Doctor J

Go with what’s lightest followed by what looks nice. Your electronics will determine what it sounds like.

I’m not sure what you mean. In the previous post you say you like the preamped sound but now you say you don’t like the sound of the preamp. A non-eq preamp should really just amplify the sound you already have without colouring it. You end up with the same sound, just louder. If your bass has passive pickups then the whole purpose of a preamp is to colour the sound by applying eq to taste. If you don’t use the eq but you like the sound flat even though it’s too quiet then turn up the input gain on your amp.

Why not just turn up the input gain on your amp instead and leave the eq you already have flat then?

I really struggled with this. The picture largely steered towards a set of instruments I don't really participate in. On the plus side, I finally figured out how to get midi instruments working at last, so that's nice. Anyway... here 'tis

I have a Centaura guitar and it’s fantastic. I would love to try their basses.

Funky!

In the midst of an enforced cull at the moment but this was the state of play last year

Ooooooh nice!

Would this have been during Ringo’s long and spectacular coked-off-my-tits period? Maybe that’s why he couldn’t do it?

Clickbait, yes, but sadly wit-light parody of some of the muscial and ergonomic violations already in the hands of some serious musicians. Not fully, in the hands, mind, they're too big and ungainly to actually fit in a human hand, but... well... partially in the hands?

Once it stops being fun, get out of there. Doing nothing is better than being miserable.

Moral outrage is my bedfellow.

Yes, exactly what the entertainent industry needs is more people who keep quiet and don’t have an opinion on anything. That’s entertainment. The saddest part of this is the reaction of so many who are outraged by one man speaking his mind. Remember when having an opinion and talking about it was a regular thing? What an utter shambles the world has become where speaking openly and without fear draws the ire of those who’d rather live in a bubble with the precious fallacy they’ve cultivated around their sacred cows. Let the man speak. If you don’t like it, tough. Learn not to get offended by opinions other than your own. There’s a lot he said which was a little uncofortable to read but I’m guessing he got to where he is by being a straight-talker and not someone scared to upset a Beatle or two. Consider that maybe they tried harder and did better because of his directness. Being a producer is a lot more than just “Well done, boys, you’ve just recorded your first number one!”

Seriously, every gig is downhill from there

No idea, but it should make it easier for you to land one either way

Be careful with that kind of gig, it's a slippery slope.

Ibanez had a pile of Affirmas at NAMM. It may have gotten away but not for much longer new

If you find it scooped then cut the lows and highs, don't boost. and you'll get the mids. I think they're fantastic. Very versatile and very aggressive, which is rather to my taste.

Yeah, but one kid is lying, the other is being brutally honest. I'll take an unpleasant truth over a comforting lie any day.

What a refreshing interview. Finally, somebody with something to say. In the age of absolutely sterile personality vacuums scared/coached not to say anything even remotely comntroversial, that was an interview worth reading.

I can’t remember which album I heard but I was left with the impression that if you took all the James Brown out of him there wouldn’t be s whole lot left. It’s good to see he’s diversifying.

Can’t argue with that

What controls are you going to run?

Nice. 70’s position bridge pickup, too. You’ll get some quality growl out of that.

Depending on how severe, you can smooth it out without going through to bare wood using fine steel wool. This is provided it is just expansion and contraction and the next itself is well made. If it’s sloppy construction there is no alternative to either replacing it or sanding through the finish to the wood itself which obviously isn’t satisfactory on a new instrument.