sunburstjazz1967

We've certainly covered some ground,17 pages and still no confirmation on the db situation or a playful pun, shame.

What do we class as wrong? A fifth instead of a root or a minor 2nd instead of a minor 7, as long as its in key its all gravy.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1456351099' post='2988269'] Please can someone tell me how you kill the mwahh on a fretless. I've tried relaxing the truss rod on mine, in the hope that it will help, but I still find I get fed up with it sounding like a sittar. I'm playing a fretless Streamer with Chromes. [/quote] Resist the urge to slide into the next note, the problem with that is you need to be able to 'stop' a note bang in tune time and time again, you can still slide into position but you do it without the note ringing out, as soon as you pluck and move or hang around on a note adjusting it's pitch....mwah! Of course the mwah can be good so I'm not knocking those that do but the players like Deacon I enjoy where they play it straight and it sounds fretted most of the time but with the odd mwah here and there.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1456156934' post='2986027'] Ahh, I know the sort, always calling up the venue ahead of time, insisting that they hire out a bunch of DB wedges [/quote] Lol

Does pulling the frets from ricky reduce the neck dive I wonder?

John Deacon played a lot of straight up no mwah fretless, maybe to the point not many people realised?

Just moving them on for more new fivers I'd say.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1456232562' post='2986821'] Yes you're right. Said orchestral player would probably know (or at least [i]think[/i]) you meant this. [/quote] ¡Da Gamba! upright bass players have been bass players a lot longer than the users of these new fangled fretted beginner ones!

Most of these coveted valve amps and old SS ones were crap when they were thrown to the back of garages or gathering dust in second hand shops in the 80s, where they are best left imo.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1456224995' post='2986723'] Don't be silly ... he's so bored playing the same old same old that he's actually listening to Adele on his iPod. [/quote] Lets hope it's not the Grammys performance then.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1456221490' post='2986680'] They're all empty - he has a Rumble 100 offstage. [/quote] No need for that even but whilst people on a bass forum will buy gear that they see and hear with their eyes when their favourite players are clearly on in ears then it pays to ship 7 GK cabs around the world I guess?! They mic up one 10" speaker and that supposedly captures the tone of them all.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1456170701' post='2986252'] I briefly plugged a GK MB200 into an 8x10 in a rehearsal room and it sounded fantastic. But the MB200 sounds fantastic anyway. Looked pretty silly, though. [/quote] I dont mind heads smaller than cabs, its the ones wider than the cabs that I couldn't cope with on stage, I see lots of these barefaced cabs with a wider rack case on top and it looks bad to me, many pro players use massive cabs without a head on show at all, Flea has 7 big cabs and no heads for example!

I use a Genz head as a di box.

[quote name='Muzz' timestamp='1456167471' post='2986199'] And how often do you get to really hear that 'perfect tone', even on stage? It's very venue dependent for positioning, then there's the guitard and those cymbals to contend with...the clearest I've ever heard my bass tone onstage is with a nice me-centric mix in my in-ears (and I use them with modelling software), and then...oh...I don't need the big rig... [/quote] If the rest of my band would go in ears all I'd use is a di box, in fact I could just use an inbuilt fx patch in our digital mixer, now that would be light weight, how heavy is a software patch?!

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1456154839' post='2986001'] [IMG]http://i64.tinypic.com/mbjrjm.jpg[/IMG] [/quote] Yep hats off to ya All we wanted in the other thread was a playful pun post from a certain member, 17 pages later we are still waiting

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1456163258' post='2986116'] The big valve amps and big heavy cabs to me do sound better, but not to the extent that I would want to carry them around. If they sounded twice as good then I might be tempted but to me it really is only about 10% better, there`s just a bigger "feel" to the sound, as oppose to just the loudness. But with careful use of a good amp/good pedals I`m nearly there, with a rig that my knackered back doesn`t mind at all. [/quote] I agree and how much of that 10% gets to the audience via the PA if the gig is big enough to require a big amp? This "perfect tone" is mainly only enjoyed by the player as their on stage monitoring.

In ears would be my only reason to not use a light weight rig!

Put the guard back on it and enjoy it, keep an eye out for some stock pickups and have the hole filed in at a later date, ive seen and heard of worse damage being invisible once repaired.

Id want £800 for a modern usa jazz, must be worth more than that in parts?!

I like the look of it a lot, I've got a shuttlemax 9.2 which also has many knobs many of which I have no idea what to do with. Anything Glock should be good, looking forward to the review

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1456073224' post='2985114'] Needs more knobs [/quote] Theres an extra one in the thread already,see #2 :-)

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1456080586' post='2985215'] Son of ET texted me late one night (from Liverpool) saying ' I just met Noddy Holder's son'. [/quote] His son is 11 years old!?

We needed some at times! It was a bit of a hoe down.

I've done exactly the same to mine but it's a 2013 model, I wonder if there will be a thread like this about it one day?!

As above ,1200 grit paper will do it without ruining the neck.