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adamg67

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  1. He also played trumpet in the school orchestra, apparently, so although he wasn't a music school kid, he was a school music kid.
  2. I found the fourth chord the other day, turned out it had been down the back of the sofa all the time!
  3. I nearly didn't post this because I'm strictly amateur so it doesn't prove much, but... I started out in the "formal musical knowledge and rules will stunt my creativity" camp. Getting back into music in the last 5-10 years, I started there again and it half worked - I can come up with ideas all day - but I found I kept getting stuck trying to develop ideas. I started learning piano, and that got me started with some theory, and I've kept going with that and am getting into it now. It makes no difference to your creativity unless you are a complete sheep, nobody says "you must write music like this" these days. You get a whole load of tools and options you can use and the option to use none of them.
  4. This reminds of a quote attributed to one of my favourite artists in any media: - Banksy
  5. The other thing that people do is a single coil that's really a split coil but with the two halves lined up, like Nordstrand big splits
  6. I've always wondered how they work. If the magnets are the same way and the coils are opposite, how come the signal you want doesn't cancel out as well as the hum? Just re-read properly, one coil with magnets one without.
  7. Only because there's loads of great music that wouldn't necessarily be classed as any of those.
  8. Why? (and especially why prog? )
  9. This is the one that always sticks in my mind, cos the single got nowhere for Bowie and then the crappy Pet Shop Boys version was in the charts and on the radio every 5 minutes! It seems to have become a bit of a "cult classic" though, some good versions with other people include Mr Grohl and friends: There's a vid out there of NiN doing it as well.
  10. They do "buck hum" in the same way by having two coils in opposite polarities, plus the magnets for each coil are also opposite. This gives the same polarity signal from the string moving, as that's from coil + magnet, and two opposites end up the same, but it gives opposite polarity signals for any background hum as that's picked up by the coil alone, so they cancel. They are different though, as the two halves of a split coil are under different pairs of strings, so for any given string signal is coming from one single coil. A humbucker has both coils & magnets under all the strings, so (in series or paralle, so it's actual bucking hum) it will be generating signal from both coils for any given string, and they're in slightly different positions as well. That's why you get a "fatter" sound. I think that's one reason humbuckers are popular near the bridge, where the fattened up version of a naturally more trebly sound can work really well.
  11. I will have some, it's just a question of whether I remember which tracks are which bass I'll check as soon as I get chance, worth it as I reckon those Haussell J pickups are a bit special, I made sure I got a bass with the same ones before I sold this one.
  12. It does, and that's where I am, but I'm not sure if that shows up on all devices. I'm sure I've looked at an ad recently on my phone and it didn't say.
  13. Any chance of posting the dimensions? The new one looks different, I'd be wanting to tuck it under my pedal board.
  14. Price drop, and I've added a couple of fairly specific things I might trade for.
  15. If it was really only the bass I would have struggled, you could see thundercat's hair and I recognised Steve Harris's legs.
  16. I'm sure this has been posted before, but I hadn't seen it until today. I watch a fair bit of stuff on YouTube and it can get a bit full on, it's pretty rare I can sit and listen to someone talking for that long. Just seemed very genuine.
  17. I specced a bass a couple of years ago and found the same thing, just didn't love it. I've now swapped to flats, replaced one pickup and modded the other and made a few other tweaks and it gets lots of use. Could you turn yours into a bass you love?
  18. I bought a Baritone and a Bass VI off eBay, both Ibanez and fairly new so I reckoned they had a good chance of playing well, which they did. Neither were very expensive either. Oh, I had an Ibanez SR506 iirc as well, that was local so went and tried it. Pay by PayPal (not always an option if you collect in person though), check feedback, accept that it's eBay and occasionally things go wrong and it's not always easy to sort them out.
  19. If I could have replaced it with the same bass as a 4 string, I probably would have. I've come pretty close with the Hellwood, same pickups and Maruszczyk playability, but good looking in a very different way. The Hellwood is pretty cool (IMO - I have a thing for black basses and guitars), where this one I would say is classy
  20. Wow. People really are stoopid.
  21. Shaun bought a Telecaster from me and was great to deal with, all very clear and easy, paid straight away - perfect, cheers mate!
  22. Now On Hold Great condition Maruszczyk Elwood 5a Ash body in Red Satin finish with matching headstock 34" scale 19mm string spacing 4.45kg weight Angled headstock 21 Frets plus zero fret Rosewood fingerboard with blocks & binding, Häussel JJ pickups Delano 2-band active preamp Volume and blend Passive mode on push-pull pot Wearing nearly new D'Addario XT strings Schaller strap lock buttons fitted, originals included Really nice looking, sounding and playing bass, and a reluctant sale, but I've had some wrist problems that make 5 strings a bit harder to play. I've already got it's replacement - an Elwood (Hellwood in fact) 4 string with the same pickups, I really like the sound of them. Condition is really good, I've checked it over for anything at all and all I could find was a small mark on the back where the finish has gone shiny and tiny ding in the headstock so small it was hard to photograph. There are some scratches on the scratchplate (makes sense ) and a few on the control plate but you have to get it in the right light to see them. I've done some photos of those, and other than that it's perfect. I can throw in a Maruszczyk gig bag, I do have a hard case but I'd need to replace it so that would be £30 extra. It's a good case, hardly used and deep enough for the angled headstock. I'd prefer collection or a meet up half way thing, but I can arrange a courier and pack it up properly (it would be packed better than the couriers advise) and send it insured for whatever that costs if really needed, that will probably be about £30 on top. Now £750, I might be up for trades but there aren't lots of things I'm after. One is a Sandberg Forty Eight in black with creme strips and matching headstock. If also consider a Fender P or Jazz, that is right in the middle of their respective sounds, as I've never owned either only other people's version of. You can get slightly bigger pics by clicking on the ones below.
  23. Keep it up people, plenty here to show Mrs G when the topic of how many basses & guitars I own, which is not many at all it turns out, comes up
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