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That photo looks absolutely fine to me. The silk is not on the 'speaking' portion of the string.

I favour a rectangle of camouflage netting hung across the front elevation of the Axe residence.

[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1507756204' post='3387840'] i think the board is a "schmit array" apologies for the awful spelling! [/quote] [quote name='Sean' timestamp='1507870911' post='3388420'] That Schmidt Array Board is gorgeous. [/quote] OK, heard of these via That Pedal Show on YouTube. Slick indeed.

If you're not looking forward to playing the gigs - whether it's the material, the musicians, the venues, whatever - then it's time to move on.

Sounds like you did the right thing.

£136 on GAK, not a bad price for what it can do.

[quote name='funkydoug' timestamp='1507750950' post='3387787'] ... The mids are low-mid @280hz and high-mid @750hz but they miss out the zone of honk (at about 500hz) ... [/quote] 'The zone of honk' - my nomination for quote of the year! Nice review, thanks.

[quote name='neilp' timestamp='1507836055' post='3388328'] It's fine by me. Ever so slightly dissonant, but I suspect that;s deliberate to emphasise the key change. [/quote] What key change? The change to Eb doesn't come till nearly the end of the song. You might argue a brief modulation to Bm but that wouldn't call for a G# note.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1507809851' post='3388094'] Ahh.. it's jarring to me. I've just checked and he does it on the original, too. It must just be me.. [/quote] No. As you say, that's on the original, I transcribed it about 10 years ago and it still sounds out of place. If I were in the position of coming up with the line, I would most likely play an A note to suggest Bm7 - G natural would sound even odder against a Bm chord!

I'm pretty sure slickness is a word. If it's not, it should be. Don't recognise the board, but likely to be a Boss/Roland product.

I seem to recall molan (of this parish) remarking that the TH500 used the same Class D power stage as the allegedly 900W Streamliner!

Splendid job!

I'm familiar with the concept of borrowing chords from the parallel minor (Ionian mode), which is something of a commonplace in rock. I hadn't thought of extending this to the other modes - cool!

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[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1507400917' post='3385276'] ... And thinking about it, guitarists never seem to moan about carrying a whacking great Marshall valve amp around, so a 13kg bass amp isn`t that big a deal to me. [/quote] I'm a guitarist too, and believe me, amp weight is an issue! I never went down the stack or half-stack route, but I have long since ditched arm-lengthening 2x12 combos in favour of much lighter 1x12 models. Even so, my main gigging amp is by far the heaviest piece of kit that I own.

There are some slap fills in Uptown Funk, which is pretty mainstream. I have yet to learn to slap, so when I play Uptown Funk I play non-slap fills with a bit of fingernail, and have never had a complaint. Ditto Car Wash! A couple of weeks back, for the first time ever in my bass playing life, I missed the opportunity of some dep work simply because I couldn't slap. The band in question actually made a feature of slapping at some point(s) during its set.

I tried one at Bassgear a few years back and found it surprisingly heavy, considering it is a thinline electro-acoustic.

Other things being equal (and setting aside all thoughts of HEFT), I would prefer to have a light thing and a heavy thing to carry, rather than 2 heavy things.

I'm not even sure I could hear a difference.

Battery = drum kit in English

[quote name='martthebass' timestamp='1507302860' post='3384647'] Can only comment on my Squier Mustang but, in general: 1. The tone is less bright and 'thumpier' - like a P bass on half tone? I like it FWIW 2. String tension is lower 3. String spacing is tighter (think this is a Mustang thing) [/quote] This, mainly. I have a MIJ Mustang, and there is a surprising amount of top available from it, so much so that I often dial the tone back to bout 30%, much as I do with a Precision, for that Motown sound. I think of the Mustang as the Precision's snotty punk kid brother. The shorter scale and narrow neck make a gig feel almost like a night off!

Has anyone on here had a chance to try one of these DG cabs? Or compare them with others? They might be truly phenomenal...

I made the mistake if buying a flat cap. Instant Victor Meldrew.