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It's difficult to be optimistic - the pandemic seems to act as a smoke screen for Brexit and vice versa. I suspect that only when the dust settles on Covid19 and people start travelling & working in the EU will they start to understand the repercussions, and then there's gonna be a sh!tstorm. We should be marching and protesting right outside the House Of Commons. So I think this will get sorted, but not for a while and not without a massive effort, maybe under a new government.
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Pearl Jam shuts down tribute act Pearl Jamm
petebassist replied to uk_lefty's topic in General Discussion
A lot publicity all round for the original band and the tribute - pity no one seems to be booking at the mo... -
Salut bien venue!
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I have the similarly spec'd SRH500F - incredible bass. The neck, pickup, stock strings and build quality are all superb. Hope you find it's worth waiting for.
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Was reading Tim Burgess' article about this in the Independent, along with this comment:
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As @MJJS suggests, you could try this yourself. Put a sheet of sandpaper over the position of the feet and rub each foot over where it should sit. I'd never tried this myself LOL but have heard it mentioned on luthier threads. A string shouldn't get too tight when it's tuned. Drop some graphite dust from a pencil into the groove on the bridge so that the string can move more freely in the slot, and hold the tip of the bridge when you tighten with the tuner, this might help.
