neepheid

The end is in sight. Unfortunately, one of my push/push pots is faulty - got a nasty sticky portion of the sweep and the push push doesn't seem to be switching. FFS. On the plus side, these DiMarzio X2N-B pickups are sounding amazing (through headphones at least), loud, tight, focussed but characterful - exactly what I was hoping for!

G&L Tribute LB-100... everything but the contoured heel.

Dinna start, min. Most people have zero concept of how relatively isolated the NE Scotland is.

We play Smooth Criminal, but it's the Alien Ant Farm cover if anyone's got a beef with it. I tend to shy away from songs that have troublesome (for me) lyrics - think "Rock You Like a Hurricane" or "Under My Thumb" etc. If it makes me go "ew" - it has to try pretty hard - but if it's mysogynistic or just ikky enough in some way to make me react that way then I'll veto it. It's got nothing to do with who wrote it or originally performed it, it's about the content.

BASS SOLO! SLAPPA DA BASS! How about I slap you with it, pal?

Eh, no point in being judgemental about it. I've done my fair share of modding, early on there may have been a degree of doing it for the sake of it, because I was influenced by some bollox that someone was spouting or to have something cool on my bass. These days I generally don't bother unless there's an improvement in functionality, or it's purely aesthetic. I don't make decisions about an instrument before it's even been in my hands. Either way, I don't care what anyone thinks about the merits or otherwise of what I'm doing re: modding and I'm under no illusions that mods make little, if any difference to resale value.

Of course. I will tip my hat to the use of the clear pickup cases - that's way cooler than the later black models Gibson used. Please to see there are new pickup options (Curtis Novak recreations) if I ever needed to resurrect a G-3.

You know I'd say this anyway, but I'd rather have an actual Gibson G-3. This is a very expensive, wonky looking G-3 - like someone described the G-3 to someone in text only after seeing it once in a darkened room. It's a no from me.

Mudpup's strap room - nothing to read into there

Get a room!

Ok, we get it!

Guild B402-A - super rare, in my inexperience at the time I didn't know how to get the best out of it, stupidly traded it. Would have it back in heartbeat.

Pretty sure both this bass and the Tribute SB-2 will be metric... String recommendation? Something without silks. I like D'addario XL but I'm sure there are many silk-free options out there.

T-shirt mojo? T-shirt relicing? Is that a thing now?

Go away BB-VIII, you're drunk...

I swallowed my pride and handed it off to people who know what the feck they're doing. At least now it looks like this:

My preferred strap is the NeoTech Mega Strap. Been that way for years. Made 12lb+ Gibson behemoths manageable.

That Moonlight Blue is lovely. Thankfully the BBP34/5 is a bit too expensive for my tastes (and wallet)

Little revisit - I went and got a Freeway switch and installed it. Took the opportunity to do a bit of copper shielding while I was in there... War volume tests this week at band rehearsal, but through headphones I was enjoying all my series options... IIRC in addition to the standard switching I now have N+M (series), N+B (parallel), N+B (series), N+M+B (parallel), M+B (series)

I think it's far too fancy for Joe Public - I'd go by recommendation/invitation only if you are wanting to hire it out.

This is one of the reasons we use our own rehearsal space. Our own gear, our own schedule.

Originals band - The Inevitable Teaspoons. Very happy with it, pretty sure it's unique, it's got a story behind it and we definitely wanted to be "The somethings" Covers band - Nine Lives. Eh, I'm sure we're not the only rock covers band in the country operating under that name but we're the only Nine Lives up here in NE Scotland so it works OK.

No, it's not cheating. I wasn't even aware there were rules!

You could try asking Peavey? If you want us to help, you're going to have to give us some dimensions and pics.