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Well plenty of evidence here that... it's a matter of personal taste. Interesting to see a third version of what a volute is (clue the original word means snail's shell). I also quite like this which may have a 'P' pickup but manages not to look like one:

Slade - made me notice music. Hendrix - made the top of my head come off. Soft Machine - made me realise it isn't just tunes.

They were making fake Stradivarii 200 years ago...

Wannabe would work really well in a sort of Metallica styleee... Oh. Been done before. Lots. his one stands out for the kazoo solo.

No Weekend World!

I've been known to share a YouTube link, more in hope than expectation... We seem to have learnt 40 to 50 songs so many that a veto makes sense, but i'm not sure anyone's used it. One thing we've done is agree that we will play some crowd pleasers because our main objective is to please the punters while enjoying ourselves. We're doing a Battle of the bands on Saturday for our first gig as proper lineup, and got our 25 minutes down to a seven song list we have been rehearsing a few times a week. A few of them are challenging, but they spread the load so we have all stretched ourselves a bit. I was fairly passive when we drew up the list mainly because others know the audience better than I do having played at the event before. Our secret weapon is 'I'll Be There' because no-one ever plays it, but Friends is a bit of an obsession with the expected audience. Rest of the set is quite punchy, but the backline will be the kit we use in the rehearsal room so we are confident we can get the big sound we need. So I suppose our answer is we are being pretty forensic about setlists, trying lots, being happy to abandon things that don't work and try things that we find challenging but not worrying about being populist (OK no Brightside or Oasis yet...) In the longer term, we are now likely to be calling ourselves Brute Force and Ignorance which means that becomes out 'theme song' and we will have to add two or three other Rory Gallagher songs.

Brave of you! I am clueless as a sound engineer, but to me it sounds a bit too much like a 'sample track' off an early 90s sequencer... All elements are occupying too much of the 'middle' of the sound spectrum, so they are competing not complementing. Also it's all dead on the beat, if the bass was slightly ahead of the drums it might sound more urgent? I'd double the tempo of the hi hat as well. All the sounds sound almost 'gated', I think you need to let the samples decay a bit more or add delay/reverb (it sounds very dry) and (horror of horrors) add a hefty dose of compression as well. It's a quarter century since I recorded any tracks myself but I'd be delighted to have one or two of mine critically dissected! Now to read the r4est of the thread and see if people agree with my diagnosis!

Tell Mrs Teebs it's a vertical radiogram.

On the assumption these have to be on vinyl I actual bought myself as a teenager. Like a Hurricane (Live Rust Version) Wheels of Steel Milk and Alcohol (not including things I discovered post ~1979, so I would be about 16)

Hmm. Triumphs of bad taste over great skill and fine timber. Designing and building great instruments are not necessarily skills that go together.

When someone is selling their own Custom Shop Signature basses you have to ask why?

Clarence Leonides Fender, actually 🙂

I recognise those bloody pillars!

I think it's simpler that that - people who bought Fenders back then wanted them to look like Fenders. Even these days look at the flack the Starcaster gets...

OK. I have a squier Jazz Bass that has, three times, been adjusted only to have a bow return to the neck. I had to add a spacer to the adjuster nut. It appears the anchor at the fat end of the neck was shifting. As it's otherwise gorgeous, I wanted to save it, so a hideous bodge formed in my mind, but it meant finding the anchor point. I thought I might be able to do this with magnets? Anyway loosened truss rod and removed strings. Took of neck and - LO! the anchor is covered by a round plug and there's a gap between the end of the skunk stripe and the plug so I can see the truss rod! No need for magnets, divining or probing with a small drill, straight to the bodge! I fed the anchor point with about 1cc of quality Loctite superglue through the hole, as much as I could get in and allowed it to soak in and hopefully strengthen the wood around the anchor point. This was two weeks ago, the bass has held its adjustment through at least four rehearsals and I even gigged it last Saturday!

I know I keep saying his, but the Fender Performer really needs a reissue. No-one's ever copied it. But look at that gorgeous shape and what a neck! It's 53mm at fret 20 compared to 63mm for a Jazz bass. (Jag SS is 60mm).

Featuring the Windows XP tellytubbie hill!

That point's right...

Watching the Wales V. SA semi-final (in a Scottish pub) with a bunch of my compatriots there were actually several South Africans in their too. One guy pulled out a bag of biltong he'd sneaked into the UK. While I was forgiven for being a veggie, the meat eaters who struggled got soundly mocked. I don't remember the result of the match...

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I'd show you my 10", but I might get banned...

Used the Joyo XVI on a dropped D today (we were just jamming the Dr Who theme and playing with different sounds) made the modern Fender Bassman through a 4x10 struggle a bit! Sounded better an octave up with +/-the octave on. Increasingly finding the Joyo useful for 'real world' sounds especially as an overdrive with with the Bassman in the reharsal space as it makes it break up a bit (which my TE doesn't). It sounded ace last night on Feeling Good (Nina Simone song).

Interesting evening! Fun setting up the small PA, it was very quiet and took while to realise it was because I had plugged a monitor into the line out, the main PA was off... Plenty of room but not huge numbers due to weather, but landlord happy as new people came because of posters and bad weather kept people in all night (you know you are good when people prefer you to a weather bomb...) As for the actual gig, as expected it was fairly chaotic in terms of strong structure (the other two are more used to busking) so lots of thinking on my feet. For my moment of glory Wherever I lay My Hat where the singer swapped the bridge and verse 🤪 and a few songs had unexpected reprises... some of the 12-bar-ish soul songs did suffer from me struggling to remember which one was which, but at least I was in the right key if not the right song... Encouraged by some friends of guitarist and family of singer (her mum joined in on a couple of songs too!) we actually had a fair bit of dancing and a good reception. Must have done about 2 1/4 hours or more in the end although it flew past. Finished with an unrehearsed One Love which most of the pub joined in so it was actually really good, if terrifying.