Dad3353

... 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.

... and sometimes not ...

Individuals cannot claim back VAT when selling, ever. Businesses, yes, but not ornery folk.

Transcription for guitar can work very well...

Good morning, Tony, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

They must have been made from the same wood, then.

This ^^ explains to a large extent just why folk put a 'Fender' logo on their 'Squier' basses. There's a lot of snobbery, whereby a good bass with 'Squier' on the headstock would be sneered at, and a duff bass with a 'Fender' label applauded. I'm not addressing those with dog's ears that can hear the difference; they are few, compared to the vast majority that aren't concerned with such stuff. A Good-sounding Bass is a Good-sounding Bass, whatever the label-snobs pretend.

Is that swamp ash or wood ash..? (asking for a friend ...).

There's an awful lot of basswood Squiers out there that sound just fine.

I gave it 35 seconds. No further comment.

Don't give in to half-measures; go all the way or not at all..!

If this is your only concern, forget it, I'd say. When the 'Precision' electric bass was introduced, many acoustic double-bass players of the world refused the concept, on the grounds that it was 'cheating' to have 'precision' frets, and that 'real' musicians had no need of such artifices. The World has moved on; 'clicks', backing tracks, samples and more have all been embraced by the music scene and the public in general. There will always be dinosaurs, but the real issue will be 'Are you (as a band...) capable of playing to a track..?'. If 'yes', get on with it with no qualms or reticence; if 'no', find a keys player or re-arrange/drop songs that don't work with your line-up.

Bike - Pink Floyd