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Stub Mandrel

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  1. Before last night's gig. Guitarist (in jest) "I forgot to tell you were detuning by a semitone tonight" Me "Don't worry, if the bass is off it's everyone else who sounds out of tune"
  2. That price is the dmx controller. The LED bar is much more expensive. Misleading listing... always check the drop downs.
  3. I used to rehearse at Pirate in Nottingham. I learnt that if the Ashdomn combos sounded grim, find the sub control and turn it right off.
  4. I have no idea - I left the band. But why should it need a patch to work properly?
  5. That's me in about 65 minutes time...
  6. I've seen a Helix require a few resets over a rehearsal more than once. Not at a gig so far.
  7. Closely related... jeans with the crotch hear knee level. Sorry Gary Stringer... Saw a tall guy in the supermarket the other day, well over a foot taller than his partner. They both appeared to have legs the same length...
  8. I think it was before they started drilling a hole from bridge to control cavity.
  9. The original Greek is Aias so eye-ass. Ajax has become eh-jacks in English.
  10. I see guitarists playing Blackstar amps almost as often as I see bass players using Mark Bass.
  11. As a bass vi and a baritone guitar?
  12. I think light oak will be far darker than your 'wet' image. Try a thin coat of varnish first.
  13. You can get these in various finishes. https://www.guyker.com/en-gb/products/guyker-gb205-5-string-electric-bass-bridge-vintage-style-saddle-bridge Careful groove selection should allow you narrower but consitent string spacing.
  14. Well I'm 1962. Life is cruel to us when it comes to year of birth basses...
  15. My brother had an expensive hike tent in his basket and was uhmming and ahhing over it for weeks. They randomly reduced it to 85% off. Free postage too!
  16. His tone was pretty consistent between live and studio. Bear in mind that recording bass in the early '70s he would have probably gone straight into the desk while live it could have been that or more likely miked up speakers. This is probably the gold standard live recording of Andy Fraser: Note the very badly positioned (ribbon?) Microphone placed lined up with the centre of the four speakers about a foot out and angled down a bit. Surprising they got a decent tone... He gets a similar but brighter tone on the studio recording of mr big: I suspect he used the bridge mute on his EB3 as well as a lot of muting by alternating index and middle right hand fingers Flats? Probably. If I want an Andy Fraser sound I'd choose my Squier Jazz fitted with old style mutes.
  17. A road is for getting to places. Streets are for getting around places (in broad terms).
  18. I'm glad there are others with email addresses chosen in a moment of madness and still going decades later...
  19. As a fellow Terror 500 user, have you tried rolling the bass back a bit and maybe upping the treble?
  20. The Trace kit is very repairable -- no sanded off IC numbers and parts you can see without having to buy a Mantis!
  21. Origin and history of drink drink(v.) Old English drincan "to swallow water or other fluid," also "to swallow up, engulf" (class III strong verb; past tense dranc, past participle druncen), from Proto-Germanic *drenkanan (source also of Old Saxon drinkan, Old Frisian drinka, Dutch drinken, Old High German trinkan, German trinken, Old Norse drekka, Gothic drigkan "to drink"), which is of uncertain origin or connections, perhaps from a root meaning "to draw." Most Indo-European words for this trace to PIE *po(i)- (source of Greek pino, Latin biber, Irish ibim, Old Church Slavonic piti, Russian pit'; see imbibe). Figurative meaning "take in through the senses" is from late 12c. Especially "to imbibe spiritous liquors" from mid-15c. To drink to "salute in drinking" is by mid-13c. To drink like a fish is recorded from 1744. To drink (someone) under the table "continue drinking and remain (comparatively) sober after others have passed out" is by 1909. drink(n.) "beverage," often especially "alcoholic beverage," late Old English drinc, drync, from drink (v.). Meaning "as much of any liquid as is or may be taken at a time" is from c. 1300.
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