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But you can't rely on solutions that require specific actions by end users. I'm sure your solution works fine for you, but it requires other users to: 1. Use Opera, at least for viewing Basschat, which means for those people who don't already have it downloading and installing it. 2. Know how to turn on VPN and remember to turn it off afterwards to prevent problems with websites to require you to have a UK IP address. For most people this is simply too much effort, and if I was an Imgur user I'd be looking to move to a host whose images will display everywhere.

Thanks, but I still don't see it and I think your physics is flawed in regards to how a shim will exaggerate this problem. I'd also like to see a photograph actually showing this, so I can see it has definitely been caused solely by the presence of as shim and not in any way related to poor construction of the neck or incorrect application of the truss rod.

Can someone post a photo of the "ski jump" and demonstrate conclusively that it has been caused by a non-angled shim?

Imgur is blocked to any UK IP address due to various reasons mostly do to with unwillingness to comply with UK data protection legislation. If you really need to see any images hosted with Imgur you'll need a VPN set to a non-UK location.

To the OP: Even if you could get the image to display for you no-one in the UK will be able to see it without accessing Basschat using a VPN set to a country other than the UK.

IMO DI boxes should be built in a way that makes them as reliable as possible. To that end I don't approve of anything powered by an external PSU unless it is: 1. Part of a permanent pedal board along with the PSU and all the low voltage cabling. 2. The PSU attaches via a locking connector and the low voltage cable is suitably robust and not bell wire that most manufacturers seem to think is OK. In 45 years of gigging IME the most common point of equipment failure is the low voltage side of equipment that has to be set up and plugged each time it is used.

There are some in the UK. Used to own one and IIRC the person I sold it to was also in the UK.

To the OP. How attached are you to the bass this bridge is fitted to? I used to own a Hartke Bass that had one of these and IME it was probably the most complicated bridge I have ever come across to adjust. It might allow individual adjustment in every direction of each individual string, but trying to get each string perfectly adjusted was way too complicated. For a number of reasons I no longer own the bass in question, but the unnecessary complexity of the bridge was definitely a factor in deciding to move it on. If I was to buy another bass with this bridge and liked it overall enough to want to keep and use it, then I would be seriously looking at replacing the bridge with something more user friendly.

Google (or another search engine of your choice) is your friend.

If it's the saddle that has stripped threads, it will require the hole plugging, re-drilling and a new thread making. Is that doable?

But you are far more likely to get the atmosphere and energy at grass roots level that made bands like Rush exciting back in the early 70s, then you are watching some old band on a video screen from a seat at the back of a stadium.

I think the C Bass predates this by at least a couple of years. Chris May old me that the older of the two Original 5-strings I used to own dated from 1983, and the other from 1985.

How is that any different from a radio or TV music programme?

Instead of moaning about how much it costs to see some old dinosaurs in an enormodrome, you could instead go every week end for a year and see some new exciting bands in a small local venue. No need to book tickets months in advance. Most of the time you can rock up on the night and pay your £10 or less to get in. And thanks to Spotify and YouTube you don't even need to take a punt on whether or not you'll like the music, as you can do your research before you choose who to see.

This role has pretty much been taken over by Spotify playlists.

When it comes to music I see myself first and foremost as a composer. I play musical instruments because it makes composition easier (for me) and I also like performing on stage so I need to be doing more than just composition within the musical projects I work on. So from that PoV I consider myself an artist. I have also been the main driving force when it comes to producing the visual aspects of many of the bands that I have been in whether that be just the graphic design of the posters, CD, record and cassette packaging or as far as the complete visual styling of the band and every aspect of how we present to our audience and the outside world. In that case again I consider myself to be an artist. On the few occasions where I have played in covers bands, my role has simply been to reproduce what is on the chosen recorded version of the songs in question. In this case I am simply a human playback mechanism, with nothing artistic or creative involved at all. Similarly in my graphics day job I see myself as a technician. There can be some creativity, but mostly it is to take other people's original ideas and apply them to new products in the range or similar. I also ensure that the job will print properly and look as far as possible (given the print budget) as what was originally visualised. I don't consider myself an artist in this role. I don't want to get bogged down in arguing about designs for products I don't care about passionately enough. I'm happy to take the money and produce what my clients want.

We currently have two similar T-shirt designs, and have found that most people want either one or the other but not both, so I'm currently working on a new one that is completely different.

I found this photo of me playing my Overwater Original some time in the mid to late 90s. As you'll notice the strap button position doesn't seem to be a problem at all:

The geographic thing is also linked to genre. I've played a few less than well attended Goth gigs in Scotland, but Yorkshire - Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Whitby and York are consistently great. The few times that I've played Manchester the reaction has been very favourable, but getting the gigs themselves has been unnecessarily difficult. When it comes to selling merch, over exposure can sometimes go against you. In the last 12 months we've done a few gigs where the audience reaction has been fantastic, but we've sold almost nothing afterwards, because most of them already have the T-shirt and CD.

I don't know what the original is supposed to sound like for comparison but I couldn't hear much "synth" bass in that clip. I'd get pretty close to that sound with a bit of drive and EQ, and IMO it certainly wouldn't be worth all the effort of using a synth pedal to sound like that.

IME the biggest issue with playing synth bass using any instrument is that most of what you are trying to recreate will have originally been played by a sequencer on the recording and therefore perfect timing is absolutely critical. Even the typical audience member will be able to tell something is off when the timing isn't rock solid even if they don't know exactly what is wrong.

Standard for this shape of Overwater bass. Both of my Overwater Originals had the strap button in the same place under the upper horn. It never caused me any problems so it must have worked well. One of those Overwaters was my main bass for the whole of the 90s and beyond.

Back in the 80s when I first go into synths and the idea of using a guitar or bass to control them I spent some time alternating between teaching myself some rudimentary keyboard technique and modifying my guitar playing so that I could cleanly and accurately trigger the sounds on a synth. After a couple of weeks I found I could play most of the things I wanted on a keyboard, and while I had some success with the guitar controlling the synth it was very variable, difficult to repeat accurately from one day to the next, and the moment I got carried away with my playing my carefully set up sound went to pot. I know that synth control from stringed instruments has progressed massively since my first attempts, but they still require a degree of control that I can only sustain under perfect conditions in the studio. Ultimately I'm glad I spent some time learning to play keyboards because it's added another instrument to those I can play (badly).

Yes definitely. Location is very important. We're lucky here in the UK in that everything is pretty close together - at least compared with what little I have seen of the US. My band is based in the Midlands which as its name states is in the middle of the UK and consequently nearly all the major cities are less than 4 hours drive away which is doable leaving late afternoon and returning around 1 or 2 in the morning, particularly as most gigs are at the weekend. We would be happy to go further afield but then the gig fee needs to include accommodation for the night, and we're not at that level of popularity yet. Being entertaining has a degree of subjectivity, but IME it involves providing something your audience can't get from streaming you on Spotify in order to entice them out of their living rooms.