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  1. fretmeister
    My Jim Deacon shorties were as cheap as chips and they are great, and the construction is more than good enough to warrant pickup and tuner upgrades. I love them! Hopefully one day I'll find the very elusive J version too.
  2. fretmeister
    Oh man I wish there was something like that closer to me! I did 10 years doing Big Band and loved it.
  3. fretmeister
    Errr, I started playing in about 1986 so I've had loads of sub £50 brilliant pedals as hardly anything went over £50 then! f*** I'm getting old!
  4. fretmeister
    I quite like that. Different colour would be nice, but I'm not really fussed about aesthetics if an instrument plays well. I'd probably bin the Ibby preamp as well and put something else in. Headless on shorties makes so much sense - the string clamp means that just about any string can be used - on the older slant fret one I had I got TI flats to work properly with it without them coming unwound. Care is needed, but it's do-able!
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    I didn't know they had dropped the cheap Barts - that's a very good decision as they were bloody awful and I ended up spending loads on some Aguilars instead. I didn't get on with the fan frets in the end but I might be tempted by 30 inch, trad frets and Nordys!
  6. fretmeister
    When I had a pair of them I used one of these as I fancied on the day Mark Bass (various ones) Ashdown RM800 Evo 2 Tech21 VT500 They all had qualities that I liked - but when I got a One10T with a tweeter I found that all 3 were much better. The Tweeter just allowed a little more crispness when needed, and of course could be turned off / re-EQ'd as needed.
  7. fretmeister
    What is the bridge string spacing on a Mustang? My Jim Deacon shorties are very narrow at the bridge.
  8. fretmeister
    Is there any point in putting a Mustang pickup in a shortie P bass? Is there enough of a difference?
  9. fretmeister
    It’s kind of up to the FOH guy. Usually as high as you can get it without overloading the PA desk. Once you’ve run your DI cable to the PA get whoever is on the faders to tell you if they want more or less.
  10. fretmeister
    £380 ish! Bargain!
  11. fretmeister
    I've had 2 basses from Japan, one from Ishibashi and another from a large ebay based outfit but I cannot remember their name. And a bunch of pedals. No problems with any order. The Ishibashi bass was a Japanese market Fender P bass (PB-62 or something?) and was actually in even better condition than the sales blurb claimed. Obviously like an idiot I sold it because at the time I didn't understand P basses. My most recent Japanese buy was from Effects Bakery - they make tiny budget pedals. I bought their "Japanese Butter Roll" vibe and it arrived in under a week, was under the import fee point and vat was dealt with so got to be for about £50 including the shipping.
  12. fretmeister
    I use Forescore (ipad) and a cheap Donner bluetooth footswitch page turner. I'm assuming Forescore has versions for non Apple kit. It takes pdf and other formats. It's very clever in that with a foot press it will turn pages, but if the tablet is in landscape for a bigger image it will will first move to the bottom of the page and then flip the page. Very pleased with it.
  13. fretmeister
    Nice! I love my regular sized one.
  14. fretmeister
    Impulse buy from Effects Bakery. https://www.effectsbakery.jp/en I had never heard of them and I wanted a univibe type thing. Most of their models are about £50 and available fast by ebay. It only took a week to get it from Japan and it sounds great!
  15. fretmeister
    I was a prop forward. I wasn’t that skinny in the womb!
  16. fretmeister
    About as much as moving the volume control 2-3mm I reckon.
  17. fretmeister
    Inspired by that G&L up there ^ Who is using tapewounds on their shortie? What brand and gauge? I've had some La Bella White Nylons in the past, on a long scale and I seem to remember liking them, but that was a very long time ago!
  18. fretmeister
    Do you know the weight please?
  19. fretmeister
    The IAH ones are fine on my shorties - but I'd still prefer if they did proper versions of them. The regular Super Polished do feel different - as much as I can tell without installing them anyway so I might end up trying a set on a long scale even though I'd prefer a lower tension / lighter gauge option. Hopefully they will be popular enough for La Bella to consider that.
  20. fretmeister
    La Bella Super Polished Strings arrived... and the E snapped during installation. Not La Bella's fault as I was trying to fit them on a shortie and their website does warn against winding the speaking part of the string around the post, although this is the first set of flats of any brand that I've had break doing this with large traditional post sizes - even their DTF are fine. The IAH set are fine too for this. I did contact BD to see if I could buy just a replacement E string, but they don't stock individuals and getting one from La Bella would take about 6 - 8 weeks. I've put the old strings back on instead. Just annoyed that I've thrown away £35. Hopefully La Bella will get some shortscale ones made at some point.
  21. fretmeister
    That orange is amazing!
  22. fretmeister
    I just wish there were more SLO neck versions.
  23. fretmeister
    Put an old 2 band in it then! The 2 band is the vital component. There's a few good videos looking at the EQ curve and shelving of the 2 band compared to the later preamps. The 3 bands don't just slap another control in the middle, the entire thing is different. My bitsa Pingray has the Aguilar M pickup and their spot on recreation of the original 2 band and it sounds like an original - and no weak G string either.
  24. fretmeister
    You’d think a bass magazine would check… 😂
  25. fretmeister
    Un-mic'd drums. Who's playing them is the question. Bernard Purdy or Dave Lombardo?
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