Stub Mandrel

Does not compute)£(^"%&()*+_*%&!!!!!! It's only sound coming out of a speaker. There are a few things I can't handle (basically Edith Piaf, K-Pop and other teenage-girl-oriented pop). Some of the less well done 'extreme' metal fails because it reaches the level of self-parody and makes me laugh, rather than not being able to cope. I am an 'album oriented listener' who enjoys listening to a curated (to use a very in-vogue term) collection of music, but when I do I enjoy some light and shade. Some of the music you refer to feels boring, rather than relentless. Personally I think something like Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, 20th Century Schizoid Man are 'heavier' because of their use of dynamics.

Perhaps if I elaborate a bit. I think it's usually wrong to introduce additional complexity behind a solo. What is needed is to retain a solid rhythm without creating a distraction. After all its 'rhythm guitar' that's dropping out. Some double stopping to thicken up the sound is fine, but swapping from straight eights to arpeggios behind a solo seems counterproductive to me. I've recently learned some songs (admittedly for a four-piece) and the bass line generally simplifies behind the solos.

"He is risen!" Sorry, that should be: "He is risible!"

Ref. amps. If you are truly desperate, a bass (via pedals if necessary) can go direct into a dynamic mic input on a mixer without a DI box, as long as your sound engineer has some wits to get decent EQ and watches the levels.

As you do...

Soak in lemon juice for a few days. Or diluted molasses. Best of all, Jenolite which will leave steel blackened.

That's my musical career scuppered...

Fender ones are nickel (or nickel plated brass) and tarnished. The Limelight ones appear to be steel, which rusts solid.

My brother had a Gibson with robot tuners. He strummed it and it literally unwound one of the strings so it fell off 🤣 He got it to do it again at home and videoed it, for some reason Gibson kept deleting the video off their facebook page... He converted it to manual.

Thin weedy sound... This. During any solo other instruments should step back, not forwards.

LOL - OK, poor choice of pics! A bit of digging and I see Billie Joe Armstrong was definitely a P90/humbucker guy! But almost all Kurt Cobain's guitars had single coils (mostly Jaguars). Matt Bellamy's signature Mansons have a humbucker but he sometimes uses a straight Strat. I'm not knocking P90s or humbuckers (I've got an Ibanez Artcore with a DiMarzio bridge and Gretsch neck pups and a Tokai SG with three humbuckers hanging above my monitor... even my tele has a DiMarzio stacked humbucker at the bridge) but the idea single coil pickups don't cut it is risible.

I'm more worried that some people think the answer to "spare bass - do I really need one?" is no! Clearly you need lots, for all sorts of reasons, regardless of gigs.

You can't argue with that!

Hmmm... I've never been in a 3 piece, always had rhythm 7 lead or guitar +keyboard. If the sound goes thin and weedy when the guitarist starts a solo - it's their fault, they are probably using a Line 6 Spider, or just haven't put the effort into their sound. Here's a great example of utterly simple and repetitive bass supporting a very sparse solo, and it sounds good to me.

Not usually to practice. Drummers never take spare skins and they break more often than bass strings... Gigs, always. I don't want the blame...

I bet none of the other bass bashes will have such a unique thing on display.

I think Shia LaBeouf is chiefly a danger to his own career these days...

I wonder if the frets had some sort of coating the oil washed off. I have seen badly finished instruments with lacquered necks where a coat of lacquer has been left on the frets!

CD? What's a CD? Didn't they go out with the wax cylinder? 🙂

Can you explain? Did they discolour or move or something else?

What has the EU ever given electronics? The SCART Plug, that's what.

Me. I couldn't source a decent case to fit a Jag SS. I used a nylon dog blanket the dog had torn a hole in, but you could use a new one. <edit> I'm not joking. I don't think anyone produces material specifically for lining guitar cases, they just use a range of other materials, e.g. as used for soft toys. If you want the 'short fake fur' type of lining it is available off the roll but for the quantities needed for a guitar case a small throw or blanket is possibly the cheapest solution. It looks good (it was a candy apple red dog blanket) and works well (IMHO): The case is 12mm planed softwood strips and two sheets cut from 3mm MDF. If I was doing it again I would cover in proper Tolex-type vinyl, the one I chose is a lovely colour but easily scratched.

Not another one.

Deserve their own genre, like Primus 🙂