Stub Mandrel

Can we post this every time someone says "I need a short scale bass because I have little fingers/small hands/short arms"?

If you have 'fret position dots' set the intonation so your 'natural' finger position is in tune at the octave 9I can't say "12th fret") and magically that finger position will work along the whole length of the neck. As you move up a position mean you have to adapt constantly so there isn't one simple 'muscle memory' to build. I found that my fingers naturally come closer together as I move up a result of playing fretted bass anyway. What is trickiest is keeping positions consistent across the strings. The ultimate arbiter is sound, the dots guide to then changing position, then you will eventually start to subconsciously adjust if out of tune, in the same way you probably bend a string slightly if it sounds flat when playing a fretted bass. You don't learn this, you just discover you are doing it one day, and feel smug 🙂

I bought some no-name ones from Amazon or eBay... they seem to be really good. But I only use them on basses whose original buttons are too small. I have a strap for each bass/guitar.

Just to say Richard Thompson is still as awesome as ever. Some old, some new, some excerpts from his new bio Beeswing, vocal accompaniment from Zara Phillips (not that one). Excellent support from Katherine Priddy. He (at 73) did pass comment on the demographics of the audience. Let's say an above-average number of punters had to pop out for a pee... But, by gum, his guitar playing really ought to put him up with the greats.

Oooh...

I just use generic sheets off eBay. There are two types, white and clear. If you use white you have to trim very carefully, but colours (rather than black) on clear will come out transparent*. I use an inkjet printer. The best lacquer I've found is Windsor and Newton Gloss, several coats to build a nice strong decal. The body decal on this guitar is the biggest I've done. You can see how the yellow is translucent, if not transparent. Grey works fine on pale maple for 'Fedner' style decals. *Unless you have one of the legendary old inkjets that had white ink and can source the ink!

Thirded. I also love Blues Power with Bernard 🙂

Crikey moses, is Lee Aaron still going? I saw her at Reading in 1983!

Has to be a provisional answer as I'm waiting for some out of stock items, but this pairing: Worst purchase was the Stagg 1/4" jack to speakon cable, the jack is about 2mm short and the vibration causes it to self-eject from my Elf causing trouser-browning silence...

Virtuosity before musicality, IMHO.

If the screw comes loos on the old style, the button will tend to slip if the strap causes rotation. With the new screw button any rotation will tend to unscrew it.

My signature bass would have four ounces of lead in the headstock, slightly misaligned pickups just to annoy people. The protective film on the pickguard would be slightly damaged but bonded in place to9 prevent removal, just to annoy me.

Speed up T-cut by fitting one of these in a hand drill. Haven't tried the polishing bars, just the mop : https://www.toolstation.com/polishing-set/p58727?store=MJ&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&mkwid=s_dc&pcrid=515847200309&pkw=&pmt=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_fiLBhDOARIsAF4khR2Ekji3rAefGFLzcQH9umTrQ96q81MkafJmYZTjQdKIoT9vAG2SwfwaAu_YEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Well most of us have enough mercury in our teeth to kill a horse, if t was in a mobile form.

It's quite funny looking at Within You Without you on UG to see how earnestly people defend their fingering as being 'how Adam Clayton' does it because they can 'tell by the sound'. I notice that on the live at BBC video he plays it a semitone down and uses both the A and E strings (and looks completely bored). And that's probably one of the simplest basslines of all time...

Heres a nice blues we cover, with some unusual changes that make it interesting. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMe8o5K5h0

We used to play that in Drastic Action. Circa 1987

18V can compensate for poor design, allowing you to be careless about gain levels during processing. In theory, you don't need that headroom even if processing signals for line level inputs.