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  1. fretmeister
    Swap the tuners for Hipshot Ultralites and depending on the tuners you currently have you could save another half pound / 0.226kg.
  2. fretmeister
    I don't recall those 3 being in our big box of music but I'll have a look tomorrow at rehearsal on the off chance.
  3. fretmeister
    I thought the mudbucker sounded excellent!
  4. fretmeister
    same as all modellers and multi fx. Most of the presets are there to demo the capability of the system rather than be useable.
  5. fretmeister
    Currently at the final prototype stage apparently. Could be a fun pedal.
  6. fretmeister
    Stop picking on me, damnit!
  7. fretmeister
    Could just get something like this: And work through it. Loads of styles and you'll get a great education as well as having a pretty good repertoire for a covers band. Don't feel you have to only listen to stuff you want to play though. Get ideas from everywhere. If you go beyond tab and learn some basic notation reading you'll open up your world massively. Piano scores, trombone parts etc etc. Notation has the benefit of being a lot more accurate than most of the tabs on the internet, and it provides time information as well as just pitch.
  8. fretmeister
    It's too low causing the string to buzz against the next fret. Either 16-20 will need filing down a bit or 16 needs replacing with a very slightly taller one.
  9. fretmeister
    Lovely looking thing. Too heavy for me, alas.
  10. fretmeister
    A friend has one of their guitars and it's really nice - and that's for a near to the bottom of the range price wise.
  11. fretmeister
    The core helix tone is actually accurate - it's just that lots of amps properly modelled are harsh in themselves. A raging Plexi is horribly harsh with new speakers. With old speakers and 20 metres of curly cable (lots of capacitance and high end roll off) they sound great. I think a lot of cab sims and IRs are based on new speakers that haven't had time to calm down. Getting the tone right is definitely about the HPF and LPF settings. Picking any amp and cab at random can be made to sound excellent by just experimenting with those filters. When people complain about it sounding "digital" what they are actually complaining about is accuracy in the model that we don't find appealing and that we are not used to. The fizz is there on real amps and L6 decided to do them accurately. Other modellers went for a glossed over approach. Sometimes the HPF and LPF settings that work might seem to be excessive but controls are there to be used, and once it sounds good it doesn't matter how the result was reached.
  12. fretmeister
    Money / budget / storage space / insurance / spousal pressure. Lots of reasons.
  13. fretmeister
    The Dunlop flats are amazing - but they've doubled in price in the last year. I always used to use them, but I'm not dropping £95 on a 5 string set of bass strings.
  14. fretmeister
    If you are thinking about it - go and get tested. Lots of GP's don't have the kit for it anymore so you'll probably get an NHS referral to SpecSavers - they do loads of the NHS hearing tests now. You'll get a proper understanding of any hearing loss including the frequencies that are most problematic. Then you'll get proper advice on hearing aids if you need them.
  15. fretmeister
    Newtone don't do flats unfortunately. Looking at the headstock I think the B will be the issue. Have to measure up some short 30 inch flats and see if the main part of the string would need to go round the post. La Bella make some lovely short flats but they advise against letting the main part get wound on the post.
  16. fretmeister
    Source Audio Spectrum. It's amazingly capable.
  17. fretmeister
    For those that don't know - this is a clone of the V1 Tech21 Sansamp BDDI, and it sounds just like the real one.
  18. fretmeister
    I'm really sensitive to some nickel strings - my fingers get very painful. So trying steels is a good idea. But even with flats, occasional playing that doesn't build up callous will hurt. Sore fingers until the callous has developed is normal, or use a plectrum.
  19. fretmeister
    I’ve never rated stingray 5s unless the low B is about a .140+ to get the tension up high enough. Just something about them that doesn’t work as well as other designs.
  20. fretmeister
    You need a j pickup in there. Detuned precisions all sound woolly or downright flubby. It’s just the nature of the pickup and notes that low. There’s a reason why there’s hardly any 5 string basses with just a P pickup, and it’s woolly flub. The answer is a Jazz or a PJ bass. I’ve got a cheap 32 scale PJ that is often in Drop A and there’s no flub.
  21. fretmeister
    there is loads of compression in the preamp valves! And it increases as the gain levels are turned up.
  22. fretmeister
    My Lionel is coming from Classic & Cool and was cheaper than the configurator too.
  23. fretmeister
    Amusingly, this came up on Facebook.
  24. fretmeister
    It’s pretty good. It’s normally my 2nd choice head but with built in compression and drive it cuts down the stuff I have to carry. It’s plenty loud enough and the basic tone is good.
  25. fretmeister
    Big band rehearsal this morning. Used my Sandberg TT4 with La Bella Copper White Nylons. Tone was excellent, shame I played like a donkey today!
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