JoeEvans

At the risk.of stating the obvious, it's to show you where the notes are. You could flip it around and ask, what's the advantage to not having them?

"If you know how good you are, nobody else has to." Wise words from trumpeter Don Cherry.

I think the bass, perhaps more than any other instrument, is a tool of collaboration. It exists to be played with other people. So for me, being 'good' as a bassist is about how good you are at supporting, lifting, driving, underpinning a group of musicians, rather than about your pure technical ability as a solo musician.

If you want me to stay (Sly and the Family Stone) is also very bass led.

Slightly off topic here but which cheaper EUB's have similar necks and scale lengths to actual double basses?

I read this thread recently and on the back of it I bought some ACS off the shelf 16db plugs because they were only a tenner, to sit between the 10db and 20db plugs I already have. To my surprise the ACS plugs give better clarity than my 10dbs from another brand, and I've started using them as my basic. So ACS seem to have got the filters just right for musicians, to my mind.

I'd use dark to describe a tone that was full and powerful in the low end; treble present but light and not dominant at all. For me it's not just about not much treble, it's about the quality of the low end - muscular and authoritative. If anything is absent it would maybe be the upper end of the middle. My double bass was what I'd call dark when I bought it; a couple of modifications have opened up the mid range a bit and made it more rounded, although still with a solid low end.

Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs of New York City. It's like saying you're based in London because you're based in Hackney.

How do you post YouTube videos on here so they they embed properly instead of just showing as a link?

So Rickenbackers are overpriced... Who knew, eh? Edit - just re-read this and realised that it might come across wrong, I'm trying to be snarky about Rickenbackers not about this interesting post...

Brief update - I recently bought a pair of the £10 ACS Pacato earplugs and tried them for the first time at a pub session last night. It was a noisy one (four fiddles, three accordion and a couple of other instruments) so I thought I'd try a step up from my usual 10db. The ACS plugs were great - slightly clearer treble than other plugs I've tried and in general really good sound. I'm going to investigate the custom plugs now, evidently their filters are good for my needs.

My Roth and Junius bag, bought for £90 or so a few years back (not sure of model or reference number) is now falling to bits at a fair rate, starting with the handles coming off at inconvenient times. So won't be buying one of theirs again...

I'd honestly just go trial and error, or 'successive iterative approximation', as my dad used to say.

This was obviously a joke, but thinking about it, I seem to remember that metal fatigue develops more rapidly at low temperatures, so potentially if you froze your strings then put them back on quickly and played them, then repeated the process over and over again, they might acquire the played-in sound more rapidly...

If you like that played-in sound from old strings, can you get new ones and put them in the freezer?

DJs who just put on playlists are still doing a useful service. For weddings and parties they will have done a load of work in advance to sort out what music the client wants to hear; then they bring and set up the PA, deal with requests, read the room and keep the punters dancing - it's a lot of work but it has to be done by someone to make the party happen.

The important relationship is the one between the performers and the audience. If the audience are having a good time, the band are doing a good job and that's all there is to it.

I think it's plywood, looking at the grain pattern on the back, and the neck is painted black over some paler wood so not ebony. I think £350 is a fair price considering that someone appears to have worked it over with a rubber mallet then left it in the garden for a few weeks.

It's a bit complicated ... I play accordion at pub sessions, but I also do ceilidh gigs for weddings etc on both bass and accordion. But the ceilidh gigs are with various different 'bands' which are really more like agencies, getting the gigs then seeing who's available from a big pool of musicians. You could be playing with people you've never met, and the client could end up with the same musicians if they booked three different bands! To add to the stress, nobody on the scene seems to bother discussing which tunes they're going to play, so you just work it out while the caller is teaching the dance. And there are no fixed chords to go with each tune, so it's exciting playing bass because you have to psychically agree a chord structure on the fly with the guitarist... But, the weddings are pretty well paid and it's great fun when it goes well.

I always wear earplugs now for more or less any musical activity. 10db for acoustic sessions (I play Irish trad and fiddles are loud!); 20db if there's a drummer using sticks not brushes. If I was in a loud band I'd want 25db+. The great thing for bass players is that with earplugs in, the higher the level of protection, the better you can hear the important bits: yourself and the kick drum.

I suspect that the bank either simply don't believe the bit about the transfer going to a different account to the one entered, it know full well what caused it and have no intention of admitting to a system fault.

I don't see any way for the seller to have orchestrated what happened with your banking. My best guess is that they're innocent and that your bank has a problem that they are highly unlikely to admit to. But without screenshots of the process you can't prove it either, so you might just have to accept the refund and move on.