"Three froglets in blue string overcoats. How extraordinary." 🤣
I'm sure the Soup Dragon was pretty sweary! There was definitely a 'What the Hell!" in there 🙂
They don't exist, do they?
Even if you buy a 'Squier Guitar Pack' with Squier branded guitar and amp, the strap and gig bag are branded Fender!
On the one hand it means I'm not going to feel guilty about having Fender straps on my Squiers as well as my Fender.
But the inverted snob in me wants real, monogrammed Squier strap or two!!!
"Good Bassists Do F*** All"
That's exactly the problem.
If you have to work it out, you can't sight read.
To sight read out have to be able to map dots on the page to frets and the mapping changes depending on the key your are in.
The only way I could do it is (1) work out key. (2) identify position of root note and either (3) work out each not relative to the root or (4) keep track of where I am in the scale and work out the number of steps up and down.
I have no idea how people can do that in real time!
Don't expect the headphone settings to bear any 1:1 relation to the power of the amp. If the Elf is like old TE amps the input response is dependent on the gain setting and you should adjust it until the light flashes occasionally on the peaks and then back off one notch.
Then set the volume for 'comfortable listening'.
Bear in mind most companies are paranoid about being sued for ear damage so modern headphone outputs often have quite a low max volume. Also many quality amps now use speaker emulation for the headphones which affects how they sound.
You're absolutely 100% right.
The Musicman Bongo bears absolutely NO resemblance to a toilet seat whatsoever. I can't see anything remotely loo-seat-like about it:
EDIT: Sorry, it appears I'm wrong, the Music Man actually concede this on their own website:
http://blog.music-man.com/artists/the-bongo-bass-buyers-guide/