caitlin

That's very kind of you to say.

Are you sure that sanding is necessary?  You might just be looking at congealed gunk.  The lemon oil should soften a lot of this for you with repeated applications, a soaking in period and gentle application of a suitable scraper.

An old credit card is good for scraping the fingerboard without risk of marring the wood.

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.

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

Happy Jack, the headphone hole would presumably connect it to some headphones and the DI hole would presumably connected it to my home studio.

As a later assumption, I could make, buy, or steal a cab and plug it into that.

Mostly I'd try and get it in my pocket though and say 'oooooooh greeeeen' at it a lot.

What's different about a real TE?

It's a tidgey class-D amp designed to be lightweight and portable; suitable for practice or small venues.

The old/mainstream/vintage TE kit was big and bold, size & weight no issue; there always seemed to be a bigger one available if you needed to upsize!

I'll be using mine at the Junkyard Dogs Xmas Bash this evening. Keep the Volume low but the Gain high ...

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.

Cheers for the feedback. I don't remotely have the feel of the original, I know that and I'm working on the 'bounce' of it, I lose most of that when the red light comes on, annoying because i don't suffer the same with drums.

My process is in Logic Pro, I cycle a 2 or 4 bar loop and try and nail the pattern, I do that for the major grooves. Then I go back and look at the 'widdly bits' and loop over those. Lastly I loop over the section changes because hitting the next groove without a wobble whilst playing the passing tones makes me stumble.

That clever human said it best: amateurs practise till they get it right, professionals practise till they don't get it wrong

Seems you are working at the other extreme of trying to perfect it in micro amounts. If you were to apply the *doing it in slightly larger sections* process, then the feel will develop a lot more easily. It will be near impossible to get a groove going doing it in such tiny chunks. Maybe forget doing the actual recording process for the moment might take the pressure off?. Maybe someone else might come along to give better advice though ! 👍

Yeh, I think I'm a bit plagued by being a drummer, most of my stuff DOES loop every two bars It's a time period that makes sense, I get a bit 'lost' in a 12 bar phrase of where it's up to, or it feels like forever till the 'start' comes around again.

Thanks for the advice, it's certainly something to try. I won't know what works till I give it a go.

The recording is because I'm shy and scared and if I wait till I'm 'ready' then I'll never do it ever.

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!

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.

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

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

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?

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)

Sorry to hear that...may ne someone here who can help: https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/26-tutors-available/

Good luck!

Paint it neon pink or green 

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

Except from me! 

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.

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\

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!