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True. I own the same bass (5 string also). It's comfortable to play despite the thick neck. I've played the 4 string RockBasses on several occasions, don't know the specs but it seemed like regular 19mm spacing to me. Thing is the Star Bass is probably not the best example of acoustic/hollow sounding bass the OP is asking for. It's Jazz Bass'ish, but fatter, not that much hollow honk. Still, can definitely get in the beatlesque ballpark on flats (the shorter 32" scale 4 string is better at that). It reacts like a solid body too (no microphonics or feedback) and also the feel is more that of a solid body bass (a solid maple block runs all along the center of the body). One with MASSIVE sustain BTW. I got mine because I gave up dealing with the unpredictability of ABGs/semihollows in different spaces for my occasional amplified acoustic gigs. I can more then fake it now with the Star Bass' looks while having proper performance, with a tone that still totally cuts it for acoustic gigs. Not the purest of approaches to "acoustic" gigs, I know I'm cheating 😅

I do sometimes wonder how much of the tobacco sunburst on my dad's 1969 Tele is actual tobacco... That's a good result though, well done!

The first cut is the deepest - Rod Stewart

Nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon!

I use feeler gauges on the 7th fret while using a capo on 1st fret and holding down 12th fret (i'd need to confirm the 12th fret as its been a while and might be where the neck meets the heel) Generally i just eyeball along the neck and make sure it has the slightest relief. Once happy with that i'll measure it and move onto the string height and intonation. I usually reference a set up guide i found on Fodera basses. Dave

This was so cool. Still love that era of metal, friends of Pantera in the the NOLA scene, Crowbar, CoC etc.

The Mildhearts Ginger Mildheart (stretching the joke a little, I'll grant you...) Kim Milde Marty Milde (It would be rude to have his daughter in the list and not him, really) Mild Cherry Mild Willy Barrett Running Mild

It's just laziness, really!

Yeah. I *think* what I need to do is to jumper the two toggle switches to rule the two toggles out. If I can get it to sound "correct" like that then I might be able to brave trying to get those switches out --- though it will be a gigantic PITA.

@itsmedunc bought some MarkBass rack ears from me. All went well

Looking forward to our electric headline show in Swindon this Thursday, along with our fantastic handpicked special guest. Free entry.

This isn’t exactly what you are asking for, but I just google the lyrics and paste them into Pages on my iPad so I can format them in a way that helps me break them down and read them. When I play live I just convert them into a PDF for quick swiping.

have limited experience with preamps but the Sadowsky has been good for me maybe 30 years(?) it sort of adds "body"

Variations on a theme, I like it. Cracking post. 😊 Mark

It will be a few weeks before I have them all in-front of me. Far as I know the Pearl tracks like the OC2, its the original John Davis Nerve sound, just the oc2 is more robust for the road so he ended up moving to that. I had one 10-15 years ago but I wasn’t as familiar with using octaves for synth sounds, now I’m excited to try it again and see how it fairs against the more common suspects. My thoughts on octavers are there are generally two types, the more accurate natural sounding mxr bod, aguilar octomizer etc and then the really synthy OC2 type, that the Pearl and I assume T-16 fall into. As it’s so hard (expensive) to find an octaver that is footswitchable between mixed and 100% wet, I find it’s easier to have two. So far (and I haven’t played my recent BOD but I’ve had 2 previously) this is most musical and natural sounding octave I’ve played. I’m heavily inspired by Michael League’s use of his and that’s why I’ve picked up another. Then the T-16 and Pearl are going to fight it out, it’ll probably come down to space/size but I’m keen to see if they beat out my Sonicake Octaver which (to me) is a very accurate OC2 clone for next to nothing. Attached is the route I’m thinking, only the oc2 would be the pearl and the phat phuk the Cream Pie Deluxe (as neither are on the planner). I don’t need it all at once but it’s melting my brain trying to find a way to have small pedal boards for little projects here and there when I’d like all those creative options just there to indulge when it suits. To keep inline with the thread, my latest pedal purchase is a Mojo Hand 442 filter, my favourite but I’ve so far only been able to track down the guitar version 🤷‍♂️ probably fine, worst case I think it’s a simple mod to make it the bass/red version. Deco v2 I’ve had sat for like 4 months waiting for me to grab it. Capo is the third I’ve owned and relatively new to me. Bod as above Wetter box I need to buy and I’m still deciding if this is excessive, mainly depends on if I stick with the capo and deco. Pearl (shown as an oc2) as above

If You Cleaver Me Now - Chicago

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