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I can't see myself ever owning or playing a 6 string bass but if someone else wants to get one then thats fine by me. Life would be boring if we were all the same.

Hey folks Has anyone added a thumbrest to a BB? I just picked up a BB414 and really like it, but having come from a 5-string I can't quite find the right place to put my thumb when playing the E-string. The edge of the P pickup seems *slightly* too far away (might get used to it I suppose) and since I prefer to play closer to the neck I'm not going to use the J pickup as a thumbrest! Cheers

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1359504514' post='1956014'] Yea that's all good. I have to use the 'proper' stuff and it's only a few quid more and saves time in case of leccy proof glue. [/quote] Well, someone who makes guitars probably needs to do a slightly better job than me shielding my own guitar! I suspect if I were building guitars regularly, though, that it might just be easier to use copper paint?

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1359503138' post='1955995'] The adhesive on slug tape isn't generally conductive. Stick it to your plant pots instead. That's what it's for. wd music, allparts, axetec etc. Soldering onto copper tape which is stuck to wood isn't always straight forward. The wood sucks the heat up see. One 12"x12" sheet of the real deal should do a few guitars for under a tenner. [/quote] Well, I used it to shield a tele---didn't need to solder onto it, my multimeter reckoned it was conductive, and the shielding worked. Maybe I just got lucky...

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1359489976' post='1955651'] I'm looking for some of this... any idea where to get it from? Most places do not indicate whether the adhesive is conductive or not... [/quote] I bought some cheap slug tape off eBay for about £1.50 and it seems to be conductive.

Bought a BB414 from Lloyd---good price, nice friendly comms, packed the bass very well. A very minor hiccup with the courier but I'd happily buy from him again. Cheers Lloyd!

I've always found the trick to learning fast sections is to learn them "backwards". Not literally backwards, let me try and explain: Rather than learning the first few notes of the fast bit, then trying to learn the next bit, start at the end of the phrase and learn the last few notes. Once you've got them down, learn another few notes just before the end. Then, add a few more notes until eventually you're playing through the whole phrase. The reason this works is because you go [b]from[/b] a tricky/new bit to a bit you can already play---to my mind this is fundamentally easier than going from a bit you can play [b]to[/b] a new/tricky bit. Give it a try

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html I think its 10%, capped at £75.

I'd rather just get some small self-adhesive glow in the dark stickers, or, even better, just learn my way round the neck properly (its not *that* hard). Unless you're playing a very unusual/futuristic bass LEDs just look silly, IMO.

The mind boggles. "I know, I'll try and sell something for £1400 and just use a stock photo off the internet". Are these people nuts?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1359029473' post='1948634'] Top Tip: Grease from a KFC is cheaper, and delicious too! [/quote] I played flute for many years before picking up a bass and a teacher once taught me a great (if icky) tip. Moving from low C to low C# on a flute involves a slighty tricky rolling of your pinky from one key to another, but is made infinitely easier if, beforehand, you rub your pinky down the side of your nose to pick up some nice greasy lubrication

[quote name='Bobby K' timestamp='1359019951' post='1948447'] Hello chaps, interesting thread! I'm doing a theatre tour next month with the Kate Bush tribute and it's gonna be no amps on stage, with in ear monitoring only. so I'm gonna be looking at getting something like this. Not sure which one though... Gonna be running two passive basses, both fretted and fretless (with some chorus on the fretless stuff, via my old Boss chorus pedal) - I know some of these have a facility for two inputs. Any recommendations anyone? [/quote] The EBS Microbass II may be right up your street.

[quote name='AnalogBomb' timestamp='1358941627' post='1947295'] I know what people are saying about the manufacturing process and the impossibility of things being right 100% of the time. This to me, doesn't make it right. For companies that invest god knows how much in R&D to release a product, that has to be recalled a few months later, should be covering every angle. I could understand it more if it was a cheap, tacky product, but it's not. It's a reasonable price, but still £235 is a lot of money to me and I'm sure many other people. [/quote] In order to 100% guarantee that everything is absolutely perfect they would have to do so much testing that it would cost significantly more than £235.

ER20s for me too.

These idiots only get away with it because people put up with it. Thankfully all of my musical adventures have been with people I already knew socially, so no problems dealing with muppetry!

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1358942939' post='1947324'] GAS, eh? [/quote]

You'll get less fret noise if you change to flats... ...but your bass will also sound totally different. Some people love flats, others don't. Personally, I play quite hard and I compensate by having slightly high action. Works for me.

[quote name='Bassman Steve' timestamp='1358956100' post='1947605'] Still think the SKB FPB4 (from memory) is a stunning case at 75 quid. [/quote] I like SKB cases, but since two (!) of their hard foam cases (the SC-44 model) fell apart on me I'm not so keen.

I disagree that if you don't get gigging quickly you never will. My band rehearsed for 18 months before we even thought about gigging---although, to be fair, we did start out as just three guys who wanted to make a racket in a rehearsal room...

[quote name='AnalogBomb' timestamp='1358865160' post='1946235'] I see what your saying her mate, but stuff shouldn't be prone to breaking when it's been out no time at all. Yeah, good on TC for recalling it, that's responsible, but make sure things are right at source, then they will save themselves the trouble of having to recall god knows how many units!? It's just a major inconvenience, not just for me but for many other TC users. As Jimryan says, I still really like TC, but it has somewhat tainted my view of them. I always used to think when I saw product recall signs in the shop windows 'thank god I didn't buy one of those!' [/quote] I used to work in manufacturing. Its far too easy to say "get it right before it ships". Sometimes things happen that you could never, ever have predicted. For instance, you buy a whole load of parts from a supplier and test them to death during your prototype and design phase. All is well. You move to full production and your supplier's supplier makes a change to a component and doesn't bother telling anyone (this happens!). Or the new guy at your supplier sends you 8,000,000 steel plated ball bearings instead of 8,000,000 solid steel ball bearings and because they look identical nobody notices the problem.Suddenly your fully qualified parts are not the same as they used to be and its months before the failures start. Oh-oh.

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1358930360' post='1947091'] With this said, I am surprised so many people are trying to offload gear at the moment, there can't be a worse time to sell with it being the start of a year and also everyone having such tight purse strings. [/quote] I think people are selling things *because* they are skint.

This is bizarre. Bizarre, but pretty cool. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/21/rems-losing-my-religion.html Someone took "Losing My Religion" and shifted it so its in a major key. I quite like it.

At £20 more than a Hiscox they'd better be phenomenal.

Personally I think G&Ls marketing is a bit crap. Just little things, like the name "Tribute". To me, that implies "copy" or "not quite as good as". I'm not saying they're *not* good, but the name has negative connotations in my mind. Certainly, their availability/distribution isn't very good---I've only very rarely seen them in shops. They also compete at a funny price point, where there are a *lot* of alternatives. That market must be hard to succeed in.