Hellzero

You would be amazed by the amount of punters when Magma is playing somewhere. Most of the time it's even sold out. Some people can recognise art when it's there.

Thanks Douglas, now we are talking Music with a capital M ! And twice. 🤗

And flat wounds on the Precision @Silvia Bluejay... That said why not worshipping someone playing the same thing for 30 years and more with just different names... Could be a reason. 😎

Let's put some coins in the juke box : 6 strings basses are like tonewoods, you have to understand the principles behind them, otherwise you'll start again and again the same diatribe. You know that my sixers have absolutely no neck diving, are more ergonomic and weight less than most of the standard four's I had... And I had a lot. If you are comfortable with an instrument, why would you change for something conventional and politically correct, except for the taste of the others ? That's why I play (fretless) sixers, because I'm so accustomed to them and it's MY sound. I have some 4 and 5 strings basses, but almost never play them. Check the ads soon... Be yourself !

Oops, glued to the metal fingerboard again.

And a (fretted) Fender VI in the days of Cream... 😉

Jack Bruce ?

Alain Caron, Anthony Jackson, Steve Bailey, John Patitucci, ... to name a few.

Only on my Le Fay Remington Steele 6 (fretless) that seems to be my everyday bass now and it's tracking down to the low B, but this Le Fay is so damn precise (it's a real low B zero you get) that the opposite would have seemed strange. Maybe some more this afternoon if don't get glued to the metal fingerboard. 🤣

No, better, as he was a demoniac melodic player. That said limiting the opportunities, I mean 1 string or 2 or 3 or 4 strings instead of 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or ... 12 strings (the fivers are an in between choice), is also challenging, which is good too.

Was waiting for it @Al Krow. 😉

No, it's not only a new bass, it's discovering the upper and lower registers and the vertical playing. A sixer is a new horizons opener. Then you get back to your 4 strings bass with 20 positions and discover how limiting it is, except if you only play roots and fifths, of course. It just depends on the kind of player you are.

I wrote to Steve Bailey to know if it is possible to see the webinar again...

This would indeed be a very good fretless to start playing that wonderful instrument that is fretless bass. Just hoping it won't reach a stratospheric price...

Not only new learners... That's why I now almost refuse anyone playing my fretless basses (mainly all my basses) : I'm fed up by this non sense crazy guitar vibrato bending on a fretless when all you have to do is just slightly and gently move your finger back and forth to get that fretless vibrato. I'm a fretless player for more than 3 decades and only had to do fingerboard dressing a very few times as I don't wear the fingerboard that much with roundwounds strings that I'm using since the first day, thanks to my left hand technique. And it was often on second hand basses... And I don't need mandolin frets on a fretted bass to make it sound like a fretless (especially for @tauzero comment elsewhere ).

Yep, that's the way they die indeed.

I owned this fantastic sounding (even close to it as it was designed this way) AudioKinesis Hathor 18134 You've got loads of answers here, by Duke Lejeune (AudioKinesis), on how difficult it is to make an 18 inches speaker that really works... Worth reading the whole ad.

Depending on the way you attack your note and the bass, the low B on most of my (luthier) basses is not glitching. The tracking of this OC-5 is just fantastic. Compared to the the integrated octaver in my EBS Taurus combo, so the first Octaver to beat the OC-2, the OC-5 goes an octave (sorry) lower as the EBS starts glitching around the D on the E string and the B on the A string. Will try again later with all my basses and even my sixer EUB (just for fun as it won't track the low B for sure and certainly not to the low E too).

@sambecker1 This is exactly the very piece of sh*t you've been offered, so forget it. I've helped a lot of people not being screwed when buying vintage Fender's. This so called 1962 Fender Precision Bass is all but original. There are, here on BassChat, some trustable sellers, so just check the ads and if you want to buy a vintage Fender, there are some at decent price.

I will only say two words : RUN AWAY !

Now I have a Mooradian EB DBL weighting only 5.1 lbs (2,26796 kilos) and as good as the Harvest leather ultra heavy double bag, but it's not on cheap side... http://www.mooradian.com/guitar-bass-covers.html

I had an Harvest leather dual bag that was almost weighting more on its own than the two basses inside. 🤦‍♂️

@stereoplayer : The two pickups together must have close to no mids at all. Great for double bass like sounds. The pickups position reminds me of my Kramer 450 B. Must be interesting to hear all 3 positions. 🙂

Got the message too. First thing I always do is check the email address of the sender. If it looks ok, I never use their link, but go directly to the website and do what I have to do. That said, my passwords are so complicated and different from each other that I wish good luck to an eventual scammer. I don't like simplicity.

Sold a more than complete ACG EQ-02 preamp to Keith. All went smooth, fast and easy. Keith is a pleasure to deal with. Maybe we'll meet one day as we live no that far away from each other. Good luck with your build. 😉