Recent content by jmm55

The website lists all of the manufacturers he carries, and many of them make bass equipment like Rickenbacker and Phil Jones, so I would not look at store pictures of just guitar gear as any real guide post. Obviously, I started the thread because he has some excellent looking basses, and bass...

There is a new guitar and bass pro shop just outside Bethany Ontario, near Peterborough, or rather about an hour from Toronto. Stellar looking shop, with slews of guitars, basses, and amps, like Rickenbacker, Deusenberg, Phil Jones, etc. They are in an unusual location, but make no mistake...

I have one. I have had it for a while now. I have only played perhaps two acoustic basses, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. I am just curious if there are any other owners out there, and what your thoughts are on it.

Actually, I was a Gibson man for the first 25 years of playing, so I would still quite like your 58 LP musiclogic. Somewhere between our diametrically opposed opinions is the truth. I think you misread something in what I wrote, because I did not prove any point of yours. With Strat's (you...

Hmmm... Maybe basses, but certainly not solidbody guitars. I am a bit of a Stratocaster aficionado, and have about a dozen at last count. One can argue the merits of the term tonewood, but that some of my Strats sound better, worse, or different than others due to the body woods and mass is...

One does have to first make a distinction between solid body amplified and unamplified instruments. I may have erred in introducing acoustical instruments here, but I just wanted to point out that materials and glues are important in some types of instrument making. I did say that basses may be...

I like your avatar. Actually, I know a number of high end "classical" instrument makers, both violin and guitar. Of course the primary reason for using hide glue is indeed reversibility, but there is conjecture among many that tone may also be a factor, and why not. Glue is used to assemble...

It may be that basses -and the frequency range they represent- are not as sensitive to variations in materials, but it is worth noting that in other instruments (violins and guitars in particular) wood type is a critical factor, and so is glue type. In violins, there is nothing to hype, as...

My main purpose for (occasionally) using a capo would be to more easily accompany my guitar for recording, when I use a capo on it. I tune the bass the same way, and so the capo helps me fit in better. I am merely a guitar player who labors to make the bass work, although that might change as I...

I would like to have some fresh setup values for bass. It seems that there is much less information on the internet in this regard than for guitar. The bass in question is 34" scale, with 50 70 90 110's, with the E and A tuned down a step, for most of my playing. I only play with my fingers...

Yes, naive question(s) I know. And to think I have been playing guitar for decades, but rarely in a band, or with a real bassist. Now I am teaching myself to play, so I can record a bit. If so, any preference for model?

O.K. thanks.

Is string bending a bona fide technique on fretted bass?

Hmmm... I thought Rotosound was the largest bass string maker (hence my arguably qualifier) if we simply define largest as the company who has more bass strings on more basses in the world, but I suspect I am about to be corrected :)