Woodinblack

Honestly not much of a fan of the pickups, but I wouldn’t criticise ric for actually experimenting on things, and that certainly looks a lot nicer to play than the normal ones

First gig with my new group last night, freebee in a pub, weren’t expecting many people but turned out the place was heaving. Set up was good, got a good sound. Off we go in knock on wood. Sounds terrible, we stop, turns out despite it always working on practice, the keys player is playing in D, where we are playing in e, because he always uses a sheet of paper, but is now using his iPad which hadn’t got the right key. Skipped past that and everything worked. We all make the usual amount of mistakes but its ok. I can see a few problems for the future, but I am sure they can be fixed before it becomes an issue.

Interesting idea. I think the headed version is less good from the point of view of the finished article, although understand what you mean about the bridges, it really does limit the choice, and you are right in that it flows well. I do like the new bottom lip though!

No, its me and the drummer when it comes to breaking down. Some woman came up after the gig and asked where the signer was, I said, oh you won't find him here at the moment, we are packing up!

Gigged it tonight, as well as one of my 5 strings. Still had to switch back for a few songs due to the lack of strings, but it sounds excelent and is so fun to play (apart from the switch, that stopped working on the bridge pickup until I shook it a lot). I think I will put a varitone in it though, the tone control is a bit like an on off switch.

First of a 3 gig weekend (the weekend before a 4 gig weekend 🤨) Easy setup, and actually quite good as it wasn't as noisy as normal. Started, but something wasn't right and I couldn't get into it. When I put my IEMs on, I was playing my gretsch for the first time, and it sounded like it was out of tune with itself. Its really offputting, it was almost like it had a flanger on it or something (its passive). The next song when I sung backing, I realised that my voicelive had been switched to a random preset that had autotune on it, and as my iems are the bass and my mic, my mic was autotuning the sound of the bass! Having sorted that out it got a lot better. The cheap gretsch sounds brilliant and plays very well, apart from the switch which is pretty tragic (It originally didn't work with the back pickup, yesterday it stoppped working with the front - a lot of wiggling and it worked again). In the end we had a lot of shouts of encores, and people seemed happy. I broke down the lights and the pa and put everything back in bags while being told by another bandmember why it was good having 2 gigs on one day and it wasn't too much work 😡

Which may be a problem as he is playing for his family

Thanks - handy stuff to know. I have had some turn up recently, should be able to make something out of this...

2 of my last 3 bands have been through joinmyband You have to weed through a lot, but it does work.

Like this: gretsch.mov

The bass was fine from a B string point of view. In fact the bass was ok, I just didn't gell with it. It was a beautiful thing, but the neck profile wasn't right for me and the pickups weren't exciting. I would not have a problem having a 30" 5 string again.

Does yours have a noisy switch? I have never known one that loud (in fact one that made any noise). I know it isn't just mine as they mention it on the andertons video too. Seems an odd thing.

It is good, I think it might get gigged at the weekend. Which will mean mistakes, as it has a string missing, but you can't have everything!

I am not even sure why I got this idea, but I was looking into short scale basses and I came across this. A Gretsch, for £250. 30.5" scale, 2 pickup. Turned up today, I thought it would have to go back as I thought the rear pickup wasn't working, but turns out that the switch is so cheap, I had to flick it back and forwards until it started working (it actually squeaks). I think a quid or 2 might go on a new switch. That aside, it sounds great and the short scale is nice. Will set it up a bit later, but am very impressed at the price.

Wiggle the string side to side!

They of course pick up vibrations in the body as they are attached to the body, and as the strings move relative to the body, it follows that the body moves relative to the strings - the combined relative movement between the strings and the body. It is a far smaller amount but it is there. Personally I believe the bigger effect is the effect of the body on the string vibration but you can't rule out anything

Whilst not really wanting to get into the argument either way, as I can read both, there is a clear difference here in that there is only one key for any note on a piano, whereas there are only a few notes (the lowest / highest 4) on a guitar / bass where that is the case.

Sounds like a winner to me

Maybe it is designed to look like those 50s music videos where people had white instruments and it blew out the sensors on the camera?

Cool, if a bit traditional with the strings. Am looking for maple with black blocks and binding. How was the ebay neck?

Antigua finish is one of those things that should have been tried but never released. Every finish should be tried, and then some of them released, and some of them, such as antigua, the person who made it should have been slapped and told not to be so stupid.

I remember they were very popular around here. to me it doesn't. A bit of a better quality here, a few better graphics and ease of use, seems like part of the same path to me. And the Voicelab I had before that, pretty much the same. I have the helix HX, fantastic for guitar, not necessarily blown away by it though. I guess for recording it is good, for gigging, not really much difference (not the stomp, I couldn't really gig that so easily due to the buttons). The only place it really does shine is the looper, having individual buttons for everything and it seems to really work well for that. If it wasn't for that I would probably put it back up for sale and stick with the B3 for live use, and for recording i have Bias Amp and Bias FX on the mac, which are fantastic.

I was tempted by that as a stand alone pedal when I am not using my pedalboard, but I still have my B3.

That would be interesting, although that listing says P neck, but certainly interested in a J neck just like that