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    We’re way off topic here but it has been rumoured that ThorpyFX, in collaboration with Dan Coggins, are looking to do this. They have already brought out the fantastic Pulse Doppler phaser based on the Lovetone Doppelgänger.
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    Other way round for me. As a longtime guitarist I bought a bass just to record with, but a friend then roped me into playing a gig with him so I bought an amp too. I learned quite quickly and was careful not to fall into the trap of playing the bass like a guitar. My playing on my friend’s gig was abysmal, but by the time I started playing with other bands I pretty much knew what I was doing. 20+ years on, I have been about equally competent on both instruments for a good while now. To me, upcoming gigs are a great way to focus on improving my playing. My latest acquisition is a lap steel, which I reckon will work really well with a local singer-songwriter who I occasionally play with. Next gig with him will see me woodshedding lap steel!
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    Brian bought a pedal from me, excellent transaction in every way.
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    And replied
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    Spec: Processor - 1.4GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 Memory - 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Graphics - Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536MB Storage - 500GB SATA Display - 1920x1080 Connectivity - see photo I have just upgraded to an M2 machine. This iMac is in very good condition, with no chips or scratches to the screen. I have fully cleared the memory and performed a fresh install of MacOS 10.15 Catalina, ready for you to set up and register. I've kept the keyboard and mouse to use with my new Mac, so this is the main unit only. You will need a Mac-compatible keyboard and a USB mouse to get going. Macs are great for multitrack music recording and editing. The OS includes GarageBand and you can download Audacity for free if you prefer, or do what I did and go for Reaper (free to try, cheap to buy). The box is long gone so this is collection or meet-up only. I live in Swindon but go to Oxford/Abingdon areas a couple of times a month, and gigs take me to Bristol and sometimes further afield. Price is £120. I'm not averse to trade suggestions but I already have a lot of kit!
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    As @MacDaddy says, a lot of it is down to how you learn best. Another big factor is motivation. I find it a real challenge to learn things that I don’t have to learn e.g. just for fun, but if I know I’m going to be playing it on a gig, I’ll damn well learn it, come what may! @DaveP are you a home player or are you struggling to remember songs for gigs?
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    Here ya go @hiram.k.hackenbacker: https://imgur.com/a/sylvia-qz15Bcz If the link doesn't work, let me know and I'll change the page status from Hidden to Public.
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    I’m pretty sure that was transcribed in Guitarist magazine. It may have included the bass part. I created an Excel sheet of all the Guitarist transcriptions so I’ll look it up and see what I can do. EDIT: Yes it was the 'Live' edition that came between December 2000 and January 2001, and it did include the bass part. I don't have access to a scanner atm but I'll take the best photos I can manage on my phone and post them up here. Sorry for the thread hijack @ChrisDev!
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    I have no simple answer to this. I most often take out a Barefaced Twin with either my Demeter head or my EBS, and a MarkBass Nano as a spare. I also have a tiny MarkBass combo for tiny drumless gigs, and a pedal board just for going direct to PA (no backline). Then in my studio I have a Barefaced One 10 driven by an Ampeg B15 clone. Or I go through a Two Notes Torpedo CAB into my monitors. So yeah, Cetera.
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    Never tried it!
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    I may well be the outlier here but over the 46 years that I’ve been playing I’ve taught myself to read and write musical notation. Unless a piece is very simple I tend to make a reasonably accurate transcription and learn it from that. One tip I picked up online was to start at the end and work backwards - that way you’re always moving into more familiar territory.
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    If you’re interested in the floating thumb option, here’s a video that I like to point people to: I’d say play songs that you already know but (as others have recommended) start with your left hand around 5th position so that your low E note are played on the B string. Avoid playing just the top 4 strings while using the B as a thumb rest.
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    Say hello to my old Crow Valley Band mucker Dave ‘Brock’ Perry on guitar! And nice score
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    For quite a few years now I’ve avoided having too much low end in my bass amp sound. Sometimes that means turning the knob labelled ‘Bass’ slightly to the left of centre. I’m generally shooting for a warm, round sound as a starting point, and ime too much ‘bass’ militates against that and reduces clarity and punch. But I definitely don’t want to be getting into guitar territory.
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    Yes, the joy of being able to hear everything, and at a reasonable volume, is not to be underestimated!
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    ‘The Unexpected Trombonist’ could be the title of Richard Osman’s next Thursday Murder Club novel.
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    Wedding gig on lead guitar for a friend of the singer. It was one of those gigs where it feels like an invisible force is making you sound and play better. Mind you I had a head start with a Custom Shop Strat and a self-pimped Tele Deluxe into a Matchless Lightning Reverb. I don’t normally use that Strat for such a rocky set but I mainly played through a couple of low gain drives and the thing just sang. Pic shows stage before we started.
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    Great work Tom!
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    Electro-Harmonix created a whole family* of delay pedals from the Deluxe Memory Man. This one is the baby of the bunch but still delivers up to 550ms of delay time, with switchable modulation (mod depth can be tweaked on an internal trim pot). Somewhat road-worn but in good working order, with velcro on the base - yours for a cheap-as-chips £45 delivered (UK). Not £450!! *Shnobel video below compares a few of them.
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    I've been down that road before when I played in a Stones tribute - that's my story and I'm sticking to it! What's your band? We've started a FB group called Glam UK with the aim of benefitting all the bands working in the genre.
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    Interestingly, neither of the projects I’m currently involved with required an audition, they came about through people I’d played with previously.
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    That is the sexiest Precision I have seen in a long while! GLWTS
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    Thought I might add an update here. I’ve had some rehearsals with the party band startup where I knew the singer. It seems to be going very slowly as other band members’ commitments make it hard to to find dates we can all manage for rehearsals and gigs. No sign of the latter atm. More promising was being head-hunted by a drummer with whom I’d depped a few times. He was starting a 70s glam/pop covers trio and needed a lead guitarist. I was initially put off by (1) wigs and flares, and (2) backing tracks, but it turns out the former are not mandatory and the latter are for enhancement. The drummer is the kind of person who has good contacts and gets things moving. I’ve taken on the job of editing the tracks and bought a digital mixer to help with setting up our IEM mixes. There’s every indication that this band will be a goer.
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    This. Someone thought, ‘Let’s create a bass to make everyone happy by putting a P pickup in the middle and a J pickup near the bridge.’ No, it doesn’t work. The timeless glory of the P pickup quite naturally overpowers the pathetic weedy bridge J unit. Worst of all is where some goon has taken a lovely 60s P and hacked a hole as close as physically possible to the bridge, guaranteeing that the J pickup will sound thinner and weedier than ever. And it just looks wrong too. Countless numbers of PJ basses have been churned out at all price points, and they’re all wasted on my me (and of course my tastes are beyond reproach). Sorry to be so on-the-fence on this…
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    My preference is stage left (assuming a right-handed drummer). Close to the snare, and no chance of an unfortunate clash between bass headstock and singer’s bonce.
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