nilebodgers

In my experience a faint acoustic ticking sound is one of the symptoms of a switch-mode power supply failing to start up and periodically re-trying. Could be the power amp is dead, could be the power supply is dead, but either way it needs expert attention. Unless you are lucky I’d prepare yourself for a substantial bill to fix it.

Heavy Rock. I never liked the term “heavy metal” and DP certainly don’t fit that category.

I'm getting that too. Similarly - no thanks.

Highway to hell is easy to play the notes, but a lot harder to make really tight and solid. On songs like that I’d focus on making it sound as huge as possible by concentrating to get the drums and rhythm guitar ultra-tight.

I love the Roger Irrelevant description: “only the neck is for sale as I don’t play guitar or bass”. Only the wheels are for sale as I don’t drive a car?

Lol. I use my zoom b1-4 on a single patch I came up with that sounds nice through headphones for practicing.

I remember seeing them once, I think on their farewell tour. They were streets ahead of any other cover band playing pubs that I've ever seen.

That's interesting - there is a mistake/overdub at 2:26. I'd not spotted that before.

I hadn’t realised that was a cover! (Although I’ve only heard the version off the 1980s live album with the proper lineup, not the poodle-haired USA version)

I used to work in Corporate event production, so have had to deal with loads of artists/bands where we have had to slot them into a larger production (e.g. after conference party). Adding a separate technical info page would be very useful. This should have as a minimum a stage plan/layout (dimensioned), desk channel plan, a realistic technical rider and contact email/phone for the main sound engineer or production manager (whoever is the key technical person). This needs to be up to date (and dated/versioned - chasing out of date and incorrect riders was a constant problem). We would always finalise a spec based on personal conversations/emails and get the artist team to sign off on it, but clients always want to know what a rider will cost before booking an artist and that is always very urgent. We quite often were chasing tour managers for info and they just weren't interested in replying quickly since they were doing other shows and/or were out of the country completely. Having the latest info on a website is a huge time saver.

Definitely. The neck is much more critical to the playability of the instrument. I've bought quite a few cheap far eastern necks for practicing fretwork and none of them were as good as a bottom of the range Squier. Physically and finish-wise they were fine, but they all had uneven fretwork. Some had lifted fret ends, some had unseated frets with gaps between fret and board, some had fret slots not cut deep enough or cleaned out properly, most had badly trimmed fret ends with burrs (some of which couldn't be filed as it would have left the fret too short). Realistically all the necks needed re-fretting to make them play properly and then there is still no guarantee of stability in the wood. I have started to think that all the low-cost far east necks are QC fails that weren't good enough to be built into budget instruments, but could still be sold to the unsuspecting, especially if the distance/cost made them hard to return. I think if I were building an instrument to play for real I'd buy a Fender/Warmoth/Allparts neck, or something from a luthier where the QC is good.

I need to shift an old Indian Encore strat copy (the ones that are the same as a Marlin Sidewinder). I got it as a reclaim project off ebay and fixed it up. All working now, but just needs a drop of superglue to hold the new nut in place. Plays well, so would be great for a skint beginner or someone that wants to mess around at no cost. Comes with strap. Located in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) and needs to go in the next couple of weeks as I am moving house. https://i.imgur.com/VEksBmk.jpg

I had a fail trying to buy a bound+blocks J-bass neck recently. Both the original and the replacement had unusably bad fretwork, so I took the refund and gave up. They did say it was a bad batch from their supplier, so I may just have been unlucky. I can't fault their service though, they were helpful and prompt at replacing then refunding.

Oh my word. " May benefit with some time taken to perfect setup " - will that time be finite or infinite?

Says Yam now, must have fixed it. Looks like a Japanese one by the pickups. Someone added a metal jack plate to allow using an open style socket. Caught my eye as I just had to replace the socket in my BB1100s, it cut out if I used a right-angled plug and looped the cable through the strap. (It had lasted about 30 years though, so I think the switchcraft I fitted will see me out!)

I saw a lecture about the evolution of early music instruments a few years ago in a village hall and the speaker demonstrated one of those. It was the most piercing thing I've ever heard, you could have cleared a room with it.

I was going to post a link to that myself. It’s a funny story especially the “we are jazzmen, we’ve got this” confidence of not writing a chart and then getting their donkeys handed to them when they forget the changes.

I only meant the pedal, I didn’t bother to listen to the rest.

That looks nice. I like the demo video apart from the nasty distorted farting sound when the tube mode was selected.

The convention for 4-pole NL4 connectors is full-range signal on 1+/1-. The 2+/2- pair are not connected in this case. Bi-amp would have low driver on 1+/1- and HF driver on 2+/2-.

Nice bass. I'm curious about 5s, I've never even played one. However, I have no need for one in the forseeable future so no point going there.

It's kind of a signature part isn't it, everything else backs off and you hear the bass come through with the verse lick.

LOL - I remember not being able to play that fast little verse run reliably when I was in my first band....errrr, 42 years ago. That makes me feel very old 😕