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On 08/02/2023 at 14:19, Ricky Rioli said:

During my happy time with my 424 I mostly used GHS Boomers, which especially suited the middle position.

 

Would anyone with a 414 / 424 / 1024 like to try out Boomers with this nearly-new set of 45-105 gratis ?

8 hours ago, Maude said:

I've gone rogue Ric and put them on my 734a first to see what they're like.

🤷 Don't blame me if they do nothing for it, I don't know anything about what the current BBs like / want / need

22 hours ago, BassAdder60 said:

These are a bargain at present and for anyone liking rock these Pups work well 

 

More mids and growl ( fairly hot pups ) and for finger playing they are an improvement I feel

I put a Dimarzio into my new G&L LB-100, and yes it transforms the bass. For what I'm playing on it, and how on play, it's a perfect match 👍

The plentiful amount of mids allows me to use Daddario Pro Steels — they add a strong top and bottom, and so I end up with a full sound with plenty of bite

Some things have come and gone and come again, some things have just come and gone, but some things walked straight into me and have never left.....

....especially Rio, Queen II, Rubber Soul, The White Album, Pornography, Disintegration, ...And Justice For All, House of Love Creation LP, various bits of the JAMC, early Sisters Of Mercy, Doolittle, Pills Thrills and Bellyaches, Rid of Me, the first Elastica album and Definitely Maybe (though by that age, I really ought to have been grown up)

I quote liked Brothers In Arms, up until hearing Aces High for the first time

On 08/02/2023 at 14:19, Ricky Rioli said:

During my happy time with my 424 I mostly used GHS Boomers, which especially suited the middle position.

 

My new LB100 arrived with a set of Boomers on.... Would anyone with a 414 / 424 / 1024 like to try out Boomers with this nearly-new set ....

On 08/02/2023 at 16:18, Maude said:

I'd be more than happy to relieve you of them. Got my favourite D'addario half rounds on my 424 but they're a little muddy on it....

These are now en route, and so I now have the happy anticipation of finding out if my opinion that Boomers are exactly what a BB's middle position deserves is any good or not

Wondering how the OP's singer felt about the guitarist deciding to transpose a song up a semitone

Neil Murray 

Bass Direct have got both the 760FHB2 36-56-77-96 and the 760FHBB 50-65-80-100 sets of LaBella Beatle Bass Deep Talkin Flats for £40 each

LaBellas blurb reads "Fits Hofner Beatle basses and similar models that require 34" distance from ball-end to silk. Please do not substitute this set for a medium-scale set."

This is the post you want:

Eucerin skin cream

I've bought two basses from the US, exactly the same process the two times.

Except this: the first one, when the parcel had just arrived in the UK, my tracking told me to cough up, which I did, obvs. A few days later, I got a "paid invoice" in the post, basically just a receipt for the money, I suppose. The second one, though, I never got told to cough up. I haven't received anything in the post. Yet.

2 minutes ago, Kev said:

proper playing technique (thumb in the middle of the neck, playing with tip of curved fingers)

I always knew power chords were improper, good to get an official explanation as to why they — and all music containing them, I trust? — need to be exterminated.

34 minutes ago, Paul S said:

Did I miss anything out?

VINTAGE RADIUS ffs 🙄

4 hours ago, BassAdder60 said:

What about a Jazz bass but finger style playing for rock ?

(Guess whose fingers they are counts for something 😁 )

52 minutes ago, Paolo85 said:

I certainly do not find deeper necks slower, I notice that my thumb gets tired earlier

And for me, vice versa. My thumb finds it tiresome having to press inward, in search of the back of the neck. On a thick neck, it simply rests, naturally. It misses the lovely deep neck of my BB424. 

If all attempted to extrapolate universal truths from the singular examples of ourselves.....

12 hours ago, mcnach said:

if only this thing called 'work' stopped getting in the way of my free time...

Both this week and last week, I took a day off work — last week, to take my new bass to my tech, this week, to collect it

14 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

Thanks for elaborating, even if that wouldn't really form a shape like an S at all.

On 08/02/2023 at 14:27, paul_5 said:

Express yourself -NWA is another stellar 2 bar loop

Blimey, I can't believe I had totally forgotten about this track.

BLIMEY.

10 hours ago, neepheid said:

 

For reasons I have yet to wrap my head around, G&L USA don't shield their basses.  My CLF L-1000 was exactly the same.  Baffling, even if prices hadn't gone up by 38% in 18 months.

In the 10 months it took them to build my LB-100, the price of that exact set of options went up 55%. I have been wondering if the extra grand finally buys some shielding....

On 01/02/2023 at 11:36, Baloney Balderdash said:

I simply can't picture how on earth the neck could possibly develop a shape like an S

Did you eventually work this one out? There's only six planes on which an S can be written in three-dimensional space, so you should be able to rattle through the options in a minute or two.

1) going across the fretboard, the frets bending one way then the other. Froody.

2) going down the fretboard, the neck bending to the E side and then the G side and then back again. I like the surrealism of this one, the strings at some points hanging over the edge of the neck as it twists back and forth.

3) on a cross section of the neck, going down from the fretboard, no can't make this one work even in a nonsense way.

4) on a cross section of the neck, the fretboard raised at the D string but lowered at the A string. Would definitely want a freshly cut nut for this.

5) looking at the side of the neck, a vertical line dropped from a fret going .... no, this one is just impossible, too.

6) with the bass vertical, looking at the side of the neck, the gentle bow of the fretboard interrupted with a hump and then a dip.

44 minutes ago, mcnach said:

The Area J are great Jazz-like pickups, they have that single coil character even if they're humbuckers

To veer off on a tangent — did you ever try the Area Js with flats? 

3 minutes ago, mcnach said:

This was also a Matt Freeman Squier, it's been modified a bit

Are those Model Js under those tasty cream covers?

PS best Jazz ever, clearly 👌

PPS with the black pg, I kind want the bridge pickup to be black.... Cream on black, black on cream.....

You should sign up for this

19 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

However, based on vids that get shared on social media it seems like a lot of people are not so much shocked, but impressed by a woman doing rock instrumentation well.

Going by the videos YouTube are continually proffering me, middle-aged men are grateful for an acceptable opportunity for admiring hot / young women, when the only cost required is pretending to take their fluent competence for something extraordinary.

The great thing about having an expensive fresh strings habit is that it makes getting a tech to do an immaculate job of sorting out a weirdly-unshielded new bass seem very cheap. For the cost of the custom set of Daddario steels that'll last me to the end of April, maximum, my new LB-100 has gone from noisy af -> 🐀 quiet. 

Not so much a tangent, as a scarcely relevant interruption. Sorry.

In my daydreams, I have a bass that on the outside has vol + tone knobs, and a three-way switch. A pair of Nordstrand Big Splits. BB neck, TRBX body

On the inside are 12 trimpots: 2 sets of neck vol / bridge vol / treble / mids / mids freq / bass. The switch on the front goes between these two nicely set — sorry, these two "sculpted" tones. The third position is neck pickup, passive. I know what I like, and I don't need to have the knobs sitting in front of me, distractingly asking to be twiddled with.

14 minutes ago, Maude said:

I'd be more than happy to relieve you of them. Got my favourite D'addario half rounds on my 424 but they're a little muddy on it. 

I'll pop something in a charity box of your choice if you don't want anything for them, and obviously sort you out postage. 

🙂👍

Excellent  But you certainly won't be sorting me out for the postage, just sending me a PM with your address 😜

I thought the Boomers sounded better on my 424 than both Swing Bass and Roto Bass. On my SB-1 both those Rotosounds are great, but the Boomers sounded pathetic. I haven't a clue what's going on there. Maybe it's all to do with the 424's magical bridge pickup?