tom1946

I have a walnut/ maple sub and would't sell it for the world, I also have a 2007 Stingray and it's worrying how alike they sound. I also bought both of the Harley Benton musicman copies and they are excellent too, sadly these 2 are going up for sale this week. I just have too many now.

Hiya, thanks for that, so the oc2 could with some adjustments, sound a bit like one on its own. Ok thanks for that, I'd overlooked adjustments. Now to find one...

Hi, looking at an octave pedal right now but I know very little about them. My question is can you get a pedal that will just play an octave down on its own? Or dies it HAVE to have a normal note to track it with? don't really want an 8 string bass. Sorry if it's a dumb question, but it would be nice sometimes to just switch to a lower octave on its own. Ta.

I too am 72 and an accidental bass player in our church band. Our old bassman had moved away and as both my wife and I played 12 string guitars it fell to one of us to take the bass. Well my wife could barely lift one off its stand so I had to quickly learn some notes to accompany keyboard and guitar. I've had no lessons so it's all guesswork. This was about 5 years ago and I've got better by adding runs and other stuff. We do that many different songs every week (usually about 10 a week) that I struggle to learn even ones that we did 4 weeks ago, I can't remember them and have to practice hard most weeks to keep up. I can't read music so I just have the words typed out in 14 point 'cos I'm going blind as well and add the basic notes for the song and improvise. We have an ex rock bassist in our congregation who says it all sounds great but he could be just being kind. It definately gets worse the older you get and my memory can let me down even when I have my notes, if I take my eye off the ball on a song with a lot of notes and get lost, I stop playing and fiddle with the volume control and cast glances at my Trace amp..... Fun innit?

I've recently bought another Jazz bass with a rosewood board, ( I always play on maple boards exclusively) I wanted to see if if this one would produce a brighter sound than the last 2 or 3 did. All I seem to get is a sound like dead strings. When I tried the new one it just thumps and stops a bit like flats do so I've realised that finally rosewood boards don't ring out like maple do. I even put new rounds on it with no change in the sound. There really is a big difference between maple and rosewood, but I've played maple for many years so I do notice the change.

Precision or Jazz?? Stingray nowadays... although I still use my Sandblasted Precision occaisionally.

Well.... I have a mint original 1962 Ford Anglia that drives like new with only 34,000 genuine miles. Sorry Iain

Another day and another fine deal with Michael, I sold him my Teal Stingray 2eq in 2010 and I have just bought it back! absolute gentleman, scholar and acrobat, and my bass is still in the mint condition it was when he bought it. Great to deal with and I would highly recommend him to trade with. Rock on Michael! Tom.