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  1. Happy Jack
    There's a difference between playing ahead of the beat, and pushing the beat because you're speeding up. It can be a subtle difference, but the former will result in a particular feel to the music, while the latter will either end up with the band playing at ramming speed (Ben Hur reference) or a very ticked off drummer. If you're not used to playing live with a real drummer, then that implies (to me anyway) that you're used to playing along with your favourite music. Which, of course, is where we all started. Thing about that is the original recording never speeds up, so you can push the beat with impunity ... The Beatles or The Foo Fighters aren't listening to you so they're not affected. When you start playing live, you soon discover that pushing the beat can have all sorts of effects, few of them popular.
  2. Happy Jack
    There's a whole movie about this. It's called Whiplash. Personally I thought it was over-rated, but NOBODY left the cinema not knowing whether they were ahead of or behind the beat.
  3. Happy Jack
    For me, this is exactly like trying to think about what your feet are doing as you run downstairs ... guaranteed to end in a train wreck. I never, ever think about whether I am leading or following the drummer, and I suspect that I'd be very hard-pressed to tell you if I actually tried to work it out. I play "whatever feels right" to me at the time. Not suggesting that this is in any way clever or better, it's just what works for me.
  4. Happy Jack
    I just bought one of these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291784784897 Bizarrely, it gives the 'capacity' as being 40L - 60L. There can't be many liquids where 40L weighs less than 70/80lbs so I'm guessing that this will take the weight of a rack case ...
  5. Happy Jack
    Now that is a very nice piece of lateral thinking.
  6. Happy Jack
    I have one of these. Strong & versatile. https://www.thomann.de/intl/fun_generation_universal_stand.htm I also have one of these. Slightly tilted, 'tis true, but very practical. https://www.thomann.de/intl/millenium_mx1000_mixerstaender.htm
  7. Happy Jack
    Can I just say that I believe in Yes today.
  8. Happy Jack
    Nah. It was that solo on Tainted Love. Kinell mate, what was that all about?
  9. Happy Jack
    Anyway, where's @MacDaddy?
  10. Happy Jack
    But Shirley the singer could charge the original bassist a couple of hundred in storage charges? Her name is Shirley, right?
  11. Happy Jack
    And as soon as there were "bass amps", guitarists started using them!
  12. Happy Jack
    And will any of this help when you play Mustang Sally?
  13. Happy Jack
    @Clarky, come on, own up ... was it you?
  14. Happy Jack
    Isn't there a polarity issue to be overcome?
  15. Happy Jack
    I wonder what "light, for a Wal" actually means ...
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  17. Happy Jack
    Did some further testing today, focused on 'noise' on the system. The Xvive works very well with mag pickups, no noise or interference at all, but with piezo systems it deffo produces more noise when exposed to the usual suspects ... fluorescent lights and computer screens. Hardly a major issue at most gigs, noticeable at rehearsal. Once again I A/B'd it against the Smoothhound, once again the Smoothhound trumps it - far quieter with the noise. For myself I'm still very happy with my purchase. At doubling gigs I will use the Smoothhound with the DB and the Xvive with the Precision, so no money has been wasted here, but there's no denying that I'm disappointed with the performance of the Xvive when used with piezo systems. If my battery explodes in three years, I'll be sure to come and post about it here.
  18. Happy Jack
    Just toss it down the dustpipe ...
  19. Happy Jack
    The lead pieces attached to the back of the body are weights to enable the guitar to hang at the correct angle when Alan was standing and strapped. Neck dive? Sorted.
  20. Happy Jack
    I would refer the Honorable Member to my previous answer ... Are you talking about gigging (as I am) or about making money (as you seem to be)? I do understand that many musicians, including some here on Basschat, struggle to distinguish between the two activities. Speaking purely for myself, I see this as a Venn diagram. Where Gigging and Money overlap is a sweet spot, but that overlap is neither obligatory nor some sort of absolute necessity.
  21. Happy Jack
    Those Stealth Tornados were a bit special, eh?
  22. Happy Jack
    Nice work @Aalin.9
  23. Happy Jack
    Mind you, I'd be very tempted to put some knobs on that.
  24. Happy Jack
    If the look & feel of the bass are a direct result of decades of you playing it ... leave it alone! If you do nothing now, then you retain the option to something later. If you do a refin now then that history is destroyed, and you can never get it back.
  25. Happy Jack
    OK, that's ominous. Is there a known issue with these units only lasting three years?
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