Woodinblack

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).

Are you gonna go my way is a great bass line, but it has a bass solo and several trills and very tricky timing at the end, I wouldn't really class it as a simple bass line at all. I thought we were discussing 1-3 note lines or repetitive patterns?

Sanctified by Nine Inch Nails - but the original, not the one that pino jazzed up!

No, native is 'just' an effects pedal, so you would record a raw guitar / bass straight into the DAW, and all the processing would be done by native. So effectively once you had recorded it you would set up your guitar sound.

I don't have a stomp, although I have used all the others of the series, although I am aware the limitations of the stomp over full helix (native / helix / LT). I do have a HX Effects, which has its own limitations. Indeed - but I was iterating it as it may be confusing for other people reading, as you keep infering that HX edit and a stomp is the same as Native (and by its nature, a full helix), which of course it isn't, even if it may look the same on the screen. Obviously we have different needs, and if you don't use a computer for playing or recording, native would be no use to you unless you were going to take a computer to a gig (which I have done before for other reasons, but always am hesitant to do), or if you practice in the house with your effects pedals, again, probably less use. For those of us currently using the computer for practice or recording (myself included), it is a very compelling option especially as the price takes it down into the low end of the other software for doing that.