[QUOTE=ebe9;13493386]I am going on the factthatthe majority of fretted players will be using rounds of one sort or another and that fretless players would be using flats for the most part.

From what I have actually heard with rounds on a fretless, you are esentially getting a fretted type tone, which for me pretty much negates having a fretless.

I assume one purchases a fretless to get more of that fretless sound, not a fretted sound on a bass without frets.


Don't get me wrong, a fretless with rounds does sound good, but if I want that sound I would play my fretted bass. I bought my fretless becasue I wanted a completely different sound and by stringing it up with flats, that is what I have gotten, plus no matter how small the little ridges on the fretboard are from the rounds, they still bug me. I like the wood to be unmarked and able to show of its detail.[/QUOTE]

Rounds on a fretless sounds very different to rounds on a fretted. How do you define a fretted type tone anyway? Just the fact it has a brighter, more harmonically rich sound? The vast majority of fretless players seem to use rounds, Jaco, Bunny Brunel, Marcus Miller, Gary Willis, Michael Manring... I can't even think of a player on fretless that doesn't use them. The who's who of fretless players seem to stick to rounds.

The standard fretless tone is characterised by roundwounds, so how can you say it goes against a fretless sound?

Also by your logic, would using flats on a fretted make it sound like a fretless?

[QUOTE=ebe9;13493406]The reason for that is the cost of strings.


An "okay" set of rounds are a hell of a lot cheaper than an "okay" set of flats.


So it makes financial sense to ship them with rounds so that a basic set of strings is there to have tension on the neck.

Look at it this way, if you could save US$10 per bass you ship by putting on rounds instead of flats, and you ship 1000 basses, thats US$10 000 right there.

And of course the likes of Cort are shipping several thousand basses every day.[/QUOTE]

apparantly they are shipping over 600,000 guitars a year.

not just Cort though, they build for Ibanez, Squier, Schecter and others.
the reason they can make things so cheap and have good quality is because they were one of the first guitar companies to see the potential in building out of Korea, South Korea and Indonesia.

apparantly botique companies employ them to make their budget line instruments to.

My mom let me stay home today. It was nice of her, but I wish she didn't because I'm gonna be really bored. I should've bought the RC 20 yesterday. Then I wouldn't have minded staying home.

Apparently I don't have school this coming Friday. :D

I didn't even know until today.

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;13493789]Apparently I don't have school this coming Friday. :D

I didn't even know until today.[/QUOTE]

PA day? All the schools here have that.

lowsound

Yeah, it's a PA day, I just didn't know about it until today. It was a nice surprise.

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;13493851]Yeah, it's a PA day, I just didn't know about it until today. It was a nice surprise.[/QUOTE]

Those are always nice, I am not going to school on friday. I am going away for the weekend so I am taking the day off.

lowsound

That's cool.

I hope my friend comes back from McMaster again this weekend. That would be pure awesome.

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;13493886]That's cool.

I hope my friend comes back from McMaster again this weekend. That would be pure awesome.[/QUOTE]

Party times?

lowsound

It always is when he comes back. :D

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;13493897]It always is when he comes back. :D[/QUOTE]

Cool.

lowsound

General discussion should be shut down. 90% of the threads are crap.

:/

[url]http://sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=498097[/url]

[QUOTE=Pinhead13;13493948]General discussion should be shut down. 90% of the threads are crap.

:/

[url]http://sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=498097[/url][/QUOTE]

When did they bring it back? I thought that it was shut down.

lowsound

They brought it back like 3 months ago....

Suck my dick Ebe9! I'm sitting on 75 hours of non smoking! That is it people, I'm past the 3 days, I'm going to be a little rich boy!

The General Discussion is a waste of bandwidth. Though it keeps all of them out of this forum.

Has anyone got the album truANT by Alien Ant Farm that they could possibly send? :thumb:

:upset:

Torrents are raping my internet speeds.

[QUOTE=Thonk;13494313]:upset:

Torrents are raping my internet speeds.[/QUOTE]

Lawl @ torrents.

[QUOTE=rh15951;13494238]Has anyone got the album truANT by Alien Ant Farm that they could possibly send? :thumb:[/QUOTE]
I second that.

lowsound

Thanks to torrents I can download albums in under 5 minutes. :D

I'm looking at the progress of my TRB.
It was shipped on the 20th.
And it's saying it wont be here till the 2nd!!
Does it really take 2 weeks to ship a bass from Quebec to British Colombia?

It seems a tad long.

Doesn't know how to use torrents properly.

[QUOTE=One Groovin Clown;13494406]I'm looking at the progress of my TRB.
It was shipped on the 20th.
And it's saying it wont be here till the 2nd!!
Does it really take 2 weeks to ship a bass from Quebec to British Colombia?

It seems a tad long.[/QUOTE]

A bicycle messenger is delivering it.

Is it strapped down to his bike using thin nylon rope too?

Damn Canada Post, I want my Bass now.

*throws a tantrum*

Lawl @ Ben.























:-*

[url]http://joessickmind.blogspot.com[/url]


Better than Spaceman's blog!!




joe

You using a private torrent site?

[QUOTE=Thonk;13494467]You using a private torrent site?[/QUOTE]

I sure do.



[url]http://roacs.blogspot.com[/url]


Better than Joe's blog!




...

I haven't updated it in a long time... no point in looking. :p

[QUOTE=Thonk;13494459]Lawl @ Ben.

:-*[/QUOTE]

I'll cut you. :angry:

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff;13494481]I sure do.



[url]http://roacs.blogspot.com[/url]


Better than Joe's blog!




...

I haven't updated it in a long time... no point in looking. :p[/QUOTE]



Same here....



joe

[url]http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=497964[/url]

^ Go there.

I'm off to go kill myself over homework. Back in a while. :wave:

79 non smoking hours!

How do I rip DVD's to my PC?

69 hours since my last cigarette. :p


Last = Only

Pah, that's wimpy.

Well, I'm not a dumb addict. :p

One essay down, one to go.

Dvd ripping? ANyone?

You probably need a DVD ROM and a program to rip DVDs with.

I've never done it so I don't know.

[url]http://www.download.com[/url]

If you're gonna find anything, you'll find it there.

Yeah I have a DVD rom. All I find are sh[COLOR=Black]i[/COLOR]tty fu[COLOR=Black]c[/COLOR]king trials which let you rip 30 secs of each chapter or some sh[COLOR=Black]i[/COLOR]t.