Stub Mandrel

http://www.nfws.org.uk/mange/treatment01.htm It seems taht this thread is a 'safe sapce' for those of us who think things went downhill when Peter Gabriel left and people started buying their records...

Obviously not, you are clearly Ernst Blofeld...

Cheeky! I bought a b-grade case from Norman's today. Their website had this (accurate) photo of the damage, and the price was about 45% off. I'm guessing that epiphone one cost a bit more than £69 full price? <edit> I've just peeled the sellotape off, mostly glued back in place OK, so I just dabbed the last bit (the round spot at the bottom) with a sharpie and it's virtually invisible.

Good suggestion, although the padding is only 11mm. Sadly " Availability This item is no longer available for purchase " Three on eBay from Japan cheapest is £95 'rare'! + £22.75 postage! Clearly a desirable gig bag.... The only Fender ones i can find are "Fender FBSS-610 Short Scale Bass Bag" which doesn't look anywhere near as nice and even thinner padding 😞 Well I can get a cheap one from Thomann as a worst case case (or worst case bag...)

I live about five minutes from Norman's and spotted a Stagg hard electric guitar case with a tear in the covering for £39 today 🙂 I got it for my Tele but secretly hoped the jaguar SS would fit - it's almost exactly 1/2" too small 😞 The Jaguar is about 42 3/8" or 1080mm long. Affordable short-scale cases seem to be thin on the ground, but I really need one for storage rather than regular transport. I do like the TGI Extreme padded cases (I have a flatback mandolin one), but the bass one is much too long. The TGI Extreme padded guitar case is only 1060mm internally but being soft my thought is it should work, but I wouldn't want it to be stretched tight as this will just compress the padding at the vulnerable top and bottom. Has anyone tried to fit a Jaguar SS in one of these cases? Or do you know of a quality alternative for a similar price (~£40- 45)

I always used to have a few pedals used sparingly - Ibanez chorus and a HM2 as I used to play the/a solo in Like a Hurricane (!!!!) and a GE-7B for quick changes of sound. Was never really compression did much except making up for my poor fretless technique! Guitar is different - use as many as possible, all dimed and switched on at the same time for maximum 'Space Ritual' effect 🙂

Hadn't spotted those - something to read! I was going on having looked for them in several music shops over the last few months and having seen very few.

~35 years bass, 40 guitar. Took along break, now discovering just how much playing bass was part of who I was 🙂 Big shout to my brothers for their support and encouragement.

I recall that back in the old days (80s/90s) every bass player had a compressor pedal. They seem to have gone right out of fashion? I can't remember what happened to mine (I may have swapped it as my head has a basic compressor built in). Am I imagining this?

First one has a growlier bottom end, so the Precision? I am very bad at this but trying is a way of elarning...

Try one of these, used wet. https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/flash-eraser-extra-power-x2?langId=44&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwycfkBRAFEiwAnLX5IdkFYyjnUGOu3LKR_k3YJxYi8vJuQrcclmdD_N9RD7JddJYUgcFekhoCbkcQAvD_BwE&amp;storeId=10151&amp;krypto=6hV02morN2TEDdsu0X0MU6uMJeuUKw8NpY56JQUcXY0dpkieEKaYv%2BxE7oOSL8o31KQW%2Fk3GQLqo0ccDEjfXP0iIsl39BrqZAngu2nnTtC7yGMHBNMv2u%2FUxenDpz1fkcr1WQ%2BG1VLYzaLHg0tQ5qJjFLUwUzclQriPcZiBlmiJjgbb5XOxr%2BgqpnRXl5RMJ8RTXjI9AyIXe4XfLA06KXAmX7881j8bRoIkp5vUFQRdCXNO0fGSDAup2MwBF%2Bv9q0FPhK8tFLjRaBL4646hMTrkXpLZ5BaSEYDz5tX7ilC8%3D&amp;ddkey=https%3Agb%2Fgroceries%2Fflash-eraser-extra-power-x2 Or google magic sponge. Obviously 'try on an inconspicuous area first'...

LOL - PWN'D!

Really hard... I thought the Alembic sounded dull and flat. I liked the Status, the Ken Smith and the Aria But he played such different things on each bass... never went beyond about fret 7 on the Gibson, for example. (Convinced the e-string on my ancient Hohner B2 sounds far better than lot of those 'flappy' ones in the video... surely a DI'd e-string should have some harmonics!) Just a thought... the nature of your PC's speakers is going to have a hefty influence on any listening test like this... surprised how well my tiny ones coped with the low Bs

They one time I took a watch off to play I left it on the mixing desk 😞 It was my great-uncles solid gold Sekonda from a time when solid-gold Sekondas were a bit special ;-( Yeek tatty one without original strap on eBay for £270...

Sounds like someone who wants others to make up for their own shortcomings!

Oh woe. Seeing Springsteen look so young makes me feel so old!

Good job it wasn't in Braille. Would have been even more entertaining if the old lady had said "Du Hast?"

I call her 'Lola ' because she also has big balls 🙂 <edit> and no that's not my carefully adjusted scoop sound setting!

My only thought is playing exactly the same rhythm for each song is will become boring for you in the long run and the band will get lazy! You don't need to be complex, but look for other ways to accent the beat, for example playing a different 'connecting' note as that last quaver to signal each chord change, or changing the dynamics so you play 'straight eights' but the first note is struck harder so it's louder. If the songs are covers, have you looked them up on a tab site? There are usually some straightforward fills or riffs that help round out the bass in most popular songs and it can be really satisfying to nail them. Funnily enough I'm listening to 'Dancing in the Dark' as I type this - all straight 8th notes on the root, except (according to Ultimate Guitar) one single 'leading' note in the bridge. A good example of what I mean by a 'connecting' note. But beware too much of that and you'll end up playing walking basslines: [Bridge] G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|----------------|----------------|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|4-4-4-4-4-4-4---| A|----------------|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|----------------|--------------2-| E|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|----------------|----------------|----------------| G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|----------------|----------------|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-| A|----------------|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|----------------|----------------| E|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|----------------|----------------|----------------|

I have one 🙂 And a B2 🙂 🙂

I find it very hard to judge differneces, but the fugly brown one sounds like it could eat all the others for breakfast to me.

Whenever I see Flea's dress sense, I can see why he went shirtless for so long 🙂

Just for those saying Jaco couldn't be melodic, off Heavy Weather:

It's definitely a 'burst look around 1:33. Cool as ****