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MichaelDean

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  1. Just reliving my hip-hop cover band days and going through an old playlist on Spotify at work today. A lot of those 90s hip hop songs are really fun because they're just old funk stuff. We ended up playing my work's Christmas party one year with the theme of "luck". I spray painted and bejewelled a horseshoe that I wore for the gig.
  2. Ooooof! I may have had to have a strong talk with my wife if I'd seen that!
  3. If you're using them, test the level of any pedals/patches during soundcheck. Neither you, the rest of the band or the sound guy want the surprise enormous synth! Well, maybe you do, but no-one else does! Plus you may need to tweak the effect slightly to fit the room. It's not just amps that suffer from a bad sounding room or a boomy stage. On tour, need to pay for parking and can't rely on apps? Get a band change kitty together. Don't be the only sucker that cares and then get a ticket when you can't get enough together because everyone else is asleep and you're uncertain of the availability of a cash point/somewhere to get change. If you're on tour and driving an unfamiliar vehicle, make sure you know what type of fuel to put in it. A drummer once put petrol in my diesel car while I was driving the van that he couldn't drive because he didn't bring both parts of his driving licence to the rental place. Same tour as the parking issue 🤬 I may be a little bitter about a couple of things!
  4. @Owen I've got an eBay alert set up for them. They really don't come up often and the last one I saw went for around £350/400.
  5. Bah! The silver sparkle paint is why it's a cool bass!
  6. I don't like nut widths under 40mm. What I really hate though, is the screw holes left after someone has fitted pickup covers, regretted it when they actually wanted to play the darn thing and then took them off again. It's a constant reminder of someone's bad decision! I've been thinking about saving up for a Limelight as long as he can do it without those holes that he puts on every single one...
  7. I love the look of these. Never understood why they went for the Jazz bass control plate on almost all of the other Jaguar variants that have come out. It's so much cooler with the correct one!
  8. You can get that stuff all over eBay if you search for "glow in the dark powder". https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TOP-QUALITY-GLOW-IN-THE-DARK-POWDER-PIGMENT-IN-VARIOUS-COLOURS-PAINT-NAIL-ART-UK-/154528549247
  9. I think it also gives an instrument a different feel compared to one in standard tuning and can inspire different music. @Joe Nation, I also find that a 4 downtuned sounds heavier on the open D to the fretted D on a 5 string, plus the instrument feel thing also applies there. I think it's possibly more important for electric guitars too as it gives different chord shapes, and then as a bassist it's nice to have the root in the same relative pitch. Wouldn't it just be boring if everyone did everything the same too? 🙂
  10. Binary solo! https://youtu.be/Ia9N_wZaoa4
  11. I thought my the neck on my first bass had gone bad and wrote a scathing review on Harmony Central (as you do when you're 13). Turns out I'd butchered the setup as when I got it out to play again nearly 20 years later, the neck was fine. Still don't like the jazz bass sound for what I do though...
  12. We used a click in a post rock band I was in. The guitarist looped everything live in Ableton so we needed to stay on tempo for the repeats to be correct. We all had IEMs (eventually individual mixes all done through software) and it worked really well. It was odd at first but you just get used to it. I kinda miss hearing everything that well all of the time!
  13. But in the case of the SWR the XLR is an input, not an output. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that XLR inputs are most likely able to supply phantom power.
  14. Unfortunately not. Your amp won't supply phantom power. Plus the XLR on your amp and the XLR on the Sansamp are both outputs, it'd be like plugging both ends of a jack cable to two basses: nothing would happen. Generally speaking, it's pretty much just mixing desks and audio interfaces that can supply phantom power.
  15. I feel like I've had the opposite epiphany! I didn't like a p bass on its own or a jazz bass on its own. The Revelation PJ I picked up the other day is an experiment that's really paying off for me. I'm loving the P full on with a bit of J rolled in. Gives it a bit more clarity to my ears.
  16. How about this instead... Source: https://twitter.com/Jimllpaintit/status/1383087603948355587?t=zputwem-0u7hWmckSoSPcA&s=19
  17. I also can't get on with flats and like D'Addario EXL160M on my Mustang. They seem to last pretty well and have good zing. And yep, medium scale is correct for a through body strung Mustang.
  18. The roasting is done to the wood before it's carved into a neck, so I'd hazard a guess to say it would be fine. The only thing might be if there is any extra tint in the satin finish applied to the rest of the neck.
  19. @kodiakblair yeah, I think I came across an old thread after you picked this up. I'd like to try a double p sometime. Plus it doesn't have a jazz width neck - 38mm is too narrow for me. The jury is still out on the pickups until I've had a practice with it. I'm tempted to try some Toneriders plus a new loom from KiOgon.
  20. I can't see any markings on them, but it's listed as the neo pickups on the website: https://www.revelationguitars.co.uk/guitar/rpj-77/ The frets are absolutely fine. Feels good up and down the neck and it doesn't feel like there are any high frets as I play. They're also a lot more polished than the Harley Benton tele I bought last year. As it's second hand I'm not sure if it would have had any fretwork done already, but from the sorry state it was in, probably not!
  21. Early last year, I had a cull of basses I wasn't using. This resulted in me not having any standard 34" scale basses. Just shorties and my Dingwall. It was fine for a bit, but GAS got the better of me. After trying out a Squier Affinity PJ, I reckoned something in a PJ might be just the ticket. I didn't need a new bass straight away so held fire for a bit. Thought I might spot a bargain - and so I did! Got this Revelation RPJ 77 for £60 from Facebook marketplace. It's got some dents, buckle rash and I think it was never kept on a stand. But after some cleaning, new strings and a bit of a setup, it's come up nicely. Need to get some lemon oil or similar as the fretboard is as dry as a bone, maybe drier. It's a lovely candy apple red. Didn't quite capture it in the picture! Sounds alright as is, but needs the cavities shielding. The pickups are neo Entwhistle ones. I think they could be a bit more refined, but they'll do for now. Very pleased for £60! I think the first proper mod I'll do is get a black pickguard on it. Or maybe red tort... 🤔
  22. I prefer a strap lock where the strap is secured under the mechanism, like the Ernie Ball super locks. That way, even if the nut comes loose, your strap isn't coming off. I had Schallers years ago and had the same issue as BassAdder. I've also had straps wear out with rubber washers and come off. This seems to be a good balance for me.
  23. There are people here who know a lot more than me about it, but the enclosures are generally designed for the speakers. You might get lucky, you might not. I've got a Zilla neo 212 (around 23kg) that I move long distances with a folding sack truck I got from Aldi. It works really well. Plus I can fit my pedalboard and head on it too.
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