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Flats for me, however, its not as straightforward as it seems, tried Ti flats on the Overwater & couldn't get on with them, settled on D'addario chromes which work realy well on that & also use those on the MM. Tried chromes on the Warwick & they were awful, stuck the Ti flats on the thumb & to be honest thats the best that bass has ever played & sounded, so much so the jazz quartet I rehearsed with this week commented on what a great tone the bass had .Shame its so expensive to experiment with different brands, mike b.

I had similar probs with my '93 b/on when in active mode, vol pot became scratchy & cut out intermittently,cured it by using a "bucket " load of switch/ contact cleaner, warwick pots are difficult to squirt cleaner into ,I unbolted mine & squirted cleaner into every orifice I could see, keep rotating pot while you do this & also pull switch in & out, took several attempts to do this, worth the effort tho' as the old thumb has been trouble free for over a year since I last did this. WARNING on no account use WD40 to do this,if you don't have electrical contact cleaner, sometimes known as switch cleaner, you can buy something suitable from Maplins, best of luck, mike I'm sure you checked the battery first tho,also make sure the battery clip is secure on both the contacts of the pp3, have known them spread apart allowing the contact to make & break with vibration, can't think of anything else.

Try posting on the eggle forum, I think gadge who runs that also posts on here [url="http://www.patrickeggleguitars.org/smf/"]http://www.patrickeggleguitars.org/smf/[/url] if that doesn't work try www.gadge.org certainly a bit of a rarity, mike b.

just dug out the old '93 thumb b/o put on a set of d'ad chromes & I'm back in love, I think the older models balance better on a strap because the bottom strap button is off centre by the way

Hi Scott ,love the new bass especially the narrower string spacing & 33" scale, sounds like a good idea for my arthritic fingers, still have your old fretless overwater (see pic on left) wouldn't part with that for anything, would love to own a fretted perception 4 to match ( agree with your idea for b/on for fretted & thro neck for fretless), thats also a strong hint for anyone thinking of moving on a fretted ov four by the way. All the best, mike b.

Noticed several posts along the same theme as how can I improve progress etc followed usually with the advice learn to read music which can unlock so many doors, from my own experience note recognition was the hardest part,trying to recite rhymes such as "good boys deserve free apples" while I gazed at all the tadpoles strung on the lines before me made learning to read a hideous ordeal. This advice was passed on to me by a music teacher,its so simple I couldn't believe I hadn't come across it before, sit with your left hand on your lap,palm facing upwards with fingers pointing left to right, angle your thumb so it points in the same direction, you are now looking at the five lines of the music stave, write the notes GBDFA on the tips of your fingers (starting with your little finger if you don't already know) & every spare minute you have recite the notes in relation to your fingers,after a while you will soon memorise the note/line relationship, do the same with the notes using the spaces between your fingers & very quickly you will be able to look a note in a bar of music & know its name instantly. Timing is another matter,but at least knowing the names of the notes has allowed me to make sense of some great books that are available only in standard notation, one I can recomend is " The Jazz Bass Book" by john goldsby , cheap as chips on amazon & you don't have to be jazzer or upright player to get some good stuff out of this, best of luck all, mike b.

Warwick jack sockets can be unreliable with age,try a "wiggle test" on the jack plug if it makes the noise in question a new jack socket is an easy fix, best of luck, mike b.

Fairly certain you won't finder anything looser than TI's having tried a few diferent brands of flats ,if you have a "search" there are many posts on the subject of flats, if you're worried about bendy neck syndrome TI's are the ones to use,best of luck, mike b.

I think it was sunny here once, if you are in exeter ,check out the blues jam, last friday of the month at the farmers union queen st, don't get many bass players turn up, I will be the old fool with "rita" (mm sterling) drapped around his neck, mention basschat & you're welcome to have a blast, mike b.

I was in a similar situation some months ago when offered a dep with a local jazz quartet, must have cd would be Miles Davis "kind of blue" also check out herbie hancock, john coltrane, eddie harris to name a few others,I also realised that I new almost nothing in the way of any theory, useful book & cd I can recomend "begining jazz bass" from hal leonard musicians inst master class series, I now have the bands regular bass spot & to be honest this is probably one of the best things I have done in terms of broadning my horizons musicaly from just blues & r'n'r, best of luck, mike b,

tried Ti flats on my overwater but found the tension a little too slack, mainly on the E, tonaly the g was a little weak for me, changed over to d'addario chromes & much prefer the sound & tension of these ( about a 1/4 turn tighter on the truss rod ) although it took a few hours playing in sound wise for these to settle in. Have also now put a set of these on my sterling (fretted), great strings for jazz , blues, soul in my opinion , mike b.