Reggaebass

Been listening to a fair bit of Trinity lately, this one is Fairly recent, it’s a cracker

Great bass, I’ve never had any strings with yellow silk, might be DR legend flats , not sure how long they’ve been around though 🙂

Very clever, but if she sang me to sleep I’d have nightmares 😁

That’s really nice Cato, do you want to sell....the stickers 😁

It’s a great thread, I only use flats and have done for years , it’s interesting to find out about their history 🙂

If music shops in the U.K. sold fenders , why wouldn’t they have a catalogue

Yeah that’s true Hz, hofner go back a long way don’t they

It looks like fender also did flatwound strings then, and tapewound, here’s a 1969 catalogue , so I’m guessing that if you bought a new jazz or P, it would come with their own strings

It doesn’t seem real when you look at it now, but that was a lot of money then 🙂

Don’t want to derail your thread but a few pages on look how much a new jazz or P was , 🙂

I’ve just looked in a Bells catalog that i have from 1977 when I first went into a music store, it looks like picato did them

A bit before my time but fairly sure labella flats were around then , didn’t James jamerson use them at Motown records

I’ve still got my Washburn force 4, it’s a great bass, extremely low action and a fairly flat fingerboard, and it rarely goes out of tune, I really should play it more, it’s got some punch especially on the bass control , I might have to have a play tomorrow now you’ve reminded me about it 🙂

I’ve been following Linval Thompson since the early 80s , and he’s still got it, he’s about 66 now, there’s some nice bass playing here at sunsplash 2019, looks like the bass player is playing a Marcus Miller jazz through an Ampeg rig (not sure who he is). , can’t stop natty dread again at 21.08 sounds great

Fender basses: '66 / '68 / '69 / '72 / '73 / '77 / '78 / '79 , that’s a great collection blyn, which one would you say is your favourite 🙂

ESG time

Welcome Charles 👍

Welcome Supernaut 👍

It’s a Levy day today ☝️

One thing that helped me massively with understanding the setting up was doing a few builds for fun, the first was a Mexican jazz, I completely stripped it and changed the colour and neck, then upgraded all the parts , it gave me a good insight into how it was put together, I had to look up quite a few things like shimming and pickup heights, but it was an enjoyable experience and a good learning curve 🙂

For me , the neck profile and shape makes the biggest difference, if I don’t like the feel of it I don’t buy it and I almost know instantly whether it’s for me or not , as far as the sound goes, the choice of strings can make a massive difference ,it took me a long while and a lot of money to find my ideal string, and also a good setup to your preference can make a bass feel totally different , I used to pay for my basses to be setup and I always had to make further adjustments, so I now set them up myself 🙂

I find the first fret quite easy to reach 😁

Fret the first and second finger then move slightly up the neck and fret the third and fourth, it’s less stretching

Yeah, I liked the look of it and I remembered that it wasn’t that big , I know @wateroftyne has or had one, perhaps he could help 🙂

A friend of mine has one and he plays the same as me, reggae/dub, it sounds great and does the lows really well