Stub Mandrel

Beware the KKKKK...

Last rehearsal I found myself tunerless! Shock horror... I had to ask the guitarist for an A then use harmonics! Retro eh? 🤣

I'll bring mine along, FWIW 🙂

Slightly OT but I know someone who had an SVT, stored it sideways and a transformer came off its mounts and dropped through £%&&£% worth of expensive valves...

I don't suppose you are headed to the Midlands Bass Bash?

Allow me to correct that.

Tell people it's a GoPro recording for your next live DVD.

The loud one isn't a Deluxe is it, they are active...

Snark for me, mainly because it tracks so quickly and follows notes up and down. Works well with anything including violin, ukes and mandos as well as bass. I have a 'Guitarman' one and if you drop the string it doesn't react until you mute and pluck the string again. I did have a Fender one which was very good too 9and silly cheap) but lost it.

And ikt has a rude name. We're all suckers for a rude name!

Don't worry, it's got wonky tuners...

Some people would kill for that level of relicing...

Obviously not an issue if you do that, but more of an issue for new players, perhaps?

Rehearsal tonight, took a fretty because I want to be sure I can play all songs fretted or fretless. We did wherever I lay my hat and it took me three goes to get it right, having frets put me right off!

^ +1

Had a 'living room' practice tonight, but with a middle sized rig turned low. Got some great sounds. Funny how an amp at low volume in a small room can sound totally different to cranked in a big room, same cab, same bass, same eq. but much more bottom end. Possibly because the cab has PA type speakers in it (Mackenzie twin-cone).

Equally, if you can, just make it deeper uniformly. Just small adjustment, test and repeat.

My Soundcloud is here. Most of the stuff is from late 80s to 1996, except Sonic Attack which was me pratting around doing a 1-take on a cassette recorder around 1984. Some of it is just random stuff. The Grizzlies are my current band, I've put a couple of our rehearsals up. 2 Moon Junction and Head in a Helix are the two originals bands I was in and are proper studio demos. Drastic Action was the first band, a covers band in South Wales and are just rehearsals on my ghetto blaster. Other stuff is me with and without my brother, Hangin' Round and Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes are just me and I'm fairly proud of them. The Reluctants is some random folk stuff I recorded friends doing and added some overdubs - it actually got played on Radio Frome! (Only because my mate is a DJ).

Is it good for metal?

Update. I am sooo happy with this bass. I've dropped the action VERY slightly and played with the intonation. I also spent some time with a flexible sanding block on as I felt the fret ends were just a tad rough, certainly not as nice feeling as my Squier Jaguar, but this is partly because the Jag has rolled edges (not known back in 62). The fingerboard has sucked up three doses of Dunlop lemon oil but seems happy now. Mercifully I haven't needed to touch the truss rod. The bridge pickup sounds really good and through my TE combo it's my main choice with tone right up. The neck pickup with tone rolled back is great for songs where i want a cod-upright sound. It's great being able to have tone pre-set to suit each pickup. I've started delving into mixing eth pickups now, to me it sounds best with one pickup right up and a bit of the other mixed in, rather than both on full. I haven't yet found a 'bad' sound, and its great to plug it into the Trace and get real, rich sounds. It slaps well (as you would hope) but most of the time I'm playing it conventional fingerstyle. It deals with chords nice and clearly. It's very slightly neck heavy, which is only an issue when playing above fret 12 and it starts to rotate slightly. The reverse tuners are quite 'quick' but I've had no problems with accurate tuning. It holds tune in the case very well. I also like the factory fit nickel strings - normally I'm a stainless string fan. I have attacked some of the relicing with the back of a scissors blade, there were multiple small marks that all looked very similar, they are now not much bigger but look more varied and natural. the same is true of the dents, but less obvious (and harder to do anything about). I'm surprised how much I like the colour. Jack has a (bright new) shell pink Fender Strat with a single humbucker which makes an interesting contrast. It already feels like an 'old friend' and certainly flatters my playing. I sometimes wander off mid-song because I'm just staring at the lovely aged finish on the back of that lovely slim neck... I commend this bass to non-Flea fans who want a reliced jazz. Having said that I think I'll take the performer to the next rehearsal, as now I've got a good solid mental image to compare it to.

We doubt this...

Clear nail varnish might work as well,. although it will wear off in time.

I've got an eye on the Eden but funds limited at the mo...

Does a Trace Elliot Elf do the classic 'TE pre-shape' sound?

Today I did a main band rehearsal using the Laney and a single 2x12 as an experiment. Despite appearing a clone of the TE (similar graphic, pre-shape, parametric EQ) I had to set it up very differently to get a good tone, lots of bass boost and I found I had to use the neck pickup a lot (I mostly use the bride PUP alone on a Jazz). Even with the graphic boosting all frequencies (especially bass) found myself running at with master volume at about 80%, which is roughly where I used to have it for gigging with two 2x12s. I do vaguely think this was my old rehearsal setup. I normally run the TE on 1 or 1.5! But, it did sound OK and will be fine as astopgap for small quieter pub gigs. I'm increasingly minded that the best solution will be a pocket sized 300 or 500W class D as a backup head and a high efficiency 1x10 or 1x12 for small gigs.