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16 over the past 4 or 5 bands. None in the current outfit.

Yup, the BDI21 is a brilliant piece of kit. Loads of players on here have them either as a back up or as a main pedal.

Love it. Very much looking forward to their next album. I came to Radiohead around the time of OK Computer and have ben hooked since. Some of the albums since then have taken a bit more investigating than others, but i really enjoy the fact that every album holds new surprises.

The E and A strings are 0.005" thicker on the RB45 too; standard RS66 are 0.100" and 0.080" on the E and A strings, and the RB are 0.105" and 0.085". My preferred gauge, and cheaper too!

I've had great customer service from Roto in the past too - all-round good eggs!

True - it's amazing the number of students of a similar age I've seen walk in to a lesson and pull out some amazing riffs and chops. Turns out nobody had told them it was supposed to be difficult!

I've built a couple of WM clones (cost less than a tenner each time) and I loved playing with them at home, but just not obnoxious enough for my live sound - the fuzz is a bit too 'polite' for my liking. There's no accounting for taste though.

I just started to learn jazz guitar last year, at the tender age of 40. I'm absolutely loving it, and it's given me a deeper understanding of jazz bass playing too, so it's a win/win situation. Once you get basic (moveable) chord shapes under your fingers then you can literally play anything. I sight-read my way through 2 jazz standards the other night - something that was unthinkable last month. I'm on a Vintage (brand, not age) SG copy with flat wound 10s, which make bending a bit difficult due to the tension, but as a 'second' instrument I don't want to be shelling out to restring it every couple of weeks. As for choice of guitar, I have recurring tendonitis in my fretting hand, so had to be careful about neck profile etc… I really wanted to play a Telecaster (who would't?) but the neck profiles were a bit too thin for me to comfortably play for any length of time; also the slightly shorter scale-length of Gibson-style guitars made more sense too. 34 is nothing. Music is everything.

I thought it was something that was mathematically quantifiable: Period of Bass Ownership is inversely proportional to Cost of Bass, or something similar.

I remember watching that a long time ago. I think I enjoyed it.

I used to thunk Floyd Rose terms were the pinnacle of guitar engineering. Then I saw a Kahler unit on a G&L. THAT is something special.

I've always found that I prefer the sound of fretless J basses (or any bass with two pickups) to those with a single pickup. Apart from Musicman basses. Maybe it's just P basses…

Absolutely gutted - awful news.

https://youtu.be/yirMSLeV3f0 Jazz with flats. Granted, it's no national anthem…

Love 'em. I've got 2 basses, both of which are 'bits' basses. They cost me less than £100 each and play brilliantly (as far as I'm concerned). I know that if I sold them (not that I ever would) I'd struggle to make half of that back, but that's not why I made them. There are many like them, but these 2 are mine.

Built myself a TS808 clone recently. Replaced the 47nf cap that sets the minimum frequency to the feedback loop with a 470nf. Instead of cutting everything below 734Hz it now goes down to 74Hz. Lovely little pedal! It's got a bit more gain than I need, so I'll probably replace the 500kΩ Drive pot for something a bit smaller so that I've got more control over the rate of change.

First one was better. Well, it [i]started[/i] better...

Yes. My VT1-EQ is on all of the time - if I need less drive then I just back off on my (agricultural) right hand technique. Nice to know that if I need a particular note or phrase to be dirty then I can just dig in again and "oof, there it is"! Like many have said - in a full band mix a bit of dirt goes a LONG way.

[quote name='dudewheresmybass' timestamp='1460543222' post='3026597'] Btw, whatever happened in the Coldplay/ joe satriani case? [/quote] A series of mistrials, due to acute narcolepsy rendered the lawsuit unmanageable.

Looks like a Charvel copy. Nice though.

Great vids Happy Jack. I'm at the tail end of physiotherapy for poor posture combined with a heavy bass and fast playing. I gave the exercises a once-overthis afternoon and have just done an hour of playing which seemed a little easier than usual. Will persevere with the technique.

Did Stryper buy it back?

[quote name='adamg67' timestamp='1458562737' post='3008545'] If you fancy the "real thing" you can't go wrong with DHA preamps and ODs, very good and amazing customer service: [url="http://www.davehallamps.co.uk/page8.html"]http://www.davehalla...o.uk/page8.html[/url] [/quote] Wouldn't know about the customer device - I've never needed it. DHA stuff is the absolute BALLS! I've been through lots of very nice gear in my search for the ultimate bass O/D tone (Sansamps, Aguilar etc…) and finally settled on the Dave Hall VT1-DI-EQ. It's my personal bass panacea.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1459503411' post='3017125'] Went to a jam session last night and there were THREE saxophonists there queuing up to play all over someone else's solo or step in at a particularly inappropriate moment. They didn't disappoint [/quote] Yowza! You stayed until the end of the 2nd?!?