Cuzzie

It is a worry - I was starting one project and potentially looking at doing another. Fortunately it’s with people who are mates of mine, some of which work frontline as well so we all understand each other. We are looking at piecing together songs, remotely, arranging and sharing tracks via a DAW of choice and bouncing ideas. It can still be quite creative, so if it lifts we have a decent starting block to go from

Finbarr Saunders it is then! I generally find using a pick easier for various reasons, functionality etc. Key for air shots is possibly start of palm muting as you would on a 6 string - this will give you tactile feedback as to where the strings are in relation to where your pick is, it may help?! Then you can start lifting the palm off to let the notes ring as you want. Notes with a pick can sound a little thinner, as it’s different to a wedge of meat hitting the strings, but if you have done any chicken picking you will be away. Most importantly - there is no right or wrong way, there is your way

@Andy1325 good man - re pick vs fingers. I think its good to have the ability across multiple modalities, but if you like a pick, then go with it, you can be subtle and funky and driven all at the same time. Great Pick players look at Glenn Hughes, Mike Inez, Doug Pinnick, but if you want a real groovy player, Cody Wright but Bobby Vega is the king.

Has your USB audio interface not got a gain stage, or in fact use a USB audio interface between the stomp and the DAW. Isnt sometimes mixing at very low gain way better practically? Easier to take a low signal, balance and crank rather than take a hot signal down?

Looks like Me, Prince and Lionel Ritchie has a love child. Why would I accept something from only one of the best places in Italy, I want the best!

No neck dive on the Sandberg ones

Probably because the 2 are inextricably linked. Covid becomes less of a problem, gigs may happen again in the remaining institutions - 2 cant be separated so it will fluctuate between Covid news and people saying bookings have been made/honoured/cancelled

Mortality figures - thanks for those - it quite plainly points to an excess in some weeks, the overall trend will become apparent as it goes on, but when you have a City like New York considering mass burial sites as they cannot keep up with the deaths, alarm bells should ring...... Vaccines are not 100% effective, there is a failure rate, you can still contract the vaccinated disease, but it should be to a lesser or sub clinical state as your bodies defences recognise the pathogen and can act against it. It won’t be effective in all people, some people do better especially women and children in their immune response. We do not yet know whether or not you can be re-infected with the virus having had it - work is ongoing on that. If you have been infected and are ‘immune’ you can Still carry it and pass it on to other people who are not immune, if you do not carry on with social distancing, hand washing instructions etc. Dying with or of Covid.........If you have contracted Covid get a pneumonia and multi organ failure to do with the ramp up of your inflammatory internal physiology to fight it, have you died of Covid, of pneumonia or of multi-organ failure? Yes prostate cancer can be a relatively indolent disease and you die with it, but comparing it to Covid is folly, it really is and they are nothing alike. Again Polio, TB, Small pox - different diseases, it’s excellent we have a vaccine that worked to eradicate, and we have developed ones for HPV and cervical cancer. Yes the frail should be protected, especially because the likelihood of recovery is lower for various reasons, but when something is abnormally and disproportionately affecting apparent normal people, or disproportionately affecting people with existing conditions for whatever reason, then it needs to be taken seriously, and if that takes an elongated period of time and difficult measures, it takes an elongated period of time and difficult measures and possible a cultural reboot. Economy is also important, it’s a delicate balance between economy, welfare, livelihood and health. After the Plague for example it took Europe 200 years to get back to anything like it was. The fallout for this will be big and not just related to Covid, but also the work that cannot be continued as this swamps a system. Some hospitals are unable to provide potentially curative cancer care because of this. Even if the patient never contracted Covid, but did not get their operation and sadly died, or did very badly, is this related to Covid? Of course it is, but of course some may not see it that way. I don’t think by any stretch you wish people harm, and a difficult way of life suddenly imposed is hard to us and loved ones especially if you have not had direct contact with someone, or a situation to deal with this, it makes it more difficult to fathom. I unfortunately have, do and know people that deal with this around the country. As it stands the view of hyperbole is contrary to what actually happens on the ground, hence why it’s difficult to fathom that view

It’s not media bullying which is to blame, granted it plays a part, but there is science behind it, and a lot of unknown, so erring on the side of caution no matter how painful is reasonable. I don’t think anyone can argue with the rationale, if you don’t get it, you are likely to fare better and that if you do get it an need serious attention, availability or resources and personnel to deliver it is better. Its a weird day when you look at a figure of only 449 dead in a day and think - oh that’s not bad......I bet if most of us got 450 to a gig we would think that’s a lot of people! (Bear in mind Monday always reports lower with weekend figures often spreading more than 24 hours) @Dan DareWould be interesting to see if you have figures to corroborate your sentiments. Bear in mind if you say for example only 1% of the death toll is in the 20-40 years old bracket - that’s still 165 people in the U.K. that would not have ordinarily died in the span of a couple of months or 24.5 thousand worldwide..... On a better note I loved the story about the 102 year old lady who survived Spanish Flu, and has just recently survived Covid - we need to find her secret

I get the feeling that no figure is going to change your mind or view, and I really don’t fancy banging my head against a brick wall on this one, but I will tell you this - i work in Frontline and intensive care medicine, I have a lot of colleagues all over the country in frontline and intensive care medicine. I know medics that have caught it and struggled with it and am an acquaintance of one of the sons whose father - a medic - seeing patients with Covid died within about 2 hours of falling ill, who was about the same age as you Dan. I know about the level of care our PM had to receive. I have lost a healthy uncle with it, and have a cousin younger than you who is intubated. Is this worse than seasonal flu or some ‘bug’ as you call it - make your own mind up, and eventually the data will come, but whilst you are doing that I think it would be far better to not poo-poo it’s importance, observe the measures we are doing, and if after this is all over you are right and it was nothing to worry about, then happily I will buy you a beverage of choice to celebrate, because we are all winners then

Thanks for that, I knew about the floods affecting swamp ash reserves and of fungus elsewhere but didn’t know about the U.K. and regular ash, which has fallen out of favour a bit due to the desire for lighter instruments

@drTStingrayIt says it will use its stock responsibly, continue the vintage range and potentially source responsibly - so there will be some. Is this all ash, or swamp ash mainly....

I wish you well, but that is dangerous talk and without being rude ill informed. Yes some potentially people with co-existing health issues have the potential to do worse, but there are plenty out there in the young, fit, healthy range who are doing very badly with C-19 and dying. You cannot predict. Even if you are alright, if you are blahzay about it, you risk passing it to others who may not be so lucky. Unless you know something I or anybody else doesn’t know, I am not sure you can predict who will and will not so well with this.

It’s by no means a budget version, i think what was meant that a passive bass is probably slightly less expensive than the active one due to less components

Looks like they have the electronics wrong Looks like Sandberg pick ups and a passive bass as opposed to Delano’s and active

G&L 1500 is a poor mans version, the way the treble is designed on that preamp is like nails on a blackboard. To make it useable you have to change and R7 (I think) resistor on the circuit board and add another capacitor on the tone pot to the existing capacitor, added to the fact their #12 neck which is a standard PJ type feel, which drops between the 2 styles but somehow pleases no master is far worse than the MM neck. Fit and finish is fine, but compared to what has been up for show here - big no-no. Bongo, is a Bongo! It will be quality

It’s hard - I love love all the ones I listed, I should prolly just make my own

This is more than decent https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233555292036 This is very nice https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184213713839 This too These are where I would put my money

The other option for my money would be one with a SLO neck - dreamy

Can’t fault that logic , I went deep end in for my first almost made me more careful!

Fair enough - some new necks have nuts installed and pre cut - those that don’t you can get pre cut TUSQ nuts easily on line and glue them in, then it’s just a file as required in the set up, but I completely get it tinkering using not for everyone, and keeps luthiers in business. I just like to try to tinker in me spare time if I get any!

I reckon you can do it yourself, as long as it’s a tight pocket fit and no pocket work required it really is simple pie. You never know there may be a BC person who could knock it together obeying distancing rules for you and get it playing. Are thee holes pre-drilled? If so it’s even simpler!

New stingray Special in whatever finish you want, so that’s 2018 onwards. Roasted Maple, even better neck now, 18v and neodymium magnet pick ups, however many band EQ’s, H set up only. Its the absolute nuts - there will be some second hand stuff under your budget so the rest can be sent on pork scratchings and sweets.