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That is one FINE looking axe. I love the binding thing.

I hate editors. I always get lost. And then regret starting. I installed the editor. It works. I have no idea what to do with it. I then went to here [url="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2_tqOG3lexBb0dMYTluOTczZUE&usp=drive_web"]https://drive.google...E&usp=drive_web[/url] and downloaded each folder to a folder on my computer. You have to open the page in Google drive and then right click on the folders with sounds and download them. If you open one folder from the FI then the FI will step through each patch in that folder so you do not keep having to load new sounds. I have collected 80 sounds which seem like they would be useful from amongst all these. I have put the patches for them all in one folder and then will whack them onto the FI. I am very proud of myself. Tragic but there you go. I am only writing this to encourage people to get stuck in. There are some really good sounds in there if you audition them all. Many are much more useful than the stock sounds.

I use super glue when the blisters are on the way. Put a blob on a piece of paper and rub the area which will blister into it. It last for about 3 hours of "normal" playing, prob a bit less on slapping. It has saved me from blisters many, many times.

[quote name='Dazed' timestamp='1459884786' post='3020633'] Anyone developed an interest in an Enfield? [url="http://bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Enfield_Lionheart_standard.html"]http://bassdirect.co...t_standard.html[/url] [/quote] If they have they had better be quick because it looks as if it is getting out of the case on it's own in the last pic of that link.

I have two basses with Mag/piezo options and am using East piezo things. They buffer nicely and offer a passive HF roll off which is all I have found I need on the EQ front. I have some mind bendinlgly expensive Ghost saddles in one bass and a cheap and cheerful Ebay special piezo bridge - there is no discernable difference.

Thanks It is names I have been needing. I have dropped him an email about a visit later in the year. [quote name='bassace' timestamp='1459671583' post='3018445'] I reckoned Laurence Dixon would be the man; [/quote]

This is all stuff I agree with, but who do you use?

Loads of pickups! More is more!!

But not enough to pay $2800!

Not my day. I have just put a set of TI Powerbass strings on the same bass. I had been saving them for the right occasion. This was not it. Comedy short B string again. Cannot even slice silk off as the windings begin to taper before the nut.

I fancy one of those!

It turns out the set on a 35" scale feels like solid rods of steel so they are coming of in the next 10 minutes and going on a 33".

I often wonder about set up stuff. I am happy with how mine plays, but there is always that nagging thought that runs "I wonder if it could be even better". The trouble is that I live in luthier desert so am unlikely to ever get to know.

I have just put a set of La Bella 0760M (Jamerson ones, dontchyaknow) on a 35" scale bass. G,D,A and B are fine and dandy. E is 1.5cm short with the silk protruding over the nut. It goes to tension and all that, but I just wonder why the rest of the set are fine and this is not? How I laughed.

Sadly, you are correct. People mutter about how cool it would be to try some of it. It would be a horrible car crash. But thanks Tobie for the list. Where in Manchester? [quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1459011567' post='3012860'] There's probably not much like that happening at your local chapel. [/quote]

I am in Bangor, North Wales. If it was happening around here I would know about it! I was just wondering about pointers to places in London or Brum where it is happening, for future reference for me or for anyone else reading the thread really.

Could anyone nane actual specific churches where this is happening? I was in that London recently and ready to find a service with Gospel music in it but just could not.