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These instruments really aren't anything to do with acoustic guitars, though they can impersonate them.

Anyone else forseeing a setting on the Fender Acoustasonic Jazz which produces a slap tone when you're just playing it normally

When you do this, I would be interested to hear what happens to the sound quality when you drop the volume into its lower reaches - if the richness of the texture slips away

How have you been getting on with it? Atm I'm using a very old Peavey 15w practice amp. At low volume, it sounds a bit underwhelming - a raw, untextured kind of noise - and so have been trying to work out what would be the best way of getting a warmer, more pleasurable sound without making any more noise. This seems like it could be what I'm looking for. I know the modelling has only three bass amps, but all I would want would be to find one setting that I really like, that I could use the entire time. Until I learnt about this amp, I had been thinking my best option might be to combine a cab sim (eg the Neunaber Iconoclast) with a small FRFR active speaker

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Jamie Stewart

Given how far we had strayed from the opening premise of this thread, I thought it would be best to stop posting on it, but I just noticed something which brings me back to the OP. As I've already droned on about quite enough, I've found that I vastly prefer Ride The Lightning to Master Of Puppets. But if I were to remove from RTL my two least favourite songs (tracks 5 and 6) and replace them with the only track on MOP that I have any real enthusiasm for (the title track) what would I have? Seven songs all of which name Cliff Burton in the writing credits.

I wondered if the pearl would look better if the photo wasnt so dark ... so I tweaked the photo ... erm, not really. And generally I like pearl pickguards. Perhaps only against a darker colour. Perhaps not Stingray ones.

Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches was released in 1990

When I turned the pictures on their side, as if the bass was being played, my opinion changed

This is why I like doing it when I do it: it gives a colder, more austere sound. Which is right for some things.

I love this guy's right hand when he's playing with a pick - it looks so loose and easy. The kind of action that would be making a teacher very proud

Was that when they were supporting Tad?

Wikipedia told me that My Creation wasn't on the original, so I've been skipping that. If you're wondering which ones I'm on about, it's been tracks 3 and 4, Take No Prisoners and Five Magics, that have been disappointing me.

I think I can trump these: Iron Maiden and Killers 😬 (and seriously I do hold that opinion) (honest!)

The problem would be that sometimes I like things more even when I know they're not as good. And when I'm not very interested in something I amuse myself by finding reasons for shoving the boot in. So my ranking list would be a bit of a joke. I think ....And Justice just a massive achievement, it does what it's trying to do so successfully. I could probably write a great deal of speculative bs about that album, but that too you could all live without quite happily. Given the veneration for Rust in Peace, I've been surprised by how inconsistent it is. I'm not expecting all 9 tracks to be at the level of Hangar 18, but there are at least two B-sides loitering in there. Since I went in chronological order, it's been a while since I last listened to Ride The Lightning and I'm SO excited that that's coming up at about 4 o'clock. I listened to it 15 times in a row and only moved on because I had to eventually. ps Listened to directly after AJFA, Peace Sells seems delightfully unhinged 🤪 pps the return to Ride The Lightning was everything I hoped for and more. What an album. I'm now on the 8th and final album, Killing Is My Business, and it's making me so happy, such crazy music. I had read that the original release had terrible production and that the 2018 remix and remaster was a fantastic salvage job. So whilst I bought an old copy of Master of Puppets for two and six on ebay, I shelled out proper money for the remixed KIMB, and I'm extremely glad I did, it sounds really good.

After the excitement of So Far So Good..., Master Of Puppets soon had me looking up the dictionary definition of "portentous"... ...done in an overly solemn manner so as to impress... Hmm.

Over the last month or so I've been listening to the first 4 Metallica albums and the first 4 Megadeth albums in chronological order, listening to each one repeatedly until I felt I was just about on top of it, and only then moving on to the next. I've loved it all. I was keeping tallies and apparently each album got an average of 7 listens. Since this music really winds me up, I've been feeling a bit nuts the whole month - but as living on my own in lockdown was driving me round the twist anyway, I figured why not making the most of it? I've just had a couple of days break, and tomorrow will listen to all 8 albums back to back. Roughly it'll take me from 11am to 5pm. I'm going to go in this order: Starting with the two I like, but which suffer in comparison with the rest - (1) Kill 'Em All (2) So Far So Good... then the two that are most venerated - (3) Master of Puppets (4) Rust in Peace then the two I rate most highly - (5) ...And Justice For All (6) Peace Sells... and finishing with the two I most enjoy listening to - (7) Ride The Lightning (8) Killing Is My Business...

No one seems to have much to say about the debuts from PJ Harvey, Amy Winehouse and Nirvana. Have to admit I've never listened to any of them! But very very happy with the three follow ups.

Each email I received from Bax was signed with a different name, but each email had exactly the same inane tone and no one point I made was answered: I do not believe I was communicating with real people at all, but virtual CSRs. Perhaps its like with the courier companies they use - a grade of customer service with a real human element only kicks in above a certain price threshold. The item I was buying was not expensive but it was very much needed, so spending days going back and forth chatting with a ZX81 and getting absolutely nowhere was very frustrating. I don't feel inclined to work out by trial and error how much you have spend with Bax to be treated like a human being. If only they would advertise that useful information....

Is it wrong to be ogling the case as much as the instrument? 😬

My item was a lot cheaper and more robust than a guitar, so perhaps at different price bands they use different couriers. Hermes admitted quite early on that the package was irrecoverable. Bax on the other hand .... after a couple of emails I concluded that an automated bs machine was generating their communications - sunny prevarication, with zero reference to what I had said. Fortunately I had used PayPal, who extracted the money fairly promptly. Once I written that ^^^ I started to look for an analogy for dealing with Bax, and suddenly I had a very brief mental picture of a scene from Logan's Run 😆 Which is perhaps a little harsh? 😁

Love the marker on the 12th fret

About 15 years ago, I momentarily found myself in the same room as Bez. He was complaining bitterly about people stealing his "intellectual property".

I attempted to buy from Bax once. They used Hermes. A load of parcels left the distribution centre and never arrived at my local collection point. That little episode taught me about both Hermes and Bax. Paid slightly more at Guitar Village for a similar product and got a decent courier, money well spent.