Stub Mandrel

Great gig at the Earl Haig with Bluesfire. Numbers a bit down but somewhere north of sixty, not bad for a £3 cover charge on a really foul day (westher warning - wind and yellow rain 🤣). The big room with a proper stage and lights, but the lighting and smoke meant we could hardly see the audience (they could see us). We had a good time, played Spoonful - it was in a film I watched on Friday night, under the influence of jack Daniels and hobgoblin, I suggested it. we hadn't ever played it before, but we managed to nail all the stops and it was nearer to Cream than Howlin' Wolf. Some dancing (we aren't dancy) and at the end one woman assured us we were the best blues band she's ever seen 😎 Plenty of compliments for Al's guitar playing. Nice to see a friend who's a pro level musician there... and he was telling my SO how important it is I buy a real Bongo not a Sterling one 🤣 Used the Sire P10 for the first set and AVII Precision for the second. Took a while to get a good sound with the sire. The P... just plug it in. Video screenshot 280 views already!

Artwork error... I did change it.

Yesn there's a thread somewhere. The charge pump circuit its a touch noisy if it's placed before overdrive and compression but I use it last. Might build a bigger one with space for larger smoothing capacitors!

I thought surgical appliances were tier 2?

I'm not sure any bass is explicitly nerdy. Maybe fan-fretted 7-stringers... I can't see anything nerdy about a Jazz, aside from the name. Things like mathcore and some prog appeal to nerds. Then there are people like Buckethead.

Headbanging keeps a healthy blood flow to the follicles.

Low action lets you change your sound more easily. you can go from a rounded tone to Entwistle clank.

Yes but not very different and you can usually eq out the differences

I like it, sounds a bit retro. More punchy than my tube screamer clone. No nasty noises on battery or run ftom my psu.

I haven't ssid how I've found it. It's got two slide switches that give three rich, distictive fuzz sounds and one relatively weedy fuzz. The use of ring modulation gives an 'octave fuzz' feel. The twin effect and clean levels workk like blend but better. The sensitivity control works. You can use it to get a Hysteria type clean doubled with fuzz effect, or crank things to get a big clanky distortion effect.

I ordered mi e from Andertons on 16 December and it came in mid January.

Yes but they rarely eliminate the signal at any frequency, so you can boost it with eq. Even mudbuckers owe most of their sound to their position and the large length of string they work over.

@Si600 started this off by asking for Stranglers resources!

That is really weird... somehow a simple copy gave me a mashup of two different web addresses!

Ultimate Guitar can be a bit hit-and-miss, but it should get you in the ballpark. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/artist/the_stranglers_337

What is and isn't there is mostly down to position (which determines the harmonics available) and the pickup design (wide vs narrow, single vs double coil).

Cheap ebay: AVII Flea Jazz Cheap eBay Genuine eatly 60s (not mine)

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...)