Stub Mandrel

I very much doubt that.

A decent audience helps, people are extremely effective at mopping up nasty reflections and resonances.

Only downside of the at212 slim is a rear-dacing reflex port. The bottom end boom if too close to a wall is terrifying. A foot away does seem to be the magic minimum.

I'll have a go at playing along to him. That snippet fits with what I'm playing.

Hmm mostly all three? He does admit he's struggling to play it full speed. We're going to try slowing it down a bit until we are solid. It didn't help that the singer was moaning we were slow.

A voice in favour of digging in... I use it to vary the amount of overdrive on my tone.

We're struggling with Hysteria. I want to follow the drummer, he's struggling to lock into the riff. He wants me to accent a pulse but I'm struggling. Even though it's down as straight sixteenth notes (mostly) I feel it swings a bit, especially the second bar of the main part. I've managed to drop the odd extra note I was dropping in, but that only seems to gave made it worse as I think he was listening for the double notes to start some bars. Doesn't help that the recorded verdion is just a wall of sound so I've been practicing to the Ultimate Guitar online player. Left wondering is it me or the drummer?

Is it a walk in shop, and if so where is it? I would be interested to visit (but my wallet would be scared...)

Not many people, best estimate I've seen is 250-300 made.

Rough one tonight. Rythym guitarist forgot. Singer was under the weather. We were all cold. I just couldn't get any fluency in my playing, frankly I felt I was crap, my fingers were not obeying my brain. We went through a fair bit of stuff some ok some not so ok. Cold is not good for a rehearsal space.

I've read the comments but not watched the video... yet. I can make huge changes to my tone with playing style and hand position. I stopped using effects 18 months ago and am now gradually reintroducing them - as effects, not as part of my fundamental tone. The two effects that improve tone are compression and a hpf. But compression limits you being able to dig in for overdiven sounds. I sometimes play with pickup blend/selection. I notice, I'm not sure the audience do.

I was thinking about medicines available in the 50s.

Can you invest in a lightweight cab?

Great things in small packages.

Just a thought, but when Fender have brought out something truly different (point headstock, radical body shape, two octave neck, super thin neck, tbx tone control, micro-tilt etc.) no-one bought them.

Penicillin? Insulin? Etc. 😁

EB just stands for 'Electric Bass' the number designates the body shape/pickups.

My brother sent Gibson a video of his robo-tuners spontaneously unwinding all of the strings on his guitar. It was too unreliable to gig.

We've got three gigs in March... so we've announced it as a mini tour 🙂

The side markers? As above, self adhesive dots. Reversible but effective.

My weak link. As I play a lot of blues, mixylodian comes naturally to me. Other than major/minor ionian/aeolian, I use harmonic minor. I suppose the really interesting thing about mides is each one changes the selection of major and minor chords available.

Flea Jazz.

Just paid £50 for a Hawkwind ticket (after fees and buyer protection). Felt that was STEEP!

I thought Fender's luxury brand was G&L 🙂

Ha! BOTH my Jazz basses are different from each other. One is a 2002 pre-Affinity Squier Standard by the way and it's nice.