Stub Mandrel

The cable on my home made PSU gave way mid-gig, thankfully between songs. Most of my pedals have battery backup but pulling out all the PSU wires AND removing anything without a battery would have taken too long. I just pulled out the receiver (I was wireless) put it in the amp and whacked up the gain a bit! Now got a rather snazzy TGI psu.

Makes the sound 'fatter' in the up position.

For sure you won't find any deviancy on a Zappa album...

Sorry, but that's an example of what I find too boring not too heavy 🙂

Encouraged me to go back and listen to Reign in Blood after a long break. It is very prescient. Has anyone else noticed it's got Vladimir Putin/Dobbie the House Elf on the cover?

" Increased circuit board voltage gives dramatically more headroom and dynamics for an incredibly "alive" overdrive sound. " Not that I am entirely convinced that headroom makes any real difference, any (amp head) preamp that can't boost a lower headroom pedal past a useful input level isn't doing its job.

I'm a big fan of Rectal Mucilage and Snotty Hanky. 🙂

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...