Recent content by jpf64

Hear Him , Hear Him ! My teacher had me work thru Simandl and Louis Bellison's Modern Reading in 4/4 Time..i told him i wanted to sound like, Ray Brown & Paul Chambers,have a nice phat , warm 'Bassy' tone..not this modern, electric bass string action , tone like your'e pursing your lips into a...

I changed out my Spiracores for Eurosonic Lights so could play slap more and got serious buzz up by the nut on the E, A&D strings up to the 3rd note say G on E string & i seemed to have fixed it by jamming cardboard from a match pack between the string & nut, but it's no longer working &...

Can i ask you is that an AF of M gig? Chord charts? Lead sheets? In my experience if you have a min between songs you can switch between standup & electric( I did it for a live TV Show for Comedy Central) get the DI, EQ sound, dialed in so the sound man doesn't ka-nip & Robert's your...

Thnx Monsieur Thnx Monsieur!

Hey there notice there's a fair bit written about these tube trees and their merits and demerits excetera I need something to be able to control the two pickups I currently have on my upright a K&K fingerboard PU and Gage Realist & I was thinking since I already had one of these Tube Pre from...

Lisa of LS Bass Works can make any bass sound like a million bucks! had an Englehardt C1 set up by her & no foolin, I'm no Richard Davis but I get tons of compliments on my basse's sound... i recently A- B an Eastman carved top against some Shens & an older ,fancy German carved bass and it...

I've tried to research the provenance my 'Dupree' French bow stamped 'France' & traced it to Metropolitan Music who confirmed it was a trade name for bows they imported from Germany by Doerfler(sp) who wouldn't return my inquieries... Metropolitan had them stop stamping France supposedly when...

The New Method for String Bass is perhaps the most transferrable choice for the classroom teacher of intermediate and advanced high school bassists because it teaches bassists the necessary skills to play orchestral music. 26 The method is transferrable to a heterogeneous classroom setting...

hmmn that 'Bit Torrent- Virus mal ware ' option does sound super attractive when you put it like that haha, maybe could 'Bondo' the garage with all the doors shut and get wicked good buzz before hallucinating- projectile vomiting and going on to Birdland in the sky !! l' ll write To Hal Leonard...

Sry to bother you Mr Goldsby, forgive my nubian- ism if i'm transgressing the unwritten law but i was wondering if you could direct me towards a finding a replacement CD for your most excellent book? trying to read dwn The All Things You Ain't Etude & live to hear what its supposed to sound...

did you ever find did you ever find out which shop in China makes it? love to see some pictures of it and maybe hear a sample arco & pizz when you get it dialed in, purchased etc ,good luck