EssentialTension

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1341056395' post='1713276'] Usually high-hat side, until I started playing some upright, since when I've been floor tom side. [/quote] [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1341066152' post='1713412'] Why? [/quote] Found it easier, with the position of the upright, to have contact with the audience and with the band, especially the drummer, from the floor tom side. Also, the first band I played upright with had a drummer who was playing a lot of ride cymbal rather than hihat and it felt easier to be in contact with that as he tended to look to his right rather than his left. Does that make sense?

Usually high-hat side, until I started playing some upright, since when I've been floor tom side.

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1340747700' post='1709210'] Anything like the 9120's - and are they OK for 35" scale (Yammy TRB)? G. [/quote] I've never used the 9120s so I can't say. As for the 35", I don't know but possibly not in ordinary long scale. You can get the La Bellas in extra long but rarely in Europe and will probably need to order direct from La Bella. My Takamine B10 needs an extra long on the E string because of the trapeze tailpiece.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1340560063' post='1706249'] I'd certainly agree with certain strings and basses going well together. [/quote] Yep, I use different flats on different basses.

'Tonewood' - there's another marketing gimmick.

[quote name='norvegicusbass' timestamp='1340469368' post='1704946'] After a hell of a long layoff from playing I picked up a bass again some eighteen months ago. I love playing it but cant seem to get through a song without making a mistake here and there. I would class the songs I play as beginner to intermediate, songs like Fleetwood Mac's Oh Well, The Stranglers Nice N Sleazy, Led Zep's Ramble On and Celebration Day and songs of that ilk. When I played as a young lad I cant recall making so many mistakes but I seem to get a bit self conscious even when playing by myself. Eighteen months seems long enough to me to be able to play songs a bit more fluently than I do. Anyone else plagued by mistakes? [/quote] 1 Practice. 2 Don't panic. 3 Keep calm and carry on - almost all of your audience didn't know it was a mistake anyway and those who did know it was a mistake have probably made it themselves. 4 Remember the mistake and try not to repeat it, unless it's in the way VW repeats it.

[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1340470201' post='1704971'] This video springs to mind... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jFAhN6V9s[/media] [/quote] That was very nicely done.

Precisions and Jazzes (and I imagine Rays, but I've never played one, and Rickenbackers too) are both (or all) capable of a very wide range of tones so there is no way you can ever be certain about what you're listening to even if you could get it right sometimes.

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1340442889' post='1704436'] I wish Fender did 9120s in a 5 set - I had a set on my Thunder III fretless & it was great, but have found that they are unavailable for 5ers. Alternatively, does anyone else do a black coated set of flats for a 5er? I suppose I'd really fancy an anodised metal finish rather than nylon coated, but the 9120s were less thumpy & 'rubbery' than the Rotos & were quite nice. G. [/quote] You can get 5-string La Bella 760N black nylons.

[quote name='Doctor J' timestamp='1340388066' post='1703982'] I've never needed more sustain than even the shittiest bass could provide. [/quote] Same here.

Definitely can't make it, again.

I haven't been near a roundwound in years.

Hipshot D-tuner, I use mine rarely but there are odd occasions when it's useful.

I had Obligatos on mine. The only problem was the E string wouldn't fit through the tuning key. So I replaced the tuning keys with Hipshots (HB6Y I think).

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1339922158' post='1696197'] Yet you still read the thread and contribute despite your disagreement. If you don't enjoy these type of threads, don't read them. It really is that simple. [/quote] This is nonsense. People are at liberty to contribute disagreement as much as agreement and they can't do either without reading the thread (or at least a proportion of it). It really is that simple. [quote name='skej21' timestamp='1339922158' post='1696197'] Maybe stop taking everything literally and lighten up a bit? [/quote] Well, given that you earlier said... [quote name='skej21' timestamp='1339879113' post='1695906'] Except its a 'worst bass players' thread, so his songwriting ability is irrelevant... He's a crap bassist. End of. [/quote] ... that seems to be the pot calling the kettle black. Maybe you should take your own advice.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1339921734' post='1696192'] I liked the fact you don't have to play a open E and found most of the time with a 4 string my default hand position is the bottom 5 frets whereas with a 5 string it's first finger on the 5th fret. [/quote] That's what I really didn't like - well, one of the things.

I had a G&L L2500 for about a year. 1 Beautiful bass with a wide range of tones but my experience was: 2 String spacing was too narrow. 3 I rarely used the B string - just on the odd occasion that I could make use of a low Eb, D, Db, C or B, which really was rarely and was never essential. 4 The B string didn't have the solidity of tone of the E string. 5 I did not need five strings and the fifth string was in my way so .... 6 I traded it for a fretless four string Fender Jazz.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1339783505' post='1694411'] In defence of this thread, the OP was posting tongue in cheek. [/quote] How could you tell? [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1339783505' post='1694411'] And if the concept of 'worst' is so damnably offensive to so many of our brethren, why did they read it rather than simply pass by on the other side? [/quote] Neither 'offensive' nor 'damnably' so, in my view, but no one could possibly know either way without reading the thread. Passing by on the other side would leave the non-reader without an opportunity for an informed opinion. [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1339783505' post='1694411'] In any event, there are very few 'new' topics on this forum and 'worst / best' is always guaranteed to drive a bit of page traffic. [/quote] I agree.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1339840746' post='1695144'] Yet you just can't stop yourself posting in it! [/quote] I could have but I didn't - is that a problem for you?