Jean-Luc Pickguard

This band sounds like a bunch of chumps

I have just tried the stem splitter function LP11 on last night's rehearsal recording. My initial impression is that the resultant stems are as good as or possibly a bit cleaner than those from RipX. Certainly the bass has most of its tone rather than being an indistinct rumble and there is very little of the bass left on the guitar track. The drums and vocals are very clean. RipX does a lot more, but I've found that it is quite time consuming and often confusing to use the editing features so I have only been using it as a simple stem splitter lately, so it looks like yhis is going to speed up my workflow as I can do everything I need to right within Logic Pro.

Sausage In a Bottle — The Police

Chipbuilding — Robert Wyatt

Not had a chance to investigate the new features yet, but the revamped drummer looks awesome on this 'Why Logic Pro Rules' video

Installing it now. The Cory Wong producer pack looks like it will be worth investigating

Still waiting for the upgrade. Have to head out to rehearsal shortly so I'll probably get the upgrade when I get back. If you want to upgrade, but retain the option of being able to roll back to the previous version in case of issues, go to applications in finder, right click on the Logic Pro.app and click on [Compress "Logic Pro.app"] to create a zip archive of your current version. I've almost completely managed to wean myself off using third party plugins so I'm not worried about incompatibilites.

Sit Down And Talk This Over — Wilson Pickett

Gimme A Pigfoot and a Bottle Of Beer — Bessie Smith

Yes, the labella danelectro set are low tension. They don't really pull on the neck much so the truss rod needed to be slackened off pretty much all the way to get any relief.

It looks like it'll start walking towards you as soon as you turn your back on it

The Green Green Grass Of Homeopathy — Tom Jones

Cindy Tells Me — Brian Eno

Just seen this: https://www.soundonsound.com/news/apple-logic-pro-11-incoming Logic pro 11 will be available on Monday — 13 May and will include a few new goodies including Bass & Keyboard equivalents to the drummer track, Stem splitter, and a new saturation plugin. The cost will be £199, but the best part is that it will be a free upgrade for existing users. It looks like the new keyboard player plugin is going to be limited to piano, but I hope it gets extended to include hammond organ styles also as I would probably enjoy playing with that. I already own RipX for splitting songs into stems for remixing old recordings or rehearsal / gig recordings from the zoom H2n, so it will be interesting to see how the Logic splitter compares.

I never solder anything when I shield a bass and I've never had less than perfect results. I ensure there is continuity of the tape, ie a strip of tape betwen the pickup cavity and the control cavity, the bits of tape overlap (the adhesive on most copper tape is conductive) and extend a tag to one of the control plate screw holes so it connects to the control plate — you can see these have been done in the pic I posted above. One further tip, don't be tempted to get the wide tape thinking it'll mean less bits are needed. I've found that the 1" (25mm) wide tape works best, anything wider gets unmanagable and tries to stick to itself before you want it to.

Papa Was A Rolling Stone — The Temptations

I love the bass balls. In the 80s I had an original one without an LED. I have no idea what happened to it, it might be in a long forgotten box in the loft or I might have sold it, given it away, or left it somewhere. I now have a Mooer bass sweeper mini pedal which does a good job of copying the bass balls with a bonus that it has a pair of external knobs in place of the internal trimpots of the bass balls.

Here I Am (Come and Take Me) — Al Green

My First fender. I hated every minute of working in bejams over the summer in 1982 after leaving school, but I was doing it to buy this new from Rockbottom in Croydon for £260. It was actually made up of two separate basses in the international colours series — I asked if they could get one in with the body like the cherry sunburst precision (that had a rosewood fretless neck) and a fretted maple neck like the one on a yellow precision. After confirming that this was a serious enquiry, they took the two basses into their workshop for ten minutes and came back with the necks swapped. I was eighteen at the time and had never played a real fender before so I had no idea that a precision bass really shouldn't weigh as much as a small elephant. It currently has an EMG Geezer pickup & electronics, and a Fender High Mass Bridge. It sounds fantastic, but can't compete with my JMJs for comfort.

And here is my guitar board

Oh Pritt! — Buzzcocks

This would probably be right up my street if I hadn't recently put together my ultimate pedalboard of six boss compact pedals, which I am really happy with and gives me the all sounds I need for the set. I used to have the big red GT-6b, and although I liked it, there was still a bit of faffing about in using it. Comparing the two, the ME-90B looks to be more aligned with how my brain works. Being able to run it off batteries is a bonus.

Semolina — The Residents

Here's Event Horizon, where I aimed for a 70s Krautrock feel. It is is about looking into, and being pulled over the Event Horizon of a black hole which might actually be a wormhole into a parallel universe.

Ingrid's Oily Tongue — The Residents