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Illegal file sharing is as good as dead thanks to Spotify/SoundCloud/Deezer etc. Who pay out all but naught per play. Record sales have never contributed more than a quid a piece in the best of circumstances, unless sold by directly at a live show. Credits from radio play, ticket sales and merchandise are the main earners iirc.

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Does wrapping it in cling film count?

Why would you expect a shop to pay for your error? Sales via internet would grind to a halt within two months or products would increase in price with the postage factored in.

Play the bass you like most, no punters will know the difference. A Peavey or Kustom type amp set to cut through, and then the gain cranked to just before clipping. HH, hartke 3500, SWR, Gallien Kreuger all get close enough. A smidge of overdrive if the result is too clean for the song.

What differentiates humans from animals is the making and use of tools 😉 Now let's stop the nonsense and keep the fanboi stuff in their appropriate threads.

If as per the first post, all things are equal, the plectrum looks better and can be used as a business card. Pick

Disagree. It would suggest they've protected your hearing well from noise attrition. However there seems to be another cause in play. Could be unlucky genetics, could be past or current medications. Could be the loudness of the signal you are perceiving is objectively mild but is circumventing all of the brain's natural filters. If the hearing test shows no decline, all that's left is to attack the issue psychologically. Playing music responsibly as you've shown you do won't make it worse, and quitting won't make it better.

The noise load may not be the major issue. Can you talk to someone regarding CBT or tinnitus related mindfulness therapy? Maybe you can get a better grip on how much it gets to disrupt you.

.88 mm IntuneGP gripX tri-tip. We have 1 song I use fingers on, because it has 8 seconds of slap in it.

Dr. duck's axe wax, is basically liquid fast fret. One drop on a cloth that you'd use for cleaning spectacles and the strings are smooth as anything. Doesn't build up either.

Even if you play music where it's expected to be at harmful level in the audience, there's no need for that on stage. Eliminate cabs on stage. See if you can get transparent screens around the drums or get the drummer to use quieter materials. As musicians we are at the root of improving quality everywhere we play.

Bit dramatic. Fret placement makes it impossible to get 100% intonation, trying to get full bass notes on a short scale makes it even less likely. Also see Warwick's compensated fret system. I've not heard of anyone tuning at other locations than open string and 12th fret. Why would you want to do that? Sure you could check the flageolet at 5th and 7th if you want to, but the positions in between are next to meaningless (Close Enough) in most music. The tuner is a good indication of where one instrument should be calibrated. If you want to be in tune with eachother that means a lot of work tuning by ear. And that's fine if the music allows for it but in most contemporary music it's hardly required. The fretted system many of us take for granted is flawed. We have enjoyed 60-70 years of popular music using it now, and it's fine. One can do better, but not using mass produced assembly line type fretted instruments. The tuners are not the problem. They are tools to be used for specific purpose and nothing more.

I literally would not look like I look, know who I know or do what I do if I hadn't heard the few albums that influenced my life choices as a teen.

Camo dip. No burst.

Add to this a good dose of town hall reverb and it's a recipe for an annoying evening for both audience and band.

It's psychological really. Or at least how much it gets to you is. Everything you can do to enjoy a wholesome life helps against how irritating the tinnitus is. Sleep well, eat healthy, de-stress, improve your fitness, reduce alcohol/caffeine/nicotine/fastfood, enjoy music and company. The better you feel the less your ears will bother you. Mindfulness or meditation and cognitive behavioural sciences seem to help a lot of people with getting some grip on the situation.

It's possible that higher frequencies not listed have greater attenuation (or 'loss') and distortion levels stayed below that threshold. I'd have to see recent and more elaborate test results and know more about the testing protocols that were followed. Many hearing test focus on the speech spectrum, the frequencies that contain 99.8% of speech information. Roughly 125 Hz - 8000 Hz, with emphasis between 500-4000 Hz.

As a hearing professional this is highly unlikely based on the results of the hearing test posted above. They show very mild hearing loss up to the 4 kHz, and that one can be attributed to age related wear. Nothing there would even indicate monitoring by an ENT. Suggest you let people be people. The ability to perceive stereo or not might be evolutionary, perhaps a bit like colour blindness (which also manifests in different variations). Perhaps general hearing was sometimes more useful than directional hearing, who knows.

Double post, sorry

Extrapolating from production numbers about 300 stingrays were produced before 1977. http://www.musicmanbass.global/serials-pre-eb-sting-ray/ Very cool that you got to see some big shots with fancy instruments early on, but they were hardly standard issue. I always thought many punkbands were from poor, working or at best middle class environments though I could well be mistaken there.

You're missing out on the absolute joy that are the B.C.Rich mockingbird and seagull.

There's cost, Stingray are a pricey instrument and above many starting punks financial means. Later when upgrading, the path from your starting squier to a mex/jap fender to a US one is keeping to what you know and love. MusicMan and later Ernie Ball didn't get to market until after the first and around the middle of the second wave of punk. So younger punk players won't have seen their idols playing one. I have seen quite a few being used by newer bands in the last 10-15 years, they're great punchy instruments fit for fast paced music. I'll leave you with this distraction:

A bit late to the topic but having been a cobbler for 15years prior to my current career I can assure you dog skin is unsuitable for leather and cat is too small making it too labor intensive (expensive) when there's whole pig or cow available. The fur however is often used as liner and adornment like you see on the hooded puffer jackets, but in the EU has to pass inspection and be honest about it's origin. Leather is fairly easy to tell apart by traits like structure, elasticity, pattern of pores (dogs don't have pores which is the main reason why their skin is useless), tear resistance (north African goat is always distinctly easy to tear and the smell never really goes away) and line pattern (look at the palm of your hand for example). Much European cow leather is good quality thanks to electric wire fences, whereas Argentinian cattle often shows scars from thorn bushes, parasitic insects and barbed wire fencing. I'm sorry it's late and I'm rambling instead of sleeping.