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[quote name='baseline9' timestamp='1376310880' post='2171922'] [font=Arial]I found with setting a starting price over a reserve price is people tend not to bid and they are more likely to bid if it starts at £0.99p, even with a reserve (I think it’s physiological). [/font] [/quote] Personally, if an item has got a reserve price I don't bother, not knowing how high it is puts me off, but that could just be me. I just start the auction at the lowest price I will accept then everybody knows where they stand

[quote name='baseline9' timestamp='1376051514' post='2169035'] Bet they are making a killing! [font=Arial]I recently sold a amp to a very nice chap on here, shortly after putting it on Ebay I got a msg through the bass chat marketplace so I took it off ebay straight away and held the amp for a couple of months while the guy got everything sorted. I sold the amp for a little less than the reserve, paid the insertion fees and probably still saved myself £30/£40 as the final fees would have been £50/£60! Robbing sods![/font] [font=Arial]I'm def gonna stick to using the bass chat market place! [/font] [/quote] same story when I sold my stingray, but at the end of the day you get a lot bigger market with ebay, just make sure your fees are reflected in the price you start at, or the reserve if you prefer (never seen the point in reserves myself)

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1375908552' post='2167396'] I think with the combination of Royal mail and ebays greediness I dont think it is worth selling anything on ebay now if your a small private seller by the time you've sold a few little things you don't really make anything much and have the hassle of wrapping and packaging then getting to the post office blah blah blah I also think the cost of postage messes up a lot of sales as sometimes when you buy second hand stuff not just on ebay but anywhere by the time you put postage on it can be cheaper to buy a new item from the shop with free P+P than a used item 9 times out of 10 bloody robbing Royal mail, [/quote] Yep, I've got a few things I wouldn't mind shifting but the hassle of selling makes me think it's not worth the effort, in spite of what we think about ebay it is run by hard headed business men, market forces will make them make selling more attractive when they realise the small sellers aren't there anymore.

I think this highlights the problem of trying out basses outside of a band situation, what sound good in isolation doesn't necessarily work in a band environment, I've found that out on occasions

[quote name='Wolverinebass' timestamp='1375431767' post='2161067'] Plus playing with a pick meant folk thought townshend was playing his bits as it wasn't so obvious what he was doing. [/quote] perhaps a tad less treble might have sorted that out

[quote name='Si600' timestamp='1375442368' post='2161371'] Thank you, I'll try that when I get home. If I can get a handle on this then I think my confidence in learning new songs will go up. How much would you slow it down by in % (as that's the option there is)? [/quote] slow it down as much as you like, there's a slider, +1 for pitching it up an octave, it seems perverse but it really makes the bass line stand out, I found out what Glen Matlock was up to in Anarchy in the UK the other day, a bit of an eye opener. Audacity is a brilliant bit of kit, and it's free, who says you only get what you pay for?

Maybe it's just a fashion thing, if you're taking up bass you tend to be influenced by your contemporaries, so if there's a lot of pick players about chances are you'll start playing with a pick, as I did, till the music fashion changes. I don't know whether there's more finger players about now or not, but if there is it could be something to do with modern recording fashion of having a clicky bass drum and the bass filling in underneath it. You tend to get a deeper bass with fingers

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1375293401' post='2159427'] It did surprise me just how many pro players actually used a pick live [/quote] Once read somewhere that some session bassist use fingers when recording and picks when playing live, don't know if it's true but it does kinda make sense

[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1375266634' post='2158956'] must be tough though? [/quote] lol, he's not actually playing it though, perhaps it's the floppy wrist that does it

ah the old pick versus fingers debate again eh, I play with a pick because, 1. My favourite bass players use a pick, JJ Burnell, Paul Simonon even Macca 2. It gives you more attack and definition. 3. It looks a lot cooler, always think bass players who use their fingers and have the bass up round their necks look like geeks. just my opinion of course, and I play in a punk band where using a pick is almost compulsory

I always get Mark D Phillips to file down my nut (or zero fret), he's the expert

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1375084889' post='2156391'] Fender Precision Fender Precision Fender Precision Fender Precision Fender Precision I think that should cover all potential requirements. [/quote]

Gary Pucket's Young Girl is seriously dodgy as well

once saw a very good Hendrix tribute, he played a lefty strat upside, amused me no end when I saw it

[quote name='genendeddie' timestamp='1373550677' post='2138945'] Seriously only 1 mention for J.J .....Bear Cage ..Peaches .. No More Heroes x [/quote] have to say, much as I love JJ's playing, No More Heroes is a horrible bassline, IMO of course

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1373533624' post='2138624'] Ramones were never a punk band - just a fast rock band with short songs. If any US band can get any credit for stirring future punk imaginations I guess the New York Dolls could have an honourable mention. Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers were pretty much adopted as punks because they spent so much time over here. The reast of the US bands that tagged along coined the horrible 'new wave' epithet so beloved of Radio 1 and BBC DJ's when they were forced to play things they so obviously detested. Post '79 most genuine punk bands had floundered and/or turned into cheap parodies of themselves. The Americans were merely copping a style of music. Saying that punk lives on is a bit like saying genuine Mod or Ska or Rock 'n' Roll is still with us. Sure, there are bands playing this type of music but they are just copyists not the 'real thing'. I don't have anything against them (I, unashamedly, play in a covers band) I just can't accept that they are 'punk' bands. Maybe you had to 'live the life' in the late '70's to understand it. [/quote] Everybody has their own opinions of course, but for me punk was born out of the prog rock scene, complete anti prog rock if you like and nobody, but nobody strips down rock and roll to the core basics like the Ramones did, that's why for me, if anybody 'invented' punk they did

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1373530978' post='2138573'] There are no American punk bands. . . [/quote] if you're being serious, the Ramones, they practically invented it

[quote name='brucew' timestamp='1373489694' post='2138304'] . . Most of The Rezilos, especially 'Top of the pops' . . [/quote] Hell yes, I'd forgotten about that one. A lot of the early punk bands were actually good musicians who'd played in bands for a few years before punk but were there to 'jump on the bandwagon' as it were, all this "they couldn't play" was largely a load of bollocks, in the very early days anyway

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1373326111' post='2136351'] Exactly, which is why I said I have an issue with the drums more than the bass. I friendly chat with the sound man works for me, I want the bass at the bottom and the kick drum above it. It's so important. [/quote] I prefer it the other way on

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1373095706' post='2133600'] the bass was mostly an indistinct rumbly sound. . [/quote] Goes back to the fashion of having the bass drum all clicky, something's got to fill the bottom end, seems arse about face to me, that should be the bass drums job

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1373013453' post='2132689'] Funnily enough I have more of an issue with drum sounds than bass. [/quote] I've noticed more and more the latest fashion for having the kick drum really loud and clicky, it may be ok for metal heads but for a old school punk band? I don't think so. Back to the OP I use a zoom 506II and always make sure it's in the chain before the DI, that way I have a bit of a chance of 'my sound' fighting it's way through to FOH

most punters enjoy a good sing a long when they've had a few drinks, so I guess lyrics are important in that respect, even if its just la la la lala la for about 5 minutes, can't stand Hey Jude myself, we do do 500 miles though Fa Da Da Da, nice and simple, it's got to be when there's pissed up backing vocals involved

[quote name='Wil' timestamp='1372682306' post='2128443'] Not really, no. Melody, harmony and rhythm is most important, to me anyway. [/quote] Usually for me too, but occasionally the lyrics will strike home, bad lyrics can ruin the song though, like the Beatles 'She a Woman' the rhyme presents and peasant annoys me intensely. I'm quite particular about the lyrics in my own songs though. I can quite happily sing along to a song without having a clue what its about.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1372349553' post='2124714'] On a fretted instrument the intonation adjustment is there to compensate for the fact that you are also stretching the string slightly every time you fret it. [/quote] I thought it was because the fatter the string the further away from the saddle it vibrated, that's why as a rule the saddle are further back on the E string than the G string

[quote name='muttley' timestamp='1372347428' post='2124678'] Borrow a fretless bass for a while, then reflect on how lucky you are [/quote] Maybe I'm a bit tone deaf but I really can't tell if a basses intonation is a bit out, if it was that important fretless bass would be in trouble wouldn't they? Guitars are different because you're playing chords