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Love flatwounds, got one of my two P-Basses strung with them right now. The Thomastiks are great, especially if you like lower tension (or compliance or whatever!!).

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1363719246' post='2016547'] Most of the stuff posted here leaves me totally cold. [/quote] Same for me, although I suppose (for example) that we can all be into different authors but at the same time loathe reading Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, modern guys like Michael Chabon or Franzen, it's just good to keep them in the back of your mind when we read because they're the ones that set a lot of the benchmarks whether we consider it to be interesting or not.

I struggle to think of any better bass player to have ever lived than Anthony Jackson. There's plenty of other bass players I really prefer listening to in most other contexts but for me the definition of virtuoso belongs to him so much more than any other player to have been mentioned in this thread so far, nothing constrains him technically or musically, he is in my mind the kind of bass player that [i]could[/i] be classed as the greatest of all time. Tom Jenkinson's bass playing bores me so much, but his music is some of my absolute favourite music of all time, I wouldn't care if he ever picked up a bass guitar ever again because he doesn't need it to translate his ideas and musicality. He is a genius.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1363231632' post='2010250'] People hear with their eyes. Nobody will be impressed that you sound good on a cheap bass. They'll just assume you're an amateur for not having a better instrument. If you like the Fender logo, put it on. Just don't try to sell it as such. [/quote] Not even close to being true.

Just bought a 1978 Fender P-Bass from Lozz. I couldn't be happier, his comms throughout the transaction were excellent, his delivery was prompt and he was a great person to talk with over the phone too. What a top guy, thanks Lozz!

Just gone back from a brief stay with a 5'er to a 4. Not that I don't like 5 strings, I really do, I can get round on them absolutely fine and they open up a lot of passages for me which I think is great. But there really isn't anything right now that I can get out of a 5 that I can't do on a 4. They evoke different mindsets for me and my preference is still slightly towards a 4 string. I anticipate buying another 5'er in the future though, just don't need it right now. Most long term 5 string players will just say that they're used to playing them now and that they can't translate back to 4's quite as easily, which is fine too.

She's excellent.

I have been known to wear Burberry jacket from time to time. Does this mean I can put a little 'Basschat Chav Club member #3' in my signature like they do on Talkbass??

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1363116816' post='2008839'] What are you wasting your life on here for? You should have been playing bass! [/quote] Done all that! Noodled for a lot of the day on my P-Bass strung with flats... mmm lovely stuff. Everyone needs a Fender you know!

BRX's posts are always reasonable and well thought out. I do not at all agree with him at all but it hardly matters does it? It's certainly given me something to read on an otherwise boring Tuesday off!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1363104679' post='2008577'] I think the angle of my question is relevant given the context of this thread. I also think that Fender users are generally just happy where they are, and don't feel compelled to look down their noses at boutique fans (for example). Most of the comments seem to come the other way, this thread being a good example. Or am I wrong..? As for tone, it's subjective. No-one's ever going to win that one. [/quote] I think owners of boutique instruments are probably more compelled to defend and press home the reasoning behind their instrument of choice due to the high volume of Fender players and the possible worry (take this with a pinch of salt anti-Fender camp) that their brand(s) of choice suffer from 'little man syndrome', having to shout louder than everyone else in the room in the hope of getting their opinion across. Just a theory. Got a new '78 P-Bass coming my way this week, can't bloody wait

I'm never too bothered by the amount of people who dislike Fender basses on this forum. I'm back to being exclusively a Fender bass player again after a few years of playing other maker's instruments and I'm perfectly happy because I know that my playing and my style suits a Fender bass perfectly, I can do anything that I want to do on a Fender and I'm not limited by genre or 90% of styles. Frankly the likes of Status, Overwater, ACG etc just do not do it for me but I'm happy to concede that the opposite is true of other people who use this forum, frankly I don't care and the world continues to turn either way.

[quote name='SlapbassSteve' timestamp='1363052839' post='2007728'] For function work I'd recommend a Markbass CMD of some description. Personally I use a 121P ([url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/mark-bass-mini-combo-cmd-121-p/4276"]http://www.gak.co.uk...-cmd-121-p/4276[/url]) with an extension cab but 151P, 121H or 102P models are excellent too, just depends whether you'd prefer a 15" speaker, horn tweeter or a pair of 12's. Either way MB stuff is practically weightless compared to other amps with similar output, and very compact, also great at sitting in the right place in the mix... I'm starting to sound like an advert... [/quote] I'd agree. I use a TC Electronics RH750 and their RS212 cab for the work I do but for compact and great sounding I'd completely go with the Markbass rig, tons of punch and cut. Lifting it is like lifting a cab made of marshmallows, which I also see as a bonus.

Keep it coming! Enjoyed Esperanza a lot.

It's fair to say that there is no right or wrong way to do anything in a studio environment, click or no click have both worked for my band and I in the past, depending on whether the track's pulse/groove/whatever negates the need for a click. Sometimes you need it to pull everyone in line - I find it works well for our rhythm section (me, keys, drums) to record to a click on certain tunes and do guitars later, other times it's nicer to have a more 'live' feeling track where we all play together, no click. It's definitely a myth that it somehow creates a sterile feel or whatever, if you think about it even if you're playing with the tightest drummer ever to live, most of us will introduce our own little rhythmic imprints and inflections at are intrinsic to our playing. We ain't robots, even if we play along to robots!

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1363031871' post='2007385'] I can't think of any . It would go against the whole Fender design aesthetic - I am reluctant to describe it as a philosophy - in the same way that it would undermine Alembic to produce a bass with a bolt -on neck . The significant point is however , that most bass players and bass makers broadly agree nowadays that a bolt on neck is best . As with most things , Fender got it right to begin with , thus negating the need for change . [/quote] It's a bit of a broad statement to claim bolt on to be 'better' than neck through design, even if the former is my choice! It's definitely the current trend in bass construction so perhaps it's more like bass makers are claiming it to be superior because it sells?

[quote name='D.I. Joe' timestamp='1362952460' post='2006764'] Fenders are generally only as boring as the person playing them. [/quote] I like this! Might nick it and start using it round the forum claiming it as my own turn of phrase

It's the bass player's bass from Alien Ant Farm, only my favourite band when I was 11 or 12! There is a story behind the building of this, I don't think it was made by Fender at all but ended up with the stamp on it. EDIT - apparently it's a custom shop, which makes me totally wrong!

Hej hej! Good to have you on the forum, I'm in Sweden about three or four times a year gigging!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1362927726' post='2006273'] I did too, but some folks on here can overreact. Sometimes I think we could have much more interesting conversations on here if we could keep cool and not resort to personal attacks for the lack of anything intelligent to say. [/quote] I fear my sarcasm might have got a bit lost there! I've got no time for people like that at all, he was an obvious troll with no idea what he was talking about and I won't miss him. People basically never do personal attacks on this forum, it takes people like him to bring it out of everyone else, it's just inevitable and to expect people to engage in normal conversation like we would do with other forum members I think is naive.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1362917249' post='2006110'] He had name of Inti at first then changed it to, I think, anitloco, then disappeared. [/quote] Banned in the end. A shame really, I thought he was terrific fun and not at all a cock.

You cannot listen to these things in isolation and conclude that the playing is sloppy, that absolutely isn't the way a a record is made or is meant to be judged. Someone posted up a John Deacon bass line in isolation a month or two back saying the same. The fact is that the bass take is reliant on an entire ensemble recording, not itself, a bass part is rarely a self-contained thing. So the idiosyncrasies of the band are what make a record or live recording, not individual parts. I think people regularly misconstrue what it actually takes to record a great track, it's rarely about perfection, it's about the sum of the parts working together towards the best possible sounding track. The mistakes in dynamics and timing are simply the human part of the performing and recording process, the idea that we are by our nature imperfect and it should be accepted as such. The isolated parts of a recording are not for consumption because they aren't reflecting the fact that when you play with more than just yourself in your bedroom rehearsing you will have to adapt to the limitations of your environment, whether these limitations be technological or human. Once you accept this it's far easier to enjoy recorded music for what it is, which is totally honest musicianship.

Should be interesting! An old song and a new song that really press your buttons. Here's my two for this week, old first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBEomCtCujw And new (this will totally divide most of you listening wise I'd guess): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY0o68XLaUc

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1362783374' post='2004914'] Played three of these today - fantastic necks on all of them, so easy to play [/quote] I'd be really interested to play one, they aren't my kind of thing at all but I have a bad habit of resting on my Fender laurels and maybe I should get out a bit more! Played an Elrick for example a few months back, not my thing at all - or so I thought - picked the thing up and man it sounded unreal. Like a Warwick somehow but just better. It's the look of them I personally can't get on with but everyone is different I guess.