EssentialTension

Looks like an Epiphone Viola to me. Wrong knobs for an Eko.

The Fender Jazz bass was designed when all bass strings were flat so not too surprising that it might sound OK with them.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1444482838' post='2883584'] If we're allowed to peek just a little bit above the parapet of this 'gigging bassist' microcosm, we could become aware of moult examples of people creating great, worthy works, in many fields, without necessarily having public acclamation as a major driving force, or even force at all.... [/quote] During his lifetime Bach was much revered for his regular organ gigs - so I expect he was only too happy to get out of his bedroom. Yet his compositions caused little stir for most of a century - thus proving his bedroom activities were of of secondary, indeed little, importance. Does that sound correct?

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1444476584' post='2883523'] Keep them in identical cases/gig bags then grab one at random without checking the contents as you go out of the door and let fate decide? [/quote] I have on more than one occasion opened the gig-bag to find what I was not expecting.

Different basses for different bands but also with some overlap between some of them.

Squier Classic Vibe Precision and a TC BG250-208 combo - both used not new so leaving enough for leads and tuner and new set of La Bella flats.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1441538875' post='2859573'] Amazing how due to the different colour schemes, the RW looks bigger. [/quote] Strange that 'cos I would have said the other way around.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1444241461' post='2881533'] Just in cast anyone is still wondering how this works, this is what a twin-coil (humbucking) Jazz pickup looks like under the cover. The deal is, it occupies the same space as a single-coil Jazz pickup but with the advantages of a humbucker. [/quote] ... which is exactly how a post 1957 Precision Bass pickup is humbucking too .. the difference is merely the offset of EA and DG.

... and did you know that Jim Morrison's father was commander of US naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of 1964, which escalated American involvement in Vietnam ... [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephen_Morrison"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephen_Morrison[/url]

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1444153560' post='2880722'] Can't stand Elvis either, or Dire Straights, apart from the earlier stuff. Oh, and don't get me started on the Doors! [/quote] There are several Elvises and I like two of them. Knopfler is clearly a talented guitarist but I've never really got it, even the earlier stuff. I've always rather liked The Doors even though they have an air of pomposity and fakeness.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1444151542' post='2880706'] That's due to the large number of slags on the forum. [/quote] And thanks for the spelling correction.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1444146753' post='2880659'] So it's ok to slag off Adam Clayton or Nickelback, but never Paul McCartney or the bloody Beatles! [/quote] You can slag off whoever you like (or don't like), in fact you did so. Evrery Beatles or McCartney thread includes plenty of slagging off.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1444042331' post='2879636'] But you can use playing in the same register as the guitar(s) to good effect. We do a couple of songs where I play exactly the same thing as the guitar in the same octave (or should I say the guitar plays the same as me since I wrote the music) which gives the music an extra thickness without the bass being obvious. Then when I drop down an octave it really adds some real heft and lifts the whole song. [/quote] I've used that technique too, with the addition sometimes of the guitar going up an octave as I go down an octave.

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1443976536' post='2879134'] You [i]can[/i] taste it.... [/quote] ... but I smell a red herring.

So bad cables are bad and good cables are good ... but maybe you can't hear the difference.

Just because there are four strings doesn't mean you have to use them all.

I suppose there's no point in buying an F Clef bass then.

Given the position of Carbonne's eyes in relation to the fingerboard, there would be more parallax error at the first semitone from the nut than way up the neck where the 'fretmarks' are. The 'fretmarks' as they are would only help with parallax error on the highest string anyway. I still don't understand why these guys don't get a piano.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1443795581' post='2877779'] Sorted: [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/korg-rk-100s-keytar-red/93243?gclid=CjwKEAjw1riwBRD61db6xtWTvTESJACoQ04QBPtYTd2QAzVZQeFZ5oOySvz0RJ0QcC3I7lUw665HUBoC_-bw_wcB"]http://www.gak.co.uk...65HUBoC_-bw_wcB[/url] [/quote] ... and I still prefer a piano.