fretmeister

Some older vids suggest that he's actually used MIDI/AI to lift the melodies. Others suggest that he's recording them at a very low speed and then speeding up. As Beato noticed - he's not good enough to be on RB's channel. The stupid thing is - if he put this much effort into learning the skills to rip people off for so long (and that's not including the guitars he was lent that he sold / given to advertise and then just sold without keeping his end up) then he could have put that effort into actually learning to play.

MTV and Kerrang TV were on all the time in my house. I miss when they were music channels - programming by other people is a good way of discovering new stuff rather than just me picking things I already know about. Just like the R1 Friday Rock Show years before. Used to get a cassette out and record it from the radio. Happy days!

Good question. Music is a technical skill, certainly, but one that is used to create art. I suppose when I'm playing my own compositions then I'm an artist, but perhaps not when playing other people's work. But then again a performance can be art in itself even when the 'script' is written by someone other than the performer. Not sure there's a definitive answer really.

Pat bought my Ashdown RM800Evo 2 head. Great communications all the way and aside from the good old Royal Mail pretending that nobody was in when they knocked to deliver it, all was very smooth. Thanks Pat.

It seems Giacomo is back.... and still stealing from other youtubers with low followers Disappointing that Alberto Rigoni seems to be playing with him now.

The Mark Bass Advanced Soft Touch strings feel very much like DR to me, and cheaper. They have Stainless and Nickel.

Poor service thread on tFb as well https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/287054/

I've recently got the building bug and so far I've done my Pingray, a strat and I have the parts for a Gibson scale telecaster in the house but I need the weather to get warmer again before I can paint outside. But now I'm thinking of doing a short scale 50s P bass as a sort of Dusty Hill tribute. Ideally I'd like to find a slightly downsized body to keep the proportions right, but I'll think about getting a body blank if I have to - slab bodies are probably the best option for a first time body making attempt. A blank that has the neck pocket already done would be perfect. If I can get suitable parts over the next few months then I'd have 2 things to paint in the spring. I'd do it in that old butterscotch type colour he had for a long time, then do the hairdryer + air can cooling approach to get the finish cracking a little. I wish I had a workshop - at the moment I have to do everything other than soldering in the garden. I also really need to spend some money on power tools. Other than an off-brand Dremel and a drill I'm doing everything by hand.

Tell him you’ve never seen such a great parody band. Best ever and that you really needed a laugh. Thank him repeatedly.

Dunlop short scale flatwounds are very nice - but I'm not sure how loud they would be on an acoustic instrument - is it purely acoustic or can it also be plugged in?

No because the distance between frets will be wrong. But if you get a bolt on and put a properly build shortscale neck on it and keep the neck pocket in the same place then you have to move the bridge to make it work. For Fender guitars Warmoth do conversion necks that do not need the bridge or the pocket moved - the neck is built in a way that makes it all work just by screwing it on. I am not aware of anyone doing bass conversion necks.

That one is different. This is the same as the one my neighbour has, albeit in a different colour: https://reverb.com/item/501921-reduced-rock-bottom-price-aria-elecord-feb02-acoustic-bass-fishman-transparent-blue-no-veneers The actual one is in a brown burst.

My next door neighbour just bought one of these from a charity shop. They are not on the Aria website anymore and the only one I can find on the web is one from a Reverb listing 11 years ago in the USA where it sold for £223.84 equivalent. My neighbour bought it on a whim, doesn't really play but is now retired and thinking about doing something with his time. The action is a bit high and it probably needs the bridge adjusting by a luthier so as to not ruin the pickup - it has a Fishman 3 band with a semi para mid range control. If anyone knows anything about these, please let me know.

My EMGs are about 1mm from the string. I've got a Smoothhound and a Line 6 G70 and neither of them distort the wireless. The G70 has a gain control on the output / receiver going to the next things in the the signal path but the Smoothhound does not. Neither has a gain control on the transmitter to receiver. The Smoothhound was very cheap, the G70 was not. Are you sure it's the wireless and not something later in the chain?

I can’t decide which I liked best. I did do another one with my John Stockman / Karnivool patch and it sounded so OTT, but unfortunately the levels were crap and it was clipping all over the place. I used Moises to remove the original bass part. Such a great app!

@HeadlessBassist Sorry for the delay. I recorded a play along of one of my favourite songs: “Come as you are” by Beverley Knight. And then because I was curious I recorded did it again for another 3 takes with different amp sims. SVT 4 Pro. Dirty Aguilar Tonehammer Joe Dart heavily compressed (although new roundwounds not flats) Fat DI. Bass EQ stayed the same apart from the Tonehammer as the low was far too much so I backed it off a little, but it was only boosted a little in the first place. There’s a little playlist of the 4 on YouTube.

New member. 3 posts... Nice try Mr Hall, I see you!