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Woodinblack

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  1. G&L do a jazz style bass, I assume the neck on that is thinner?
  2. I would say that jack socket has the ring and body shorted out so the battery is on permanently
  3. If it was a 5 I would have bought it before this thread was up! Got tempted by the HoD, but honestly not gigging, I don't need this stuff.
  4. I can't remember what mine was but it also had a strobe. Yes, the flute on that used to annoy me a lot too. I guess they didn't bother redoing things back then.
  5. Not when you want to put the amp on top of the cab
  6. Well, thats the same with my singing, but not because I can't hear it You could just get those turntable mats with the pattern on it, and then look at it under electric light and you would see if it was running slow. I always had a problem with the track 'jane' by jefferson starship - I was given it as a single but the hole wasnt quite central, so the intro had a wow of about a tone! Natural. I used to believe that you could teach these things, but I am now coming round to the idea that you can't teach that stuff later in life. You can be shown it and have it pointed out, but if you don't hear it yourself, noone can persuade you to hear it. And not all instruments do we bother with. And sometimes it is not desirable. But much longer subject!
  7. You say that but I have been surprised about how many guitarists I have met who genuinely don't notice when they are out of tune. I don't know it happens
  8. I would say I do make a few thousand a year playing in cover bands, which has gone, but I spend that all on instruments so and I have sold a few things this year, so it has balanced out!
  9. Broken socket. My wrongo was like that. As was another bass I picked up second hand.
  10. I remember reading about the guitarist with wasp, he didn't get any money when they weren't touring, so he worked on a building site, and then would get called on short notice and couldn't play much for a bit. My work hasn't changed at all, so I am in a fortunate position. If anything, slightly better as I am not going to work and not going out at all!
  11. Have you don't one of those anscestry.com DNA tests, just to check if she has bolivian roots? But to be fair, this stuff is so much easier to learn when you are a kid. Its important to let her listen to the notes together to show how they sound, like C & D together, not great, tense. C&E, thats ok, C&G thats ok, and then C&C, they sound like they are supposed to be together, like the same thing. Well, depending on the anscestry.com results obvs.
  12. I would imagine that since the invention of armchairs, there are more of them. Presumably there are armchair armchair experts, on armchairchat.co.uk?
  13. That is slightly different than this though, that is just the same name for different thing. It makes no difference if your A is 410 or 450, your scale is still the same (back then scales were different anyway, but also not really relevant). Like with colours, it doesn't matter if you call green yellow, if everyone calls green yellow. Also however many notes you divide an octave by is just cultural, but that still involves dividing an octave, what is discussed there is not having a an octave at all. It doesn't make a difference with perfect pitch. If you have perfect pitch, one pitch is always that pitch, regardless of what you call it, it is just a question of using the right labels, but doesn't change you hear the note. In fact when it comes down to it, it is actually a very odd thing that we don't all have perfect pitch, I guess because we hadn't been taught when we were young (see Rick Beatos videos on it), in the way we were taught sight. If you ask people to give the names of light at 560THz or 450THz , most people will get Green or Red. If you play some sound at 880Hz, very few people will give you the note.
  14. No trawling replied, first post in the thread,, hit that << button
  15. Damping for when you are two handed tapping, when you can't mute the rest of the strings normally as both hands are busy doing something else. Same reason a chapman stick has a full time mute
  16. There is. At 25 seconds in his cigarette is in danger of burning his headstock, by 1:26 it has grown a fair bit, by 2:33 it is down so much there is only room for one puff before he puts it out.
  17. Of course he got it right, it just took him until G&L to do it, and noone was paying attention by then
  18. I think the best option is a day out to a bass shop to see what you do like.
  19. Equally with most of my gigging basses being SR ibanezes, the bug type connection isn't much use. And it always used to have a flappy plug too before I had it fixed.
  20. Presets on many things are essencial to give you an idea on what you can do, not necessarily things you would use. Whenever I get something I will flick through the presets to hear what the thing is capable of doing, and then often find something that is like what I want as a starting point and then continue. As long as they are all overwriteable (but included on some download where you can reapply them) then I don't see any harm. Although I never understand why digital effects pedals dont seem to have what many digital synths have, a random button. Most of the times the random button ends up with something unplayable, but just occasionally it can be the start of something pretty good!
  21. That's how mine connects, a short cable to the smoothound on the holder on the strap
  22. I have the 2 channel one of the behringer and it is great. But then I also have the X18 if I want to record everything!
  23. They were showing one on their facebook page 3 weeks ago, so I wouldn't have thought so.
  24. My dad was the same, and had the same restrictions. However, after buying me a piano, when I moved on a bit and I was more guitar based, he started playing it and doing show stuff on it (they did theatre and stuff), then he got a home organ thing, and he loved that. He didn't ever get that great on it, but he really enjoyed it, so I think the music fed back.
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