Jean-Luc Pickguard

I Love a Man In A Uniform — Gang of Four

Thomann has them listed as being in stock in 4-5 weeks

Here's a video I found interesting which compare's Fender's different mustang bass versions. My classic vibe mustang came with a pickup from a vintera mustang fitted by a previous owner (shame they didn't put on the hipshot lollipop tuners from the vintera as well), however the stock pickup in the classic vibe measures up very well in the shootout.

The rules of this thread do not permit two letters in a song title to be changed It's the thin end of the wedge; if we allow that we'll eventually have people submitting songs where all the the letters have been changed.

Ah, but that thread also allowed adding or subtracting letters. This one is stricter in that one letter can only be substituted. Anyone found adding or subtracting letters runs the risk of getting a Paddington Bear hard stare.

Thanks for all the responses people. I'm beginning to think that my prior dismissal of tweeters may have been somewhat misguided, and the tweeter being switched in may have contributed to how much I liked the tone I was getting. I wasn't enjoying the amount of hiss coming from the cab so I will have to figure out how to eq as much of that out without negatively impacting the tone. I'll have to turn up early to rehearsal so I can investigate further.

I've always used cabs without tweeters. I predominently play mustang basses with stainless flats, so I'm not expecting anything particularly shrill to come out of my amp. My amp is a lovely Ashdown ABM600 Evo IV. I keep this at the guitarist's studio where we rehearse and I use the cabs he already had in the studio - an Ashdown ABM 115 with an ABM210 with tweeter on top (in portrait mode rather than landscape if you get the drift. I'm not sure what generation the cabs are, but they're probably at least ten years old. I kind of recall switching the tweeter off on the 210 when I first set it up, but at the rehearsal this week the bass rig was hissing very noticably, so I'm guessing the tweeter switch got knocked back to 'on' when the cab was in transit from the last gig. The thing is that I have rejigged my pedalboard and at the beginning of the rehearsal and spent some time adjusting the eq on the amp which resulted in a slight bass cut and a slight boost to the mids. I'm pretty sure I kept the treble roughly flat. Listening back to the recording of the rehearsal confirms that the bass tone was the best I've had in living memory but the hiss was very noticable. i think the slight bass cut removed some mud and adding mids added clarity. I also had the volume a bit higher than usual which enabled me to play (fingerstyle) with a lighter touch. We're rehearsing again on Monday and I'll try to keep the same settings but check the tweeter switch and A/B with it on/off. Will switching it off take away some of what I liked so much about the tone I got this week? or should the tweeter only really concern itself with the very high slappity thwackity frequency range which would be absent from my signal? I'll report back with my findings next week, but I'd be interested in what others think about this.

Dead Kennedys — Too Drunk To Funk Tom Browne — F*ckin' for Jamaica

ABBA — S.O.B. ABBA — Super Trouser

Bauhaus — A Cod In An Alcove

Rober Palmer — Some Guys Have All The Suck

Average White Band — Sick Up The Pieces

Lynyrd Skynyrd — Sh@t Smell

Whitney Houston — How Will I Knob

Queen — Killer Queef

Roberta Flack — Killing Me Softly With His Dong

I don't recall if there's been one of these threads before. The rules are simple: take a well known song by a famous artist and replace one letter in the song title with another. I'll start: Creedence Clearwater Revival — Proud Gary

Do Nothing — The Specials

Big Brother — David Bowie

Twelve Red Roses — Betty Harris

Love Potion Number Nine — The Coasters

Eight Line Poem — David Bowie

Wot? — Captain Sensible

I'm an Old Cowhand From The Rio Grande - Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks

5hitsville UK — The Clash