Stub Mandrel

I found the biggest challenge getting decent hardware in small sizes for bass cases. Penn do excellent hardware for instrument cases. I used theirs to make this dog case: If you can get a tradepoint card, get your ply cut at B&Q.

What is the use to be able to vary the amount of capacitance of a cable when you know the lowest is the best ? May I suggest that the assumption that a cable which has the minimum impact on the signal is best is a fallacy? Everything in the signal chain from pickup to loudspeaker has an impact that colours the sound to a greater or lesser extent, although the effect of some may be imperceptible. Nothing is best, just different. That doesn't stop anyone having a preference.

Not to me!

Modest compression before overdrive can help stop the 'higher notes sound weedy' effect.

Almost... https://www.basschat.co.uk/profile/3-ped/

Heavy Weather was an inspiration to me (along with School Days etc.) when I was trying and failing to become a prodigy in the early '90s. But musically Hejira knocks them out of the pitch.

Best thing I have is a huge 'crystal' you rub in your armpit after a wash, from Lush or Holland & Barrett or somewhere. Possibly alum? It works.

I'm already 'Stub Two-Stacks' 🙂 My priority is a mid-sized portable setup.

In the mid-70s it was a term of derision for many critics. This is why bands of the time didn't like the label. It was only towards the end of the decade that it came to be subsumed by the fans. I suspect it's all quite subtle and I would need to refresh my memory by reading loads of old MM, NME and Sounds and listening to old Friday Rock shows. Perhaps that's my retirement plan?

This is one of the mid-80s basses. Quite early many of their guitars and basses had 'Arbor Series' added to the headstock. I think this was to differentiate with the more up market models, such as the headless 'licensed by Steinberger' basses.

On 'people who do Jaco better than Jaco', I'm reminded of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix. Much as I loved SRV's music, one was the innovator, the other was the imitator. It's the creation of a new paradigm in music which is the real achievement. Einstein conceptualised relativity, but others too it further - does that diminish Einstein's achievement? As for Jaco's mental illness and drug abuse issues; they are desperately sad but no doubt as intrinsic to his character and creativity as Van Gogh's, for example, and cannot be bignored to understand him in the round.

I will be 20 miles from Alton the weekend after next...

No one ever said 'gosh I want to smell more like a Christmas cake' but Old Spice still sells...

I have posted on the other thread as I had one of these from new, and my brother still has it. Definitely Cort Korea. In the late 80s Hohner had a reputation for excellent instruments are bargain prices, way above a lot of the crap around at the time. The strings don't originally go through the body.

About 1986 or 1987, delightful to play - my first bass guitar was one and my brother still has it. Varnish a bit thick, not the most amazing sound, but now I know a lot more about basses I'd say it's very well made.

On the sleeve notes of Space Ritual (1973) the band's crew are described as 'Heavy Metal Kids, no doubt a nod to Burroughs.

Thomas Tallis, Bore no malice. Save an organist called Ken. Who played the organ rather badly, Now and then.

Perhaps he steels magnolias.

If this is like many forums, there will be lots of 'spam' and 'bot' sign ups that get deleted but probably still increment counters.

Hohner Jazz copy. My brother now has it (note faded scratch plate and darkened wood after ~35 years). He loaned it to a learner who put the strange paper strips on the neck and hasn't taken them off yet...

Sounds like the original sample may be an old Moog bass pad to me.

Tim Blake 🙂

They are quite puny, I am very fussy about pillow height, so I have three decent ones and use two Morrisons ones as height adjusters 🤣

None more '80s.

To bring some perspective, Smoke on the Water was recorded 49 years ago. 49 years back from Smoke on the Water in 1923 the world was recovering from the Great War and Spanish Flu.