Stub Mandrel

Looking back, probably the Trace Elliot combo. The weight isn't a real issue with wheels fitted. Back in the day I used my 150W Laney and was always running it pushed hard to keep up. Now we aren't the loudest set of folks, but at todays practice I got asked to turn down. I was only on 1 1/2...

I've been thinking about how to rationalise my pedal board. Today I came to the conclusion that Fuzz and Distortion isn't right. I need overdrive as well.

According to the pedia of Wiki there's a style of compression known as 'motown style'.

Classy Croc? Or Posh Alligator?

You really gonna argue with him?

Yep, this is a great video. All our band are into Rory's music, and we've got Brute Force and Ignorance on the list 🙂

It's fascinating to compare how the intonation is set on the different basses on this thread!

Bring 'em all back, I say!

Those who avoid budget basses may be interested to note that the J74 he's chosen has an RRP of £329...

Wait until you get asked for Old Town Road 🙂

My compressor keeps it simple... too simple?

Indeed - I sent a question via his website yesterday: He included the bit from the programme:

I always fanciedthat my Hohner B2 made a passable stab at a Chris Squire sound.

Do you have a link? His sound on 'Beastie' is exactly the one I want to have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhZMmyLqHHM Incidentally this is probably the bass before the Riverhead Unicorn in the show us your headless bass thread, anyone know what it is? Looks different from a standard Jazz.

Just an observation for the hopelessly lost... While distortion and signal processing pedals often sound good with one or more setting 'dialled', the typical compressor pedal is usually designed to give a usable general purpose result with all the knobs set at 12 o'clock so this makes an obvious place to start.

Why not? https://www.waterstones.com/book/geddy-lees-big-beautiful-book-of-bass/geddy-lee/9780062747839 " Your local Waterstones may have stock of this item. Please check by using Click & Collect " (Available from Picadilly and Cambridge at the least).

It seem (but I can't be sure) they went straight in with a clear amber lacquer, then a reddy-brown one, then blacc for a standard tobacco sunburst. Where it's flaked it's left the wood clean as a whistle. There are a couple of spots (the first to go) where I glued the chips (big ones) back on, hopefully I just used white PVA. Happy with it as it is for the moment, but the rate seems to have sped up (the bit by the lower horn only 'burst open' this month) perhaps by me keeping it indoors. Here's a recent pic, but even more unseen chipping around the edges). An alternative would be to stabilise it (white PVA under where it's lifting?) then sand the edges smooth. That would be more or less reversible. The going rate for one in good condition is about £300 and TBH I'm more interested in playing it than using it as an investment.

A Warlock! Don't see many people fessing up to having one of those on here 🙂

Which is incredibly difficult because its so sparse and there's no accent on the percussion! So easy to slip a beat ahead, and I HATE counting.