Owen

I started DB when I was 15, having been booted out of 'cello lessons for not practicing. My teacher had studied with Gary Karr and she advocated 1234 all over the fingerboard. I knew no different and went with it. I got some pretty funny looks when I ventured beyond my county music system and encountered other tutors. They were pretty derogatory about what my left hand was doing but my hands are big and intonation has never been an issue, even though the beginning of the really slow variation in Enigma was an adventure I have had students with not as much span and they have indulged in the closed hand thing lower down and then gone extended as they moved up the neck. The real answer is whatever works for you. The DB as we know it is a relatively young instrument and there are all sorts of ways of playing it. If you can do 1234 then by all means do so. It opens things up for a lot less moving around.

I tried to buy the Bolin unit from Fishman and they just would not play ball. Have I mentioned that I loved that Fishman unit? Anyway, they said OEM only. It might be poss if a luthier buys it for you or you create a guitar company and contact them through your bespoke company email.

Is it IPad o'clock yet?

I have a friend (that's you Dan) who wants to send a click from an iPod to 4 different sets of cans. Will he be pushing the output impedance down to a level that the iPod won't really like? He is looking at one of these http://www.bluearan.co.uk/index.php?id=DAPD1502&browsemode=category . TIA on his behalf. .

[quote name='lozbass' timestamp='1325688847' post='1486112'] You could try TI Jazz Rounds - very light and a lovely finger-feel (if you like fine and slippery) - they're nickel and expensive, but a very high quality option [/quote] Hmmmmm, I have TI JR lurve in a big way!

[quote name='chardbass' timestamp='1325622892' post='1485422'] B&W do a good clamp that fits on a mic stand. [/quote] Do you mean K&M by any chance?

PJ 5 in black is yummy.

If you can get your head around the MIND BENDING interface on the squeezer then it is immense. I could not. There were some awsome sounds in it.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' timestamp='1324901640' post='1478331'] I don't know how come people seem to think it's a shiny bass but I can assure you it's about as shiny as a carpet lol. [/quote] Sadness

Final picture. Shiny jazz. Nice.

If you can find one of the MTD Heir generation of instruments they are extremely llight, have a lush neck (IMNSHO) and are easily upgradeable electronically. Lush beyond.

Anything

Bows. It's a whole new world of pain. There really is no substitute for trying them. The variables have no right to make such a difference. Sadly they do. If I had the disposable income then I would happily drop £5K minimum on a bow. Once you have played a nice one you just wonder how you can ever go back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC4WciT8Zok This guy makes the drums speak. They will be doing a similar set in London on Feb 22nd and 23rd. I shall see you all there.

Any decent luthier should be able to steam it back into shape. Perhaps not a long term (5year) cure, but will sort out the warp for quite a bit and there will be no fee for fitting it. You could probably do it yourself.