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[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1375094045' post='2156536'] Personally I wouldn't condemn a shop based on one reported bad experience. [/quote] Here on BC, I often see one shop or another praised to high heaven for its personal customer service when I know i've been let down by the same shop. Sometimes it's the other way around and a shop is being slagged for being useless when I've had excellent service.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1375107103' post='2156738'] Also as alluded to earlier, I knew I'd seen him with a white one which is unavailable to Joe Public - here he is, the flash git : Photo by David Sidle - [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanager22/"]http://www.flickr.co...otos/tanager22/[/url] [/quote] There's a red one too.

[quote name='Dr M' timestamp='1375101245' post='2156655'] The thing is, different companies treat signature models in different ways ... [/quote] This is right; not all so-called signature models are the same kind of thing. For example, the Epiphone Jack Casady Bass (which was based on the Gibson Les Paul Signature Bass) is not just a different finish version of a bass which is already in production. It's a model of bass in its own right. Quite a few people here own or have owned a Fender Tony Franklin Signature Fretless Precision. I doubt very much if any of them, certainly not I, bought one because of (more likely despite) Franklin's name on it. It remains the only stock unlined fretless MIA Precision. The now renamed Lakland signature basses were not quite the same kind of thing as a signature from Biffy Clyro or Blink 182 or even Rush.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1375064636' post='2156315'] To the point -- I think using a signature instrument is as lame as being a member of a celebrities fan club or having Star Wars bedding. [/quote] That's particularly true of the Gibson Les Paul, of course.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1375039936' post='2156085'] I have put Fender flats on both My Precision's and my Precision Lyte I really like the sound but I am not entirely convinced with the feel of them, if I try to slide on the strings it feels like if I go too far the heat generated will give me a blister...does that make sense? Anyway I have another set ready to put on my fretless but I have held off because the idea of the fretless is to be able to slide into the notes, I am not going to want to be sliding round on these strings if it is going to cause blisters. So I am a bit unsure at the moment [/quote] Less pressure for a lighter slide and less friction burn.

Here we go again.

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1374920298' post='2154762'] Oh yeah, ALL cars rusted in the 70s not just BL & Lancias. [/quote] You could pay extra to have your new car 'undersealed' but they still rusted.

[quote name='bagsieblue' timestamp='1374907638' post='2154602'] ........seeing pictures of basses disassembled in For Sale adverts. [/quote] Would you prefer to buy a fake?

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1374858909' post='2154199'] They look like TI (Thomastik/Infeld) jazz flats to me. [/quote] Thomastiks are red silk at both ends.

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1374654201' post='2151262'] Or an Elton John tribute called 50 Shades of Ga... nah, that's not appropriate. [/quote] It's been done several times already:

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1374843215' post='2153956'] We have been here before haven't we? [/quote] We're here every few weeks. Basschat at its pointless best.

Excellent.

I used to find that getting a setup was risky because whatever you ask for you get what the guy himself considers to be a good setup. A bit like a barber who gives everybody the same haircur whatever they ask for.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1374796623' post='2153479'] If you want a dead sound, use flats. But I can tell you from my experience, most engineers, clients, composers and band members prefer the sound of round wounds. Flats have become the new chic among bassplayers but no one else seems to be on board. [/quote] Flats don't only do dead - except in some people's imaginations. Flats are not merely 'the new chic' as they have probably been used on the great number of classic recordings. In my experience most engineers, clients, composers and band members have no interest in the bassist's strings.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1374817641' post='2153515'] Completely depends on what type and make of string you are using and what sorts of sounds you want them to make. Next question. [/quote] This is, of course, the correct answer.

Last time I paid someone it was £25 but I didn't like the result and so i re-did it myself.

[quote name='bagsieblue' timestamp='1374789475' post='2153379'] YES - I hate the clank and brightness of new strings. Sounds like a Rickenbacker which as we all know is a horrible, horrible sound.... . - may as well play one of those six sting guitar thingies...... [/quote] Rickenbackers don't have to clank. MacCartney never clanks on a Rickenbacker.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1374785828' post='2153301'] No.... because you don't get much variation out of them, in terms of sound,. You may LOVE the thunk sound, but that is all you'll have and you'll be stuck with it. [/quote] No, wrong, because there is something called EQ and also you can move your plucking hand from end of neck to pickup to close to bridge for a wide range of different sounds. Anyway, you call it 'thunk' but I call it 'bass'. [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1374785828' post='2153301'] If strings are full of gunk, then your limits are what the string can produce. Now you may not want to..and that is fine... but you can't clean that sound up...it is what it is. [/quote] My flats are clean and not full of gunk at all.

I can speak for the whole of Basschat when I say "yes". Next topic please.

Very good.

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1374490249' post='2149209'] ... Unless you insulate the room, there is no way to stop bass frequencies travelling next door ... [/quote] I think this is about right but it's also the case that older houses are better at insulation of sound. My house is 1890 build and never hear neighbours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1xzJZ7BXkQ

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1374484157' post='2149093'] PM's style was laid down in the 50's listening to rock and roll. There was only a brief crossover between The Beatles recording their major creative works and JJ entering his creative period, so that introduction seems like wishful thinking on McCartney's part. [/quote] I think you underestimate the opportunity for Jamerson to influence Macca. The crossover, after all, is most of the 1960s. That seems like plenty long enough. Although I agree that 50s RnR was a big influence e.g. bass from Chuck Berry's Talking About You. [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1374484157' post='2149093'] Bass players who are singers, inventive song writers and piano players will usually have a much better melodic sense than plain old bass players. If you want to emulate McCartney get a piano. [/quote] Agreed.

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1374482259' post='2149063'] On the CD that comes with the "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" book, McCartney admits that Jamerson was an early influence on him. AFAIK, Jamerson seldom played above the fifth fret, and used open strings a lot, which he brought with him from his double bass playing days. This may have something to do with McCartney's style of playing. [/quote] Staying in one position also helps a little if you've got to sing as well.

[quote name='lou24d53' timestamp='1374481946' post='2149058'] Another belter of a Basschat thread. Just read through the remaining 5 pages I missed since the other day. I'll never get that time back. [/quote] As long as you're not offended it will be ok.