Jump to content
Why become a member? ×

crazycloud

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    475

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by crazycloud

    Choosing First Bass

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    On 05/07/2022 at 16:08, Paolo85 said:

    I am no expert but I suspect that's because he's a slapper and when you slap you cannot use the floating thumb

    I'm not a slapper either, but when I need to, I use the 4 as my hands aren't as big as MM's and LH thumb damping the B won't work for me.

    Choosing First Bass

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by crazycloud

    14 hours ago, Paolo85 said:

    And muting on 5 strings is much harder.

    No it's not, especially if you start with a 5 and learn correctly. Don't get stuck using something like the pickup as a thumbrest and simply float it to damp.

     

    As for slapping with narrower spacing, I have no issues with it.

     

    Both of these things might be an issue with a 4 player, but not someone starting with a 5.

     

    OP: start with a 5, it's far more versatile as there's less shifting involved. And get an Ibanez SR 5 string. The higher numbers get better finishes and someother options like better pickups, but they're all solid. I look like using my SR206 for a gig in a week or so, even though it's the bottom of the line (price, not quality wise) and I have other much more expensive options. The real sweet spot are the SR rand with the Power span pickups, like the 305, 375 and 405, but any SR will be good.

    • Like 1

    Stingrays - ok, I give up.

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by crazycloud

    5 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

    Every so often I'll give something that didn't work, in the past, another go, only to find it still doesn't work.

    FSOs and Stingrays. Never got on with either, never going back now.

    Harley Benton - cheap AND cheerful?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Lw. said:

    Anyone played the Harley Benton kind of faux F-basses? Specifically the JP-45?

    I haven't but I wanted one for a while when they first came out - I'm trying to thin the herd rather than expand it ATM.

    There's the HB thread on TB where a couple of people have bought these and I think Lobster has a video coming up very soon on one as IIRC an unboxing video was linked, but I never watch those.

    There was also another thread on TB where one person was upset they'd copied an Arai that went for a while too. I think some had bought them in that one too. Both are in the last couple of months.

    Does Yer Headstock Rock?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by crazycloud

    On 16/06/2022 at 01:42, HippieNerd said:

    I seriously have never thought the Fender headstock too big, proportional to the rest.

    Look at one on a Jag bass which is basically the same size as a P or J from memory and tell me it looks proportional, even referenced to a P or J. It looks like a child with a head it's yet to grow into.

     

    The other reason I'm not fond of them is they often have large and heavy tuners that are all the way out on the end of a lever arm which makes them neck heavy, or at least heavier than it needs to be.

    • Like 1

    The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, ezbass said:

    On a ‘Ray, I’ve always found the pickup perfectly place for me to rest my thumb when playing the E string. It appears that Tim Commerford likes to have his hand further north (it being his signature model).

    Thanks for the info, but still never used one on a 4, let alone now on a 5 or 6; I was taught floating thumb from my first lesson. You can get a lot of tonal variation simply by moving the plucking hand position, so much so that for years I never varied my EQ on my amp, just changed how and where I played. Not better/worse, just different technique and giving my perspective.

     

    The finger rest design here also doesn't look like your typical Fender one, so my initial look at the pic didn't register that that's what it was.

    Twiggy - An EBB5 bass prototype

    in Build Diaries

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, Smanth said:

    I just rasping, shaving, sanding, repeat and feeling/measuring it now and then.  I'm finding it amazingly relaxing; total immersion in the process; the smell of sawdust; loving it!

    Wonderful, isn't it? I won't have music or any other distractions, especially when it's only hand tools.

    • Like 1

    The Short Scale Bass Appreciation Society!

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    I've ordered the parts for a SS 6 build. My new job will have me going right past a major timber supplier soon, so I suspect some of my pay will be staying there. There are ideas circulating on my mind, and exact details are yet to be sorted, but suffice as to say, it will be my take on an SRC6.

    Ding Ding. All change (again). My new line up

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by crazycloud

    19 hours ago, Old Horse Murphy said:


    Thanks. I had a 5 String Status S2 which I loved. It was one with a headstock that sadly became headless when a tree fell on my car 😢

    Better the bass than you I suppose.

     

    I had a work colleague that used to park his car in the rear of the large work car park because he didn't want door dings. He came onto shift one day and had barely swiped in when security came to the control room to inform him a huge gum tree branch had just fallen on his car and flattened it. The fire brigade attended (leaking fluids) and told me they'd have been hosing him out if he'd been in it when it fell. Pity*, he was a right prat.

    The irony was that he'd parked under the only tree branch anywhere near the car park in a lot of maybe 500 spaces which was barely filled as it was a night shift starting on a bright, clear and sunny afternoon with no breeze.

     

    I have an S2000 headless that hardly gets touched as it's a 4. Owned it maybe 20y now.

     

    * I don't really mean that. I'm glad he wasn't hurt, but every time he annoyed me after that I shook my fist at the heavens...

    • Haha 1

    Steinberger Synapse

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    On 31/03/2022 at 06:53, anzoid said:

    Proper intonation was difficult because of the limited range of movement and the fact it was just one solid block.

    That's what put me off one. Prices have also risen lately, and there are few available in the Antipodes, so I'm probably not going to ever get one, no matter how curious I am.

×
×
  • Create New...