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If you really like the sound of fretless go for it, don't be put off by the fact it is difficult, nothing that it worth doing is easy. 

Plus for £900 you could easily get a nice fretless and a nice fretted instrument if you buy used instruments. 

Great price for a great bass! Someone is going to be very happy! 

I hope you get it back mate. 

I know this feeling and to be honest I am going through it a little just now too. 

With doing so few gigs / recording session I find myself looking at my instruments thinking "I have far too much money tied up in these". 

I'm very lucky though as when I mentioned this to my wife, she basically told me to stop being silly, and enjoy my basses. I work hard so I deserve to have nice things. 

Preamps are effectively EQs so if you are already running an EQ patch in your Go, it makes sense you don't need the amp model. You may find in a band context you will want the Cab sim to tame the high end and sit in the mix better, but I'm sure you can experiment with this when the time comes. 

Really nice playing, I enjoyed that a lot. Thanks for sharing. 

Great amp, and a very good price! GLWTS

Great piece of kit! Can't believe this hasn't been snapped up yet. 

Wow😍 What a great price for a beautiful bass! GLWTS 

What a bargain, a lot of bass for the money! GLWTS

On 21/07/2021 at 10:08, Barking Spiders said:

That was cringe-making and woeful but then no worse than the rest of Deacon Blue's back catalogue especially the dire Real Gone Kid which still gets played on Radio2

Wow, I can't believe it's gonna from the monstrosity of the OP song to Deacon Blue...

I have to admit I have a real soft spot for Deacon Blue, it must be the Scotsman in me. 

Yeah it seems odd for you to rebook when you don't know they will be there to accept the delivery. 

That would be like you missing the original delivery and expecting them to rebook the courier for you. 

Name & shame time I think.

Hipshot Drop D tuners. Makes life so much easier when gigging. 

Nordstrand pick ups - I have never played a Nordstrand pickup that sounded anything other than fantastic. 

For the C string I would recommend 0.32, I believe that's what D'addario use. I used to get Warwicks that had 0.30 and the C usually felt a bit too Trebley compared to the 0.32.

22 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Or something like that. Maybe 850

Lol I'm not going to pretend I know the model. It was my first bass, the neck is super slim, and it has very narrow string spacing. Over the years I have replaced the tuning pegs, and put some EMGs in it and it's still a great bass to play. 

Again I'm afraid I have no info on that specific model but I have a 5 string I have had for 20 years and it's an incredible instrument. 

13 hours ago, gjones said:

I bought a Precision Elite a couple of years ago.

It was a really nice bass and very well put together but I just didn't bond with it.

I changed strings to a standard gauge set of Rotosound Swing bass, from the original Fender strings, and I still wasn't sure about it.

But then I put a set of Elixir 45/65/80/100 and the bass came to life. The strings sounded better and the lighter gauge allowed me to play more fluidly.

This is not the first time a change of strings has brought a bass to life for me.

Sometimes that's all it takes, to change a dud to a player..

 

This would be my advice, before doing anything drastic like selling it, try some different string gauges / material / manufacturers then make up your mind. 

For me I'm a sucker for low tension nickels, and can highly recommend Dunlop Super Bright Nickels 40-100. They tend to bring basses to life for me. 

3 hours ago, GuyB said:

Can a 6 string bass be tuned EADGCF?

If it can, are the strings available?

I mostly play guitar tuned in fourths, so I find that the low B on a 6 string bass very confusing, as I know all the notes on the fretboard in EADGCF tuning without thinking.

Thanks

The distance from B to E is also a 4th, so if you think of it that way it may help. Relate the B string to the E string the way you relate the E to the A, now you have an extended lower range. 

1 hour ago, Barking Spiders said:

Thought as BCers you'd be interested in this from Rick Beato's channel. I first came across NHOP via Joe Pass albums as I was learning jazz guitar at the time.  NHOP was a phenomenal player. Even if you're not familiar with jazz I'd also say NHOP is someone any bass player in any genre HAS to check out. 

 

I'm very happy Rick made this video. I don't think NHOP gets anywhere near the credit he deserves in the bass community. 

Line 6 Studio 10, great little amp, I have had it for nearly 15 years. At other times I will use logic with my KRK monitors. Plug in wise I will either use Helix native, or the Neural DSP dark glass. 

On 12/05/2018 at 12:30, MartinB said:

To be 100% clear: I am not talking about pay-to-play. The bands are not asked to buy the tickets and re-sell them. There's certainly some pressure along the lines of "we need you to sell x tickets", or "if you sell y tickets, we'll book you for another show". But this has no bearing on whether the tickets are virtual or physical.

My take on this is that, it is still pay to play, and just not being advertised as such. They give the tickets to the band and want the percentage of the money, in my experience the band is usually given X amount of tickets and have to give the promoter X amount of money regardless of how many tickets sold, hence stil pay to play. 

Really cool looking bass. I just couldnt live with the crude p pickup route tho. Everything else looks great and that route looks rubbish, especially with the clear scratch plate. 

9 hours ago, mike257 said:

Both of those events are part of the government backed Events Research Program, which is overseen by researchers and scientists and is supposed to be providing the data that allows us to plan how we move forward with safe delivery of events. 

Yes, it just seems very convenient that these "test" events happen to be massive institutions for UK sport. 

I can't think of any other type of testing that goes for the largest scale available rather than small scale.

Just seen Wimbledon on the telly and the amount of people there would suggest there is no reason why most festivals couldn't go ahead. Not to mention that there is going to be 160,000 tickets for the F1 at Silverstone... 

I will put this here. Band with 2 bass players, whats not to like?