Stub Mandrel

Funny how we all differ, I'm way faster with my fingers than a pick.

Twerp!

Put a toilet seat around your head while playing your 'Ray and enjoy the experience without lower cost and less embarrassment...

Yep, shame Flea didn't write the lyrics...

Interesting short article. Flea is always thoughtful. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jan/02/flea-there-is-joy-in-obsession-but-im-not-sure-its-healthy Funny how we don't have a 'bass players' topic...

No love for the MM Bongo headstock? That's a surprise...

Some new strings (wound on the right way) would be a kindness 🙂

I don't really like playing with a pick but the thing I've found is that for bass I need a heavier pick and for guitar and to hold it looser - you don't always need to smack the strings as hard as you expect to get the attack you want. But it is like playing a totally different instrument!

Believe i am a fan. But whoever strung that up should be... strung up?

A mashup that works:

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I've had to move my 'office' into my workshop. This is good as it means I have my TE combo set up and switched on all day and, presently, a jazz bass in reach from my chair. I have input gain nice and high, the pre-shape in, balanced by a gentle 3db lift centred on about 2kHz, usually no effects. I find I can spend ages just playing simple riffs or just single notes, especially on my Jazz where playing with the volumes (I generally leave the tone right up unless playing reggae) and moving my playing position gives me a huge range of wonderful sounds. I am very, very happy with the tones I am getting.

A mate of mine imports, mostly from China, but also from EU and other sources. He also sells significant amounts to the EU. He's looking at an investment in five figures to get an EU based office (in a cheaper eastern EU country) as a cheaper-in-the-long-run alternative to registering for VAT in each individual EU country. Painful private purchases is that the import duty + vat + handing fee we had to bear on US imports now applies to the EU as well. Presence or absence of an EU deal is/was irrelevant to these issues as they are unrelated to tariffs. Oh, and CITES now applies to UK <-> Europe so be careful taking your rosewood fingerboard overseas...

I got a refurbished Keystation Mini. To be honest it's too small for my big hands, but would be great fun for a child. It came with Ignite software, loads of editable sounds and a basic sequencer.

I find it (almost) impossible to play whilst singing backing vocals for anything!

For those who like neat and understated without being overly crowded.

It was a retrograde step when they stopped numbering double album sides 1,4,2,3 for autochangers.

Sorry, haven't read the whole thread yet, but may I ask: As like "Der Ring des Nibelungen"? As in: you're referring to the amount of sides to play? In case: that was one of my main reasons, if not the main one, to adopt formats that were not LPs. One day, I played Wagner a whole day without ever having to change a thing. My iPod did that for me. I hate it when somebody is dying on stage and has to suffer whilst I drag my behind out of the sofa to turn a record and let the poor bar steward die with some dignity. No, I'm suggesting my copy of Yessongs gives great joy of ownership for reasons, indeed reasons without a single kilohertz in sight.

I have big hands and am generally comfy with IFPF everywhere - but presently trying to figure out how to hold down second fret while using pinky to get a harmonic at 6... OW!

Whoops totally wrong... Whoops actually I was right... Troy does have one... And yes if I had £1000 to spare...

You really do have a thing about knobs, don't you Ped. How do you cope with the P-bass? 🙂

Having done this live it's really tricky to keep the line solid and in the pocket while also getting the fills in the right places. But a fun one to play.

https://tarantism1.bandcamp.com/album/tarantism-live-at-the-horsedrawn-camp

Yikes! A mixture of the revolting and the refined posted above. I can't abide anything with wonky tuners, I can't believe a quality luthier thinks droopy or randomly aligned tuners look 'good'. I know this is supposedly a Fender-free zone but I vote for this:

Huw Lloyd Langton cooking on guitar: