Woodinblack

I often can't remember how a song starts, but once i know the first two notes I pretty well remember it all. Some thingns that are a bit tricky I will forget the detail of, but most of the time not an issue. Certainly if I was going to do something with songs I knew, if I went through them once beforehand I would remember them. Obviously if they are things you don't know, and there is a lot of them, its has the potential to be much harder!

There used to be one in winchester which meant I had to vary my route to avoid it as it made me feel sick, I was in my mid 30s then.

WIth a days notice it is a bit like a dep - you can't expect someone to know all the details, just put the chords down, get the easy ones knocked out and anything with any detail, do the best you can and say that you can't get the detailed part of all the songs in a day.

So those covers on the back all stand out from the surface? Seems odd when most other makes they are put level

That was my thinking. I had the legend, I didn't like it at all, it put me off spectors, which is a bit unfortunate. This is nothing like that. I don't think that is true - I have played on the same stage as you

Bought a rather lovely spector from Neil, fast and easy transaction, virtually no time from first discussion to it being at my door, thanks.

I was a bit concerned as I had previously had a Spector Legend and I really didn't get on with it much.. one of the early pages on here. However, this was an itch I had been wanting to scratcch a long time Recently I wanted one of the fan fret spectors, and I tried one and loved it, but sadly they are crazy prices in shops, and bass direct who had a good price no longer had the green and I couldn't get on with the brown, and there was the other nagging "£1600 for a new korean that would be work at best 1200 if I sold it". So that pushed me to the idea of a euro, as if I didn't get on with it, I could shift it for close to what I got it for. No win no fee. Put a wanted advert, this turned up my way, asked advice, seemed positive. So this turned up, not a colour I would have initial thought of but it is so deep, it looks 3d in the light, and considering it is over 20 years old, it is next to perfect. It feels nice, it sits nice (which the legend didn't do). It has the perfect back cutaway for someone who has worked near the fridge during lockdown! Played it all night, it sounds so good, it sounds different to everything else i have, it has its own sound (I don't have any EMG pickups, maybe it is that), certainly more active sounding which is a great thing, so clear. And the B string, it is something special. I don't actually have any basses with a bad B string as such, but you actually can barely tell the difference between the B at the 5th and the open E. I don't buy into the 35" being a lot better thing due to the physics of it, but if I did, I would use this as evidence! Couldn't be happier with it. Looking forward to its first gig.

Its hard to capture its greenness really - in the sun it really glows Finally getting a chance to play it, it seems rather good!

No, that one was made 11 basses after my one, but otherwise, looks pretty similar!

Or frankly invest in a basic second hand iPad from the last few years which won't cost much, and then the world is your musical oyster.

Mine was the guitar head.

That is what it is - an Emerald Green Euro 5. I was told it was 2003, but I read the serial as 2001, ie, serial starts BD0xxx.

It was for sale, and I just bought it! It only turned up today, so I haven't had a chance to get pictures yet, so here is one of its sale ones:

Oh look at this, Time for me to (re)join the group!

One of the rare songs in Locrian mode, the mode people say you don't write songs in!

Depends I guess - I have done over 100 gigs using the jack out on my iPad without issues.

I would say Jimi Hendrix - endorsed more stuff since he was dead!

I had a carlsbro stingray and it was awesome. Reverb, overdrive and a Suzz control, what more did you need??

Well, surprisingly enough, even the iPhones will work here. Get yourself an apple camera connection kit (a plug from USB to lightning) and most of the synths will work on it, just as well. If you have an iPhone with headphones, run that to line out and you would be impressed. Obviously it is a bit smaller and harder to see!

Well, there are plugins for windows. I have windows PCs but don't use any of them for music so I can't really say, I am sure others will chime in with what they use. No iPad lurking around?

Depends on what laptop - i am a Mac User, my laptop plugins are expensive (I use equator 2) but the iPad stuff is pretty cheap and very powerful. Latency isn't a problem on keyboards in most situations. To be honest you can get more range with software plugins, although sometimes it is just nice to have a standalone device. Yes, absolute have a good range of stuff.

It is a way to go, there are many good synth plugins.

Indeed. Inadequate volute, but can't replace it with a different style because people didn't like the look.

I do like zooms manifold effect

I am sure there are gibsons with neck breaks - I think it is par for the course for early gibsons to have those, I doubt the basses fared better as it wasn't the neck that was an issue itself.