EssentialTension

He must have slipped up just after he put this one up for sale: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/G-L-L2000-BASS-GUITAR-MADE-USA-/230588352949?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item35b02309b5"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/G-L-L2000-BASS-GUITA...=item35b02309b5[/url]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1135635' date='Feb 21 2011, 03:36 PM']VERY [/quote] But Madame Mystery still sees a fiver in your future.

+1 on the Chromes sounding brighter. Roto Jazz flats can sound brighter too and TI Jazz flats still have plenty of mids and top if you wind it up - not like rounds though. I've never used them myself but GHS Brite flats might be worth trying. But also +1 on asking yourself if you really need that sustained jangle.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1135448' date='Feb 21 2011, 01:39 PM']So I've taken my £250 5 string budget and bought a £600 MM Sterling 4 string, oops.[/quote] Another happy ending then.

[quote name='drewm' post='1134593' date='Feb 20 2011, 06:08 PM']The most annoying thing was that they'd refer to all their chords as if they hadn't dropped the tuning. So they'd say "this one's in G" because they were playing a G shape chord, when really it was in F.[/quote] I've heard that mistake when a capo is being used too. So frustrating.

[quote name='robocorpse' post='1134520' date='Feb 20 2011, 05:01 PM']... it makes it a lot easier if all the strung instruments are playing in the same tuning and same positions so showing each other stuff is easier[/quote] ... but it makes it even easier if everyone knows the note and chord names and also uses their ears.

[quote name='SteveK' post='1133368' date='Feb 19 2011, 02:01 PM']Why? I totally understand why a guitarist would use such a tuning. But why a bass player? He won't be playing open power chords...will he? The same notes are available, he just has to reach them in an unorthodox fashion, which would make study bloody hard work.[/quote] +1 If you really need the low C# then either drop tune C#F#BE (or even BEAD) or get a five string. Otherwise you're just making it harder for yourself with no clear advantage.

I know nothing about the Warwicks but I have an old earlier version of the Michael Kelly Dragonfly 4 and it works well for me. However, I've heard a lot of complaints about the Micheal Kellys too. There's no substitute for actually playing the bass and giving it a thorough examination.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1131709' date='Feb 17 2011, 11:45 PM']Nope,Fender bought Kaman Music who owned Genz Benz amongst others.[/quote] According to Wikipedia on 02/01/08 FMIC paid the Kaman Corporation approximately $120 million in cash to buy the Kaman Music Corporation which included: Ovation Takamine Hamer Genz Benz Toca Gretsch Drums Sabian Lee Oscar Hercules and many other brands.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1130090' date='Feb 16 2011, 07:20 PM']The closest is probably the 60th anni.[/quote]

And what about the Send-Return sockets?

[quote name='evilLordJuju' post='1127647' date='Feb 14 2011, 09:19 PM']Its almost an EB2 - actually an Epiphone Rivoli (still made by Gibson at their Kalamazoo plant, but with different headstock shape and inlay). I know i'm pedantic... sorry [/quote] If I'd actually bothered to look at it properly I might have noticed that it says Epiphone and not Gibson.

[quote name='Michaelg' post='1127405' date='Feb 14 2011, 06:26 PM']its almost definitely scott playing bass on that record. whoever it is, he is playing on either a jazz bass or precision bass with flatwound strings and using quite an aggresive picking technique. in terms of amplification you'll be looking at something with lots of mid range and treble whilst easing off the low end. i have a graphic equaliser on my ampeg so you can really control those frequencies.[/quote] I'd agree it's flatwounds with a pick and probably on a Fender and very possibly Scott Engel himself. He had played bass sessions in Los Angeles before he joined the Walker Brothers and of course two of the most important session bassists in Los Angeles were Joe Osborn and Carol Kaye who were both using flats with a pick on Fenders.

[quote name='chris_b' post='1126561' date='Feb 13 2011, 11:33 PM']I only saw Scott Walker playing a Gibson EB2 in the very early days of the Walker Brothers. It probably had flats at that time, but I don't know what he would have used on your record. After listening to Youtube: This is not my favourite bass sound but it sounds like flats and he's using a pick, if that's any help.[/quote] Here we go:

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1127313' date='Feb 14 2011, 05:11 PM']Best metal for bass? I'm going to say iron.[/quote] Iron is only any good for heavy metal. So I say aluminium.

If anyone's interested in the history of this problem, I recommend [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Temperament-Stuart-Isacoff/dp/0571234461/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297627397&sr=8-1"]Stuart Isaacoff, [i]Temperament: How Music Became the Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilisation[/i], Faber , 2002[/url].

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='1114174' date='Feb 3 2011, 05:26 PM']Or play fretless and be [i]very[/i] out of tune lots of the time![/quote] It's not out of tune, it's just spicy.

My 'acoustic' band doesn't use electric guitars but the acoustic guitars/mandolin/ukulele are amplified and we do have a drummer who mixes sticks and brushes and sometimes acts more as a percussionist than as a drummer. I usually use an EUB and/or a fretless Precision and a Mesa Walkabout combo. I am thinking about a fretless acoustic bass but it will be amplified just the same.