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Just took delivery yesterday on my new Polytone Clip, from Sweetwater. Had to pay $49, but free shipping and fast delivery makes up for it. So far, I love it - super visible, and it tracks really fast so I know if I'm tuned up quickly. The directions just suck - tiny print I need a magnifying...

Huh? What's this dude trying to say?

Glenn Cornick, baby. 'Nuff said.

I'm hopin' you get pics - post 'em here if the guy actually sends some.

OK, I just learned how to post multiple large pics in here (still kinda new, sorry). I already posted one measly lame pic of my '97 Roscoe Beck 5, but hopefully this post will mark my OFFICIAL entry in the Custom Shop club! Do I get a number? I usually leave both pickups in series...

Oh fer Pete's sake, thanks! That was simple. Much appreciated.

Hate to sound like a dork, but for some reason I can't seem to be able to figure out how to post pics. I've uploaded some of my own pics from my hard drive (the bar graph at the top of my Manage Attachments thing says I have a total of 510.1 KB of attachments already uploaded), but what I'm...

Dang - I may have to get one of EACH! :hyper::bassist::D

According to Carol Kaye, the function of the foam under the bridge is to kill some of the overtones and harmonics. This allows more of the fundamental to show through, while forcing a muted upright tone. Apparently this allowed the bass to sit in the mix on all the hit records better than the...

OK, I was reading that the Highway One is made in the U.S.A. and then shipped to the Mex plant in Ensenada via Highway One (hence the name) to get the nitro finish, which is illegal in the U.S., then shipped back to finish assembly. Also I read that the nitrocellulose finish allows the wood to...

Yep, it IS teal green! Sorry, I forgot to say that.

I've got a P-bass in my horizons, but probably not until the first of the year. Lately I've been hearing the buzz about the American Standard, but then yesterday some talk about the Highway One came up and now I'm looking at both. Apparently at some point the Highway "1" became the Highway...

My '97 Fender Roscoe Beck 5-stringer. It's been strung up with TI Jazz Flats for the past 4 or 5 years, I forget how long. Straight into my Ampeg B-50R for practice or coffeeshop gigs, or into my B-100R for louder gigs. All blues all the time. No, ma'am, we're musicians.

+1 from me too about the battery issue. The mp3 Tascam bass trainer has rechargeable batteries but they discharge after only a couple or three days - but I practice about 2 hours a day. It recharges via a USB cable but I got a wall wart USB thingie from Radio Shack to do the job and it takes...

Huge props for the Tascam mp3 bass trainer. I bought mine from somebody here so I got a deal. But the thing is worth the full retail price, IMO. I practice with it every day - effects galore on it, but the only one I use is compression. It's actually a limiter, not so much a compressor but...

OK, I'll bite. 1. The Fuster Clucks. 2. The Euro Lagniacs.

Just found this thread. It doesn't take "frenzied idiots" to ruin things. I learned the hard way to get a backup bass to take to gigs... a long time ago the band I was in got hired to play a backyard birthday party. The gig was 130 miles away so it was a roadtrip, too! Anyway, I had my '71...

Sorry, I forgot to mention that in the display cases holding the baseballs was sign saying something like "From the collection of Geddy Lee". My bad.

Apparently so. I live near Kansas City Kansas and recently went to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Fascinating place; it's a total testament to the blacks of the early part of the 20th century playing ball in the face of discrimination. But I noticed in the museum a huge collection of...

Mastermold, what sales are you referring to? I'd be interested in picking up a spare set or two. My reasoning is who knows what the price will be two years from now...

Nah. I got too much hair. Funny thing, at the same time I had my tooth knocked out my best friend had a new bridge built for him, and he sent me a pic of his whistler. I put the two pics together and named it "Oklahoma Twins" because everyone knows that all people in Oklahoma are toothless and...

Quit whining. When I was in sixth grade a kid threw a rock and knocked my upper right front tooth out (same one as yerz) and I had to get the whole birth canal - I mean root canal thing, then a porcelain cap held in place with a platinum rod that was shoved up my skull. Then just a few years ago...

I have a 5-string set on my Fender Roscoe Beck, been there almost four years. Still sound freakin' awesome. Weekend gigs and 2 hours practice 6 days a week.

Cripes!

:mad:Yeah, yeah, OK, I get the point. It's just that my tuning keys was the last remaining part of our observable universe that didn't line up with my preconceived ideas of how things should be. Hell, after I whipped our local weather into shape last month, I thought I had it all...

To wrap fewer or more windings resulting in the key laying flat. Probably pointless. LOL!:D Yeah, the whole topic is ridiculous - I'd rather practice to become a better musician than agonize over something so trivial. It's just that I've seen basses hanging high on the wall at GC, and they...

Yeah, that's what I thought too. I think it's just a luck of the draw - maybe sometime in the next 40 years I'll get them to all line up. But, I suspect that one key might be to buy the same brand of strings next time but before taking the old strings off, try to notice how many winds on the...

Is there a trick to re-stringing my bass so that the tuning keys end up laying flat after tuning? I'm betting that it's impossible..... Enlighten me!

Yikes.....synths suck puppy pink things. Oh well, all I know is that to my ears at least, Night Shift is a pretty darned cool tune and is assuredly doable with a fretless bass. The key, having listened to it myself about a dozen times in a row, would be nailing the vocals! It's the harmonies...

Synth bass :spit: ?? Hmm, well I suppose it's possible but I really don't think so. With headphones you can really hear some "under the fingers" random stuff going on as well as some slide in a couple of places. Mainly I just admire the musicality of the song as a whole, and the way the bass...

Never mind the other suggestions. The Avalon U5 is the finest, most versatile, best-sounding DI there is on the planet. End of story. Might as well close this thread.

I want to chime in. In my opinion, you NEED to have a plan for your self-teaching. That is, scales, arpeggios, and modes are all great things to run through every day. But please believe me, it's more important to practice EVERY day than to increase your practice time per day. In other words...

Lately I've rediscovered this song - very open uncluttered arrangement, great vocals and a bassline that carries the song beautifully. Listening to the song, though, it seems the bass player plays a note and it seems to ring for several measures. Man, you can really hear the "mwah" singing on...

John McVie from Fleetwood Mac. Tasty.

Yep! Bass pron...I mean bass porn...:bassist::D:bassist::D

Aha, ok I see now. Basically if I see a large pic on here then it's being linked from another server. OK, I have my own website too but I have a photobucket account that I rarely use. Guess I'd better look into that. Thanks guys.

OK, small problem but not to me. I see some others posting these big pics of their basses etc., and yet when I post pics the upload thing says I'm limited to 150KB in size. What gives?:confused:

Dangit, forgot to include a few pics of my axe. Here ya go... sorry, no pics of my amps........

1. "cazksbass", real name Doug 2. 58 this coming August 3. Fender Roscoe Beck 5-string, teal green, stock, strung with TI Jazz Flats. Ampeg B-50R for practice, Ampeg B-100R for gigging. 4. Been playing guitar since age of 14, but played bass in earnest for past 25 years. First bassline...

No need to sew the strap slots smaller. I use the "poor man's straplocks". Go to the hardware store and buy black rubber washers. Mine are 1-1/2" diameter and are punched with a 1/8" hole in the center, and the rubber is about 1/16" thick. I just put on my strap over the bass button, and then...