Doctor J

"Should" depends on what you want to hear. Use your ears, not your eyes, to gauge what is the best setting for you. It sounds like you prefer the way it used to sound?

Get a rust penetrator spray, not regular WD40

The opening three tracks of Manic Frustration by Trouble, the way each runs into the next, just sublime

My old PRS had unbranded Ultrlites, so they do customise them for some brands but, either way, a mix of logos on the headstock is not what was ordered.

Love the Krell shape, that's a winner. You weren't tempted to go with the multicoils and filter pre?

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I wouldn't accept it whether it was genuine or not. The different logo would drive me nuts.

A new battery is always the first step. If the bass knob is stacked, that means it's most likely bass on the bottom and treble on top, but there are quite a few versions of the SR300 so a picture would help identify exactly what you've got. I'm guessing the EQ has both cut and boost functionality. There should be a centre detent in the travel of the stacked knobs. This is where they're neither cutting nor boosting. Set them there and see if the sound clears up. Boosting the bass will give you the muffled sound you describe so don't just turn everything up full. But let's start with a pic if you can to help identify the version of SR300.

Practice is the only way through this. Do chromatic exercises across the strings, it'll get your fingers used to hopping from one string to the next. Start slow, focus on being accurate and slowly build up speed. You'll improve steadily until you get to the point where you don't think about it anymore.

Their "Contact Us" page doesn't list Whatsapp as a means of contacting them, just call, email or submit the form.

Sorrow.

Since nobody wants to pay for music anymore, bands need to magic up sizeable start-up capital from somewhere in order to be able to afford to do these tours where the people who won't pay for their music come out in their multitudes, cash gleefully in hand, to buy loads of their merch as promised... which they also need capital beforehand to have the merch made and transported along with their pretty, talented selves. You kind of need to have money to be able to afford to make money, these days. There's sod all label support, there's no real revenue stream apart from selling branded tat so, since the music is just a ludicrous expense and the branded tat is where the money is... why would you spend time making music and just sell a brand or your branded tat instead? Much easier and less stress, I reckon... or just put videos up on youtube where you make odd facial expressions for the picture to hook people into something they WON'T BELIEVE and maybe that's what people are doing instead of making new music?

Oooooh... close 🤣 https://www.metal-archives.com/lists/IS

That's not how I read it. It's 529 bands per million inhabitants. Iceland would have 529 metal bands were there one million inhabitants there. Since Iceland doesn't have one million inhabitants, it suggests there are about 196 metal bands in Iceland for a population of 370,000, no?

I put it in inverted commas so as to try not to give that impression 😉 If bass is it, that's cool but, for me, keeping musically active once I stopped gigging required trying not to see myself as a bass player, "just" or no "just" 😁 The way Alfie phrased his text resonated with me in a way that perhaps it might open possibilities for him to consider a world beyond being "just" a bass player... if you know what I mean 🤘

I think it's more to do with the other side, the position of the bridge. I had a PRS EB which felt like a short scale, despite being 34" scale and the horns weren't long at all. After really investigating, I thought it was because the bridge was right against the derrière of the body, which brought everything towards me. The bridges on Spectors and Warwicks are several inches deep into the body, which sends everything away to the left. The Sarzo Spector is utterly ludicrous in this regard.

I'm hitting 50, haven't gigged or been in a band in almost 8 years and have never been busier, or happier, musically. It has never been easier, or cheaper, to record, so that's what I do now. I challenged myself to be more than "just" a bass player, explore genres of music as whim and the winds blew me and to be open to trying new things, new instruments, sounds, ideas, whatever, just to enjoy the creative process and general musicality without pigeonholing myself into whatever way I saw myself previously. It's not easy, there's lots of work and learning ahead, but it's immensely satisfying. There are lots of ways you can still scratch your musical itch once you move on from just seeing yourself as a bass player in an indie band.

That was entirely the point 😉

If you're starting to record, maybe have a go at writing your own stuff?

Or does it lose zing because the body is not maple. Aaaaah, we enter the tonewood paradox!

Arrrr, a fine line between theme and gimmick, tharr be

If you want to see a queue of lads itching to make sure you know just how much they don't like something, and how they never ever watch it but need you to know that, just wait until it's Eurovision time again 😁

While the previous 4003 model also had dual rods, it was on the 4001 you needed to undo the tension and clamp the neck. The 4003 dual rods functioned as a standard rod would.

Another 91 Chaparral here. Fabulous thing altogether.

Get the kids to paint them before you put them on.