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Unless you are an originals band intent on global mega-stardom it probably doesn't really matter. However in the interests of practicality you should pick one that: 1. Isn't being used by a currently active band (or at least not one in the same country as you). 2. Will allow your band to be easily found on social media and other internet searches.

For a company that is supposed to be a serious luthier suppliers Stewmac sometimes write some real nonsense! Then again if they can sell someone an £8 (plus shipping etc from the US) part that whose function can be suitably duplicated with a a piece of card that can be obtained for free, then good luck to them. The values of the shims them sell: 0.25°, 0.5° and 1° may not sound a lot but a standard business card thickness filling half the neck pocket is usually more than enough to solve most neck angle problems, and is roughly the equivalent of the 0.25° shim. The argument for not leaving any bare wood "exposed" within the neck pocket makes little sense when one of the solutions they sell will still leave some wood exposed because 1) it is unlikely to be a completely snug fit in the pocket and 2) the holes for the screws are oversized. If you are really concerned about leaving bare wood open to the air within the pocket then seal any un-laquered surfaces on the pocket and neck heel before reassembling the neck joint.

When "Boy" was released what U2 were doing was fairly radical compared with other "new wave" pop bands. Good tunes coupled with an inventive guitarist. It hasn't always been "stadium rock" either. I saw them in 1980 along with about 50 other people at The Boat Club here in Nottingham on their first proper headlining tour.

Only one other band was able to make it work. Plus having re-read it recently I'd say most of the advice in it is so out of date that it's been reduced to a quaint historical document rather than anything actually useful.

It's the Fender Custom Shop John 5 Signature Tele. And thanks!

Technically using the vocal stem and adding your own instruments makes it a remix rather than a cover.

Try changing the delay from 1/16th notes to 3/16 notes.

And finally we have the video for the B-side completed and up on YouTube:

Good advice for any gig. Unless your error brings the whole song crashing to a premature end mid-line, no-one in the audience will even notice.

Yes it has. It's in a list of features that hopefully be re-instated at some point in the near future. In the mean time you can achieve the same result by clicking on the "bullet" icon next to the topic title rather than the title itself when you want to read a topic. You can also find new posts in a topic by scrolling down until you see an orange line in-between posts. This line divides the posts you have already read from the new ones.

What's wrong with the bass sound in the context of your band mix?

I can't say I was a Numan fan back in 1979 as I thought he was completely ripping off my favourite bands of the time - The Human League, Vice-Versa and of course Ultravox, but I've mellowed since then and one to see him on this recent tour where the music was fantastic and didn't rely too much on the old hits.

Are there really no low-profile alternatives to the Fender-style 5-way switch? Personally I'd have asked about the feasibility of replacing it with a rotary switch. Not only lower profile but you could have added some extra switching alternatives.

In the 90s I was what superficially looked like a conventional rig, but closer inspection revealed that there were only 3 easily adjustable controls - the input gain on the Peavey bassfex at the start of the signal chain and the two output volumes on the power amp that fed the top and bottom of a bi-amped system. Many of the patches I used didn't make any sound at all on their own because they included MIDI-controlled gates and filters that only opened when the sequencer part for the correct song was run. I had a default patch that essentially connected the input to the output via the crossover that I made available to anyone who needed to use my bass rig at a gig. Needless to say few other bassists did.

Both the bands I am currently playing with were well-established when I joined so at the moment I don't really bring anything other someone to play bass. However in bands in the past I have been the main composer of the music, provider of the majority of the equipment, provider of the rehearsal room and place for other band members to store their equipment, owner of the equipment and location for the band to make their recordings, producer of all the printed and later on-line promotional material, organiser of pretty much everything to do with the band - rehearsals, gigs, recordings, photo-shoots and band image. In other words everything except sing and write the lyrics.

Like any good music nerd I have plenty of lists, including an all-time top-5 albums one, but only 3 of those albums have absolutely no duff tracks on them and they are: (in chronological order) 1. "Parachute" by The Pretty Things 2. "Doot-Doot" by Freur 3. "Fakevox" by Plus-Tech Squeezebox

I've managed to break every single string including low B at one point or another. Admittedly the low B was on a set that was several years old and back in the 90s when getting decent 36" scale B strings that were any good was a lot harder than it is nowadays. I always take a spare bass (and spare strings) when I'm gigging. I've not broken many strings actually at a gig (IIRC 3 in almost 40 years) but ever since I broke a string at one of my very first gigs on bass and didn't have either a spare bass or a replacement string, I've been prepared.

Thanks! As soon as I have the time I'll go and check both out. Having it look like a traditional bass amp is of little importance to me - after all I'm the bassist whose main bass is a Gus G3, The wedge profile should take up less room on shared gear stages and the weird setup will discourage more conventional bassists from wanting to borrow my rig at these gigs.

Having played one of these as well as several EB3s, I can categorically state that the Warwick has pretty much nothing in common with the Gibson models except that it may superficially look the same to someone who doesn't know much about bass guitars.

I posted a while back in thread about inconsistencies in the way the "Mark forum as read" works, but having has some time the play about with this function I have found even more, as follows: On Safari 11.0 (Mac OS 10.11.6) only clicking on the "Mark forum as read" link at the top of the list of topics within a forum will bring up the "Are You Sure?" dialogue box. Clicking the icon next to the forum heading will mark the forum as read without any warning. However on the iPad (iOS 11.1) Safari, the behaviour is somewhat different as follows: If I click the icon next to the forum heading will bring up the "Are You Sure?" dialogue box, but only if I do it from the Basschat "Home" page - the one that lists all of the individual forums. If I was to click the icon next to "Gear Porn" while in the "Gear" section rather than the "Home" page, I don't get a warning dialogue box and the page reloads taking me back to the top of the page. When I do get the warning dialogue the page doesn't reload and after clicking cancel or OK I remain at the same point on the page as I was before. Hopefully this will help track down what is going wrong with this function.

You still can link to individual posts. Click on the symbol next to “report post” for the post you want to link to.

There’s a switch at the bottom of the reply box to turn this off and on

EBS_freak, having recently upgraded my BassPod XT to a Helix, I'm seriously looking at this route and ditching all my "old school" amps and cabs. TBH from my perspective a good amp is just a device with some EQ and a baked-in sound that I find pleasing plus some extra circuitry to make my bass sound loud. In fact for most of the 90s I ran a Peavey Bassfex straight into a power amp and had a great sound, so "realism" of the amp/cab sims is of minimal interest to me, having lots of tonal options (which the Helix most definitely does) is far more important. Even when I was using the BassPod my preferred starting point was the SuDub preset which isn't even based on an amp! So to get to the point, until I'm at the stage where IEM makes practical sense for the bands I am currently playing what would you recommend for FRFR speaker for my bass? Is the RCF worth the extra money, or will one of the QSC K.2 Series be perfectly adequate? Your input would be welcomed.

Except for all the comedy records that George Matin made prior to The Beatles.

No. Not in the slightest.