Geek99

Put sellotape, or better masking tape over your pickups first if you really must use wire wool 

Holy fcuk that’s purdy 

would you mind telling me how much such a thing costs ?  Approximately is fine 

1 hour ago, neepheid said:

 

My NBD thread not enough for you, you greedy bugger?

 

Not greedy 

I loathe turkey, NBD much more interesting 

44 minutes ago, wingnutkj said:

The contents certainly did arrive intact, I've just been rushed off my feet with the pre-Christmas rush. Will try to do one this week. First impressions are very favourable - nice neck, lovely colour, sounds like a bass, but I need to do a bit more of an in-depth comparision between it and my other basses, and maybe even play it with my band if we get our act together.

It’ll be days … you’ve ruined my Christmas by proxy now. You utter basket.
Whilst eating turkey and trying not to be sick, I’ll be thinking “how did @wingnutkj get on with that bass ?”

Not many people mod them that I know of - what exactly is wrong ?

I’ve trodden this path myself and it leads to Mirkwood

2 hours ago, WishIcouldplay said:

should this not be a 3 tone burst with a tort guard?

The red often fades 

On 17/12/2023 at 16:54, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

 

@CiciBass 

6 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

 

There’s that nice young lady who is a member on here

3 hours ago, snorkie635 said:

'C' ! Now there's four! 👌🏻

Yeah - now you can play jazz

1 hour ago, snorkie635 said:

I only know three notes. 😢

A C and E

10 minutes ago, JoeEvans said:

For me, Jaco Pastorious is an incredible musician but I don't really like him as a bass player. His tone is too trebly and gutless, and he plays too many notes - it's like he's continuously trying to climb out of the space where the bass should be, and he leaves an empty hole behind him. I don't think I'm the only bass player that likes bassy bassists - people who sit in the centre of the tune behind and underneath everyone else, holding it all together; drive the rhythm along; provide a rock solid platform for everyone else to do their thing; and whose sound is big, solid, low-down and powerful.

Blasphemer !!

I agree. Too many notes 

On 15/12/2023 at 08:17, NancyJohnson said:

No such thing as being done.  Nope.  There's always going to be something.  Always.

 

You'll see something that will be a slow burner, maybe it'll be something as simple as the Jazz you have looking better in a solid black and then one will come up for sale, you might have a few hundred £££ in the bank and you start doing the maths.

 

That, my friend, is how it works.  That's how I've ended up with a room full of kit.  That's how nearly everyone on Basschat has a room full of kit.

 

Nope, you're not done.  You're just getting started.

 

😄

I’m a minority - one cheap bass and a skip-find acoustic for teaching daughter 

On 11/12/2023 at 15:54, rwillett said:

I know I'm going to have to shield the various cavities. I've a roll of 10m x 20mm copper tape with conducting adhesive.

 

How many payers should I lay down for it? 1, 2 or 3. I want to be sure and one is enough, great, but if I need three layers, I'll get some more copper tape.

 

Any suggestions welcomed.

 

Thanks

Rob

One 

What would Leo do? 

1 hour ago, HarryOO said:

I am looking to buy a Technics P30 or P50

There is also an “items wanted” forum, you may get a P50 offered if you ask there. 

edit - poorly phrased as I’d not realised the OP was selling a p30 as harryoo was asking about. 

6 hours ago, LowB_FTW said:

Did I not cover this in my post ... "It's part of what I enjoy about this forum so much, you don't just learn about the instrument, you learn about the people behind the instrument, and in many cases, the people that influenced those people."

 

I recognise that the names on the poll very likely influenced some/all the players that influence/d me, I'm just not specifically familiar with their playing, and whilst I appreciate your reply, I don't know that I specifically need to be familiar with their work either.

I'm certainly open to listening to them and what they have done, but don't be hatin' on me if I'm not overly enamoured by what I hear.

Just because people influence people that influence me, doesn't mean I have to be in awe of them.

 

Mark

Not hating on you at all. That’s rare round here, and isn’t something I do. I wasn’t suggesting awe at all. I do think you may have misread me, or perhaps I should have added an emoticon or two 

1 hour ago, LowB_FTW said:

This is my problem with lists like these here. I was never really exposed to a lot of the players on the list, and if I am familiar with some of the music they made, I certainly wasn't aware of the name of the person playing bass on it.

 

I know some of the name on the list (John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Mark King, Flea, McCartney) but very few of the others, and if I am aware of them, it's only in passing as I've seen the name mentioned here and I've gone looking for stuff of theirs.

 

It's part of what I enjoy about this forum so much, you don't just learn about the instrument, you learn about the people behind the instrument, and in many cases, the people that influenced those people.

 

All this is really to explain that I couldn't add my votes to the poll, because to me, none of those people are the people that influenced me.

 

Mark

Go Listen to Diana Ross and “ain’t no mountain high enough” and all/some of the other Motown and stax hits and tell me that they’re not influential enough to have had an effect on people you do recognise 

Rutger was a very modest man, I doubt he’d lay claim to every bass recording in the world, ever 

Im Not sure why any of those Motown players are listed since carol kaye recorded all of it. No question. 

58 minutes ago, NikNik said:

Those early stacks had that black overspray. And I've seen one or two that had the red almost faded away.

Definite red-fade - Black doubtless looked normal when first done and for years after 

I get the same feeling with old basses that I do when touching old furniture. The weight of history and the lightness of touch by all the humans that have owned it. 
doesn’t mean that chest of drawers is innately better made than one from furnitureland or more sturdy somehow 

49 minutes ago, NikNik said:

Those early stacks had that black overspray. And I've seen one or two that had the red almost faded away.

Agree

the red was sprayed last, over some of the black so it does look artificially wide when red fades  @Turbineclimber

47 minutes ago, NikNik said:

Those early stacks had that black overspray. And I've seen one or two that had the red almost faded away.

Agree

the red was sprayed last, over some of the black so it does look artificially wide when red fades  @Turbineclimber

On 10/12/2023 at 00:07, neepheid said:

 

Stickers...

I have actually done that on a jazz bass. You’re being me again aren’t you ? 
 

now I need to think of another reason not to buy one 🤔

Do a forum search

this topic comes up a lot