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[quote name='TheGreek' post='1321204' date='Jul 30 2011, 11:57 AM']Most of the progress made on the Bass in the last 30 years or so has been through "Slappists" - I would hate to see(hear??) where would be without this style..[/quote] Nothing I do has been developed through "slappists". Each to their own, I like it in funk, but taken too far it's just ridiculous.

There's no such thing as a daft question. The only daft thing is not asking if you don't know something.

[quote name='cytania' post='1318701' date='Jul 27 2011, 09:11 PM']"I've met a number of acoustic builders who have said to me that wood doesn't matter in acoustics either"[/quote] Well, it's accepted that Stradivarius used crap wood that instrument makers would nowadays rather burn than make an instrument from. Guess what, the explanation for the tone moves from wood, to the "special" glue or varnish or something, whatever. It can't just be that he was exceptionally good at making instruments and that the magic comes from a) the maker's skill and b ) the listener's brain *after* being told it's a Strad.

[quote name='silddx' post='1317539' date='Jul 26 2011, 07:47 PM'] From [url="http://www.bas-extravaganza.nl/?page=bassen&BassenID=25"]Bas Extravaganza[/url] The unplayable action is its USP [/quote] But it would be great for the Flintstones revival in Rockville.

wow - it's even had all its frets pulled out and nothing done to replace them!

[quote name='chrismuzz' post='1316566' date='Jul 26 2011, 07:41 AM']Why? Whyyy?? WHHHHYYYYY??????? [/quote] Oh, the humanity!!

Looks like someone rescued it from a bonfire.

[quote name='Skol303' post='1316794' date='Jul 26 2011, 11:17 AM']Anyway, this is deep. I'm doing my thinkers pose right now (arm bent, fist on forehead, looking serious).[/quote] Life ... it's the name of the game, and I wanna play the game with you.

Silver

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='1316615' date='Jul 26 2011, 08:59 AM']There's a simple test for those who say wood doesn't make a difference. Play a Status and testify that graphite doesn't make a difference.[/quote] For that to be a proper test, you'd need to have exactly the same electronic setup and strings on the graphite shell as the wooden shell.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1316783' date='Jul 26 2011, 11:05 AM']I must admit ive never heard a jazz bass player that wasn't cutting through the mix. I do find i have to Eq my Jazz differently to my P to get the best of of them.[/quote] That's because if he wasn't cutting through the mix, he'd have been seen but not heard. I wonder if this is flavour of the month topic at the moment though, everyone seems to be talking about Jazzes having issues cutting through in the last year but not so much earlier. I wonder if Jazzes have suddenly become more popular and it's thus become more of an issue.

I love the way he tells you about the chips in the finish and that the body's been reshaped and the binding's gone on the neck and someone's thrown up on the body and said that it's a paint-job ... and then says "but here's the bad news ..."

[quote name='jakesbass' post='1316662' date='Jul 26 2011, 09:31 AM']Any notion of technique and/or best practice or for that matter any thought that is not just music, in an ideal world, would be dispensed with in[i] favour[/i] of making music. It is the point at which you forget theory, scales, chord tones arpeggios etc etc that you can hopefully let ideas flow, but it is worth noting that those ideas can flow [i][b]because[/b][/i] you have put in the practice and can therefore complete tasks without thinking.[/quote] This. It's the same with dancing and painting and a myriad of other art forms. You can only forget about technique once you no longer have to think about it - and you can only stop thinking about it when it's second nature. Unfortunately, on the bass I'm a long long long way away from this point.

Why would you need to adjust the height of the stand mid-set anyway?

[quote name='mcnach' post='1314712' date='Jul 24 2011, 01:19 PM']use Guitar Pro or TuxGuitar to input your bass line as tab... it has notation too. Even if you don't know ANY notation, you can play with note durations until you get itsounding the way it should... and the notation will reflect that.[/quote] Don't forget to get someone else to check it before she gets it done.

[quote name='XylemBassGuitar' post='1314201' date='Jul 23 2011, 08:32 PM']I just had an idea.... You could use blue painter's tape (or some other really low-tack tape), write the notes on several strips, then put them on your bass' fretboard. They might stick a little more reliably than post-its but still shouldn't leave behind too much glue.[/quote] Good idea - I was going to cut them up so only the glued strip was used, not the whole post-it but your idea would work too.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='1314086' date='Jul 23 2011, 06:50 PM']Well I don't know, it'd be worth asking the op.[/quote] If he comes back, I will

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='1313914' date='Jul 23 2011, 04:07 PM']No worries it's a good echo, keep it going so it won't be just a bunch of us understanding it but more and more people. What baffles me is the fact that people think that unless they have 200 to 500 watt they can't gig an amp, yet the 30 Watts this thing has seem to be a lot louder than you expect and manages to get away with most average sized venues and when you need more there's always a D.I. output that will save the day.[/quote] Any idea why the OP should have thought that the 200w version should have been so quiet then? Was it a faulty unit?

[quote name='louisthebass' post='1313997' date='Jul 23 2011, 05:45 PM']There's a lot of bass books out there that will teach you the notes on the stave, alternatively why not try www.studybass.com. There's a type of "flash card" quiz to test yourself in regards to note recognition on the bass clef stave. Cheers, louisthebass[/quote] I already know the notes on a stave - I played piano for 15 years - it's associating them with fingers on a fretboard that I need. Anyhow - I poo-poo all you naysayers and will do it anyway.

[quote name='Muzz' post='1313155' date='Jul 22 2011, 07:57 PM']Just goes to show what the biggest tonal influence on a bass is. I certainly won't sweat changing 'tonewoods' ever again... [/quote] Unless you're playing accoustically, the pickups are always going to have a much greater effect on your sound than the wood the instrument's made from. Hell even for acoustic instruments; Stradivarius used wood that was so cheap and nasty that no luthier nowadays would allow it into their workshop.

[quote name='louisthebass' post='1313877' date='Jul 23 2011, 03:14 PM']Hi there, It might be worth your while checking the post out on here by Faithless: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=145778&st=20&start=20"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...20&start=20[/url] There's a link on his post to Joe Hubbard's website where Joe talks about an exercise to learn the fretboard. Might save an unecessary amount of sticky goo on your fingerboard? Cheers, louisthebass[/quote] Except that I want to learn the notes on a stave as well. And post-its aren't going to leave a lot of sticky stuff.

I'm thinking of cutting up post-it notes and putting them under the strings next to every fret up to the 12th with the relevant note written on (on my practise bass, not the one I use on stage :blink:lol ). Hopefully this will get me used to where the notes are. When I get comfortableish with this, I'll remove every second note, then leave one in 3 until eventually I get rid of them all and I know where everything is. Well ... it's a plan of sorts.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1313755' date='Jul 23 2011, 01:02 PM']Drill a hole big enough to get a hacksaw blade into and just hold it in your hand. A Dremel cutting wheel is a better option (what I do). Whatever, just cut it a few mil too small and open it out with a file and sandpaper. HTH. [/quote] Dremels seem to be the Swiss Army Knife of guitar making

How would this sound with a 15" Ashdown Cab as an extension rather than the cab designed for it?