Doctor J

Has Brexit been cancelled?

Therefore applying blanket statements to the tonal properties of different species of wood is, at best, misleading? Aaahhhhhh! How did we get back here again?!?!?!?

"My tech had a look at the crack and says it's not serious"

Let is bow our heads in admiration of the sanctity and holiness of the "DAN SMITH ERA!!!" which, yea, must be shouted verily in ads for all manner of decent to utterly dire output. This most sacred phrase which, lest we forget, covers the time he arrived when, as he said himself, there was practically no quality control in place, up to the time they shut down the factory so they could move and start all over again is surely all the histrionics one needs to make a blind purchase in confidence, no?

Was it a tonewood piano?

I always keep an eye out for the three key words of those who are trying it on, a game of ad bingo, if you will. Original Vintage Rare If you get all three in the same ad, frequently for some old POC you couldn't give away in the 80's, you win!

Try one that starts with an O, first, in keeping with the gist of the thread 😉

Their other efforts together (e.g. A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, etc) have been very funny. They have actually gigged a lot in the last 40 years, even at Wembley Stadium, so they should have a wealth of personal experience to draw on now, as well as anecdotal. Smalls's's' solo album was entertaining, too. Fran Drescher is still doing it for me, too. I'm lukewarm optimistic.

Juliette and the Licks

Nice one, I hope you enjoy the experience.

At least you're working off current and informed information, regardless of whether you enjoyed it or not 😉

One might think it might invite comments which refer to what's happening in Eurovision 2022 then, positive and negative, rather than how they don't like it and haven't watched it since 1974, no? 😂

Ugh. This has devolved into one of those vegan threads where the meat fetishists feel the need to pile in so they can tell you how much they dislike veganism and can't live without bacon sandwiches. Great, lads, you don't like Eurovision. All of the European mainland express their dislike of jellied eels and milky tea by not voting for Britain. We get it. You told us last year and the year before that and the year before that... 😉 Meanwhile, for a light-entertainment show based on three minutes of pop fluff, there were some decent songs last night with not much Europop. I think posting a link to the Latvian song about eating organic vegetables might be a crossing the streams moment and break the forum 😂 but it was a funky effort, didn't make the final, though Ukraine are strong favourites to win The guy who should have represented Italy in 2020 got to perform to the large crowd too, which was a nice touch and a good song too. If you've seen him sing this song, which has a line about unnatural silences repeated in the chorus, in the empty Verona arena while Italy was really suffering with covid, this was quite powerful. We'll see what tomorrow's second semi-final will bring. I know there are a couple of stinkers on the way for sure 😂

The first semi-final is on at the moment and has been pleasantly light on Europop so far. My money would be on Moldova if the situation in Ukraine wasn't what it is.

Mexijazz

I wired mine up the "normal" way. It annoyed me on the Metro I had, especially as I have other basses with pan knobs and one working the opposite of the others would be a head-wreck, but I understand the logic of why Sadowsky do it that way. Either way, it's a two-minute soldering job to set it up whichever way you like. Anyway, I just remembered I used the Sadowsky'd Blade on one of the Monthly Challenges a while back. Better to hear it than look at pictures and guess. As I recall, this is both pickups full, in active mode with a small bass boost and some treble rolled off via the VTC, all played quite hard with a plec. I was never able to get anything like this with the original preamp. https://m.soundcloud.com/doctor_j_bass/im-not-so-big

Why choose? Use a push/pull pot and switch between both.

I learned by ear, initially. I had been playing for over 15 years before I even bought my first tuner pedal. Tablature was only something I'd used once when I was given a book of AJFA tab as a present. How they knew is anyone's guess, too 😂 As a result, I'm handy at picking up songs by ear and even working out songs I have heard a few times, even if I have not tried to work them out to play. While subbing for a mate's cover band, we played The Cowboy Song by Thin Lizzy and on stage was my first ever go at playing it 😂 It was grand. My oul one was a Lizzy fan so I knew the song well and could accurately guess where to go once I knew what key they were going to play it in. Same for Don't Believe A Word. Learning a song as a piece of music works for me, it's a fairly quick process. Learning what fret to hit followed by which fret when sounds like a torture, to be honest, and a much harder way of going about things.

And the Oscar for best editing goes to... ...not whoever hacked this mess together.

Trans-white (Mary Kaye) on ash.

The big thing to keep in mind is the Arias with dots have, IIRC, 16mm string spacing that the bridge. The ones with the cat's eye inlays are 19mm, I believe. Another thing is that those old epoxy/sealed MB pickups have a habit of coils dying. Despite the humbucker size, there's a coil for E-A and a coil for D-G, like a Precision pickup. Many of them have serial/parallel switches and get passed off by sellers as "faulty switch" as the pickup kinda works in parallel mode. Getting a replacement pickup which actually sounds like an original MB is not easy. Rautia aren't selling at the moment and the Armstrong versions only look the part. That being said, they're really good basses if you can find a spacing you like and the pickup works. The Ibanez shares the same characteristic of being incredibly heavy, generally, but less fragile, electronically. They're both good, but, in my opinion, much, much better basses have come along in the 45 years since they came out.

Being a Telecaster Bass, it can't be any older than a 68.

For perspective, I have a W10 PC with 16gb of RAM which I use for protools stuff and I've never seen it use more than 6gb, no matter how many plugins I use. Windows can be very frugal if you spend a bit of time making sure all that is running is what it actually needs to run, but it's a very easy OS to fill up with shite which hogs resources for no useful reason.

8gb is a lot of ram and your OS Win 10?) will use about 2.5gb of that. Perhaps run something like CCleaner and clear out whatever else you don't need which is starting up unnecessarily and using all that memory, too. As above, buying another 8gb of the same spec as what you already have will work just fine.

It's a bolt-on. Look at where the top side of the neck meets the body, it's a regular bolt-on neck pocket.