Doctor J

Do young people even watch TV, really? Most of the "young" brands and ads targeted at the youth are using contemporary music, from what I've heard, but I don't really watch TV and am a prodigious ad blocker when online. You've mentioned Tesco before, who don't seem to be playing the old hits? The way young people are exposed to music has changed quite dramatically this century, from early file sharing through streaming and now just background noise on a tiktok video or computer game. It's a generalisation, yes, but, it seems like the most recent generations don't define their lives through music like many of us older heads on here used to. They don't purchase it, that's a completely alien concept, and they don't consume it in the same way a lot of us do, so our old way of measuring popularity does not really convey what's going on.

Careful now 😉

All techniques are still readily available. You can't smother it in a cloud of mojo and charge a premium.

Is it when one pickup is on, or both? Is it confined to just one pickup or both when run individually? Does your bass have the vintage push/pull circuit? Check the soldering and shielding and make sure that nothing has the opportunity to move, short circuit, etc.

Ah ok, Facebook doesn't let me play ball.

What are the basses? Are you referring to solid body basses with metal strings and a magnetic pickup?

That's the way it should be, surely? Each generation should have its own music. Were you into music made ten years before you were born when you were 15?

Is the difference in volume also proportionally evident when the instruments are played through an amplifier?

A couple of samples from Alembic's website. Clear as mud 😁

When you say upwards do you mean fret 5 to fret 17, 18, etc or frets 5 down to the nut? If it's 5 down to the nut, you don't have enough relief in the neck. Again, check the relief on both sides. If the E string is ok but the G string is not, you may have a slight warping in the neck which a setup won't resolve. Hold the string down at the first fret and last fret and see if the neck forms a continuous gentle arc with the greatest distance from the string at about fret 8-9. Do this on both sides of the neck, the E and G strings, and see how they compare.

When you're setting the relief, do you do a visual check on the E string side only? Have you checked the relief is the same on both sides along the full length of the E and G strings?

That recent Black album reissue will have topped up his account quite handsomely. He's not short of a few quid at all.

Including a 3 string Ray

He should fight Roger Sadowsky inside an oversized novelty Ampeg cab.

And the next suggestion from youtube is... 🤣 The clickbait is strong in this one. I assume they're trying to drag people onto their channel.

All he seems to suggest is structural rigidity and non-absorbent coatings are the crucial factors in not inhibiting string vibration, not specific wood X gives you tonal property Y. An unpainted carbon instrument should outperform wood then, no? Or metal? Etc etc

If he wrote the songs, then I say he's got leeway to say what he does or doesn't like in his songs. If they're covers then... red flags are flying. Either way, communicating something like that by email suggests you've got bigger problems to address in your group than backing vocals.

Another new one done, a social commentary on alien abductions.

Nothing wrong with being a fan of a certain bass, surely we all are in one way or another? Fanboi, however, is a term which signifies a level beyond liking or being a mere fan of something, moreso obsessive to the point of excluding everything else. The Precision certainly seemed to attract them. Remember the "Leo got it right first time" cultists or the "P bass and flats" riposte for seemingly every question, particularly on TB, which seemed to spread earlier in the century? 🙂 We can open the band loyalty can if you really want, but best put on a thread of its own 😉

You should be able to transfer your ilok- dependent licences off the computer back to the ilok itself, if I'm understanding you correctly. Is the ilok manager not letting you move them?

The need to deify Precision basses is an odd thing indeed. An excellent but flawed original design, continually refined since. It's not the first bass, not the last bass, but a fine bass nonetheless. The fanboi stuff is a little sad, though, to be honest. I think the real strengths of the Precision are its limitations. The basic sound doesn't need adjusting to be usable and it takes a considerable amount of will and stupidity to make it unusable, so it tends to just work in all kinds of musical contexts, despite what the player and sound-person might do to jeopardise this. In this way, it avoids a lot of the pitfalls associated with more tonally flexible instruments, chiefly operator error.

Anyone going to Hamburg should check out Zwick bar in St. Pauli. It houses some of the basses of Uli Salm (who? I hear you ask) which is grand until you see about 12 Ritters hanging on the wall as you walk in, plus Alembics, Fenders and other associated basses, must be at least 60 basses in there, all throughout the bar within touching distance of curious fingers. Well worth a gander. https://bassmagazine.com/uli-salm-worlds-no-1-bass-collector-adds-bite-basses-to-his-collection/

I had a play of this a couple of years ago when I was selling a Stingray to the previous owner. It's a lovely, lovely bass. Don't sell it again 😉

This is class. More stonery than doom but worthy of a mention here

Everyone who actually read the thread knows 😂