Recent content by matante

If your primary concern is health related I would try tapewounds first. See what's available and what people think is the flexiest. I think the black La Bellas are supposed to feel the smoothest, if that matters.

I don't know the answer to the question but the part about "working the crowd" got my attention. It's a bit old-fashioned to talk between songs and unless you're aiming at an older crowd, people just want to dance and hear good music. "Working the crowd" sounds a bit cheesy, or rather very...

I like to use a thin or medium-thin pick, and as I said I like very light gauges for the other strings. It seems that what works for me isn't balanced tension but a tension that rises from the lowest string to the highest.

After years and years of trying different strings and gauges I've come to the conclusion that I don't like a .040 for a G string, ever. I like very light strings compared to what's what's usually discussed here. I'm happy with .090 for the E string even on a short scale bass. I've used a .050...

The Thomastik Jazz Rounds medium scale are either 35" or 35.5" to the taper. Could work for you. For some reason every time Newtone strings are suggested on Talkbass they're either dismissed or ignored, but for a decent price you'll get the exact gauges you want, with the exact winding length...

Curious what's out there. I know of the Boss TU-03 but I had an earlier version that I wasn't thrilled with.

Ahhh. Ok. Thanks. I thought I remembered complaining at the time about the LA Series being Fender's fault. A small combo that was high quality was the Baby Blue. 10" but meant as something serious. The LA Series to me was just cheap stuff to cash in on the brand name.

I was referring to the LA Series which were the practice amps below the Workingman's line. Didn't feel anything like a a genuine SWR product. As I remember it, the new design language of the "Mo'Bass" and "Interstellar Overdrive" products were from the Fender era. It doesn't surprise me that...

What was the reason? Of course I defer to your knowledge and inside info. From my perspective it was a successful, innovative brand made in Los Angeles. Fender buys them and and suddenly they're marketing $100 practice amps, using more "juvenile" color schemes, and making things in Mexico but...

No one here has commented on the tone. If they don't like the looks there's nothing wring with saying they don't like the looks.

The demise of SWR was simply that Fender bought them and that took away all the coolness.

I could have sworn they were an L.A. company based out in the valley, Van Nuys I think. They must have moved to your town from L.A. if they had a new building made just for them.

What does the guitarist's tuning have to do with yours?

Remember that Roto makes two different 45-105 sets. There's the original one and then after Bass Player Magazine did that strings shootout where they essentially said "We consider 45-65-85-105 to be standard" all the manufacturers felt compelled to put out sets with those exact gauges.

They way I remember it is the John Entwhistle gauge that everyone buys as 45-65-80-105 is actually a bit thinner and the old packaging used to have the accurate numbers. Like 43-102 or something. But being in England he had to have easy access to whatever gauge was thinner, even they only had...