Frank Blank

...also on the latest Late Junction a track from Richard Dawson’s superb album 2020...

Just listening to Radio 3s brilliant Late Junction programme. First track was a bass player I hadn’t heard before Junius Paul with a track called Sprouts from the album Ism...

Duh, sorry, I meant round cores as opposed to hex cores, not roundwounds!

Not knowingly, tone ahoy!

That’s some neck *applauds*

That’s it, it’s all over, a) I am now officially an ACG fanboy (although I’m really too old to be an anything ’boy’ but fanman..? I dunno), b) I’m keeping the Harlot. It’s just back from TJC Guitars having been fully set up and restrung with Newtone Platinum Roundwounds and man it sings, no way I’d ever get a bass of its ilk again, it has that undefinable extra something that I suppose we are all looking for in a bass. It’s a GAS killer as far as fretted electric basses go. I’ve a feeling that once I get the short scale bass that @Jabba_the_gut is working on for me I’ll be done... ...mind you, I can’t get @TheGreek’s Psilios bass out of my head? There is no end to GAS is there?

Annoyed pine. 😂

It’s just been back to Terry for a set up and a set of strings recommended by @skelf from Newtone Strings. It’ll be the first time I’ve played roundwounds, picking it up tomorrow morning, can’t wait.

I used to be in the ‘reggae bass lines are easy, surely’ camp, until I tried playing some. It makes me realise how uptight my style of writing/playing is. I’m off to listen to LKJ.

Hello!

I play lined fretless with dots between the lines but that’s simply because that’s the way the Rob Allen Mouse I was lucky enough to buy off here was designed. Having said that I’d love to try an unlined.

PMd you.

Welcome @Stippy. My bass tutor has moved to a location 30 minutes drive from you, want me to put you in touch? He’s an excellent ‘bass specific’ tutor, can’t speak highly enough of him really.

I do know what you mean. I remember taking my first jazz bass up to the chap who usually sets them up for me and mentioning that at some point I’d probably get the bridge swapped out, “Why?’ He asked and when I failed to cone up with an answer he said “Because that’s what the Internet said?” He was right, I had no problem to which a swapped bridge was the solution. This is why I have sought to try with and without swapped out bridges, can’t hear any difference myself.

Still totally up for an EABB.

That was an emotional journey.

What is ‘the old electric soup?’

I’m aroused.

I’ve made many successful and game changing decisions about basses using the wealth of experience, wisdom and knowledge of the faceless anonymous people on this forum. I agree trust your own judgement but sometimes those decisions can be made in a far more informed fashion with the help of folk on here.

Perhaps imagine that the first half hour of your Saturday was the half hour you have left on a Friday to get prepped, that way you’d be prepped early on Saturday and have the rest of the day to craddock abaht.

Then definitely 2020 - Richard Dawson.

Bollards.

2020 - Richard Dawson.

Don’t all Laklands have those? They look so unsightly, I’m with you.