Vibrating G String

[quote name='Austin7' post='1246295' date='May 26 2011, 01:40 PM']I think I have seen an atheist bass club somewhere on the Internet quite some time ago. I don't keep up with bass boards too much anymore since, quite frankly, I feel that this is by far the best one.[/quote] There was one on Talkbass but the opposing Christians banned it. Studies have shown that in the US atheism is more hated than either muslims, blacks or homosexuals. A number of states even have added a requirement to their constitutions that atheists can not hold public office.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1245276' date='May 26 2011, 02:06 AM']I think that says more about how the Chili Peppers can't create anything decent without a bit of help, rather than the benefits of drugs. Ask Frank Zappa.[/quote] Well, yeah, but the old chili's were still much better.

[quote name='Conan' post='1243095' date='May 24 2011, 08:05 AM']I've seen a few adverts for "CS" Precisions recently. I had no idea that they were Carl Sagan sig models!! Deeply cool indeed. Where can I get one? [/quote] They pop up used quite often, after all they made billions and billions of them Stay away from the black ones though.

[quote name='icastle' post='1242775' date='May 24 2011, 03:43 AM']I already have a Les Dawson Sig. Jazz Bass... [/quote] The dead comic series, hang on to that those will be collectors items soon.

[quote name='icastle' post='1241872' date='May 23 2011, 08:58 AM']For all the difference that makes I'd be better off buying a marker pen and practising me joinedy upply writing... [/quote] Let's start a trend of non musician endorsements for our basses. I have a MIM 5 string that needs to be a Natalie Portman model. How about a Carl Sagan Precision? A Bob Fosse Jazz Hands? When I refinished my old Tokai I made a Phender logo for it. Mock the sheep!

[quote name='icastle' post='1239922' date='May 21 2011, 08:55 PM']Not many models when you think about it: Strat or Tele for guitarists and a choice of Precision or Jazz for bassists...[/quote] Yeah but you can get your choice of dozens of celebrity names on them.

So your favorite bass color is white? It's my favorite fur color.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1239874' date='May 21 2011, 04:55 PM']What does favourite colour have to do with bass.?[/quote] It probably influences more sales than any other feature.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1236871' date='May 19 2011, 05:01 AM']Tbh i think in a blind test barely anyone can single out woods that contribute to tone on an electric instrument, as the link above shows.[/quote] I'll go a little farther and say there has never been a human who's walked the earth that can identify wood species by the signal of an electric guitar. I put wood divining in the same class as palm reading and faith healing. Lot's of people will get real angry and tell you they can do it but none can demonstrate it to those who don't already believe.

[quote name='Slipperydick' post='1235406' date='May 18 2011, 03:08 AM']Back in around 1991 or 92 I can remember speaking to someone at a Fender distributor who told me that the then new Mexican Strats and Precisions were assembled in Mexico from USA parts, but that it was only a temporary arrangement, so it was a good time to buy. Any truth in it, or was it just a sales pitch ? My early Mexican Precision plays and sounds great, mut admit the neck aint a perfect fit in the pocket though.[/quote] There has always been some overlap in the 2 factories which are just a few hundred miles apart. I've heard some Fender apologists claim that even the plastic knobs are better on the US models. From what I've seen the wood source is the same for both factories and they don't sort out inferior tonewoods to send down south. There can be a lot of Mexican parts in a US bass and still be called made in the USA.

[quote name='Monckyman' post='1235323' date='May 18 2011, 02:19 AM']As has been said by a previous poster, for me, it was about the sound I grew up with, and the basses used on the music I heard. There were no Wals overwaters Status Yamaha Aria Gibson(I think) basses on all those massive motown tunes. Just Fender.[/quote] I'd wager that if you could re record some of those basslines with a Wal and mix them in most "experts" would never notice. Yamahas have been duplicating exact fender tones for decades.

[quote name='kerley' post='1235297' date='May 18 2011, 02:00 AM']Why people pay a premium to have a bass made in USA is the question. Are USA builders/workers any better than Korean? No they are not, however they may be allocated more time to ensure the product has better finished/QC but that could also be done in Korea. But as Fender is a USA product for USA people who are some of the most nationalistic going it won't change soon...[/quote]Having experience with Korean and American suppliers I'd say the Koreans are miles above for a fraction of the price.

[quote name='Fat Rich' post='1235240' date='May 18 2011, 01:21 AM']Heinz beans are affordable though, how can Fender justify charging £2K plus for a couple of planks of wood screwed together, some bent tin and a few bits of plastic? It's not like their R&D costs are high because their designs are 50+ years old.[/quote] I don't think they care about justifying it, just not laughing out loud as people pay for it. I also think they would never have such an expensive upper line if their old 2 and 3 hundred dollar guitars and basses didn't get inflated to the tens of thousands by selling them to Japanese posers with too much money in the 1980's. Just think, if cocaine was as popular in Japan as it was in the US a new MIA could be about $600.

[quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='1234959' date='May 17 2011, 01:39 PM']KIORA ! Please,nobody mention overpriced boutique Fender copies................Aww sh!t.[/quote] You mean the Custom Shop Master Builts?

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1236861' date='May 19 2011, 04:51 AM']I dont understand why Markbass is so much cheaper in the USA, when the come from Italy?! Surely the UK should be able to sell them a little cheaper.[/quote] That might have to do with the volume we buy and they are distributed through the giant retail chain Guitar Center and their close ties with Musicman. This could be enough to offset the longer time on a freighter. I do know the parts on mine I've looked at come from China, if they are more Chinese made than suspected the European ones may go through Italy but the American ones may come more direct to the US.

[quote name='silddx' post='1237197' date='May 19 2011, 10:13 AM']Black is not a colour, it is the absence of colour.[/quote] That argument is a fun can of worms depending on which angle you're coming from In my world black is the absence of luminance and can be any color. Removing all chroma does not leave black.

[quote name='waltsdog' post='1228258' date='May 11 2011, 03:35 PM']My settings were gain about 12 o'clock (no clipping) and volume about 2 o'clock with the 2 cabs in a maybe 200 capacity room (albeit a very odd shaped room) everything else on the amp is dead flat.[/quote] On a LMII the VPF & VLE controls are flat when they are all the way left, not in the middle. The VPF is a mid scoop and if that is in the middle you get that bedroom tone you can't hear with a band. My LMII and an Aguilar GS112 with a passive jazz will handle a loud band no problem.

I was just thinking, not many of us in the US could figure out my joke They'd be wondering what Adam & Eve had to do with it.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='1236549' date='May 18 2011, 05:49 PM']America doesn't work.[/quote] I blame our ancestors

[quote name='skej21' post='1233326' date='May 16 2011, 09:37 AM']That thread is nearly as pointless and stoopid as a thread that discusses a pointless and stoopid thread![/quote] "If I could give mankind one gift it would be the perception of irony."

[quote name='foal30' post='1232657' date='May 15 2011, 05:58 PM']assuming the general public has any say in the matter, or an opinion of value.[/quote] I think the general public has a lot to do with public perceptions

[quote name='Doddy' post='1231989' date='May 15 2011, 06:19 AM']I've seen this too.I've spoken to guys who've graduated from certain music schools and can't even read a note.[/quote] That sounds like the one I went to

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1231897' date='May 15 2011, 05:07 AM']Branford Marsalis, great as he is, is perfectly aware of his shortcomings (has finished gigs by apologising to the audience for having a bad night and telling them to ask for their oney back)[/quote] That's just so wrong. That's an artists insecurities telling the whole audience they're stupid if they enjoyed the evening. Too much of a princess move for me.

[quote name='TimR' post='1231835' date='May 15 2011, 04:13 AM']If Harvard gave everyone Bs pretty soon the employers would stop employing people from Harvard and word would get round and their reputation would suffer.[/quote]And if Fender made sub standard guitars soon people would stop buying them I think it would take decades to take down a reputation like Harvard's. Especially for the general public.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1231943' date='May 15 2011, 05:39 AM']I'm surprised that they haven't got a higher profile drummer on the tour-no disrespect to Louis Cato.[/quote] 3 letter acronym limit