caitlin

Amazing tone on that song. A 70s Jazz with fresh Slinkys into a REDDI - that's it! 

Always ignore tab and trust your ears. The more you trust your ears, the better they get!

also darn you for now making me listen to that entire album. its so good

Which monstrosity is it?

the unlined fretless thingy, deluxe 2005 fl whatever it is. bit rough in places but sounds fine and seems well set up and stable.

Cool.  Thanks

heh, thanks Dood. sadly i figured that out the hard way. the manual is just about useless. linux can see the usb port but can't use it obv. a mac doesn't show the amp in the app so that's rubbish. toneprint doesn't seem joyful to go through my active pups, but if i hold the phone between the strings and let it touch the pup case then i can 50% of the time send a print. got an octaver and a spectracomp in it and will probably leave it the hell alone now.

I was tempted with the current price, but I'm not sure the tuner is chromatic, and only 1 toneprint can be used at a time.

There are some combined TonePrints in the TonePrint Bass Amps library and I guess if you use the editor you can make your own (I haven’t tried). There is a straight forward SpectraComp TonePrint that I think behaves like the pedal with one knob adjustment. TonePrint transmission  with a mobile doesn’t work that well with active basses; if you can put it in passive mode it works better, or use a passive instrument to set it up.
 

I don’t use effects that much, so I haven’t tried changing them on the fly during a gig. Drive and no chorus is enough for me. Personally I don’t think it is a very practical proposition to be getting your mobile out at a gig and messing around with your bass. I barely get enough time to check my tuning between numbers.
 

The tuner on my BH550 does B to C with LEDs for B to G (C is a combo of  the D & G LEDs). There are 2 green LEDs to indicate flat/sharp and in tune (both lights simultaneously). it’s OK for live situations but not as accurate as a pedal like a Peterson. It doesn’t help with alternative tunings, like one of the bands I play in tunes down half a tone to help the vocalists. We’re getting on 😏

The current price Andertons are offering the BH550 and 800 at is really tweaking my nose, as I paid nearer list for mine a few years ago. You get a lot of amp for your money at that price and IMO it’s a good amp for the money. It has quite a warm sound with the 4 band EQ at unity, which I like and there is quite a lot of headroom, obviously more on the 800. It’s relatively compact and light, so at the current street price, it might make a good back up amp for folks with more up-market main amps. It does as a main amp for me, when I need a bit of volume.

Huey Lewis I guess, not Jennifer Rush😁
I introduced that song to a past cover band's set list - great treat for the bass player!
Not tried it on fretless, never crossed my mind, but I will give it a go.
I did once do a whole rehearsal using the fretless and I don't think anyone noticed (it was a Jazz with lines) - either I did OK or the rest of band don't really care... I'll never know.

I was getting confused on my 5 string and the only 4 near me was the fretless so off we went but it's just a fun track. and yeh, the news.

@Soledad it could also have been Frankie goes to Hollywood...

There was obviously a lot of discussion regarding the Power of love in the late 80s

The .125 in a pack of DR Strings Lo-Riders sounds pretty good to me.

less clank, less rattle?  You'll get much more of those things the lighter you go.  I hate .135 and use .125 or 1.30 depending on the bass.

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how much would I regret a 0.130 B ?

0.005?

well now, how would that help me develop my ear?

also what are you on about? isn't this some speech to text rubbish? Don't you want to point people at melodyne for pulling the tones out of things?

The hippo is seriously kicking my donkey I'm sure I'm having fun, but actually I'm taking a break. If I can get ONE bar transcribed today I will be happy.

lies, D minor, sorry

...and they wonder why some folk like TAB...

D’oh! I’ve been doing so much guitar recently that for a moment I read the music as treble clef - ignore that bit!

Cool.  Unlined is much easier if it has side dots in the right place .

I'm hoping to improve my ears rather than my eyes also unlined is stylish. Stupid but stylish.

I'm pretty sure it's got roundwounds on it, so they'll get swapped for flats as soon as possible.

My bass collection is complete now, right... a 4 a 5 and fl? I really have nothing to do now except learn to play them. sob.

Just waiting to see if it survives the postal system.

you might find rounds have a nicer mwah sound, I tried flats and rounds just sound better, tho this may depend on the instrument/electronics a lot too, maybe. anyway - have fun!

I got it off one of the tab sites, there's *one* place where it seems to want a low D but I don't have good enough ears to know if that's *really* the case. I've got a spare low D obv so I can leave my tuning alone.

DADG 4 like an idiot????

I mean I'm an idiot for 5ing it RATHER than playing it in on a normal Drop D bass. You're quite correct, I can't grammar.

yeh, but have you seen what they WANT for a psu? I'm pretty sure my alesis one works. either that or raid a kitchen cupboard for another 4 AAs. Thanks anyway. Sometimes I just like to complain

Yes but now you know the polarity and you can use a compatible PSU out of a lucky bag if you want...

No thanks necessary.

Shan't thank you then, ner. (leaves button un-clicked)

It's easy - the BSA is for small arms and the bass is for long arms...

well, my swingarm is welded up, I *think* acceptably and I'm trying to convince my self it's time to drill.

here's measured up to drop the saddles at 34"

See

Here's the literal 'strings' over the saddles

And here's the 24th fret area, I dunno who that bloke is.

acK, I've drilled it so that's done, for better or for worse, now I need to find some neck paint of some kind and then understand how to sand compound curves

Yup, all I did was plug it in to see if linux saw it, used the computer to select octaver so i didn't have to find it by scrolling and then i played sledgehammer on repeat for about 20 mins

a trip through the inbuilt patches one by one and then put it to bed because 'dinner' and 'going to the cinema' and stuff.

I generally can't stand messing about with tiny menus and button combi-presses which is one reason I went for a computerable doodle. I think that's going to be a really big help.

the explosion thing is stupid, what is that even for?

Ha ha - I have no idea unless you play Hellraiser by Sweet which ends with a bang. The ToneLib software is very good, better than Zoom's own in my opinion.

interesting, I do have a mac in my wee studio for running logic on, because no way am I dealing with linux real time audio and flipping jack on a laptop but I don't expect to use zoom's software on it.

I seem to remember this being dealt with a couple of years back.  Perhaps someone remembers it better than me.  I think there was a set of exercises to limber up the body before strapping on the bass.

Then there are always things like The Spider...

That's cool, thanks... amusingly of course that's the kind of warm up i might want to warm up for Looks like some good stretches in there and practise at reaching as well.

I avoid stretching my fingers and move my whole hand instead. This means my arm is doing more work and my fingers less, but I have stronger muscles in my arm than in my fingers so it's not a problem.

Paint it neon pink or green 

Sadly not any more.  I stopped stocking red cable because there was no demand.

Except from me! 

Phew...Glad to hear it's fixed...

Good news really, since I seem to have acquired a new bass teacher today. I'd look really silly turning up to a lesson with a broken bass /o\

Fender use 18v circuits for their active basses. Never had any problems withe the two that I have..

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But I'm thinking that if ONE of the two batteries gets a bit meh, it's going to drag voltages all over the place, and it has all the scope for mix loading the two cell packs and asking for them to leak.

A 9V battery is already 6 cells in series wrapped in foil, so you can't really escape that!

Yeh, that's a fair point, and it's not like it's a 40C drain on the things, so I'm being a bit precious, I just KNOW I'll end up with one too few batteries at the crucial moment.

Nothing for it, I'll have to go high end and get a bass with a rechargeable lipo in it which will deffo never burn my house down.

Absolute boss of a tune.

I blagged my way to ATCL by guessing at the interval detecting test

THEY'RE ALL MINOR FOURTHS WHEN I'M DONE WITH THEM, and we tune toms in 3rds, not fourths, etc.

I play this in Eb without tuning down, but I have big hands so I would be doing that Bb at 6 on the E string rather than 1 on the A, just saying. 

Index 2, middle 4 and pinky 6

Mixer back together and working much much better, hurrah. Bass broke though a bit, I need to make a metal plate to support the inside of the cavity where the nut holding in the jack socket has nibbled the wood.

I don’t know it. A friend of mine who’s a drum tutor was saying a few days ago about the new drum syllabus. I think the grade 4 has a Snarky Puppy song.

Just keep at it, it's a fun song to play, we all struggle on some songs and then they suddenly click into place and we wonder why we struggled. It's what makes us better players. Now can I persuade my band to play it......

Aye, it's only giving up that stops anyone from improving.

Is music doing the same thing as extreme sports? you need an inverted tailwhip 900 just to be average these days? Snarky Puppy... heh I might have to get the book and learn that myself.