tauzero

If the hideous random router attack wasn't bad enough, the neck has a repaired crack in it. So, if you replace the body, the neck, the tuners, and the pickups and electronics, you could get it back to near original condition, and you'd have some pickups and electronics you could sell.

A couple of oldies. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhOmFwp7tc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhOmFwp7tc[/url]

I use a Tascam GB10 into a Behringer mixer into the computer hi-fi (Technics amp and reasonable bookshelf speakers or headphones).

Lined fretless - dots are between the lines. Except on my Sei because I had them moved. Unlined fretless - could be either. My Harley Benton acoustic has them between where the frets would be. In the past I've had unlined with the dots where the frets would be, and unlined with dots between the unfrets.

I'm unclear about the subject of the question. Rock and roll as in Teds with a supertanker of hair gel on doing strange dances in blue suede shoes, or rock and roll as in rock, the all-encompassing popular (and loud) beat combo music? While Minus Zero doesn't go to the pub to watch bands (not even us), he does have an iPhone full to overflowing with music, of the modern rock variety (eg. Slipknot and Lacuna Coil) and he's been to a couple of festivals. The youth of today are still listening, it's more that they don't go down the pub but choose to stay in playing on their PlayBoxes and xStation 3s.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1438023691' post='2830991'] This truncated version is to found on the soundtrack album (track 11) but - being end-credit music - would have been the penultimate piece heard by the cinema-goer as they extinguished their Capstan Full Strength and stumbled through drifts of Westler's hot dog wrappers out to the street where they caught the bus home. [/quote] Ah yes, the desperate rush to escape before the National Anthem.

Similar taste, rock in general, though she likes some of the more modern growler bands like Rammstein that I can't stand. We also disagree on the relative merits of The Who and Led Zeppelin, as the dulcet tones of Mr Daltrey and Mr Townshend's tastefully concise guitar parts are clearly superior to Mr Plant's wobbly-pitched caterwauling and Mr Page's interminable widdling, though Mrs Zero appears unable to perceive this.

We're female fronted and do quite a few from the Groundhog Day list. Mrs Zero is perfectly happy to sing songs sung by male singers as well as female ones, though I don't think there are any Groundhog Day songs where the original vocalist was female (unless "Zombie" has made it onto the list).

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1437767676' post='2828983'] Other candidates might be Highway Star (Deep Purple), Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding (Elton John), Bat Out Of Hell (Meatloaf), and of course Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen). [/quote] That reminds me, Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Meatloaf) is another rock operetta.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1437781580' post='2829102'] Are we to have a big argument about branding, decals, logos and replicas..? [/quote] Can't we have one about Thiele-Small parameters?

There was this in the "You may also be interested in..." bit: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171870458326"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171870458326[/url] Twelve-string bajo sexto (although I think it should be called a bajo duodecto).

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1437670709' post='2828098'] I suspect the weird stringing is because the D (originally the G) is cut too short to reach the tuner. [/quote] That was my thought - hence saying he didn't have to buy another set of strings.

[quote name='Biglump' timestamp='1437744475' post='2828738'] Hoping to train her up to be deputy bass in our Uke orchestra. But U basses are too pricey. Also the ambition lies in playing a giant bass a'la Suzi Quattro for limited standing up and posing. (don't we all start wanting to be playing and posing?) [/quote] U-basses are pricey but there's a Harley Benton equivalent (FSVO equivalent), or there's Ashbories, which tend to crop up occasionally for about £150, although these don't meet the "giant posey bass" criterion. If she can fold the chair arms down then almost anything will do, except Buzzards and anything that doesn't have a little bit sticking out to catch on the leg.

While "complex" is probably overstating it, I have noticed that there's something of a tendency for songs to have a not-quite-repeating structure - so in the old days you'd learn intro, verse, chorus, clever bit, and outro, and mix and match the verse, chorus, and clever bit as required, but songs like "Riverboat Song" or "Last Nite" have a not-quite-repeating structure that means you have to learn the whole song in a linear fashion.

Saves having to buy a new set of strings. Wonder if the bandage round the C string at the nut is to stop the string moving around in the nut or to conceal the end of the nut having fallen off?

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1437643111' post='2827738'] Ordered a new tweeter diaphragm for a SRM450 [1] a couple of days ago, using click and collect. Estimated to be ready for collection on 23rd July. So I was wondering whether it was ready for collection yet, and checked on the item, and found it's now been pushed back to 28th July! [/quote] And I've just had a message that it's ready for click-and-collection. Well, that's a relief, but it would have been nice not to be given the wrong info.

Ordered a new tweeter diaphragm for a SRM450 [1] a couple of days ago, using click and collect. Estimated to be ready for collection on 23rd July. So I was wondering whether it was ready for collection yet, and checked on the item, and found it's now been pushed back to 28th July! Not at all happy as we've got a gig on 31st and I have a dismantled SRM450 sitting in the lounge - and they are a pain in the bum to dismantle, so I really don't want to put it back together with a non-functioning tweeter, only to have to do all this again, if the new delivery date also slips. [1] That should stop it getting pregnant

It looks something like a Les Paul. In fact, if I was selling it, I'd describe it as "like a Les Paul".

I have a couple of 5-instrument stands similar to the ones above (two parallel bars at the bottom, stubby bars at the top for the necks). You have to get the angle just right when putting asymmetrical basses like Thumbs and Jazzes on them, otherwise they don't sit on both of the bottom bars and swivel round.

Hartke Kickback 12 is another possibility. Reasonable sound and the kickback shape means that for close-range listening it can be aimed at his head.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1437591826' post='2827426'] For about 4 years I played in a band with no guitarist - just bass, drums, keys and vocals. It was like a Utopian dream. No ego bullshit or toddler, temper tantrums. [/quote] Are you sure you had a vocalist?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1437590772' post='2827412'] And while I'm on, can anyone explain why The Hubble Telescope can't see the geography of Pluto (7.5 billion km away) when it can provide a marvellously sharp image of the Horsehead Nebula (155 light years away)? It is a simple 'Father Ted' explanation, i.e. Pluto is [i]small[/i], whereas the Horsehead Nebula is [i]far away[/i]? [/quote] [url="http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/02141014-hubble-galaxy-pluto.html"]http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/02141014-hubble-galaxy-pluto.html[/url]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1437588360' post='2827372'] You can't argue with that. [/quote] You seem to have forgotten where you are.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1437580274' post='2827261'] Let's take an artist, painting a picture. He can sell it, as a finished original, to anyone who wants to buy it. He charges the time (including his instruction and apprenticeship needed to become good...). Someone buys it. The artist carries on painting further works. The buyer of the painting could have been an individual, looking to decorate his salon, but is, instead, a buyer for a manufacture of jigsaw puzzles. The painting he had bought is to be copied, reproduced several thousand times, cut into pieces and sold as jigsaw puzzles. The buyer (or,in this case, his company...) have taken on the 'risk', and hope to get their money back from puzzle sales. Maybe they will. [/quote] Do you count a jigsaw of the Mona Lisa as the Mona Lisa?

The tweeter in one of my Mackie SRM450s has ceased emanating sound. It still shows a resistance of around 8 ohms so I went on a quest to find out whether I should expect it to be open circuit. On that quest, I found a couple of very interesting articles which, while focussed on hi-fi, very much apply in the bass world. [url="http://sound.westhost.com/articles/speaker-failure.html"]http://sound.westhost.com/articles/speaker-failure.html[/url] - general article on speaker failure [url="http://sound.westhost.com/tweeters.htm"]http://sound.westhost.com/tweeters.htm[/url] - why tweeters blow, plus interesting bits on the trend to heavy compression in the recording industry and why using a bigger amp isn't the answer.