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  1. Cato
    Re: neckdive Before you do anything drastic it night be worth trying a really grippy strap that'll resist the pull of the neck. Something like this maybe. (This is the first wide neoprene strap I found on a google, there are very similat products available for less money). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ernie-Ball-Neoprene-Polylock-Comfort/dp/B07N8S47HL?th=1
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    When I first got into music my favourite bands were Iron Maiden, AC/DC and Megadeth. By my early 20s grunge had happened and I was mainly listening to the like of Dinosaur Jr and Mudhoney with a few British Indie bands like Carter USM and the Wedding Present mixed in. I also started listening to a fair bit of hip hop, mainly fairly mai stream stuff, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem etc My tasted mainly stayed in that direction, although as time went on mainly skewing towards British bands like Arctic Monkeys, Editors and Maximo Park until around 2010, when I realised I was bored with guitar led music. The last decade or so I've been on a bit of a journey exploring 70s funk and soul and a bit of modern jazz. Stuff like Chaka Khan, Sly and the Family Stone etc and the likes of Snarky Puppy and Kamasi Washington. The last week or so, inspired by a couple of threads on jere I've been listening to and very much enjoying The Cure. I'd listened to a few albums and other bits and pieces when I was younger but never really appreciated just how very clever their music is. I do now.
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    Looks like your duelling diary is going to be full for a while.
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    Presumably there was some sort of mutually agreed on points system by which you determined who was best?
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    I've been a member here since, I think, 2016. Pretty sure this is the first time I've ever seen someone challenge someone else to a 'Bass Off'. This is surreal. As you were.
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    I used to think that my habit of muting the e string with my thumb sometimes when I play slap was a result of my self taught poor technique and I was fine with that. A few years ago someone on here posted a link to an old Stu Hamm instructional video where he demonstrated the exact same technique. If it's good enough for Stu Hamm...
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    ACG does short scale 5s and 6s. Not cheap though. This is just the first example I could find 30.5" scale. Other body shapes are available.
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    I've spent over a grand on new USA made Fenders in the past. The two basses I've played the most this year are my first gen Sire V7 fretless which I think was around £3-400 new and the new Squire Bass VI I got a couple of weeks ago for around £450.
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    Double post, dammit.
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    In some ways it was ahead of it's time. They were designed to be tuned E-C the idea being that users could play across the neck rather than move their hands up and down the neck. But because Fender didn't think anyone would need to play up the neck anymore, they only gave it 15 frets. You have to wonder if they'd gone with 20 frets or more it might actally have caught on.
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    Isn't it just a different implementation of the Dingwall concept of having a longer string on the B string so that it's under more tension and doesn't feel as floppy as a 34' scale B. Having played neither a Dingwall or a Fodera I have no idea if there's any truth to that, but it sort of makes sense in my head.
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    Slightly dissapointed. With a name like 'Batking' I was hoping for something a bit more black, spikey and gothic. Like a sort of BC Rich Warlock Uke. Oh well, congratulatioms on scoring yourself something that looks like it'll give you a lot of fun.
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    For some reason that single pick up version works much better than the PJ ones aesthetically for me. Looks less like a Mustang knock off gone wrong.
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    I went through a phase on skinny stringer where when I played barre chords I'd often inadvertently pull the top e string over the edge of the fret board. Never once did I think 'Ooh, that sounds good'.
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    'If it looks too good to be true...'
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    A quick google search brough up this interview https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/level-42s-mark-king-running-16482167 “Yeah, there were a lot of drugs but I’m quite a speedy person and never enjoyed it that much"
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    There's been a bit of 70s funk/soul revival going on in the pop charts for a few years. Bruno Mars and Lizzo among others have been mining the decade for inspiration. I tend to think it's mainly a positive thing, at least it's bringing the spotlight back onto things that sound like real instruments even if it's all actually done on a synth and a laptop.
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    This is one of my favourites, written for the film 'The Crow' I'm not sure it was ever on a Cure album.
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    Good Time Boys
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    I read this article a couple of weeks ago. https://www.guitarworld.com/news/reverb-best-selling-bass-guitars-2022 I'm not sure I buy the idea that the Squier Bass VI being the best selling bass on Reverb of 2022 is really down to a Beatles documentary, but what ever the reason I'd be very surprised if we don't see more special editions from Squier and probably Fender themselves incorporating it into their own ranges, for a while at least, over the next couple of years. I'm sure we'll see more bass vi types from other manufacturers too.
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    It's impossible to be 100% ,but the way it was packaged and sealed in the box was pristine, right down to the foam bag thingy around the instrument. My guess is it came from the factory like that and that Andertons never had it out of the box between it arriving with them and sending it to me. It's definitely started to settle now. The first couple of times I tuned the E went down to around C flat within about 5 minutes. Just now it had slipped from E to Eflatish in about hour. I reckon by tomorrow it will hopefully be fine, then I'll have a proper look at the neck relief and whether the truss rod needs a tweak.
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    I've been toying with the idea of getting a vi for years. Came very close to buying a Burns Barracuda vi a few years back but they ran out of stock and never got anymore in. Anyway as soon as I set eyes on these at Andertons a few weeks back it was pretty much the end of all resistance. First impressions mostly favourable, not found any finishing or fret issues and the elctronics seem to work as they should. Only slight niggle is that it was shipped with the strings completely slack and at the moment it's almost impossible to keep in tune. I'll keep tensioning the strings every hour or so and hopefully it'll settle down pretty soon . One thinh I was quite suprised at was for the brief periods I've had it in tune the low E feels and sounds OK. I ordered some Newtone Axion at the same time as the guitar, but I'm not sure I'm going to need them. I put it through my Katana guitar amp and when it's in tune it sounds great, especially with a bit of reverb, I'll try it through the Hartke rig later. Assuming the tuning issues sort themselves out I think I'm going to very happy with this one.
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    I didn't think it was worth starting a new topic over, just a warning tbat there may have been a glitch in Anderton's matrix for anyone who's ordered somwthing in the last couple of days. I ordered something yesterday and got acknowledgement email aaying my order was being processed and would be with me today. Because I hadn't had a 'dispatched' email from them or a nessage from a courier within 24hrs this morning I checked my Andertons order history on their website and yesterday's order wasn't on it. I set them a message via their 'contact us' link on their help page and within 20 mins someone got back to me to say that for some reason, though payment has been taken for some reason the order 'did not download to their system' He also said that he'd processed the order manually and it should be with me tomorrow. So just a heads up to anyone who's ordered from them in the last couple of days if you've not had the 'your item has been dispatched' email it might be worth checking with them. And kudos to Andertons. I've only ever had one other problem with them, a bass with a dead pickup and much like today they arranged a solution within minutes of me making them aware.
  24. Cato
    Many have tried, but I can't think of a new Christmas song that's made itself a permanent fixture on the festive playlists that was released later than 1994, which a quick Google has informed me saw the release of East17's ''Stay Now' as well Mariah Carey's 'All I want for Christmas'.
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    I saw them at Glasto in the 90s, I enjoyed the gig but wasn't huge into them until quite recently. I've been really enjoying discovering their back catalogue, they're just one of those special bands that have their own unique, instantly recognosable sound.
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