Woodinblack

It was me who said about the short scale strings being hard to find. I couldn't find any until I found newtone but once I had find them, I wouldn't have needed any other strings as they are great and the company are helpful. they do any strings you want but they have short scale sets.

I enjoyed it. The hardest part was getting enough time, as they are between half an hour and 1 hour lessons every week. Some of the lessons are so trivial you wonder what you are doing, like playing the same note over and over, but when it comes down to it, you realise you have heard things you hadn't heard before like the way you play a note etc. I don't know if I took on as much as I could (it is half a year), but I still have access to the whole course and there are bits I wouldn't mind going back and doing. Overall I can say it did get me out of a rut, and I did become a bit better. Not hugely better, but a bit, and that was worth it for me.

No, it is the dark red one he got to look more like wood and I guess in photos it does, although it doesn't IRL. It was in dual bass reciprocal, designed for bass players but I didn't want a 'fancy bass' it has literally taken the money of that, I wanted standard tuning as I wanted to learn something new, but it mans I have to wait for the strings. I have the bass section sorted though so I am going to start there, and I figured I would apply the ideas from the SBL accelerator course to the stick! my action is too high too, but until I have the right strings there is not much I can do about it - I have an email from Emmet Chapman telling me how to set it up, so I better get it done!

In terms of wood, aluminium, its a railboard Its not heavy as such it is just more physically imposing than I thought, with its wide neck and being pretty long. But yes, until i can get some strings I can't really explore it much, also with a few gigs too. So far it is impressive but pretty opaque, the left hand takes to it straight away, as you might expect, the right hand is much more 'what am I doing here!' I figure I need to set myself some general tasks

Early days, need to get decent strings before I can really get going, but it is different than I was expecting thats for sure. And heavier!

The previous owner had problems seeing the frets / rails, so he put a piece of white tape before every single one. I don't really like the look of it, but until I can actually play the thing, i am not sure I don't need that, so I have yet to take them off, apart from where he put doubles, which was just confusing. Hopefully I will take them off soon. All the railboards have villex pickups and filters. If you plug them into phantom power they are active, otherwise they aren't. But it is stereo and the filters are supposed to work both ways (tbh, hard to hear much difference). And that is where things got complicated. When I got it I was puzzled why the melody side was lower pitched than the bass side and after a few questions I found out that it was in dual bass reciprocal, where one side is a bass in 5ths and the other side is a bass in 4ths. But I don't want that, I have basses, i wanted standard stick tuning so I have faffed around changing the strings, (i had some spares) as the gauges of the strings are like a closely guarded secret, but I didn't work it out and broke one. Why didn't I think of the d'addario tension calculator which lets you work out exactly what the strings should be. Anyway, I am going to have to get some new strings, so i have the option of getting them from america for $50 + $23 + import and vat, + parcelforce benevolent fund fee, or go to everyones favourite Lancashire based string purveyor for a fair bit less! Much against my real wishes I am not taking it to a gig tonight. I am sure I could work out mustang sally on it easy enough, but maybe that isn't the point

Having played the stick a bit now, from people who had never played one at all, I am guessing hardly at all!

I suspect it would generate a bit of interest there. Its not something you get to have a go at often, as it is the first one I have ever touched! Well, the guy had another one, a much cheaper (and older) one.

Yay!

That one does nothing for me, too big bodied and bulbous. However, the royas, royal family or any of the comic book angled shapes, would love one of those.

So, as an aside, is there a reasonably priced dual channel (ie, independently compressing) compressor around?

Its a tent!

Like an american squirrel? Its pronounced 'png'

That isn't that abnormal, most things that are being made, such as guitars end up with an extension, as there is only so long aliexpress gives people to ship, and if they don't get an extension they lose the money.

It might be mowg to them, but it will always be moog to me. If he wanted it to be pronounced mowg, he should have used fewer 'o's in his name!

I went to loads when I was young and pretty well enjoyed every one of them. I wouldn't now, because now I need comfort and luxury, but back then I didn't. Yep, there are lots of aspects (especially loos) that are no pleasant, but if you are there with your mates or a girlfriend and you are young and responsibilityless, you can look past that and have a blast. With the average age of people on basschat you can't expect them to be that popular here!

Going into a TC450 so the input has a spectracomp in it. Pretty well always on.

Oh that reminds me, we were going to cover that one - it has a bad Sax solo in it, and we have a sax player who could do it perfectly!

No, not even slightly matching the description!

Yeh. Sometimes I have messed it up because I lost concentration!

Ok for that I won’t nominate “need your love so bad” as even a truck couldn’t drive that along!

There are several songs here I hate playing but it is about simple lines. Although it does look like people have a difficultly knowing the difference between 'simple lines' and 'lines I fine easy to play'

Well, yes, I see he owned 2 so he definitely used one but its not something he is associated with. Like Paul Mccartney with a Jazz bass, Geddy lee with a Wall, Bruce Foxton with a Gibson EB2. They have been seen with them, but they aren't something you think of when you think what they play.

I don't know the other guys (apart from cockney rejects), but not only would I have not counted Nirvana as punk, I have never seen Krist Novaselic with a thunderbird. Primarily I associate him with either a Gibson RD or a Ripper, and less commonly a Ibanez Black Eagle. I see from the net he has a thunderbird, but couldn't see pictures of it, it is pretty well all the Gibson RD (and I also see Gibson make a Krist Novoselic RD).