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  1. fretmeister
    I've only had 1 bass that needed the neck off / loosened to adjust the rod. So I sold it. Such a terrible design. If I ever own another and it is a keeper then I'll be routing out a channel in the body under the scratchplate so the neck doesn't have to be loosened.
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    "Up North" is anywhere above Watford Gap isn't it?
  3. fretmeister
    Alas - my basses all use allen key truss rod tools. I haven't got a Mustang to see what it's got.
  4. fretmeister
    Buy yourself the proper tool. It's a much better option and if it every needs adjusting for string changes or extreme weather then you can do it yourself properly. I bet you'll find a supplier who can deliver the tool in a day or 2. I never measure anything for my set ups. I do them all by feel. I know what I like.
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    I like the purple! Well, I spent the weekend swapping between my 2 shorties and my long scale TT4 and despite my earlier thoughts I think I'm going to get a quote for a Sandberg TT4 Shortscale Superlight and see if I could afford it if I sold the long scale. The TT4 is my only long scale these days. I've got 3 mediums and 2 shorties at the moment. The Long scale is lovely but I'm just loving the shorties far more.
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    I'm looking for a small size pedal that will do that sort of farty mids P bass tone. Like John Deacon Live Magic sound when the other instruments were resting. It's quite farty on it's own and perfect with the rest playing. The youtube demos at low gain levels seem pretty good, but if anyone has any real world experience I'd like to hear. I know I could get a BDDI or similar but I don't have the pedal board space - small is beautiful! ta
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    Andy Irvine has a prototype to play with too
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    Dublin… is that 315 in Euros then?
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    I’ve got the Fender flats on my shortie. As long as the tuning posts are full sized then the string seems fine. On a mini tuner where the turns are so much tighter they can break.
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    Bump.
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    the silk colours look right for the fender flats.
  12. fretmeister
    Very nice! Even better that the pickup has been changed. The stock one in the VS4 passive is not very P bass like. It has too much bass and treble and doesn’t have a lot of the traditional mid range poke that a P should have. It’s the only fault of my Lionel too. But plans are underway.
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    Selling my Source Audio Ultrawave. It's a brilliant bit of kit but as I only ever play in a big band jazz now it is gathering dust. Nate Navarro's demo: and a link to loads of other demos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=source+audio+ultrawave+bass It's got drive, synthy stuff, compression etc etc. So many parameters to tweak and download patches in the app. It comes with a power supply, USB cable and a stereo cable for plugging into smartphones, and the box. It has velcro on the bottom. £155 including UK signed for postage. Thanks.
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    Trades?
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    I don't think I've got one. I suppose my realy musical awakenings was about 1986-1996 (I changed schools in 1986) and I have a soft spot for the stuff I discovered in that time - AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden etc etc but there's just too much good music in other time periods too. I mean, who wouldn't swap "Load" for just about anything done by Chic?! But that time period was a big part of my youth and while I don't often listen to it now I'd be upset if I couldn't.
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    It's a really smart idea, but the price is a bit steep. I wonder if they just don't sell enough of them to have a lower price point.
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    Those knobs look exactly like the ones on Darkglass amps and pedals. I had them on a Sandberg bass until I put an EMG preamp in it and I needed stacked knobs. I thought they looked cool.
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    I had one (not a FR version) many years ago. I loved the sound of it, but I never could get used to the width of the fretboard. Or having a C string for that matter!
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    My aversion to naming instruments is so strong I'm actually annoyed one of my Sandberg's is a 'Lionel'. VS4 Shortscale is a far superior description. I can just about cope with ships having names. Probably because of the very long history of it and the nature of the providing an honour to (occasionally) worthy historical figures. But to call a bass 'Derek' because, I don't know, it has control knobs that look like dominoes just confirms my view that humanity must end.
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    Ashdown are not Apple. They don't come up with an idea (or pinch it from Star Trek) and then worry about how to market it. Ashdown build things their customers want. If that approach starts to affect sales, then they will change. But they are customer driven more than innovation driven. If you want to blame anyone, blame the customers.
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    Very true. My home bass sound is vastly different to my live sounds - no matter what the genre. If I use my live sounds at home at modest volumes they sound a bit nasal and farty. When live, they sound ace. (Well, I think so anyway!) I reckon a brilliant example of this is John Deacon with the Queen Live at Wembley recording. When Sir Brian's guitar drops out sometimes the bass is surprisingly farty but all together it sounds massive. Just a P bass, flats, and at that stage of his career, almost always with a plectrum.
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    I've had Pressurewounds in the past and I quite liked them. Except on a 5 string. The B just didn't work at all for some reason. Ti Flats are my favourite but I can't use them anymore due to a nickel allergy so I now have different ones for different basses La Bella Deep Talking Flats - thumpy old tone Ernie Ball Group 4 flats - quite modern but still flat sounding, not trying to be a roundwound Fender 9050L - actually quite similar in tone to the Ti Flats. Plenty of mids, less pronounced lows, no flub at all.
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    Or get a 4 ohm Barefaced 8x10 and not worry about volume needs ever again. For anyone. Because we'll all be deaf!
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    That's where the tone is! Don't do it!! Don't over oil the board either. Depends on how often you change strings of course.
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    Speaker to ear latency is about 1ms per foot. Sound moves at about 1043 feet per second - depending on atmospherics. So with the Xvive at 6ms if you were right next to the speaker it would be the same as you standing 6ft away from the speaker. If you weren't using a wireless (or indeed any other digital device with ADA converters that add latency) then you don't have to move very far away for physical distance to be far more of an issue than the wireless latency could cause.
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