Stub Mandrel

Or Glenn and the Millers...

Ha! I went to Glastonbury once. I remember Richard Thompson (possibly with Fairport), Hank Wangford and the Mutoid Waste Company. I also remember walking to Glasto to buy a cheap cagoule (I still have). I don't remember anything else* except we drank all the Tequila we brought intending to run a tequila sunrise stall... It appears to have been 85, as that wasa Mutoids first year there. I vaguely recall that I saw a bit of Dr and the Medics before Wangford. No sign of the Thompo kid on the bill, perhaps I saw John Martyn and someone told me it was RT? Maybe it was 84, because Fairport and Wangford went that year. Perhaps I went both years? Hmm. I can't think of any reason why I wouldn't have. *To be honest I am fairly confident I only saw a couple of bands. I was too busy with the whole Seventh Seal cum Monty Python and the Holy Grail renactment experience... Glastonbury was never about music in the days when they had good bands. I DO remember Reading '83 though, because I taped SRV when they played his set again on Radio 1.

Book me in 🙂 I wish I had tried one of my basses through some of the amps/speakers that were on display.

Interesting , I'll try and be more aware - I have actually tried keeping my arm in that position, though I like my thumb down in the strings. But I'm not convinced I could stick to it - I change my playing position all the time, from right by the bridge to over the fifteenth fret.

OK. More than one person has commented that my 'entirely unlike a Ric in every possible way' Hohner B2 can sound curiously like one, despite having humbuckers (or perhaps because of them) - quite aggressive on the bridge pickup with clear harmonics and good clarity if playing chords.

It's good to know I'm not alone - even if it isn't good that other folks have wrist problems! Thanks for the suggestions and links. I've order a 'wrist band' support because I think I want to avoid constraining my hand and will see how I get on.

If you wire the PUs out of phase when you do that the fundamental becomes very faint and the higher harmonics dominate.

I have my opinions but I won't go there as it's highly subjective and what one person might think sounds just like one might be noting like it to another!

I'll pop in the range next time I'm in town.

I don't think 'pressure' is the issue as I rest my wrist on the mousemat. Its' more the sensation of the body 'stroking' my wrist as I move my hand position.

I've found a green tubular elbow support - looks crap and it's a bit loose. I'll try it and if it helps I'll see if I can get a sexy black neoprene one that doesn't go round my thumb.

Year ago I started getting RSI/carpal tunnel syndrome, my right hand would go as cold as ice and sometimes become almost completely numb. I went as far as seeing a hospital specialist but the cure was simple - a mouse mat with a gel-filled wrist support, which sorted me in about a month. The legacy is a wrist that 'tingles' unpleasantly if I use a mouse without a mat (caused by it rubbing on the edge of the desk). Now I'm playing bass more, I've noticed a similar sensation if my wrist/lower arm is touching the body of the bass. I'm wondering if a wrist cover of some sort might help. I used to wear wrist 'sweat bands' in the 80s which might help but look cheesy. An orthapedic wrist support is OTT. teh Judas Priest approach might work but will antique my basses pretty rapidly: Has anyone else had a similar issue and found a solution that doesn't look naff?

That rings true. Rickenbacker is like many other old brands that live off their mystique/cachet and survive by selling small quantities to high standards to a small specialist clientele willing to pay the high prices associated with the product. There are often cheaper (often vastly cheaper) alternatives that do the job as well or even better but don't come with the 'pride of ownership' fitted. This is true for cars, tools, all sorts of things.

OOPS! I thought this was the Danny Baker Thread...

Just added a Behringer Ultra Tremelo for 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' but I've a feeling it will be hard to synch the 'drum machine' to it. If I punch in a rhythm he will punch me back... 🙂

I picked my daughter from Nottingham last night at about 10:30pm on the way back we passed a young lady unicycling along the pavement. There ought to be a law 🙂 Many years ago I had a modest sized-lump appear in a disturbing location, growing slowly. After several weeks worry I finally inspected it thing I will have to go to the doctor... as soon as I made my mind up, the damn thing exploded! By the next day there was no sign of it. When I was in school one of the biology textbooks had a picture of a fellow wheeling along his distended testicle in a wheelbarrow... we all thought he looked rather proud of it.

As I recall I pretty much always ended up stage left without any planning.

As an onlooker, I wonder if every time a bass comes up for sale inserting 'This is not a Rickenbacker' in the text of the ad might be a worthwhile distraction 🙂

If I ever have the space I will rstore a Fergie or a Fordson T.

I think that's what happened to me. I suspect the strings cooled faster and 'shrank' a little making them taughter and raising the pitch.

Shame that guitar looks like a Barbie accessory

The point about Class D is that it uses Pulse Width Modulation. If is modulated then amplified and demodulated ( yes it is a form of Modem) I would argue that the PWM output is analogous to the input signal In the same way FM Radio is. It never enters the digital domain. I think that's the point I was trying to make? 🙂

It's one thing to replace songs you are fed up playing to an audience. Dropping ones you are fed up practising but haven't got round to playing in front of an audience does suggest a lack of seriousness about gigging...

This is very obvious if you have a tuner that reacts as quickly as the TU-3. Bye the bye, I tuned a bass yesterday, brought it to practice and every string was a few cents sharp - with this thread in mind I wondered if my tuners were at odds. But the instrument was cold. Once it had warmed up all the strings were flat by a few cents... I obviously have a temeperature sensitive bass!

If your 12th fret is sharp compared to the open string, don't you need to adjust the intonation? I always use an electronic tuner to match the first harmonic and 12th fret notes when setting my intonation.