Grimalkin

2 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Change your tap 😁

I can't get a longer goose neck than I already have.

Curse the designer, may a thousand frogs spawn on their living room carpet.

i bought a nice kettle but it's a little bit bulky really, it won't fit under the taps properly. I've got to fill it with a measuring jug.

I just wanted to share that with you.

8 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

Oh for cod's sake you lot. This is a discussion about strings, and these fishy puns are distracting from the flow of conversation. Shoaly you can see that? There's a time and a plaice for this sort of thing. I trout it will stop you tho. Hhhhh

I like Albacores anyway, they have a nice tench on.

20 minutes ago, scrumpymike said:

Sounds a bit fishy to me.

You can't really give them a good herring until you put them on your basa.

19 minutes ago, scrumpymike said:

Couldn't make out the brand but they were definitely multi-scale.

Albacore. It's a new brand designed for stability, so you don't have to use your tuna as much.

1 minute ago, EssentialTension said:

 

Did you really have to bring up the subject of slapping?

 

It would be a lot quieter with flatfish.

29 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

 

So, you've been a member of BC for four days now. How you finding it? 😬

I can't even... it's something like this...

This is school yard stuff. I won't waste any more time on it.

Sorry I made a comment on flat wound strings, it's obviously wounded you deeply. I take it back, all of it.

3 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

That’s commendable. I’m sure your audiences appreciate the lack of string noise.

I've worked for over thirty years as a professional musician, I must be doing something right I would imagine.

3 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

 

I bet you iron your jeans, too.

I just take pride in my work. 

15 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

 

I suspect your tolerance of string noise is significantly lower than most.

My preference is clean technique, which is a lot of hard work.

Nothing comes for nothing.

31 minutes ago, Sibob said:

.....but at the potential expense of all other aspects of a tone and feel that might not like or be appropriate for the music they play? I'm with WoT on this.....probably not a thing.

 

I find that different basses want different strings (obviously that sits within our personal preference for things). I had flats on my passive P/J Lakland 44-94 for a while, it sounded fine, but wasn't right.....I couldn't tell you why. Put some roundwounds on it, boom, perfect. Similar excercise with my 1971 Precision, it had rounds on it for a little while when I first got it.....wasn't right, but some flats on it....boom, perfect. My 55-01 had rounds on it for a bit, horrible.....put some tapewounds on it, boom, perfect.

To that end, I would suggest that all players, if they consider that a certain string isn't working for them, don't be all 'naaa flats/rounds are bad', just think that they might not be right for that particular bass.

 

Si

If your muting is poor it doesn't matter what about tone or feel, bad muting technique through a few hundred watts on rounds sticks out like a sore thumb. You can get away with a little more on flats.

I have a dedicated bass with flats, you don't get the extraneous overtones you get with rounds, for some players that is going to appeal.

I like the flats sound, but using them constantly would be very vanilla for what I like to play.

It does stand head and shoulders above most basses, I wonder if you have to let the head settle before you tune it?

3 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

 

No need to apologise, 'cos at no point have I said otherwise.

It took Jaco just as much time to mute Donna Lee as to actually play the line. I play it myself as a warm up, and it is very difficult to mute. Sax lines/wide intervals, lots of string skipping/crossing. I can very much see, why people would choose flats because they are quieter.

3 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

 

Presumably we're talking about people who sit in their bedrooms and make solo videos for YouTube.

It's a simple fact that flats don't have the same winding string noise or preponderance to sympathetic vibration due to slightly higher tension and usually slightly higher mass. Sorry about that.

1 minute ago, wateroftyne said:

 

Nope, never happened.

I never say never, I have seen it mentioned, though after 30 years plus of working as a musician, I can tell for myself. It's a fact that you don't get the same string noise or the same sympathetic resonance you get with rounds, it's all toned down. 

17 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

 

"My muting technique isn't very good, so I'm going to use flats." said no-one. Ever.

 

It's the kind of thing you keep quiet...

Look at the length of that head-stock...

Indeed, it's all fun and games until someone has an eye out

Then it's just a game: Hunt the Eye.

Just a touch of neck dive...

Maple is a hard surface in itself, the one little thing I don't like about Jaco's tone, was the slight clack you get fretting an epoxied board. I would leave it as is, clean it up and give it a playing first.

Flats have their own sound, another probable reason is that they hide a multitude of sins as far as muting technique is concerned.

I have one bass strung with flats for that sound but I hardly play it.

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