Skinnyman

Ha! My Ricky 4003 has the patented syrup finish to the back of the neck and is always a little "grabby". In a humid environment (like most gigs or yesterday) it gets even worse. With the oppressive weather yesterday it was like someone had velcroed my hand to the neck.

Er, you're the bass player. Unless you're on fire, there is virtually no chance of you appearing anywhere in the final edit so just ignore the whole camera thing - they're not there for the likes of us.... 😃

New parking enforcement in action in Devizes. Cuts down on repeat offenders......

Isn't it astonishing how much a certain Major James Whosisit resembles the late King?

This is an impossible question to answer - I love most of them equally and have a different favourite every day depending on mood. If I had to pick just one it would (controversial, this) be Topographic. Yes, it's flawed, yes there are boring bits - but you could say that about Mozart or Beethoven. But taken as a whole, it builds up to Ritual and that glorious, marvellous climax. Yessongs is a very good call and has my favourite version of And You And I. Apart from the "classic" stuff, I also like The Ladder and Fly From Here a lot - much better than 90125, Magnifi-wotsit and Onion. Saw them loads of times and was heartbroken the last time i saw them with Chris Squire. Close to the Edge at the RAH with Geoff Downed on keys and they were distinctly ordinary - looking back, Chris was obviously unwell at that stage.

Probably. Like "what order do you tune your strings?" "Is it plectrum or pick?" "Flats or rounds?" "Why buy anything other than a Precision?" "Arent Rickenbackers shi-ite/wonderful?" "Is climate change a thing and how should we stop it?" "Cyclists or predestrians?" And any number of other contentious discussions that have no definitively correct answer. For the record and to kick things off, I prefer to use my fingers. Largely because a pick/plectrum is too big to go any kind of useful distance into a nostril for clearance purposes.

Oh, is that what that was? I thought it was air corn on the cob...... Don't I feel the fool now! Ptchah! 😃

Try fretting with your hand then....

You may wish to look away..... The only form in which I can tolerate liquorice is the torpedo. This dates back to my youth when, on the way home from school, I would buy a bag of kali (I’ve just realised I have no idea how to spell that word - I’ve known it from being an infant but never had occasion to spell it before. Basically, crystal sherbet. ) and a bag of liquorice torpedoes in the same bag. The torpedoes were then licked and used as transport to deliver the kali to a waiting mouth. The combination of sherbet and the outer coating of the torpedo managed to disguise the taste of the liquorice while still allowing its chewiness to give some substance to the mouthful.

Been playing air bass for forty-odd years now and still can’t get on with a Rickenbacker air bass. So uncomfortable...., An air Precision with flat wounds is fantastic though.....

A Dutch lawyer....

Fixed 😃

Wanted to play bass from the age of about thirteen. John Ford, John Entwistle and Chris Squire were my inspirations and i fell in love with the shape of the Rickenbacker. Finally started learning when i turned fifty. It takes me a while to get round to things...

As others have said, there's a bunch of rig-oriented stuff in the Gear section but if the stuff you're looking for isn't discussed then you can always start a new discussion and see if the Basschat hive mind is able to contribute. If there's enough common interest, it'll grow and eventually get its own section - if it's too niche for the general populace then it'll fade into nothing.

Deterministic Finite Automaton? You have a button for that? Mine's a slider..... Back on topic, often, when I've encountered an issue with an "over-dominant" bass sound it's generally been down to a resonance at a specific frequency - often worse in just one area of the room. To the layman, it sounds like the bass is too loud - the reality is that one frequency is causing sympathetic resonance with a partition or a window or a cabinet or something in the room. Kill that frequency and you kill the resonance. So, tweaking the eq (aka just rolling off the bass a bit) might sort it.

Me? Grumpy? Never. Unheard of. Sweetness and light, me.

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Another one for guitar Pro. I used to use Guitar Rig as that allowed you to load a backing track, alter the pitch, slow it down, etc - but now i just use Guitar Pro.

Brilliant. You must be chuffed as monkeys - I bet there's no one in your street that hasn't heard this news and quite right too! I hope this is just the start for him....

In the broadest possible sense....

Hmmm, steak bake. I could just go a steak bake. Why isn’t there a 24 hour Greggs? They’d make a fortune round here. Mostly from me. Hmmmm. Steak bake.......

Are you suggesting we put them in a vice? Or have i misunderstood yet again?😻

It's surprising how often that little store cupboard standby has come to the rescue of a mundane recipe. Of course, only the larger Waitrose have it in stock although you can get it online from Ocado. We're lucky up here in the rural Wolds - we can get it fresh from the Farmers Market in Louth on a Wednesday (that said, Simian Simon, the local monkey chuckler has been in Magaluf for the last couple of weeks so there's been no fresh while he's been away. No doubt he'll be in a hell of a mood when he gets back till he's caught up again.)

Ya beat me to it! Nice work, Speedy Teebs

Pardon?