Fionn

Resting the strap button on the floor, with the bass in the upright position, doesn't even nearly provide the same volume or quality of tone.

[quote name='Dougalbass' timestamp='1368127217' post='2073641'] [attachment=134467:R0011295.JPG][font=georgia, serif][size=5][color=#0000ff]Hi to all SB fans.... Took me over 30 years to get one. Now I'm hooked! My SB 900 Dec' 1981[/color][/size][/font][attachment=134468:R0011273.JPG][attachment=134469:R0011275.JPG][attachment=134471:R0011289.JPG][attachment=134472:R0011277.JPG][attachment=134473:R0011283.JPG][attachment=134474:R0011288.JPG] [/quote] I saw this bass on ebay a while ago! My SB900 is exactly the same as yours, but it's a factory fretless. Now, he amazing thing about this is that it's the fretless sister of your bass!!! The serial number is 1120517 ... the one before yours!!!

Oh, and make sure that your arse or leg is planted on a different floorboard to that of the bass.

I recently moved house. The new place is a 1950's built house with a suspended timber floor downstairs. It's suspended about 2ft above the ground, and consists of standard pine floorboards laid over 8x2" joists (no insulation underneath). One of the improvements that I've made was to rip out the cruddy old carpets, sand back the floors, and varnish them. Looks great, and all that. [i]However[/i], I discovered an unexpected [color=#ff0000][b]mega-bonus[/b] [/color]the other day when sitting on the downstairs lounge-room floor playing an unplugged electric bass ... When playing with the hip of the bass resting on the floor, the floor acts as a sound-board. I moved around the room testing different parts of the floor and I've found the sweet spot. Naturally it's at a point on a floor board which is mid way between joists, although the sweet spot that I've found is particularly sweet, as some floor boards resonate better than others. Resting the bass onto a knot in the wood makes a slight difference too. It doesn't just resonate a wee bit, like when you press the back strap button against a door, stud wall, or something. It's really significant, and the tone is good too ... very bassy, but not overly muddy, surprisingly defined. Needless to say that my fretless bass now resides permanently in the lounge-room. If you have a suspended downstairs floor and you haven't tried this already, I bid you to do it. I've hardy plugged in a bass since I did. Deep joy! (in a bass-geek fashion).

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1366871566' post='2058214'] ... so Ned Steinberger & Stuart Spector got it very right then. [/quote] Warwick made a better job (than Spector) of translating Ned Steinbergers design into an exceptional bass.

Wow! the Q&A section is entertaining. I haven't read anything so stupifying since that thread on here where the guy was trying to sell that hacked up Warwick with loads of crap painted all over it ... good value!

Not too pricey either. You'd pick up a sweet one for around £1k

It would have to be an early Streamer Stage 1 Hand made in the 80's, wenge neck, cherry body, EMG's, transitional hardware. In my opinion those are the "Ultimate" Warwicks, Absolute modern classic.

yeahhhhh, keep the Thumb Bass, and save up for a sixer If it were me, I'd be after a six string Streamer. A perfect partner to the Thumb, and should satisfy any desire for low-mid presence and punch.

Hmmm. Mine is really quiet, as was another that I had. I wouldn't say that unwanted noise was an inherant problem with the SMX.

Cool. That'll be the Mach 2 then

Btw, what is the bass that Flea is playing in the majority of his clips in the film? Does anyone know?

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1363715914' post='2016483'] OC-3 tracks a little better than the OC-2 & has a good poly mode. I usually use mine in mono mode, so might replace it with an OC-2 sometime, but I'm happy with it. Sounds good going through some Moog filters. [/quote] I bought an OC-3 last week. It doesn't have that cool gitchy thing that folk love about the OC-2, it doesn't sound as beefy and synthy, but like yer man above said, it tracks better. It's a completely different pedal. Aye, OC-3 in poly mode is really sweet, very full, deep, and useable. In drive mode it sounds insane ... thick and crunchy, but with surprising tonal clarity. Infact, I've never heard a distortion that I prefered. That was an unexpected bonus from an extra feature on an octave pedal.

Wall hangers would seem the neatest option, whilst keeping all your basses. There's the problem of it being a rented flat, but the screw holes that you would make in the wall would be [i]really[/i] easy to remedy when the time comes for the hangers to come down. A dab of Polyfilla, sand smooth when dry, a brush of paint, and no one would ever know that the walls had been adorned with beautiful basses (that's all assuming that it's not wallpaper that's on the walls, of course).

I'd just like to give big ups to the Basschat community. There have been a few forums that I've dipped in and out of in my years of using the internet, but I must say, in comparison to other forums that I'm familiar with, Basschat has been the most cordial, informative, helpful, and generally refreshing of the lot. Sure, the occasional bawbag or chancer will surface here from time to time, but by and large you guys are great. You're a treasure chest of knowledge, interesting information, and considered opinion ... a superb sounding-board to the other randoms of your kind, such as myself. Not every large specific-interest forum grouping is like this. I've found other of these "shared interest groupings" to be of a completely different culture, with huge proliferations of ignorance and arrogance. From groups that you might not expect to be too bad either. Climbers forums can be really horrible, for example. I have come to the opinion that this is a cultural thing. Generally, that bass players as a grouping somehow share a certain resonance (beyond the obvious), and within that voodoo there is some messure of the code that makes a more agreeable human. It seems that we're just that wee bit more mellow than most. All sweeping generalisations, of course. Glad I'm a bass player

I just traded pedals with Chris. Everything was really easy and fast. No probs, deal with confidence

Just listened to Huw Foster playing a bass cover of MJ's Human Nature. Good stuff! On the subject of sweet P-Bass tone check out the video on this thread, it's sublime ... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/202707-herbie-funk-1974/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/202707-herbie-funk-1974/[/url] Paul Jacksons tone is so earthy. Such a great player too.

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1363886166' post='2018972'] Any love for these before I dive in?[/quote] Absolutely! Thrust, Headhunters, and Man-Child are the holy trinity of Herbie's albums ... imho.

An hour-long documentary film of the Red Hot Chili Peppers recording Blood Sugar Sex Magik in 1991. Pretty entertaining stuff ... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qnkyoVCXWw[/media]

I find that wearing ski gloves on my feet makes my fretless playing more sexual

haha! great stuff!