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Not quite... Although I do like the more traditional double-dot position

Took a while for me to get that one too - and the answer to all these things are to just do it slow and break it into smaller steps that you repeat until you don't get it wrong. Sir duke is pretty good in that it naturally breaks into a series of obvious phrases. I have a problem with all of these as my two finger picking is bad (my nail picking and 3 finger picking is fine) and I always try to force it. It really is just small section repetition and speed increases.

The reaction is the little like or haha icon on the right hand side of your post. Like the one I have just done on that post

Although the Phasing effect was used in the late 60s, there wasn't actually a standalone effects pedal until 1971. The envelope controlled filter (mu-tron or auto-wah) didn't come out until 1972. Chorus came out in 75 with the roland jazz chorus. The bitcrusher came a lot later. Not even started with synth pedals. Hope that helps

Behringher 4 channel mixers.

I never got into snapshots so I don't use them, and no patches either. Actually no reason that it isn't like that as the majority of songs are just fairly straight, I just dont do it. Plus our set list has a habit of being more flexable than most bands, so can't really rely on the order we are going to play the songs until a few seconds before we do.

Does it need to be somethign as complicated as a kempler, not maybe just a DI box like the radials and straight in the PA, then you are talking putting it in the bass pocket.

Not how I use the HX effects, I don't have an patches, apart from the main one, I just use them as 6 effects and turn them on or off as required.

And what is the entertainment value in that? I mean genuinely I want to know.. I find it pretty easy to find dumbstruck people around here That is also irritating. When you are looking for a review of something and you end up at an unboxing video - thanks, I can read on the side of the packet what is in it, and most of the other stuff I throw away, I was hoping for some insight into how it worked.

Reaction videos on youtube are one of my current irritations, Its getting hard to find actual things on youtube that aren't someones reaction to that thing! I am completely perplexed as to why someone would watch one of them. I avoided them for ages, then I thought I would watch one in case there was something non obvious I was missing. I watched about 30 seconds of it, and it turned out to be exactly what I thought it was, so I remain in total confusion as to the appeal. I know we all like different things, and if you get some enjoyment from it, I guess its good, but who cares what some random persons reaction is to something? I suppose some could say that channels like Rick Beato is just reactions to songs, but at least there is an analysis there as to how the songs are constructed, not just 'oh this bit is great'

Just to be clear, it is a digital pedalboard with some knobs!

I don't find it easy and I mess up a lot on the part that goes back up. Which is why I use it, it is right on the edge of what I can do, so if the bass is harder to play I almost certainly wouldn't be able to play it. I couldn't play it on a P bass.

I would imagine the 'always with speaker' are related to the previous points about it being used with a valve amplifier - obviously using a valve amplifier without a speaker is going to damage it, whereas it won't be an issue with a solid state amp at all.

I use 'hit me with your rythmn stick' as a guage on ease of use as it is on the edge of what I can play. I can play it on my ibanezes, I could play it on a J I had, but not a P. I can play it on my shuker, it is a bit hard going on the spector. If I get a bass its one of the first things I try. If I can't play it there is no point hanging onto the bass as I will eventually get fed up with it. The wider the string spacing and the higher the action, the harder it gets.

I am not being aggressive, I really don't understand what you are talking about. You said "if your technique is good one bass shouldn't be more "difficult" to play than the other.", ie, you appear to be saying that the only thing that makes something easier or more difficult to play is entirely your technique, which would seem to imply the thing that you are playing has no part in how difficult it is to play. And that makes so little sense to me that I think I must be missing your point. I have two musical keyboards here, one is harder to play than the other one, its heavier. I have 3 guitars next to me, One has quite heavy strings, which makes itt much harder to play than others, although I like the sound. One has a trem which I am not good with, which makes it harder to play than the other, although easier to trem, and one is very easy to play but it is a gibson so it goes out of tune a lot. I have 7 basses next to me, they vary from really easy to play to really hard, depending on what your doing. One is next to impossible to play, as no matter how good my techinque is, the fact that the nut has broken makes it very tricky. I have two computer keyboards on my desk, one is harder to type on than the other. All of these differences may be fractional, but every single thing I own has a different level of ease of use to every other thing.

ok, so the top of the range fodera bass is no easier to play than a woolworths bass you got out of a skip with an action you can drive a truck under. Gotcha. So all that effort getting short / long scale, string spacing, weight etc is just for no reason.

That makes no sense at all. Are you saying that objectively the P is easier to play for everyone than a J, or a J is fundamentally hard to play? I find the P harder to play than the J, but I find them both harder to play than any of my ibanezes. In that I can play them all, but I can't do faster stuff on a P.

Like Nikki Sixx, he buys Nikki Sixx thunderbirds from Gibson (presumably cheap), plays them for 1 gig, signs them and sells them for a few K more.

Well, he can sell this for £15k and buy another one for a lot less!

Please check the rules, no offers for sale outside the Sales forum

Or you could get one of the others of the same sort on eBay for £80!

Ours was good, it was a village pub ½ hr from here, outside in a tent (one of those big teepee ones). Easy enough setup as there was a stage for the drum and we could park next to the tent, although I threw a bit of a strop that I get all the PA stuff out while the rest of them were messing round with the banner, but it was an easy setup and the singers son was there and helped with the setup. Sound was great - I think it is easier to do sound outside without reflections and I brought the sub. It was a short 2 hour gig and also 7-9 rather than 9-12, so it was a nice thing. A bit cold though, considering I had been in the sea on the previous day trying to cool down, it was a bit of a change. But the audience were good, a lot of dancing in the first set, which is unusual, and then the more usual, not much until half 8 then "1 more song' from 9 until we finally did finish 20 minutes later

I really don't need the money. however, I find the money important because you are providing a service, so apart from the occasional charity that I would actually give my own money to, its got to be worth doing. Plus as i don't spend any money on music stuff that I haven't earned gigging, it is a self funded hobby for me, but I still approach it as if it was a job from the point of view of practicing / turning up etc.

If you do track it down it does have a DI output, as do most modern valve amps.

They are dark, agreed, but I can see them reasonably clearly.