SpondonBassed

Nice. I especially like that you are concealing the neck through on the front. I'll forgive you for the additional strings but only this once mind...

Welcome Cornetto. I have an entry level Steiny as listed below. I am thinking yours must be a step or two up from mine. I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on ownership if you care to share them on the forum.

Welcome Flaxholmelis. Good to have another Derbyshire lad onboard. Now you've boosted our number I reckon we're only a prune short of a movement. You been to any Open Mic nights yet? [url="http://openmikefinder.com/UK/England/Derbyshire/"]Derbyshire Open Mike Nights - Open Mike Finder[/url]

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1501671749' post='3346400'] Nah, It was called The Word. [/quote] That was one strange show.

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1501660091' post='3346217'] slight diversion; I found a useful guy for setups in Sutton IN ashfield. [/quote] Is he in that music shop two doors down from the party shop?

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1501664314' post='3346286'] No, that was the Beatles. [/quote] Word

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1501493603' post='3344948'] There's Jools Holland. Up here, in Scotland, we have The Quay Sessions [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05x1ylt"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...rammes/b05x1ylt[/url] I can't think of any other UK TV show, that is set up to specifically, broadcast artists, playing live music? Considering how popular music is, it's strange that TV companies don't make more of them. We have hundreds of TV channels broadcasting, mostly, total sh*te. Why don't they produce more shows like Jools Holland's. Bands would be queuing up to promote their tours/albums and they would be cheap to make. Does anybody else know of shows that I'm not aware of? [/quote] Vintage TV has some "live" sets. I recently enjoyed watching Wilko and Norman Watt Roy playing to camera as if at a dress rehearsal. They nailed it. Norman fell ill at a gig soon after. I am hoping he's doing well with his recovery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY3FRojnW4Y Vintage TV channel numbers for the various broadcasters are on the YT page just below the clip. Maybe not a place to find up and coming acts however. We could do with some more right enough. I'm thinking the additional exposure would benefit the bands featured too.

[quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1501580418' post='3345595'] ...But my problem is, why do people get embroiled in things they don't actually want to do? Just odd. [/quote] I have to think twice these days because I'd easily commit with no thought for my advancing years. Is that maybe a factor? It's such an attractive idea to recapture one's lost youth that it is hard not to jump at such an offer. Having slept on the idea however gives the mind time to go through all of the cons that were hidden by the initial excitement at the idea. It might also be the result of discussion with senior management at home. Good luck. I wish you triumph over adversity.

Let's make this a 50 page thread and find out on the way.

Oh no. Here we go again; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gcjb7iNddI At least Dave isn't bitter...

Gear snobbery aside... [url="http://www.thatericalper.com/2014/12/11/watch-two-musicians-play-a-guitar-made-from-a-broom-and-bass-made-from-a-shovel/"]http://www.thaterica...-from-a-shovel/[/url] It isn't country but the geezer on the left could cut it. The site itself looks interesting. I'm off to look at this bit now; [url="http://www.thatericalper.com/category/isolated-tracks/"]http://www.thaterica...solated-tracks/[/url]

You're welcome. Thanks for the interest.

I am the only one I know who doesn't have to look at me. How the heck would I know what I don't look like when I don't even know what I do look like?

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1501013744' post='3341848'] I'm sort of glad I learnt to play by ear before the youtube days. Don't get me wrong, these days if I want to learn someing the 'tube is my first port of call, and it was especially useful when I finally got round to learning to slap properly. But I also like it when I hear something brand new and I can visualise the patterns involved in playing it, even if I may not have the right key, I think that comes from the early days of learning, when I was wearing out tapes, listening to the same few seconds over and over again while working out a part. [/quote] I can still do that (play by ear) from certain YT clips as long as the featured "artist" isn't all about playing [i]TV presenters[/i] and isn't infatuated with the camera. It's also good to be able to look at the neck of the guitarist's axe as he/she plays. I used to do it in our band years ago. Even if I have tab notes, it's useful to see a clip of the piece being played too. No-one wants to play with me now that I'm old and hairy so YT fills the gap where my band mates used to be. Like yourself, I'll hear something interesting and try to work out in my mind what neck positions etc would work before picking up a guitar to try it out. This applies mainly to clips rather than tutorials but I consider them relevant as teaching material all the same.

Thanks. I wanted to get that done before getting into finishes. See my post above; http://basschat.co.u...ost__p__3344392 There is a UK supplier with a similarly styled kit. It might even be sourced from the same place. I think they charge less overall and being domestic there may not be import charges separate from the kit price. I didn't see them before I'd decided on this one. I might look at them for the next build.

Frets dressed and polished.

Welcome Nothingman. Hope it doesn't take you long to find the groove again that you left in the BC sofa upholstery before.

[quote name='TheRev' timestamp='1500999231' post='3341663'] A semi-hollow version of the piezo fretless you had at the south-west bass bash would be amazing..... [/quote] I bet the piezo pickup will really shine with the acoustic properties of this semi hollow body. My mate's waiting for another transducer to be delivered. He only makes ukuleles at the moment but the results he got with his first amplified uke are encouraging. It is like a semi-hollow body just from the sheer weight of it. The resonance of the sound chamber is damped by inertia. He wanted a cylindrical biscuit tin shaped body on this one. To get it he used hardboard to form the outer wall of the cylinder and held the top and back to it with crude kerfing. The bracing is basic in that it has not been whittled back to a nicely sinuous shape profile. Rather it is unplaned wood strip, that was lying around the workshop, cut to sized and clamped up with glue with no worries about precision. It's rough, lets face it. It's massively heavy for a uke, but light enough on the strap. To be honest, it is more of a hack than an instrument but it plays. Acoustically it is weedy sounding as you might expect but plug it in and it's got a serious voice. He put a five band equaliser and tuner package in too. I am hoping we'll get someone who's proper good on uke to put it through its paces one day.

Cheers Alyctes. Just to mention because I forgot in my excitement to pick up the kit from the Parcelforce depot. The import duty on this kit was approx £60 payable on collection. The kit came from Australia and cost about £180 after conversion. The Pit Bull website will give you prices in sterling or your local currency if you are allowing all of the site scripts to run (It's a fairly clean site in that regard). The actual conversion is fixed at the point of purchase and you'll quickly get an email with the confirmation invoice. A day or two later I got the shipping notification. In short it only took a week from purchase to pick-up. That's probably all the information I will share about costs here. Of course if anyone wants to ask how much I paid for something I've used in the build I will answer but after the initial purchase the cost of the build is largely a matter of choice. It would be pointless to include day to day details of how much I spend and I am not keeping tabs on that anyway. In the end I wont be able to say what was spent down to the last penny but I am not interested in pretending I can do accountancy.

[quote name='paulbuzz' timestamp='1501361063' post='3344291'] This may be getting slightly away from the OP's 'what bass' question, but I've recently taken to using a block of foam under the strings near the bridge as a damper, for added thump. (This is with a p-bass with flats.) This has helped greatly in getting a country-ish sound that's the exact opposite of the clangy roundwound sound I've always favoured previously! [/quote] I've wondered if the Stingray's damping system is any good for that...? Any owners use them?

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1501342968' post='3344165'] On a serious note ([size=2][i]badum-tish[/i][/size]) if I ever went back to Country I think I'd string a P up as B-E-A-D. It might make root-fiving in E and G a bit more convincing. [/quote] I have thought about that more than once. Have you tried it and if so what was the effect on the overall set up - did it need much tweakage?

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1501355906' post='3344262'] Slapped fretless, innit? Incidentally, I just got the Hyde Park blu-ray the other day. It's bloody marvellous. [/quote] My poor old Vantage lost some of the black finish on the finger board because of my trying to copy that style with roundwound strings back in the eighties when I was young and had no sense. Today of course I am older and I've less sense than ever before. OP - If you don't want to see that sort of wear on yours, use flats and it should be easier on the wood. I have nylon wrapped RotoSound flats on these days so I'm totally slap-happy with my fretless. Oh yeah, nearly forgot the obvious, I am guessing that the original artist was using flats now that I've had thirty years to think about it.

[quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1501362928' post='3344308'] I've told this story on here before, but hey-ho. I saw Paul Simon live a couple of years ago. When it came to the famous bass-fill Bakithi Kumalo, clearly asleep at the wheel, utterly ballsed it up. He and the whole band just roared laughing and carried on. Now that's the spirit. Yes we're professionals and we want to do our best, but we're also human and nobody dies if there's the occasional cock-up. [/quote] That anecdote should be in the topic that follows if it isn't already; http://basschat.co.uk/topic/308645-punters-dont-know-the-difference/

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1501366981' post='3344337'] Did I read somewhere that his bass at the time was a cheap POS Washburn? If you've not heard this before, it'll give you a good idea of what the bass sounds like in isolation [media]http://youtu.be/OMJbJJldSNw[/media] [/quote] Great clip. Does the OP know how to introduce some [i]heft[/i] into the overall tone of the subject piece - YCCMA?

Dang! You beat me to it!