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It was the first bass I had but the plate stamp and the rounded pickups were the same.

My happy thought would be never hearing the quack Perry or the talentless, nepotism installed Bextor ever again.

The luuvvie dahhhlings...

Wasn't it this Cilla Black cover that finally pushed Marr over the edge?

Four-letter word indeed.

2 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

That is an absolute disgrace.

Smells like cheese spirit.

Fripp and nips.

My nuanced, expansive and exhaustive opinion hath guided me to this conclusion thus:

Don't listen to people who have no idea of what they are talking about.

1 minute ago, BigRedX said:

 

Please don't ruin this thread as well by posting quotes.

 

If you have something to say, then say something that you have come up with yourself.

 

Anyone can post a quote. It requires no real thought, and although it looks "intellectual" it's no better than posting a meme.

 

So if you have an actual opinion of your own, then lets hear it. 

I agree with every word of the quotes I have posted, and I don't always quote here. Should I rearrange them and claim them as my own, they're a lot smarter than I am... What is the problem with quotes around here? If you don't like them, don't read them.

Find a cloud you can yell at.

12 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

 I particularly loathe these two acclaimed covers of two fave TFF songs of mine

 

 

I would much rather the Lorde version, considering the subject of the song I always thought the TFF original was a song mismatched. A bit twee for the message, with lashings of ginger beer.

“Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f***ing big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of f***ing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the f*** you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f***ing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f***ed up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that?"

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting.

30 plus covers of cloying, over-smaltzification. So sugary you'd get chubby listening to it.

https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/11086/covers

2 hours ago, krispn said:

Jamerson used to show up drunk and play. While he was (possibly) making conscious decisions about his note choices (as in he was just playing and grooving) and I certainly don’t think he was giving tone and mixing advice to the engineers.

Jamerson wasn't drunk all of the time, in fact that one instance is the only time I've read that he was really drunk. Check out the book: Standing in the Shadows of Motown, it mentions there that Jamerson's signal was goosed purposely for slight break-up and natural tube compression.

Don't be shy about getting a replacement, manufacturers expect some faults to go out the door. The only way you could make that string sound like that is by dipping it in candle wax.

I've used Bass Centre Elites for about 25 years, steels/flats/nickle, they seem to have a softer tension to other string sets I've tried. I couldn't count the amount of sets I've been through but I've never had a duff string. The packs have always been consistent.

I just had a listen to the audio clip, it's a dead string. Contact them and send the clip, it sticks out like a sore thumb. They may replace the set or just that offending string, but it is certainly deceased...

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I have returned two sets of strings due to a dud in the past. The last set I returned I left in situ on the bass to demonstrate it back at the shop, they refunded no problem. This was many years ago, and both sets were Rotosound.

6 hours ago, Owen said:

Fair play, this is quite a track!

Danny "The Humbler" Gatton. I like this old clip at Gallagher's Bar. Playing in front of the dart board like a proper fella.

4 hours ago, fretmeister said:

 

I do agree.... but only when your right hand only has 1 job.

 

If your right hand has to swap between fingers, pick, and slap then no amount of hand control will get those things to work in the same dynamic range.

The idea is to have a lighter touch and let the amp do the work. Which is obviously a bonus for right hand technique. That allows you to have extra headroom, if you need to slap or pick. But it also means you have to work on muting more. On a scale of 10, I play at 7, leaving the headroom there that I may need.

8 minutes ago, jimfist said:

Chances are that if you're using any amp with a tube in it, you're experiencing some form of compression.

For compression to exist, you don't need to have a box with the label "COMPRESSOR" on it.

Not to mention speaker compression when those speakers are being driven hard, even by a very clean, high headroom solid state amp.

Yes natural tube compression, Jamerson used to goose his signal to get that from the tube desk at Motown. Running it slightly in the red.

I suppose I could always be a salesman like maybe in a, uh, haberdasher, or maybe like a, uh, um... a chapeau shop or something. You know, like, "Would you... what size do you wear, sir?" And then you answer me.

If you're getting what you want at that setting with no discernible problems, I wouldn't worry about it. It beats lumping 18+ stone in bass backline up rusty, creaky, icy fire escapes in the dead of winter.

Bass frequencies take a lot of juice to reproduce, that's why to compete with a 50 watt guitar amp you need a couple of hundred.

Plus, the ear isn't very efficient at lower frequencies. It prefers the guitar range. I used to run an Ashdown ABM800 through a 15+10 H and a 4x10 H stacked for some "pubs". Transistors positively glowing.