Jonbouy

Beepster


That was a joke. I've never met Tal nor do I have any plans to divorce her. I just like her playing.

That's a nice body shape, is it a standard J bass?

It's not a Fender bass. It's either a Sadowsky or a Lakeland, I can't recall exactly. She endorses the bass and the EBS amps.

oh... that was moob joke... i was gonna make a moob joke... but... moobs...

And...  Bapu has 'em!

(BTW - Was in a store when I heard the original Dude Looks Like A Lady playing and couldn't help laughing - I now hear it with your lyrics instead!)

bapu


 

Heck, I'm barely a Bapu.

Don't be modest; you're completely a Bapu.

Back to the OP. I'd like to suggest that the next time you want to do this, just take off the strings and put some shrink wrap on them instead. You can simply slice it off with no residue if it wears out. 

When it comes to damping, I'm from the Jamerson school. Tuck a piece of foam under the strings. You can move it around to adjust the damping.

wow... this thread was de-railed purdy fast.....

to swing, or attemp to swing it back to topic.....

I knew a bass player who, before a show, used to roll up a doobie ......I meant.... bandana and wedge it under the strings at the bridge to allow a slight muting...claimed he liked the tone it gave. 

Then there was the bass player who used a distortion pedal fuzz tone on everything..... I think the doobie would  have definitely helped that ........

Beepster


stupid filter

Just wait until the CHB do their first Spice Girls cover, sponsored by Spic-n-Span Cleaner... 

bapu


Heh heh. Herb said doobie and left off brothers.

Dubai Brothers?  

Old55

bapu


Heh heh. Herb said doobie and left off brothers.

Dubai Brothers?  

These? If you know Dubai, you will probably conclude this was put together in a bedroom in Al Barsha, in an appartment well known to the "milkman".

Jonbouy


Man, I've even had to run out of a recording down to the nearest radio shack to get a £5 PZM mic so the engineer could play out my last take into a public toilet block and have me sit and record the 'room' there because it wasn't sounding right from the studio mics.  I had to time it right so we could play out the entire track without somebody flushing from the next cubicle...lol.  We weren't worried about phase issues and stuff, somebody taking a dump next-door was far more of a concern.

I wonder if I should share that tip in the Techniques forum?...I'd probably get ducked for promoting some kind of witchcraft...

Way back in the day, when MIT's radio station was still WTBS (before Ted Turner offered some $ for his favorite letters), I'm told the jocks would include the natural porcelain reverb from the men's room into the broadcast stream.  Yes, flushing was an issue.
 
And as much as I enjoyed the Tal video (I'd never heard of her), what was the point?  Does she have tape on her strings?  I was, um . . . watching her closely in the video, and I didn't notice.  Oh well.  Have to watch it again.
 
As a bass player, I personally would never put electrical tape on my strings, too worried about the sticky residue.

That's not a "feature" of the Hofner bass?

 Great to hear the tape is working out for you. I once had a cheap Dean bass that I had to dampen to get the sound I was looking for on a few of the lower strings. Some cotton fibers from a cigarette butt at the nut and bridge did it for me.