Stub Mandrel

I'm spending a few hours noodling on a five today, just to minimise the chance of 'wrong string' incidents at tonight's gig...

I know the situation. It FEELS lower for some reason. A slow bowed E on a good double has has way more presence than the low B on many fivers.

Why does bowed double bass sound deeper than plucked or slapped double bass or electric bass?

He's gone full circle!

<gags> Audioslave!

It's a JAZZ Stylophone 🤣

Well yesterday I got a WhatsApp pointing out Gasoline is on the setlists for the weekend, checking we want to do it. Of course everyone else does. That means I have to bring a fiver... (it seems the original may have been on a four tuned BADG!) It's not brushing up on the song, it's that I now have minimal time to refresh my fiver versions of enough songs to make it worthwhile. Now what idiot put the setlust together? Oh...

This is a great fun one to play but I can't imagine trying to do the organ part as well!

It's becoming the new Sex on Fire... I prefer this version:

I suspect enough for it to be put to one side a decade ago... then refound and donated without being checked. At least I got ripped off by a good cause...

Oft said. Curiously my Fender Performer (a 4 although legend says a 5 prototype was made) which has 16mm string spacing was made specifically to appeal to a burgeoning market for 'slap' basses.

I can barely see it! The chameleon bass... 😁

Arguing about preferences vs. playing your bass

Just remembered I have tail end of an amazon gift card, with black friedegg I just got a metronome for £3.54.

My Blackstar one has a basic drum machine built in. Only a handful of patterns but more inspiring than a metronome.

Don't forget, it anglicises as 'godzilla'.

Flats v. Rounds? Frets v. Fretless? Active v. Passive? P v. J? Bongo v. Toilet Seat?

Shhh... that's my achilles heel.

And a ranje switch...

Nowt stranger than folk...

In pedal terms, flanging is done by time shifting one copy of the signal, phasing is done by applying a frequency dependent phase shift to one copy. Flanging sounds much more in your face as a harsh shifting comb filter across the whole range of frequencies, while phasing tends to more smoothly accentuate/cut a broader band of frequencies.

Very much this. Though one potential advantage is with twin pickup basses - being able to mix them onboard without the crosstalk of passive mixing. Although that interaction is part of the sound of some basses and not all onboard preamps used with passive pickups do this. Edit: SOME but not all actives (e.g. my Hohner Jack with EMG licenced pups) have a weak passive signal due to low impedance pups. My Sire seems to have a better passive signal but still not as hot as a typical P. This means the active/passive comparison for an individual bass doesn't always equate to comparing two active/passive basses of similar configuration.

Blind Bass Tony was a little known blues artist from downtown Chicago in the 1930s and 40s.

It seems the 2007 model is digital and plays sampled sounds. Looks like the chip is decoding key presses wrongly. I can't find any shorts or see corrosion.

The 2007 reissue doesn't use a discrete resistor ladder, instead the 'keys' appear to go to an on board chip: Not my photo... I dont know what goes on inside the black blob, could be a resistor network or a custom chip.