Twigman

Well it seems I've failed I got tempted by an ErnieBall guitar cable in black and green https://www.thomann.de/gb/ernie_ball_instrument_cable_b_g.htm and a bottle of lemon oil SO - I'm out 'til next year

What if you strut about the stage, Simon Gallup stylee? Need a whole stage worth of bass board flooring - may as well play on a thin hollow stage. I remember playing a club in Spain where they'd boarded over an empty swimming pool to make the stage. The whole stage was bouncing up and down all gig.

To measure the height of the nut the measurement you want is the clearance of the string above the fretboard, at the nut, best done with feeler gauges. As to how high it should be? High enough to ensure the string clears the fretboard and frets when plucked open.

Made from armadillo? Which species? Aren't they protected?

I can't read so just commit everything to memory

That's too much like hard work - we get the promoter to do it and send us links to appropriate places before we agree to play. So we still choose and he does the leg work. When the gigs are in foreign cities then local knowledge helps.

One of the reasons we play so rarely is that we have a minimum standard of acceptable accomodation and all hotels must be approved before we commit to the gig. We ask for 4*. Almost every gig is overseas. We also will not travel on day of show so always minimum of 2 nights - we also demand single rooms for 5 of us plus our merch man. So, if you want to put us on, it's return flights for six, transfers to/from airport, 4 star accomodation for 6 in single rooms with no travelling on day of show, backline provided as per our tech rider plus, of course our fee.

We were supposed to playing in Paris on 18th October but that got cancelled.....it seems our next gig may well be in Sicily in December (postponed brexit willing) but the final details still need ironing out.

Guitarist plays a Jazzmaster, singer hangs a Tele or a Jaguar around his neck....... so do they play Fenders? yep - one does and the other poses with Fenders

Resisted after my band mates reckoned it was both 'horrible' and it 'looks like a toaster' - having been robbed of close on £3k fitting a new boiler yesterday I'm afraid I can't justify it....but I did find the UK site on which it is £1,190

That black with mint has awoken my long slumbering bass gas.............. Why do i open these threads? black/green combo is very me (my black EBMM Sterling 4HH has a green pearl plate)

I'm fairly certain that they're hybrid - they certainly are on both the Barefaced cabs I own. I often play gigs with cabs supplied (as transporting cabs by easyjet isn't going to happen), using my own head - I always have a speakon to speakon and a speakon to 1/4" cable with me so I'm covered for whatever they throw at me.

You write very good English. You wrote it properly. I'm merely expressing delight that you have made a decision!

"Finally Decided my first six string bass" Thank f*** for that!

I made a front routed (no scratchplate) PBass once - I cut down the Fender brass plate with a pair of tin snips, it was a 5minute job to get a perfect fit. I wouldn't limit your choice because the Fender pickups are designed for a PBass rout with a scratchplate - it's a non issue.

I used d'Addario ENR71 halfrounds for years - a very versatile string

I like an oiled neck (EBMM style) - I dislike intensely gloss finishes on necks. I like the idea of a nitro body but all my basses have poly finishes

We have a huge catalogue of our songs but even after a 20+ song set we always get "why didn't you play 'songX' or 'songY'? Normally the answer is that we're bored of playing it. We need to keep interested too.

However string choice and playing style makes a huge difference to tone.....the only way to make an informed choice is to play them yourself.

Aren't all Fender Precision basses basically the same? Why do they need a different manual for each model?

The one you find easiest to play

Somewhere in between but I don't sell my basses. My JV Squier precision (sentimental): I keep this because it was my only bass for like 30 years - I recorded my first albums with it - it will always be mine. My green warmoth JP fretless: even though I have little use for a fretless it's always handy to have one about and I made it myself - so there's that My yellow warmoth P with east pre: I never really bonded with this but I'm keeping it as it would never realise the sum of its parts and I made it. My black status necked warmoth dinky P: This is kept because it's so light and it's the bass I used when i first toured in USA and I made it - it records well so is kept for when the EBMM doesn't cut it - it'd never make its money back either. My black EBMM USA Sterling 4HH: The bass that killed my gas - it's a keeper and has become my goto for all occasions.

Kay PBass circa 1979 - weighed a ton, skyscraper action it was a while before I got amped but when I did it was with a Carlsbro Cobra 90 head with a home made (not by me - i bought it for £30 at SohoSoundhouse or somewhere like that) 1x15" cab

Have you tried d'Addario half rounds - they feel like flats but are much brighter