Musicman666

4 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

Yes, but for some reason lined fretlesses are popular. It seems strange, you hardly ever see training wheels on bicycles, but manufacturers make most fretlesses lined, and when you're buying a custom bass second-hand you don't get to specify it.

well of course you can always remove or reinstall training wheels but fretlines are permanent .. I think of them more like the diagram on top of a gear stick, essential at first but once you get the hang of it then not so much, however its good to know that they are there to fall back on when required. I have heard some reasons to not want fretlines such as they put some people off or others like the look of a plain board, but I suspect some just like to flex in front of an audience. If you want that no fretlines experience then you can always turn off the lights, ..so far I never felt the urge. Fretlines look pretty much like frets to me and I'm very comfortable with that particular look.

On 18/04/2024 at 23:02, BigRedX said:

 

For the one time I have had a dead spot on a neck, the Fat Finger worked very well as the dead spot was gone and didn't seem to re-appear anywhere noticeable. You can experiment with different sized G-clamps first to see if it makes a usable difference before shelling out on something more expensive and aesthetically pleasing.

i have a jazz fretless with the dead spot in the same area as the op and i also got rid of it with the fat finger ..not sure if it moved to another location but dammed if i can find it. 

17 minutes ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

Bongos.

They look like an overdone, gaudy, tasteless, ostentatious 80s sports car designed by an LSD-fuelled lunatic in the grip of a psychotic episode, available only in a range of hideous, eye-scorching colours that scream of 'Dante meets Bosch in a crack lounge'.

Horrendous looking things. I'd absolutely love one.

apparently the inspiration came to ernie while sitting on the khazi. 

On 19/04/2024 at 19:38, tauzero said:

 

Fretlesses also have markers, whether they're lined or unlined. Go figure.

well taking the logic to its ultimate conclusion wouldn't that be all we really need regardless of fretless or fretted ..just the dots along the leading edge, everything else would presumably be decorative fluff? 

22 hours ago, squire5 said:

This.Looks as if the body has been stretched.It just looks well...wrong.Dont hate it,just dont like it.

 

looks like a runt. 

1 hour ago, Linus27 said:

Any fretless bass that has a lined fretboard

 ..everyone goes on about fret lines on a fretless and how superfluous they are ..but nothing about fingerboard dots and led lights on a regular fretted ..go figure. 

25 minutes ago, Mickyk said:

You would never ever get me up on a stage with this pile of cack in my hands.

spock wants his intergalactic love harp back..

7 hours ago, lowregisterhead said:

Good question, but I don't think there's really any way to find out. Somewhere on the website it says that the Paramatrix preamp can't be retrofitted to older basses.

how do they compare unplugged?

i wonder how the graphite would compare to the wood if they had the same preamp?

On 24/03/2024 at 17:17, Schnozzalee said:

My US Musicman Sterling had dead spots, so look out for those. 

my stingray plays like butter but without the dead spots ..do you think it might be fake?

6 hours ago, Schnozzalee said:

 

He ^ eats quorn because he swoons and the sight of blood.

 

Frank Spencer plays a short scale 5er... "Mmm Betty! Betty!! Look at me. I'm doing it, I'm really doing it."

 

i'm not quite sure what your point is here mate ... i posted in response to the op who plays long scale but was asking about shortscale and i merely responded by saying you can try it out without buying one ... i own a shortscale too, im not against using them if that's what your hinting at. 

27 minutes ago, Schnozzalee said:

And then you drop it and run away like Raheem Sterling

1 hour ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

What? 

 

No!

 

If the you put a capo on second fret of a long scale bass to use it as a short scale bass the effective result compared to a real short scale bass would be as I described:

 yeah when playing a long scale at the second fret all i can think about is how wide the neck is and how much the headstock sticks out with this huge bulky body..🙄

4 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

But with a wider nut width, and fretboard in general, with 2 less frets, a bigger bulky body and a huge hangover at the headstock.

 

depends what your playing ..say for instance my status headless lends itself very nicely and any jazz bass works great in terms of neck width ...nearly all my basses are d standard these days and capo them from time to time and they play great. I cut my teeth on a musicmaster so i know the pros and cons of shortscale ..so doing this for me is the best of both worlds. Also capo gives your bass a zero fret ...makes the action and playability really spot on. Long scale is balanced and not bulky ..it just has two more frets on the neck. 

On 15/03/2024 at 08:15, thebrig said:

I have a couple of questions I would like to ask you guys and gals who play, or have played, short-scale basses.

I play mainly P basses but I've tried a couple of short-scales in the past and given up after a few weeks because they just don't feel right, they also sound very different, and I also struggle with the neck-dive.

So my questions are:

 

1. How long does it take to adjust to going from long-scale to short-scale?

2. How do you manage the inevitable neck-dive that you usually get with most short-scale basses, would changing the tuners to lightweight tuners make any noticeable difference?

 why not tune a bass down to standard d and throw a capo on the second fret ..instant shortscale .

10 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

And we all know the quality of music can be objectively measured by how complicated it is, the more complicated the better music.

 

.. naively I thought saying  " don't get me wrong, i love the sounds he produces" would somehow protect from tool diehards .. evidently I was wrong.

for me it's justin chancellor .. don't get me wrong, i love the sounds he produces but i look at what he's playing and it doesn't seem to look all that challenging in contrast to his fan base which seem to think it is. 

terrible news  RIP Steve ..!!

...and RIP Karl Wallinger   two of the best singer song writers gone in the space of a few days.

well my bass history is a series of regrets ..started off by selling a beautiful Olympic white musicmaster in the early 80s  to get a squire first edition Olympic white precision ..then on to a westone thunder iii followed by a wal pro traded in for the stingray that i still have today ..but i would honestly welcome any of those ex basses back into my fold in a heartbeat. Was it  love?..no it was necessity on account of me being a tad poor in my youth.

Just now, toneknob said:

Where are you shopping? I'm in Block A1 at around £100.

 

front block bass player side ..  i think right at the back is 150 ish. 

9 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

Yes, the drum parts are piece of cake...

 

And who couldn't pull off those vocals...

 

Have you had a listen to the "Latheralus" album?

 

well i have been watching closely but totally open to having my mind changed on this. Not being a drummer yes he seem very able but so do many others in many other what people might consider less technical bands. Definitely think this is a sum of the parts type deal. 

On 26/02/2024 at 10:04, ezbass said:

Really impressed that Justin was the rig guide rather than just handing it off to his tech as most of these videos seem to be. Then having the tech there at the same time was as thorough as it gets. Kudos to team Chancellor.

just watching some tool on yt ..quite impressive but what came out of this was a realisation that these guys are just normal guys not playing what i would say is outrageously difficult stuff ...but somehow through coordinated focus they rise above it all and produce something quite extraordinary ...  so when on an interview justin seems to come across as a fairly regular guy ..well no surprises there. I was in fact going to go for a ticket at their upcoming london show till i saw the price ...300 quid a ticket ..jeez. 

i have a few killer basses and some just stay in their cases unplayed for yonks ...then suddenly i will get one out and fall in love with it all over again not being able to put it down. 

On 28/02/2024 at 10:45, Russ said:

I’m sure half the stuff in NHME was nicked. I bought some nice stuff from there pretty cheap back in the day.

 

But this was before you had the likes of Chancellor playing them - even Mick Karn was using a Klein instead of his Wal, Percy Jones had moved to Ibanez, and so on. They were almost terminally uncool back then. 

yep..in the late 90s i part exchanged a wal for a stingray thinking they are so cheap now that i can pick up another whenever ..boy did i get that one wrong.

thanks guys ...my curiosity has now been satisfied!