Stub Mandrel

There's a big difference between winging it which takes more confidence than skill, and doing the job well. In the blues band its great for confidence building, because there's a common musical language and conventions, even if you aren’t playing a twelve-bar. For example, its rare to have a true bridge. This means when on unfamiliar territory you can still anticipate enough to sound reasonably tight, and when you do know the material you can go off piste with confidence. In the covers band even something as simple as Chasing Cars - sure you could probably play it without having heard it before, but to do it well there's a fair bit of dynamics and stop start to learn. A better example would be Purple Rain where you have to build your playing over the song and can be fairly improvisational, but you need to know when and what you're building up to. Of course there are songs you can learn on a single pass, but on clser inspection most turn out to have subtlety you need to tease out to do them justice. If it was really that easy, why is such a large percentage of onlne tab wrong - I recently got a site to correct its "offical tab" for Green Onions FFS!

Then there's the Taco Belle's Canon phenomenon.

I learned wherever I lay my hat, only to be told 'we are doing the Marvin Gaye original'

You wait YT. All those years of penury await...

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So basically you're a root and fifth kind of guy?

So basically you're a root and fifth kind of guy?

Last gig the encore was a song I'd never heard before. Guitarist told me C and played me the bass riff, once, quietly. I rather enjoyed it, crowd were happy. But It was a straight 12 bar, took a couple of verses to get the turnaround 🤪

What about standard short scale? Or long scale? Or fan fret? Or partially fretless? For God's sake get a grip man!

The advantage of flats is they sound craP but don't get any crapper. And they feelovely to play.

My brother has a tame luthier who does all his setups. I'm conflicted on one hand I enjoy incrementally tuning my instruments over time, on the other I am tempted by a good setup.

Just having a bit of fun under the affluence of whisky 🙂

Isn't a Variax the least punk bass possible 🙂

0.08 mm There's no such thing as a thousandth of a millimetre in the real world 🙂 0.004 mm is about five wavelengths of deep red light. A 'hair's breadth' ranges from about 0.017 to 0.180 mm. A thousandth of an inch or 0.025 mm is a fairly demanding maximum precision when dealing with things made largely of wood. I used to know a very skilled engineer who once worked making piano mechanisms - they were the only wooden thing he ever dealt with that demanded 0.001" accuracy. I imagine people using ebony bearings on clocks (Harrison's Chronometers) would aspire to similar accuracy.

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Should be able to.

This seems a rational explanation to me.

Try resoldering it?

Try a TE elf, it might do the job, and if not excellent backup. If you want a clean but characterful amp, consider the Orange Bass Terror in 'clean' mode. That way you have a rock amp as well.

I agree. I think there should also be sections for other rare and esoteric basses: Ugly basses Basses people are selling because they don't like them. Basses that sound horrible Basses that people don't really want to sell but are just testing the water or mollifying an annoyed spouse.

Stcky Labella is sleeping with the fishes. The Post-It Mob got him.

It's possible, but highly unlikely, you have done something that's created a significant amount of extra capacitance in the lead

Just turn the little knob on top. https://www.neutrik.com/en/product/np2rx-timbre

I'm waiting for a cheap secondhand neck from the Netherlands. It got as far as Oirschot, but is now well on its way back to the sender 😞 They say it's got the right address on it. No Cites declartion?

Just measured two basses at ~1.7 to 1.8 mm at twelfth fret.. Then a short scale at nearly 3mm - yet it feels really easy to play because of the low string tension and I don't think I would want to drop it any more. My fretless is nearer to 4mm, perhaps it could come down a smidge.