EssentialTension

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Also annoying: 'It's in A.' 'No, it's in A minor.'

[quote name='TheSiberian' timestamp='1413619451' post='2580132'] The only Fender basses who deserve the Fender logo are the Custom Shop ones. It was in 1978 when I had my first Fender Jazz Bass new and since then, year by year the overall quality wend down drived by money related decisions and greed. The only plus was the Custom Shop opening ( but at what price...) Best [/quote] I had a 1976 in 1976 it was extremely poor. I have a 2008 that is great. I also have had a 2006 which was great and a 2008 Fretless that was excellent. None of them custom shop. But maybe you just don't like Fenders.

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There's a reason an acoustic upright bass is the size it is.

[quote name='DrBike' timestamp='1413551789' post='2579454'] I had a medium scale neck bass a while ago (Gibson EB3) and cos I sing and play and don't get to look at the fretboard much I'd find that I was "missing" notes from time to time. If you're used to long scale and you're not one who looks at the fretboard all the time it might take some getting used to. However if you have small arms/hands it might be just thing [/quote] But moving between long and short scale bass is easier than between bass and guitar or double bass and electric bass.

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1413476671' post='2578672'] I was going to get a short scale Hagstom Viking. Are short scales useless? [/quote] Short scales are no more or less useless than any other scale. However, some people don't like them.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1413322110' post='2577227'] To be clear, my post is not about anything being passed around to customers, more or less putting them on the spot. I'm only referring to a tip jar being placed somewhere off to the side of the stage or floor where the band is playing. The passing a tip jar around the room is another discussion. Blue [/quote] In the UK, in my experience, the hat or jar or bucket, if used at all, is either passed around or taken round. I've never seen it left at the side of stage.

[quote name='Wonky2' timestamp='1413019851' post='2574174'] What about castors ? [/quote] [url="http://mesa.stores.yahoo.net/cst-quickdetach.html"]http://mesa.stores.yahoo.net/cst-quickdetach.html[/url]

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1413022937' post='2574213'] ... Lenovo ... [/quote] ... and don't Lenovo own IBM now? EDIT: Just checked that and the answer is no but 'In September 2014, it was announced that IBM would sell its x86 server division to Lenovo for a fee of $2.1 billion.'

The EQ does take a bit of getting used to but as the whole thing sounds great anyway it hardly matters.

There are a couple of pubs in Brighton where, on top of the landlord's payment, the bucket goes round. On a very good night it can double the pay.

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1412967119' post='2573793'] Just going back to my post from page 1, do remember that iPhones, iPads and MacBook Pros are all made in China yet most people consider these to be premium high quality products. People with pro-quality Apple-based home studios can often (and I'm speaking anecdotally here and not referring to anything mentioned in this thread) really slag off and completely discount instruments made in China just because they're made in China. [/quote] It always makes me laugh around World Cup time to see all those foreign made cars with China made St George's cross England flags hanging on them. Ha ha.

I have had two instruments that were made in China. Both were fine instruments.

Obligatos have a different colour for each string at the peghead but I don't now recall what the colours are.

I don't myself see the point of removing a neck unless you are trying to reduce dimensions of the package but I'd expect to setup a bass that's just arrived from Germany even if the neck hadn't been removed. Or at least to give it a once over to see if I was happy with the relief, action, intonation etc. You can certainly screw the neck back on, in fact you must screw the neck back on.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1412713051' post='2571328'] It's being released as the Children in Need single for this year. [/quote] Ah, OK. Well not OK, but thanks

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1412710868' post='2571277'] Before anyone mentions it, yes i know it's for Children In Need but it's still really awful and an assault on my ears. [/quote] I agree it was awful but i thought it was an advert for BBC Music; how is it for Children in Need?

I didn't mean anything specific, more just a general point. Does lower tension help? Flats with a pick (or nails) is going to sound different to rounds. New rounds are going to sound 'louder' in the 'brighter' sense. So, I'm not suggesting anything particular, just saying there might be something in it for you to be thinking about strings.

Have you thought that maybe a different kind of string might help you?

[quote name='Heket' timestamp='1412012072' post='2564860'] ... On brief research it seems that fingerstyle with nails is just not "done" ... [/quote] According to whom? I really don't like it myself and keep my nails very short but I know other bassists playing with long nails and I've read an interview with Duck Dunn saying he liked his nails catch the strings. Nails or no nails, it's up to you. Also, move nearer the neck, roll off the treble, it might not sound like fleshy fingertips but lots of different sounds are available still.

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=1][Quote] I was having a discussion today with someone in my studio about why I play bass with the strings upside down even though I am right handed. I told them that it was because my first bass was a left handed Wilson Rapier that I bought in a second hand shop in Birkenhead in 1975. It was the only one I could afford ( I was 16 at the time). It cost me £32. ... Andy McCluskey[/size][/font] ... [url="http://www.watkinsguitars.co.uk/mp3downloads.htm"]http://www.watkinsguitars.co.uk/mp3downloads.htm[/url][/quote]

I read somewhere that Hendrix could play all four ways if needed ... righty, lefty, righty upside down, lefty upside down.

... and Dick Dale

... that's Albert King ...