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These are now en route, and so I now have the happy anticipation of finding out if my opinion that Boomers are exactly what a BB's middle position deserves is any good or not

Wondering how the OP's singer felt about the guitarist deciding to transpose a song up a semitone

Neil Murray

Bass Direct have got both the 760FHB2 36-56-77-96 and the 760FHBB 50-65-80-100 sets of LaBella Beatle Bass Deep Talkin Flats for £40 each LaBellas blurb reads "Fits Hofner Beatle basses and similar models that require 34" distance from ball-end to silk. Please do not substitute this set for a medium-scale set."

This is the post you want: Eucerin skin cream

I've bought two basses from the US, exactly the same process the two times. Except this: the first one, when the parcel had just arrived in the UK, my tracking told me to cough up, which I did, obvs. A few days later, I got a "paid invoice" in the post, basically just a receipt for the money, I suppose. The second one, though, I never got told to cough up. I haven't received anything in the post. Yet.

I always knew power chords were improper, good to get an official explanation as to why they — and all music containing them, I trust? — need to be exterminated.

VINTAGE RADIUS ffs 🙄

(Guess whose fingers they are counts for something 😁 )

And for me, vice versa. My thumb finds it tiresome having to press inward, in search of the back of the neck. On a thick neck, it simply rests, naturally. It misses the lovely deep neck of my BB424. If all attempted to extrapolate universal truths from the singular examples of ourselves.....

Both this week and last week, I took a day off work — last week, to take my new bass to my tech, this week, to collect it

Blimey, I can't believe I had totally forgotten about this track. BLIMEY.

In the 10 months it took them to build my LB-100, the price of that exact set of options went up 55%. I have been wondering if the extra grand finally buys some shielding....

Did you eventually work this one out? There's only six planes on which an S can be written in three-dimensional space, so you should be able to rattle through the options in a minute or two. 1) going across the fretboard, the frets bending one way then the other. Froody. 2) going down the fretboard, the neck bending to the E side and then the G side and then back again. I like the surrealism of this one, the strings at some points hanging over the edge of the neck as it twists back and forth. 3) on a cross section of the neck, going down from the fretboard, no can't make this one work even in a nonsense way. 4) on a cross section of the neck, the fretboard raised at the D string but lowered at the A string. Would definitely want a freshly cut nut for this. 5) looking at the side of the neck, a vertical line dropped from a fret going .... no, this one is just impossible, too. 6) with the bass vertical, looking at the side of the neck, the gentle bow of the fretboard interrupted with a hump and then a dip.

To veer off on a tangent — did you ever try the Area Js with flats?

Are those Model Js under those tasty cream covers? PS best Jazz ever, clearly 👌 PPS with the black pg, I kind want the bridge pickup to be black.... Cream on black, black on cream.....

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Going by the videos YouTube are continually proffering me, middle-aged men are grateful for an acceptable opportunity for admiring hot / young women, when the only cost required is pretending to take their fluent competence for something extraordinary.

The great thing about having an expensive fresh strings habit is that it makes getting a tech to do an immaculate job of sorting out a weirdly-unshielded new bass seem very cheap. For the cost of the custom set of Daddario steels that'll last me to the end of April, maximum, my new LB-100 has gone from noisy af -> 🐀 quiet.

Not so much a tangent, as a scarcely relevant interruption. Sorry. In my daydreams, I have a bass that on the outside has vol + tone knobs, and a three-way switch. A pair of Nordstrand Big Splits. BB neck, TRBX body On the inside are 12 trimpots: 2 sets of neck vol / bridge vol / treble / mids / mids freq / bass. The switch on the front goes between these two nicely set — sorry, these two "sculpted" tones. The third position is neck pickup, passive. I know what I like, and I don't need to have the knobs sitting in front of me, distractingly asking to be twiddled with.

Excellent But you certainly won't be sorting me out for the postage, just sending me a PM with your address 😜 I thought the Boomers sounded better on my 424 than both Swing Bass and Roto Bass. On my SB-1 both those Rotosounds are great, but the Boomers sounded pathetic. I haven't a clue what's going on there. Maybe it's all to do with the 424's magical bridge pickup?

I chance upon the solution: buy 7lb basses, and you can carry them on one shoulder for half an hour, no problem 👍

During my happy time with my 424 I mostly used GHS Boomers, which especially suited the middle position. My new LB100 arrived with a set of Boomers on. After very little play, they've come off, as that bass needs steels. Would anyone with a 414 / 424 / 1024 like to try out Boomers with this nearly-new set of 45-105 gratis ?

I looked at the sellers on Amazon Marketplace to see who was selling Roto Bass sets at a good price. (From GAK and Strings Direct they're now £22 plus delivery) Stargate Guitars in Banbury have the RB35/40/45/50 sets for £16.50 (including free delivery) when ordered on their own website. They have PayPal.