Burns-bass

As I understand it, many of these instruments are owned by orchestras rather than players. Maybe that’s how?

We don’t need to get into “are vintage instruments better” (they’re not), but if you buy right it’s undeniable that they’re a good investment. Whether they will continue to be, who knows!

I think they all are. The vintage guitar market heads ever further into the stratosphere of preposterousness. Barry Matthew’s slab was up for £9k at AB a while back and the guys at the equipment rental place had one for £10k a couple of years back.

I’m going to buy a t shirt.

I’ll add it to my order when I get the Stanley Clarke pre!

There we go, job done!

I’m sure this has been asked before (I did check), but is there any tuner pedal (not a multi FX) that can operate while playing? (I.e. not muting the signal!) It’ll be useful for my intonation while playing DB, so any help appreciated!

What a great channel. Many thanks!

The vintage market is full of such insanity and nonsense. I was looking at this… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195095187498?hash=item2d6c94502a:g:fI4AAOSwzLpilME4&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsO3C9t0zvqEBXIwI0SGxeLxJsgm9lJ0gyTu1RWqHm2hNyqQtrgNEZCvFosnECrBxJqAeOPr7chTYEXeKUj9tE3ozmRxV5fzRKHxtg8yRzd0pjcEdWt6B6l7GfGf%2B5%2BJjIqj6QWbDxPjNUL%2BM8zLQn%2BKEyfb2wFjHMHMNL4Bbsn5fp5jGK%2BtOuoF8sn6lSHUOYWTroQkP0giK80WqUsAaom92YdcfTKqDZoa1cOmbCV3%2B|tkp%3ABk9SR86GhbPSYQ ”Fender guitars and basses from this era had notoriously ‘baggy’ routing to the pick-up and neck pockets. This is because Leo fender, being aware of the imminent sale to CBS, stopped upgrading the equipment used to cut the body blanks, so tolerances slipped very slightly in the run up to the takeover sale.” My guitar is poorly made but that’s ok, because they all were.

What a lovely story. Hope he can enjoy it now. Worth having a chat with a luthier who can help ease out the truss rod. Probably stuck but hopefully not broken.

That bass is amazing and I love it.

This forum is for two things: Alwrting people to bargains (few of those) Highlighting rip off sellers If you view posts this way it makes sense.

Surely this is all about the potential application of this? The designs are freely available and on the public domain. The technology is falling in price. Finally, it looks super cool! Its easy to be negative about these things, but the impact could be transformative. I’m working on a project with a global engineering business that are phasing out their network of parts stores and instead shifting to 3D printing. Local engineers can download parts and print a valve part they can be fitted in days. At the moment it’s not possible, but soon will be and it will transform the speed they can deal with dangerous situations. (These are choke valves for energy use in oil and gas etc.)

I have a spare set of Innovations if you want them? Happy to donate to the orchestra. They’re old and have been used but if they could be of use, let me know.

I love this. It’s why I wouldn’t ever do a gig without one. I use an old EBS head and the Elf is super insurance.

i assume this is probably linked to Gay Willis’ visualisation stuff. To be fair, that’s a great book.

I always hate those books when you’ve nailed an exercise and then it says: “Transcribe and practice in all 12 keys…” Scotts written stuff is overblown, yes, but there is lots of value on the site. We all know what SBL is now, so let’s let him go on running his highly successful global business and if we don’t like it, we can ignore the ads.

You’re better off taking the neck off.

This is great, thanks! So my practice at the moment is: 5 minutes of 2 octave scales (either with a drone or with a play along). Do a different key each day. 5 minutes I IV V exercise in all keys (real player) 10 minutes of positional stuff (Simandl normally, I like these exercises) 10 minutes of a book (so Ed Friedland walking bass, etc) Normally do some Real Player stuff over a jazz-blues in a different key. Play along with a jazz track or two (Equinox and Song for my father are good fun at the moment), but could be Gregory Porter, or anything that comes on my playlist! Does this sound reasonable?

And to slide down the neck too!