Woodinblack

Does this help at all? bass.mp3

Hmm.. We are 3 pages into a conversation about McCartney, and haven't heard anything from @Bluewine, hope all is ok?

I find it hard to image that the Hofner looked better than anything!

Hard to imagine that Paul McCartney could be under appreciated when hardly any time goes by on here without a thread on how excelent he was. So I think he is probably appreciated enough!

I am sure he is playing enough BPM to make the gold standard

We have 2 in July, 2 in august and 2 in september so far for the summer, (and others further out as well as some posponed weddings next year) so far. I thought we had something for the end of june but it doesn't seem to be in the calendar, maybe not sorted yet.

If the 16.5 feels good, it seems like it is the right thing to play

What - no gold knobs?? 😮

Oh ok, sorry. I have no real problem going between 4 and 5 strings, just the spacing. As much as I only play 5 strings, and the 5 string fretless ibanezes are great, i never really found the B string on fretless all that useful. They don't seem to work well as flatwounds and they are a bit flappy on roundwounds!

Remap the fretboard? hardly, the strings are just a bit further apart. It is an inconvenience yes, but no real difference apart from the muscle memory of location.

Same here - on the 'what do you do if you turn up at a place and someone gives you a P bass to play', then yes, of course I would play it, and it would be fine. Seeing as I was obviously not expecting to play anything obviously they are presumably not expecting a virtuoso performance, so it will be fine. But at home I have other basses that I prefer to play so it wouldn't get played, so what is the point of buying it?

Yes, I agreed, more versatile, but better? I mean when you get a concert violinist whos left their stradavarius at home and borrows one from the local school and doesn't sound as good, does that mean they are not a good violinist? I mean, that jaco was a rubbish bass player, I never saw him playing a dingwall!

Certainly makes you more versatile - does it make you better?

Hardly a minor difference, it's almost 50% more. In your example it is like getting in my car and the pedals are now 4 foot away. in reality it is more like playing a mini key keyboards vs a full size one. Obviously, I could play both, but if I want to do something fast or intricate it is going to fall apart on the mini keys, it's why they don't have them in concerts. I can go from 15 to 18 pretty well without problem, although 18 is pushing it, but a 19mm 5 string frankly is no fun to play. Yes, I could play it but if there was anything else there to play it would get played instead, so it would be useless to me. so yeh, I wouldn't buy one because I know I would just end up selling it.

No, but you could just tag him on here. The one I had worked fine

Lovely, but first rule of the SS club, don't call it the SS club

I love the look of these too - can't get on with the spacing on the 5 string or I would have one!

It is a bit poor! The neck is very different from most of them I have had, and the ones I currently have - a lot more P bass'y. The dimensions are on the website: both 45mm width at nut, the sr 68mm by 24th free, the TMB 72 at the 20th (where they both end), makes sense the spacing is wider on the TMB at almost but not quite 18mm vs 16.5mm Front to back the TMB is 21.5mm at 1st and 24.5 at teh 12th, compared to 19.5mm and 21.5mm at the 12th on the SR, so way chunkier there and you can feel that, it reminds me more of the G&L2500 neck wise. I suppose it is similar to the ATK too. Neck access isn't bad, joins right near the top so even though it only has 20 frets you can reach them without too much trouble. My wife hated the colour on the website but it person she says its not such a bad shade of toothpaste. I think it looks better in person than the website shows. The pickups seem nice and clear - I was expecting noisier, but didn't hear anything on my brief try. The controls move well, although the knobs are cheaper than a cheap thing!

They have had 4 top tens and 23 top 30s, so I guess so! Lullaby and love cats were both higher placed than Friday Im in love.

And it turned up today. It was a pain, after deciding to get one, everyone was out of stock. Well, almost everyone, bax had one, and after my previous experience with them I thought I wouldn't use them again, and they had shipping with hermes so ditto, but it was also cheap at £193 inc vat and shipping. So what the hell, I did get my money back last time. Ordered it on the thursday night, a bit dismayed to look when I got the shipping on friday that it was currently in Holland, being shipped. But looked late friday night and it had cleared customs. Looked this morning adn it said delivery tommorow, now in bristol, looked half an hour ago and it said left outside, so I went outside and there it was! Luckily, because I don't want to have to deal with bax that much, it seems perfect, very unibanez neck, but seems really easy to play and sounds great (especially the b string).

I would have thought now Disturbed for Sound of silence. People might be surprised that all their songs aren't that terrible! Wouldn't have thought that either of those are hugely unrepresentative of their other output.

Absolutely not true. Although I am (although if I am actually working I ignore most things), but I have friends who are the opposite and won't see something for days. ok, if I make an offer on something on ebay then I check if it is accepted, but in my time on there i have met a lot of people who dont.

On here, maybe, not on eBay though