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Lousy bowing technique ^^.

For me, it started when 'Freak Out' was released. It started, but never stopped. Great Stuff.

Good evening, Gunther, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share. We have topics for photos and nature; have a scout around...

634 5789 - Ry Cooder

The trial pack of four different Black Mountain thumb picks arrived this morning; that's fast (from Canada to France...). Well packed in a stout envelope, with wooden dowels where the thumb goes, to prevent them being crushed in the post, a nice thought. The paper inside states that it would be normal to have about fifty hours of picking to start to feel 'at home', with these or any other picks. I chose one from the pack and did a couple of ten-minute stints; only forty-nine and a half hours to go..! First impression..? Positive. I've never been able to get on with plectrums, as my fingers don't grip very well (yes, I drop drum-sticks, too...). I looked up a string-skipping exercise on t'web, then played a few of my chord-melody sequences, and it started to feel quite comfortable. I can switch and/or mix my finger-picking/claw techniques, but will have to adapt the thumb strokes, as they are now using the pick. I could swivel the pick away to use 'thumb-brushing''; I'll get on to these refinements later. Altogether pleased, for the moment. I'll try the others in the pack, although as I'm not a veteran pick user, and am not overly fussy in general, I suspect that I'll find 'em all much of a muchness. Are they worth their price..? Too soon to pronounce definitively, but so far I've no regrets. If it enables me to use a plectrum where before I couldn't, it'll be a winner for me.

I have a different pwd for every site, but all with the same construction, so all I have to remember is the construction. Obviously I can't say exactly what mine is, but Great Basschat Minds will surely be able to come up with something..? Some sites (bar stewards...) forced a pwd change, and removed the possibility to re-use a previous one, so some 'innovation' was required. It has worked for me for the last several decades, so I must be doing something right.

Good evening, JSBass, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

A lot of these phonic artifacts can be greatly reduced, or eliminated, by the simple expedient of having the mic at a greater distance. The downside is, naturally, capturing more of the 'room'. A 'dead' room will help with that; try recording the voice with the mic behind your head, 'looking' over your shoulder. With a heavy blanket suspended in front of you, there'll be less sibilance and pops. It's possible to have a 'normal' second mic, and mix the two, if phasing can be mastered, too. Just a thought.

So there are other folk with auto-text..?

Fixed.

I could sell you some; I've a cupboard full of the useless things..!

With longer locks, this could be me, except that he's outside, and upright.

... and breathe...

Just a tad reductionist here, methinks. There is much skill in getting 'budget' gear to sound as one wishes, and hunting down extravagant stuff is not, in itself, a guarantee of musicality. Your remark is basically the extreme ends of a bell curve; most is in the middle. (... and yes, my rugby shirts are inexpensive, but Dior didn't have any in the range, so ...)

Ah, yes; I hate it when that happens, and it happens to me a lot. I go for that Big Bend and my finger slips under the adjacent string. Sometimes one can hear the expletives captured by the guitar pick-ups, if they're uttered loudly enough. I once needed a skin graft.

Good afternoon, Sully, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Good evening, David , and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Misty - Errol Garner

How hard can it be to have something like that 3D-printed..? More especially as you have a model..! Here's an alternative anyway... Thingiverse StingRay Thumbrest ...

Al the 'link' stuff (on Page 2...) is for businesses. There is no provision in the UK for an individual to claim back VAT on exporting anything.

Good evening, Dave, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

Ana Vidovic is quite good.

In '85 we'd bought our lowly remote cottage, opened a TV repair shop in town, and had two toddlers. No electricity, no on-tap hot water, so records..? Nah... I would 'hum' them to sleep with Schubert's Ninth. Happy Daze.

Ana Vidovic is quite good.