Doctor J

Ahh, the eternal optimism of the parts-bass seller, who will never get even close to covering the cost of parts bought separately.

Thanks everyone, that was a particularly strong selection of compositions, I thought. Well done, all 👍

Yesterday, I bought tickets to see Cory Wong next April. Ironically enough, Cory Wong was the last gig I went to at the end of February last year. I imagine I'll go to other gigs before April, but it's a nice feeling to have one marked in the calendar for definite.

He says this Fender has 24 frets, too.

He is also waging a war on punctuation.

The problem is precision musicians.

Now that is how you do a snug fitting neck pocket! Very nice.

I'm not sure I'd agree being crudely misinformed is any better than being entirely oblivious on any topic, to be honest. If anyone cares enough to get over the hype, understanding digital representation of music is fairly basic stuff. https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/digital-audio-basics-sample-rate-and-bit-depth.html https://www.headphonesty.com/2019/07/sample-rate-bit-depth-bit-rate/

The Tucker Carlson reporting of sound wave analytics 😂

There is a way but it isn't pretty. Just graft part of another string on to make the length you need. Fold a cm or two from the end of of each part so you have two sharp Vs. Obviously, this needs to be where you won't hit the string tree or be wrapped around the machine head post. Link them together, then use some thread to close the Vs, locking the two parts together. Just wrap the thread around, you don't need to do anything fancy. It'll hold in tune, no problem at all.

Tony Choy's blue Ibanez SR800 Ron Bruder's Zon Scepter Tom Araya's BC Rich Wave Johnny Rod's yellow Ironbird

That's the one 😍

13th of February, 1970. Everything else is a footnote in history compared to it 😉

There's a satisfying thump to that suitcase 👍

I lost a good few hours to "Warehouse guy reacts to unboxing video" videos.

Darling, I love it when you smell of P!

Yeah, any kind of vibration transfer is not ideal. It's just another chunk of the lifestyle merchandising that they and Gibson have leapt onto and market hard. That logo is worth a lot to some people, regardless of whatever tat it's stuck onto. I don't think they will have any trouble shifting these to the countless brand junkies out there. Coming soon, offset Jazz turntables made from heavy northern ash with a superfluous battery box (because somebody in the 80's thought it was a good idea to make it active) for that authentic 70's experience! Buy the pair!

For 3.5k each, they'd be idiots not to exploit that market.

If there's an opportunity for a fish pun, you know somebody will fillet.

Billy's the reason I picked up this 😁

😂 Hey, it's all cool, I'm open minded. He reminds me of Sue Perkins.

Adjust the pickup heights so the output of each is balanced through an amp. Use your ears to set the height, not your eyes. Generally, I find the bridge J needs to be considerably closer to the strings than the P.

I went in a completely different (discofied) direction to start off with but then went in several other directions. The song: I have no specific ill will toward pigeons, unlike some of the other lads here, though I'd never fully trust one. From the perspective of the young gentleman looking through the lens, that pigeon would seem quite large. I thought of a conversation between Ted and Dougal about some cows. The technical stuff: I gave my brass snare an outing here. It's the Yamaha kit into Thomann and Behringer's cheapest mics and audio interface. Bass is a Blade B4 Jazz into an Avid Eleven. Guitars are a Bacchus Empire and Strat into the Eleven. No other funny business other than my dodgiest Ronnie Drew impression.

Nice!

Yes! More of these kind of threads!