Reggaebass

There was an abundance of work, especially in East London with the regeneration of docklands and the Thames riverside developments

I started out as a steeplejack doing high rise works , then qualified as a carpenter and joiner/cabinet maker, many years later I became a property developer and retired at 42 for a while, but I’ve been working for the NHS with their property team for the last 12 years dealing with compliance and refurbishment of their properties.

Dry lining is more the finish, the plasterboard is not plastered, the joins are covered with tape and finished with a jointing compound, it’s quicker and cleaner than plaster

I fitted metal stud for a few years , it was first used for big office buildings because it was fast, clean and light, then some house builders started using it, most of Canary Wharf and docklands is dry lining

b5 , I’d suggest you try the small alcohol wipes like you get in first aid kits , they clean very well and are not too harsh and the alcohol evaporates, then buff up with a soft cloth 🙂

I had a bit of a Marley day today and played a few tunes i haven’t played in a while

My only experience with Trace gear has been in a few studios, it was ok but it didn’t make me want to rush out and buy it, I prefer Ashdown myself, I still have a mag 300 combo which went everywhere with me at one time, it’s battered and lives in my summerhouse now, but it’s still going strong , also with Ashdown you’ve always got the great, after sales service 🙂

I think In this instance it’s to build speed when crossing strings using alternating picking , but whatever works for you , raking works for me but I don’t really play any super fast lines though.

I’m working on a favourite of mine which I’ve seen Robbie play live , not the easiest to nail

If you’re looking at building speed, Mark gives some good tips and exercises in this video

done, cheers ped.

Hi @ped I’d like to pay my subscription, I don’t really sell much but I’d like to do my bit to help support the site, could you send me the link to pay, cheers Tony

I started playing guitar mainly for ear training myself on chords and playing modes and scales over them , but I felt that I was missing out on my bass playing too much so I gave it up, it’s bass only for me 🙂

I didn’t take any notice of Abba in their day, but listening to them now I realise how good they really were

Maybe try a 6 string bass

Here’s one of mine and I get no buzz or clank and very little string noise, if I played aggressively I probably would ,but I’ve got a fairly light touch and I get a nice deep clean tone.

Another purchase from Patrick, exactly as described and received in a few days, top guy, thanks Tony.

That’s cool, I like that tune.

I’ve never really taken any notice of weight, it’s not put me off buying anything, a friends 77 jazz is 10.5 lbs and that’s fine for me, but I think 12 lbs would be uncomfortable on the shoulder even with a good strap for a long period

I’ve just fitted my jazz neck to a P bass body and it was slightly tight, so I scraped the paint from the neck pocket and cleaned it up with sandpaper and it fitted like a glove, it might be worth trying this before you have a neck made for 0.08 of a mm 🙂

Hi Ian, I’ll post a few pics later when I get home, you can’t really see on this one, but when I had this made I asked holger at Sandberg for a low action, it came at 1.25 mm with no buzz

I’d say that’s not ply , but they have laminated the timber to get the width for the headstock, if it was ply you would see the lines on the curve of the neck .

For me it’s not about the tone, I find it much less effort fretting my basses compared with my friends jazz which is about 3.5mm at the 12th ,it’s just hard work, and I can’t hear any difference in the tone between them.