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MrDaveTheBass

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  1. How much "relief" i.e. bend is there in the neck? You might find that tightening the truss rod to straighten the neck will bring the action down significantly.
  2. It's truely extraordinary. I haven't found another place like it on the whole world wide web. I actually find the help and support on non-bass related issues more useful now than the low note stuff. We should all be very proud of our lovely community.
  3. I've used Alpines for years - I never play without them: https://www.alpinehearingprotection.co.uk/products/musicsafe
  4. This is generally true. I have been deliberately over cautious with my advice. My current basses' necks normally move immediately after adjusting the truss rod. However, I have had guitars and basses that take a while to move after adjusting them. I have also heard stories of newbies destroying necks by piling on the turns when nothing happens immediately.
  5. Sounds like something my dominatrix was trying to teach me! 😉
  6. Yes! Your neck may also be affected by ambient heat and humidity. I usually have to adjust the truss rods of my skinny-necked EBMM Sterlings twice a year when the seasons change. Remember: Only adjust the truss rod by a quarter of a turn and then leave it for 24 hours to settle. Turn the truss rod clockwise to tighten it and lower the action, or anticlockwise to loosen it and raise the action.
  7. When I played with a drummer with an e-kit, I couldn't get used to not feeling the thump of the bass drum through the soles of my feet. I used to have to watch his right foot to try and guess where "One" was. I much preferred it when he played his acoustic kit, though that was much more of a pain in the donkey to lug about. Mind you, this was 20 years ago, so I would hope that e-kits have improved since then.
  8. Those Ideals are famous for their lovely warm tone.
  9. In my covers band we operate a veto system for choosing songs. If any one of us really hates a particular song, we don't play it. This means that over the years several of my suggestions have been voted down, but I don't mind because at least I know that I'll always like (or not mind) everything that we play. Now tell us what the song is and we'll tell you if it contravenes the Geneva Convention or not! 😉
  10. Love this track, especially the fuzz bass.
  11. Haha, yes, that's true, even though it doesn't weigh the same as an Orange either!
  12. That sounds reassuringly familiar OP. Strangely I'd never considered that anyone else would've experienced this. After a bereavement I went through a prolonged period of bad mental health, and would regularly see myself from above and behind. I actually found it strangely reassuring, though I was obviously rather mentally ill at the time. I treated it like a first-person shoot 'em up computer game, where you can be full-screen, and see directly out of your eyes, or zoom out behind your character so you can better see the baddies hiding behind the corners. Life at that point was so terrifying that it was comforting to zoom out and try and avoid the bad stuff coming along the track towards me. Fortunately, my mental health improved greatly through hypnosis, and I haven't experienced this strange phenomenon since.
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