PaulWarning

Smallish local music stores have to cater for Mummys and Daddys coming into the shop for a guitar for little Johnny, haven't a clue what they're buying so need advice, if Johnny then progresses a little he'll know what he wants so probably won't need their advice, which is why they have mostly inexpensive stock, that's what their customers need.

find a store selling lefties? good luck with that

all merch sales go into the band pot, we did have a couple of members leave and we told them they'd get their share of any sales of the CD they played on, after a couple of (minor) payouts they told us not to bother anymore as we were selling them on the strength of the gigs with the new line up. Does help when you stay on amicable terms with ex members 😊

depends what you mean by midrange, anything from 100hz to 1000hz could be called midrange, boost around 300 to 800hz and it gets boxy, sounds awful on it's own but makes you heard in the mix.

the cat obviously thinks that Rickenbacker is a dirty word

I used to think that whenever I heard one it was clank clank clank, but recently I've heard a couple that sounded suburb, Duncan Reid (of the Boys fame) and Paul Gray on the Damned tour

yes, Trace didn't make many duds but this was one, had the misfortune to use one on a multi band gig, "Trace Elliot combo supplied" oh goody methinks

I've got an old encore, found it next to a dust bin, never bothered stringing it as a leftie, tried playing it, as @bertbass says it was like starting to play again but knowing what you're supposed to be doing, frustrating as hell and not easy, hopefully I won't have to do it, yesterday's gig went ok

Did a gig last night and for the first time arthritis in the knuckle of my fretting ring finger affected my playing, early days but got me wondering if anybody else has tried to swap left to right or vice versa after learning reasonably proficiently one way ? if so how did it go? I know the guy out of the Bootleg Beatles switched from right to left.

JJ doesn't play it live like the record I think they may have double tracked it. I just run down from the 12 fret playing fast then play the 3 fret on the D string and open g for the last note near enough for me.

another innovation that I think would improve any bass is a zero fret, no more messing about filing the nut (and going too far, opps)

me? I don't take any chances, luminous tape off ebay and before anybody says it, no I've not stuck them on the wrong side, I really am left handed

on the subject of remastering being a money making exercise by the record company, having bought the original, I have no qualms about obtaining the remaster for free by whatever means possible

the stereo Beatles stuff was nothing to do with remastering that was how they were released originally, nobody took stereo seriously in the early 60's, when they remastered the Beatles catalogue they made a point of releasing the first 4 albums in mono as well as stereo, and they do sound better in mono. Incidentally, the first Ramones album was released with guitar in one channel and bass in the other, very strange

in my limited experience it's the bass guitar that's more prominent in the mix, well the Beatles and the Clash's are, so I prefer them, but I suppose it depends whose done the remix, everything does seem clearer though so all in all I think they are a good thing, mostly

I don't think it's just the cab, I've got a Trace 1 x 15 and I can shave 5Kg off the weight by swapping a non neo eminence with the Trace original

we're all different, that's the main attraction of Trace heads for me, the GP12 gives me the chance to shape my sound better, especially like being able to cut the 30Hz and 40Hz area to clean up my sound and cut out any boom that happens in certain rooms

TBH I tried drums and found that boring, each to there own

same reason there's no lefty violin players, they could poke out the eye of the guy sitting next to them

I have wondered about this, perhaps with guitar playing the left and right hand do totally different things, also, how many lefties have given up trying to play other instruments because they can't get left handed ones? Does anybody play double basses the wrong way on with the strings changed round?

big sales and good records are not related at all, big sales could mean people bought it because it was easily accessible and dumbed down, not always true but more likely to be if it's an established band already

perhaps Napoleon was a guitarist (apparently he made everybody drive on the right because he was left handed)

Trace head and lightweight cabs

probably just me, but producers messing about with the drum sound seems to age records, in the 80's it was the fashion to have enormous sounding snare drums high in the mix, sounds awful to me, now it seems to be clicky sounding kick drums, why can't they just record the drums how they're supposed to sound? some albums sound good because they do sound dated (mainly because they're recorded almost live) Elvis's sun sessions and the Beatles Please Please Me (mono) spring to mind

or my favourite cover version, ever