Woodinblack

Yep, I went to a demo of Ben from Crimson doing it. I think he just likes setting stuff on fire really.

Hey, this is supposed to be family friendly, we will have no looking at members side-on here thanyouverymuch!

I have had that, a guitarist that would just 'forget' that we were doing various songs because he didn't want to do them in the first place, or didn't like them. Which is fine if you say up front - there are several songs that at least one of us dislikes in the band, and some only survive because one of us really likes them. If you have 28 songs to gig what is tthe issue, go out and gig them! I have too - what is the point of that, they might as well go home and listen to the record! Most of our songs start close but after a while they tend to drift our own way. In fact, if note for note is required, what is the point of band practice - if everyone has it note for note it should be perfect anyway

Thanks for posting this, I was trying to remember who did the pickguards anyway and had forgotten. However, this seems like a very good idea

You just click someone name. Is that what you mean?

I don't think it matters - once you have written down 'prepare to be unprepared' on any sort of medium that someone else can read you have already labeled yourself

I really have no clue what you are talking about there, sorry. I think playing should always be fun. I just don't find it fun if the other people can't play what we are trying to play. I don't find it fun doing the same thing over and over again because someone else cant be bothered to learn it, or is not skilled enough to wing it. Agreed - I have already said that, and as you said, if you can jam the song, then that is fine, noone is having to wait for you to do something. Indeed - although I am not sure that there is much to chat through, I think they want different things from the band, and those things are probably incompatible. But talking is a good start, rather than just getting annoyed. Not sure what the argument is here, I don't think we are actually disagreeing anywhere here apart from maybe our idea of what learning a song is - I rarely do note for note, as long as the general idea is there.

Then why are you playing music? If you don't want to play, then there is no point playing at home, granted, but why is there a point playing anywhere? I think you are mixing things up, such as learning a song and being able to play something. When I play, the only thing that frustrates me is when the guitarist (and it is always the guitarist or keyboard player) hasn't worked out the song at all, and expects us to just hang around while they learn it. Maybe it is fun for you having to play the start of the same song 20 times while they work out what they are supposed to be playing, but I don't see any fun in that at all for me. They don't have to play like the record, or any specific version if they have their own idea how it should be played - I doubt we play anything like the record, if they are good enough to either wing it and get it close enough or do their own interpretation of it, that is fine, as long as we don't have to spend time repeating and repeating - I have been in those groups, they never go anyway, and they are never fun.

People have different approaches to bands, some people very professional, some people casual and it causes a lot of friction when people have a different approach to them. The goal is to find as many people who are as close to your idea of how to do things as possible for a long lived band. It isn't a question that you are right and they are wrong, it just that the approached don't work well together.

Thats where I am. I occasionally watch the end episode which is generally the most interesting thing on TV that day, but generally speaking don't pay much attention, but I know people who love it and travel round the world to go to it who are going to be thrilled that it is in the UK, wherever it is, so I can only see it as a good thing. The way the country and government are going, we are sure going to need something positive next year, so bring it on!

Well that is a surprise that noone could have predicted isn't it. Oh.. hang on..

I suspect its the opposite of the olympics, it costs far less to host but the money brings tourism and investment, then can still use the hall for things afterwards. I think the olympics is just a fortune to host then you find you have no use for any of the stadiums or halls you made, and have to think of some use for them. And at least unlike the olympics it doesn't go on for ever

I assume he just bought it because he liked it - if he was endorsing he wouldn't have a 2 generation back rack mount amp.

I would say an Ashdown ABM 500 RC Evo II 575W Chrome Face. Like this:

Well, the winning city gets a couple of thousand extra quite well off tourists visiting, so it really does matter to them.

Yep. Well, that is if that is what you want - there are a lot of diagrams depending on what you want. Obviously if you want volume / blend / tone you would do it a different way, or volume / volume tone etc. Yes but from EMGs point of view, they pennies at most, so it is just easier to put them all in.

EMG have a lot of documents on wiring whatever you want however you want, they are one of the better manufacturers for it How about this? https://www.emgpickups.com/pub/media/Mageants/t/b/tbhz_b245_0230-0211c.pdf

Its over a year since the last one broke, so I am hoping it might last a bit longer

This morning I got a bag from Shaller with 6 replacement tuner head parts, so I have a few spares when they break! Also some plectrums. Unfortunately the first one actually damaged its tthread (Although that was replaced by Jon Shuker, so no prob) but I have the parts of the current one, so should be able to put that back on

Well, that was interesting, in that my judgement was way off. So this is a local pub to me, I mean, it takes 10 minutes to walk to it, its not a pub I have ever been in, but it is the local of our drummer (who lives just under a minute from it) who even knowing the bar staff never managed to get us a gig in there, despite trying. To be fair, we got offered a gig and then we had the lockdown. So we get a gig in a very random way. Somehow it seems more of a pain loading up the car and driving such a short distance the track playing when the car starts hasn't finished yet. Unload, actually loads of space which is nice. Setting up, I find that I have failed to pack my IEM, but that is probably ok as I have also failed to pack my headphones. Take my iPad out which I had charged to 100% the day before, and I guess fiddling around with the synths on it, it is now on 28%. OK, I have a charging power block - ok that is dead too. I do have a lead and a usb charger, so that saves the day. Testing it all out with my newly rebuilt pedalboard, everything good. Try the synth patch that I made to replace the one I had that sounded terrible when testing it, it sounds awful - go back to the original, ok, that sounds fine. Sound check, everything good. Time to start the gig, plug in, massive buzzing - try everything, it is the wireless so quickly throw my spare lead in there. The omens are really pointing to a terrible gig, but there is quite a crowd. Then we are off - first two songs worrying as I can't hear my bass, it sounds wierd out of IEMs, can't hear the guitar. On the third song switch the connect the back beat up, ok, now can hear/feel the bass. So hot. Did the first half, the crowd are many, varied and dancing and singing along, all seem to be enjoying it. Half time told the vocals were quiet so turned them up. Second half, same thing, everyone happy. After that was told the vocals were much better, the sound was good. The drummers mum, who is at pretty well all our gigs and always says how the bass is too loud or the sound is wrong, or something else is wrong tells me that it was the best sound ever. We get loads of people telling us they loved it, one guy saying we are one of the best ever to be in there, and it turned out he was friends with the owner, and a good night was had by all. Packed up, home in 3 minutes (although no cash as it is one of those online payments, which is rare for us). I think we will probably go back there. Downside of no IEM though is fingers hurt like mad, throat hurts - not hearing yourself is a bit damaging! Today, I think it is a quiet day, feel like I have been in a boxing match!

Obviously I have no idea what you want to do, so there isn't an 'of course' here. Looking at the switching of the droc, yes, it seems pretty simple that if you put a switch where the middle pickup connects to earth you get what you want, except when it is off, it would mean 1 & 2 would be the same, 3 would be nothing at all (no pickup) and 4 would be the two outside pickups. When it was on it would be the same as it is now.

"Everything you need to have your only unique custom bass guitar" they are not wrong.

You could, you could put it on a pull switch or something if you didn't want to drill holes

There are a fair few in this area, although not as much of a spread of genres. There are fewer venues than there were pre-pandemic though.