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  1. fretmeister
    @ped Stuart is a regular on thefretboard and although I've never used his services the punters over there seem happy.
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    When I did magic it was either 100% or Free. Never a discount. Discounts damage the value of your product. So that automatically separated out the charities I wanted to support and those I didn't. That makes the list of ones I would take nice and small and me performing would be not a lot different to making a monetary donation. That being said on a few occasions I was asked a few massive companies for free shows and clearly those companies were just doing it for the advertising for them and not the charity. That included Tesco and Pizza Hut. Tesco tried to change my mind by offering me a sandwich Meal Deal and some free coffee. Pizza hut didn't even offer me a pizza! dickheads.
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    Set up

    fretmeister replied to DTB's topic in General Discussion

    More stable yes. Rock solid and rigid - no. Temperature and humidity affect all wooden necks. Extreme temperature changes can even effect graphite necks a little as all materials react to temperature in some way. I've had to do some truss rod tweaks during a series of outside sets on the same day in the summer as the sun hitting the stage moved and then began to set. There is a trade off - you could make a graphite neck with F1 car levels of tolerance - so not expanding / contracting by more than 0.1mm under load but then you couldn't adjust it to suit your tastes.
  4. fretmeister
    Thinking about it - my Lionel Superlight is actually a little heavier now - I had a J pickup put in it as well. Not that I noticed the change!
  5. fretmeister
    Yes. Custom order for my birthday.
  6. fretmeister
    ah. my TT4 is about 2.8 kg and my Lionel is 2.58. Looks that idea is out the window then.
  7. fretmeister
    I play my shorties so much these days that my long scales barely get a look in, and when they do it’s my bitsa ray. Not played my TT4 Superlight for ages. I think I’ll give some thought to moving that on to raise funds for a JMJ. If I can find one that is light enough.
  8. fretmeister
    I keep thinking about a JMJ Mustang. Not sure I could cope with the neck width though. I like a skinny neck 99% of the time but I’ve never tried a P neck width with the short scale and it might be ok. I’ll have to find a dealer who won’t mind me playing all day and then potentially saying no.
  9. fretmeister
    Hopefully a limited run of 1.
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    Me too - but with it being EBMM/SBMM you know they'd just massively increase the price instead. The shipping fee for a one off was fine - but when it was obvious that there would be loads in a container at the same time that was taking the piss a bit.
  11. fretmeister
    Fender to have 21 or 22 frets on every bass. Having the high E (G string, 21st fret) is very useful. 20 fret or under basses are wrong. I'd love to see a physical version of the Vulf Compressor plugin. I love that thing and I wish I could have it in a pedal.
  12. fretmeister
    They did a limited run like that once. Might have even been neck through. It didn't sell enough to keep going with it.
  13. fretmeister
    Another vote for the Aguilar ag4p.
  14. fretmeister
    Another ex-user here. I've had One10 x2 stack, a Super Twin, then One10T + One10 stack. Enjoyed them all, but I've gone back to my first light weight love: Mark Bass. My first actual love was a pair of Marshall VBC412 cabs with separate big iron Hartke and Ashdown heads. I am never lifting all that again! It might not even suit me these days as my musical tastes have changed a lot. It's been about 18 months since I quit my last band and if I ever look for another I'd be perfectly happy to swap to IEM and no backline, but the last band was big band jazz without any PA support - piano, bass, guitar all had their own amps - so if I did that again I'd still need an amp. The brass and reeds are loud enough without any PA in the venues were were doing.
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    This sort of thing intrigues me too and I get lost in looking stuff up. Sometimes I just have to punch myself in the groin and repeat "Once the drums start it doesn't matter. Once the drums start, it doesn't matter" over and over again!
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