silverfoxnik

Well, no surprises to say that I have nothing but more praise to heap on the Beedster! A recently acquired TC Electronic pre-amp is testimony yet again to what a pleasure it is to deal with Chris.. Great communications as ever and the parcel arrived on time and the pre-amp was very securely packaged up. Thanks again Chris - hope to see you sometime soon! Nik

We will as soon as we get the date & venue confirmed...

Surrey, of course Al!

Thanks for all the replies Folks; really helpful as usual and I'm looking at the different strings on-line now..will let you know how I get on. Spot-on Clarky - I had rounds on last time and went for the same with the Slinkys.. Bigwan - I can assure you your old RB5 is being well looked after! Gary mac - thanks for that though I have done a couple of gigs with the Slinkys and still feel as though something's missing for some reason.. Must be my age... Cheers Nik

[quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1336997237' post='1653650'] Sat 29th/Sun 30th surely? ETA....oh yes will be there! [/quote] Well spotted.. Have amended accordingly!

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1337013023' post='1653992'] The slap nay-sayers, would have done well to watch Urb when he demonstarted how in the right hands slap can be a tasteful addition to ones usual playing. It would be good if he was aked to do something a bit more formal as part of the day. [/quote] +2 Urb???

Hi Folks, As some of you will know, my main bass for the past 4 or 5 years has been a Fender Roscoe Beck 5 string and though I've hada a few variations on the theme, the one I have now I acquired from Happy Jack 2 years ago and it's just great for me! AFAIK, Jack got the bass from NJE and when Jack had it, it still had the same set of strings on it that NJE had put on it and those sounded really great to me - very even in tone across the strings and they had a lot of 'thump' to them (if that makes sense??).. ..Anyway, I recently changed the strings on it as they were a couple of years old and even though I like a quite 'old skool' tone, I figured I should put some new ones on and give the bass a set-up. Because I had no idea what strings were on it when i got it from Jack, I wasn't sure what strings to choose, so after a bit of dithering around, I went with some Ernie Ball Super Slinkys (0.45 - .130) from Stringbusters and though they're quite bright and 'zingy' sounding etc, etc, they just don't have that low-end 'thump' to them to my ears and what's more, the B string isn't quite as well defined as it was before. And this doesn't really change, even if I dial in some lows or low-mids on my amp to compensate. So, I'm wondering what other strings the good folk on Basschat might suggest, particularly bearing in mind my more' old skool' preferences... Thanks as ever for looking.. Nik

I've been in touch with Hamster and he's looking to find a date at the school where we hold the SE Bash... Ideally, it will be on Saturday 29 or Sunday 30 September, but if it moves forwards or backwards a week or two, it wouldn't be a problem.

Nice one S5 !

Sad news! R.I.P. Duck...

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1336585541' post='1648034'] No no no, it's only half-past May. We don't usually do BassBash until ten to September. [/quote] Looks like we'd better get on with it then! And whilst we're at it, make plans for a 'Quit Room' and a 'Slap Room'.... And we need a Cooler for any of those "one knob compressors".... Will have to send some PMs out methinks..... In the meantime, let's start a register of interest here whilst we look for a date or two for this..