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  1. Stub Mandrel
    Scotchbrite looks the same but has aluminium oxide particles in it and can be very aggressive. I would use wire wool or 600 grit wet and dry if I was to do it again, but I would think twice first. Unless you are a speedfreak guitarist most glossy necks will mellow after some use without losing finish.
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    I never objected to a bit of punk, but as I've grown older I enjoy it al lot more - I love the ramshackle chaos of some of the old live stuff but appreciate that many of the classic punk recordings demonstrate a lot more craft than I realised, even if they sound simple.
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    Scales, some bits IO've been learning recently, and improvise over various scales, usually in a bluesy vein... main objective is to keep the guitarist on his toes 🤣
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    Used 600 grit wet and dry on a couple of my guitars and basses. these days I'm not such a thug.
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    Sad but true story... When I was about eleven I spent ages trying to find the 'Colgate Ring of Confidence' inside a box of toothpaste...
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    Model of the 4x10 in my Trace Elliot combo (Eminence Beta 15s) with an Eminence Beta 15 in a 'well matched' cab at 150 watts. The 4x10 is quite a bit louder, but the 1x15 fills in the bottom end. Like Ice and Cointreau - they complement one another perfectly 🙂 Must open up my 1x15 and find out what the previous owner had fitted when he had it swapped from 4R to 8R. Any guesses?
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    But do you find that it still has unwanted overtones because the damping in the bridge cover isn't powerful enough? 🙂 TBH I find that I don't need to tune more often than two or three times a day 🙂
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    I have an ancient Ibanez digital stereo chorus, funnily enough I saw another one not long ago. I think it works really well with bass.
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    It was clearly a different instrument in those days. Put on a set of brand new roundwounds and everyone would have run a mile. how to play the electric bass carol kaye.pdf
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    Carol Kaye.
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    Things are difficult in our 'random' band at the moment. It's clear three of us are, shall we say, at a different place - not least in our capacity to learn new material or even jam a song we haven't played before. But the other two would probably like to get there but I can't see it happening. I'd like the five of us to do another one of the weekend warrior events, but to become a real, gigging, band we need a more committed front man.
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    My Squier Jazz is a 2001, so the pickups are probably not the same as the new ones. They did sound weedy, after doing the neodymium mod I A/B'd it with my Fender Perfomer, which is only 'average' volume but has an incredible wide range of sounds. I had to turn down by a whole number (8 to 7) when i changed to the modded jazz. The Jaguar presumably has the same pickups as the VM PJ and the P-pickup is fine but I had modded the bridge J pickup and now the bass is really nicely balanced.
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    I'm just a big-mouthed attention-seeking gobshite desperate for validation :-0 At least I'm self-aware...
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    Even Bruce Dickinson has two day jobs...
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    "Adding an identical and mutually coupled speaker driver (much less than a wavelength away from each other) and splitting the electrical power equally between the two drivers increases their combined efficiency by a maximum of 3 dB, similar to increasing the size of a single driver until the diaphragm area doubles. Multiple drivers can be more practical to increase efficiency than larger drivers since frequency response is generally proportional to driver size. " 4x10" speakers have 1.78 times the area of a 15" speaker. That's a ratio of about log 10 1.78 is 0.25, so ALL OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL the 4X10 will be 2.5 decibels louder.
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    Ah but who said that, and should we respect their opinion?
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    Some advice for beginners... Tuning once a week is adequate, unless the tuning heads get bumped. Action at the 12th fret should be 1/4". Anyone know where that comes from?
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    Tempting to put clover leaf tuners on mine though - it's an almost perfect clone of an early 70s Precision otherwise.
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    Have all of you learned all 30, or is that shared amongst the band 🙂
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    The problem is a simple one. Volume is the result of a whole host of factors of which power is only one. Amplifier power Amplifier transient response Line voltage Amplifier power supply Amplifier design Amplifier linearity Frequency response of the human ear Frequency response of the input Input impedance matching Frequency response of the amplifier (several parameters) Preamplifier settings Output impedance matching Positioning of the speakers Speaker driver parameters (several) Speaker enclosure parameters (several) and design Expectations of the user The listening room (many parameters) Listening position Absence of other sound sources or if present their nature And no doubt many more. It's kind of like comparing people's ability at sports just on the basis of the amount of calories they eat... any comparison is only remotely valid if you start with 'all other things being equal..."
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    I like this one, I've had it over 30 years, used to gig it regularly. I think its about 1987. Gave it some TLC earlier this year, replaced the broken pickguard put ashtrays on it (they had disappeared when i got it) (it's a split P-pickup under the chrome):
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    Now why on earth did that remind me of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFwXzPgqRoI
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    Note Firewater on Sauchiehall Street? We went there before seeing Phil Campbell at the garage last November. It's got a basement venue.
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    Good job I didn't see that a few months ago. Why stop at three stacks? I want QUADROPHENIA!
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    It's no coincidence that 10% of the UK was left without power when I was testing my amp...
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